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For Williams, the Sisterhood, which eventually becomes the Bene Gesserit, reveals how difficult it is to allow women to have authority.

Her boss, President Joe Biden, does have authority under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act to intervene in mass work stoppages that could lead to a national emergency, if the situation is so deemed; that power was last invoked by President George W. Bush, who sued to break the West Coast dockworkers strike in late 2002 after a punishing stock-market downturn.

“They do not have authority to dictate our national energy policy,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in statement Thursday announcing the 19-state lawsuit.

But though Mr. Sinwar does not technically have authority over the entire Hamas movement, his leadership role in Gaza and his forceful personality have given him outsize importance in how Hamas operates, according to allies and foes alike.

The officer said no crime was committed and he didn’t have authority to force the issue.