A.M. Links: U.S. Sends Troops to Iraq, Supreme Court Considers Facebook Threats, Alabama Decriminalizes Blow Jobs

Annnd we’re back: Hundreds
of U.S.
troops have been sent to Iraq “to provide support and
security for U.S. personnel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad,”
President Obama announced late Monday. Secretary of State Secretary
of State John Kerry said that drone strikes on militant targets are
under consideration.
The U.S.
Supreme Court is mulling whether threats made online must
actually be serious in order for the threat-maker to go to jail,
rather than merely perceived as seriously threatening by a
reasonable person.
The Food and Drug Administration has decided to tackle the
least of our nutritional worries by issuing
new salt guidelines for food manufacturers.
Doctors without borders without sense? A group of 129 medical
professionals from 31 countries is urging
the World Health Organization to more strictly regulate
e-cigarettes.
The Alabama
Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned part of a state
sexual misconduct law under which oral and anal sex were
technically banned.
A
transgender rights group is pressuring South Carolina to allow
16-year-old Chase Culpepper to retake his driver’s license photo
while wearing makeup. “The Department of Motor Vehicles should not
have forced me to remove my makeup simply because my appearance
does not meet their expectations of what a boy should look like,”
Culpepper said.