“As I get older, I get more Libertarian. I don’t like banning books. This could be a slippery slope that goes to really bad places.”
— Jeb Bush, quoted by the Dallas Morning News.
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Supreme Court Sides With Coach Over Prayers
“The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a high school football coach had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games,” the New York Times…
Majority Opposed to Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
A new poll from NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist finds Americans opposed to the Supreme Court decision to overturn Row v. Wade by a 56% to 40% margin, with a plurality strongly opposed…
Both Sides Mobilize Over Abortion
The Supreme Court’s abortion decision Friday “has unleashed a frenzy of activity on both sides of the abortion fight, with anti-abortion forces vowing to push for near-total bans in every…
Some GOP Donors Sick of the ‘Shitshow’
“As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots lays out Donald Trump’s obsessive efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Trump allies have responded with the political equivalent of…
Groundhog Day at the White House
CNN: “For Biden’s economic team, the process is a continuation of more than a year of all-hands-on-deck approaches to confront pop-up crises — ‘basically whack-a-mole’ was how one senior White…
Democrats Can’t Rely on the Courts
From a Wall Street Journal editorial: “The fury of the left’s reaction isn’t merely about guns and abortion. It reflects their grief at having lost the Court as the vehicle…
Republicans Downplay Impact of Abortion Decision
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), a former party campaign chief, “said the abortion decision could help Democrats flip one or two seats at most,” Politico reports. “But he argued it wouldn’t…
Democrats Seize on Abortion Ruling in Midterms
Washington Post: “Democratic strategists argued that such a massive change in the legal landscape will trigger a drumbeat of news coverage as states adapt, keeping the issue front of mind…
Abortion Opponents Consider Their Next Move
“For the nearly half-century that Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, the most prominent opponents of abortion often urged an incremental approach to narrowing access to the…
G-7 Solidify Support for Ukraine
“The Group of Seven economic powers are set to commit themselves to supporting Ukraine for the long haul, with the U.S. preparing to announce the purchase of an advanced surface-to-air…
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“This court has lost legitimacy. They have burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had after their gun decision, after their voting decision, after their union decision. They just took…
Texas Patients ‘Begged for Help’ After Roe Overturned
A Texas abortion clinic said they had to turn away people seeking abortions away just minutes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, The 19th reports. The…
Johnson Draws Congressman Into Fake Electors Plot
Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) said last week he “had no hand” in an effort to deliver illegitimate “alternate” Electoral College ballots, but now he says he coordinated the attempted delivery…
Bannon Calls for ‘Army’ to ‘Shatter’ Democrats
Steve Bannon called for an “army of the awakened” to “shatter” the Democratic party in post-Roe America, Insider reports. Said Bannon: “This is the key take-away for MAGA … the…
Trump Moved Money From Political Groups To His Business
“Donald Trump never stopped raising funds from his supporters after the 2020 presidential race,” Forbes reports. “His companies, meanwhile, continued to charge his political outfits for goods and services. As…
The Fallout from Overturning Roe
The Economist: “After the fallout of the Supreme Court’s decision, America will be more dangerously divided. In the most doctrinaire pro-life states, the abortion regime will be more austere than…
More Than 80 Prosecutors Won’t Enforce Abortion Bans
Elected prosecutors across the country, including from 12 states with “trigger bans,” are saying they will not prosecute people who seek or provide abortion care, the Washington Post reports. Save…
Fox Host Rips Trump Over Baseless Election Claims
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade attacked Donald Trump on Sunday and said he has seen no evidence that proves the former president’s claims of election fraud, the HuffPost reports. Said…
Stacey Abrams Won’t Discuss Abortion Restrictions
“Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams (D) on Sunday refused to say whether she believed there should be restrictions on abortions or whether she believed abortion was acceptable all the…
Kevin McCarthy’s Coming Headaches
“Far-right candidates are surging in House races across the map: Republican leaders increasingly fear that a red wave will wash in a raft of conspiracy theorists and extremists,” Axios reports….
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