memeorandum: Supreme Court declines to block Texas 6-week abortion ban (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)

11:45 AM ET, September 2, 2021

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Texas law could flip script on abortion politics, with Democrats eying gains — WASHINGTON — Virginia was once at the forefront of anti-abortion efforts, going to the Supreme Court to defend its right to prosecute a newspaper publisher for running an ad promoting abortion.

Discussion: Richmond Times-Dispatch, Reason, Politico, Common Dreams, POLITICUSUSA, The 19th and The Hill

Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:

The Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade in the Most Cowardly Manner Imaginable — At midnight on Wednesday, in an unsigned, 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court effectively overturned Roe v. Wade. The five most conservative Republican-appointed justices refused to block Texas' abortion ban …

Discussion: CBS News, Crooks and Liars, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Rewire News Group, The Nation, emptywheel, NBC 6 South Florida and Al Jazeera

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Texas shows us what post-democracy America would look like — Texas this week showed us what a post-democracy America would look like. — Thanks to a series of actions by the Texas legislature and governor, we now see exactly what the Trumpified Republican Party wants …

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Outside the Beltway, Insider, Verdict, The 19th, New York Times, NPR, littlegreenfootballs.com, The Progressive Pulse, Bloomberg and Breitbart

MSNBC:
Sen. Warren: Congress could pass Roe v. Wade

Discussion: Slate, The 19th, Washington Post, Raw Story and Law & Crime

Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court declines to block Texas 6-week abortion ban

Discussion: NPR, SCOTUSblog, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, HotAir, New York Magazine, IJR, HuffPost, Bloomberg, Mediaite, UPI, Bloomberg, Breitbart, USA Today, Daily Kos, NBC News, The Daily Caller, Insider and CNN

Bloomberg: Lurch to Right May Imperil Texas's Attraction for Employers

Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Republicans Are Turning Activists Into Enforcers

Discussion: CNN, Crooks and Liars, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Sun-Sentinel, The Daily Beast, Daily Kos, HuffPost and NPR

Chabeli Carrazana / The 19th:
67 abortions in 17 hours: Inside a Texas clinic's race to beat new six-week abortion ban

Discussion: Bloomberg, Slate, Talking Points Memo, Des Moines Register, Off the Kuff, Forbes, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Breitbart, Daily Kos and Mother Jones

Alyssa Lukpat / New York Times:

Joe Rogan, A Podcasting Giant Who Has Been Dismissive of Vaccination, Has Covid — Joe Rogan, the host of the hugely popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said on Wednesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus after he returned from a series of shows in Florida, where the virus is rampant.

Vinay Prasad / The Atlantic:

The Harms of Masking Young Students Are Real — Scientists have an obligation to strive for honesty. And on the question of whether kids should wear masks in schools—particularly preschools and elementary schools—here is what I conclude: The potential educational harms of mandatory-masking policies …

Washington Post:
FDA to meet with outside advisers on coronavirus booster shots Sept. 17. That's just days before the shots are expected to become available.

Discussion: ENDPOINTS NEWS, Balloon Juice and Washington Post

Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Floyd County boy dies as COVID surges among Georgia's children

Discussion: Source New Mexico, TheBlaze and Raw Story

Katherine Knott / Daily Progress:
Albemarle mask policy keeps some students with disabilities out of buildings

Discussion: ScienceAlert

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Cotton leads Senate GOP push on Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal — Senate Republicans are pressing President Joe Biden to account for how many Americans, green card holders and special immigrant visa applicants remain in Afghanistan after the U.S. completed its withdrawal earlier this week.

Discussion: USA Today, Fox News, The Hill, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast and HuffPost

Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
For Afghan evacuees arriving to U.S., a tenuous legal status and little financial support

Discussion: CBS News and CNN

Geneva Sands / CNN:
White supremacist praise of the Taliban takeover concerns US officials

Discussion: New Yorker, Raw Story, Mock Paper Scissors, POLITICUSUSA, Twitchy, Washington Post, New York Times and Washington Free Beacon

Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Don Lemon: ‘Stop beating up’ on Biden admin over Afghanistan, 'We don't know' if we left Americans behind

Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and RedState

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Facts are finally starting to penetrate bad Afghanistan punditry

Discussion: HotAir, New York Times, Fox News, Reuters, BBC, Raw Story, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Politico

CNN:
McConnell: 'There isn't going to be an impeachment' of Biden

Discussion: Fox News, Townhall, Forbes, National Review, The Hill, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times, New York Post, Mediaite and Breitbart

ProPublica:

Heeding Steve Bannon's Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America's Elections — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

New York Times:

Day After Record Rainfall, a Trail of Paralysis and Destruction — Flash flooding caused by the remnants of the hurricane led to at least 15 deaths and disrupted transit around the region. Our reporters and photographers are sending in live updates. — RIGHT NOW A highway in Philadelphia …

Discussion: Slate, Axios, CBS News, Associated Press, NBC News, New York Post, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Hill, Deadline, Gizmodo, Mock Paper Scissors, Denver Post, Breitbart, New York Post, Raw Story, WGN-TV, UPI, NPR, Mediaite, The Hill and NBC 6 South Florida

New York Times:

Scenes from New York City as Ida paralyzes region. — City buses turned into amphibious vehicles, plowing through several feet of water, past orange traffic cones floating like buoys in the muck. — Subway stations roared with the sounds of rushing water that cascaded through platforms …

Discussion: New York Times, New York Post, FOX 5 San Diego, Mediaite, Page Six and New York Times

Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:

The effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is struggling, new California poll shows — Most likely California voters are opposed to the Republican-led recall effort against Gov. Gavin Newsom and a growing number fear the consequences of removing him from office with a hard-right conservative best positioned …

Discussion: USA Today, Politico, Outside the Beltway, Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, The Hill, Real Clear Politics, KTLA and Raw Story

Public Policy Institute of California:
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government

Discussion: Fox News, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, KTLA, FOX 5 San Diego, Mercury News, Politico, New York Magazine and CalMatters

CNN:

Liz Cheney named vice chair of the January 6 select committee — (CNN)Democratic Chairman of the January 6 Select Committee Bennie Thompson announced on Thursday that Republican Rep. Liz Cheney will become the panel's vice chair, the latest sign that the Democrat-run committee is attempting …

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press, Insider, Washington Post, Select Committee …, CBS News, NBC News, New York Times, Politico, Florida Politics, National Review, Daily Kos, Forbes and KTLA

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
McCarthy threat offers dark preview of possible Republican House

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Caller, Associated Press and Raw Story

Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
McCarthy Threatens Technology Firms That Comply With Riot Inquiry

Discussion: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC News, New York Post, IJR and Washington Post

Ramon Antonio Vargas / New Orleans Times-Picayune:

Woman hurls racist slurs at Jefferson Parish workers, aims car at deputy, is shot dead — 'There didn't seem to be a whole lot right with her,' sheriff says — A crew of Jefferson Parish workers was repairing a Metairie water main broken by Hurricane Ida when a woman pulled up in her car Wednesday, called them “f—

Discussion: Raw Story

Maya King / Politico:

The election gambit that's sending Georgia Democrats into a frenzy — Georgia Republicans say it's merely an attempt to improve a chronically mismanaged elections administration. — But a newly-formed election review panel in Atlanta's Fulton County is nevertheless sparking outrage …

Discussion: Raw Story

Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:

“2016 on Steroids”: The Race to Inherit Trump's MAGA Base Is Already On—And the Knives Are Out — With the 2024 election in sight, Republican presidential contenders such as Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Mike Pompeo have begun racing each other to the bottom to claim the party's base.

Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story

Eli Yokley / Morning Consult: DeSantis, Abbott Retain GOP Backing Even as Overall Popularity Declines Amid COVID-19 Surges

Washington Examiner:

A hurricane of misinformation on climate change — Before Hurricane Ida even had the chance to dissipate into Tropical Storm Ida, Democratic politicians were already on Twitter using the natural disaster to score political points. — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was typical …

Discussion: Reason

Associated Press:

AP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally — WASHINGTON (AP) — Far right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to attend a rally later this month at the U.S. Capitol that is designed to demand “justice” for the hundreds of people who have been charged …

Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors, Raw Story, Federal Bureau … and Zandar Versus The Stupid

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Prosecutors: Jan. 6 rioters committed more than 1,000 assaults on police

Discussion: Raw Story

Sean Trende / Real Clear Politics:

Biden's Job Approval Has Entered Dangerous Territory — ANALYSIS — In 1880, Americans did something momentous: They all elected their congressional delegations in the same year. Prior to that, elections had been a hodgepodge affair. For example, the first elections for the 28th Congress …

Joe Mcdonald / Associated Press:

China bans men it sees as not masculine enough from TV — BEIJING (AP) — China's government banned effeminate men on TV and told broadcasters Thursday to promote “revolutionary culture,” broadening a campaign to tighten control over business and society and enforce official morality.

New York Times:

Mueller Scrutinized an Unidentified Member of News Media in Russia Inquiry — The scrutiny was one of several new disclosures the Justice Department made about investigative actions involving the news media during the Trump years. — WASHINGTON — The special counsel who investigated …

Discussion: Insider, emptywheel, Washington Examiner, Mediaite and Raw Story

Jean Guerrero / Los Angeles Times:

How anti-California propaganda and racism are driving the recall — In the summer of 2019, as early efforts to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom foundered, right-wing commentators launched a smear campaign against California to discredit its progressive policies and stoke anger at its leaders.