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1:00 AM ET, May 4, 2022

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach  —  The leak of a draft majority opinion overruling Roe v. Wade raises questions about motives, methods and whether defections are still possible.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — Sources have motives …
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Overturning Roe Is a Radical, Not Conservative, Choice  —  Dear Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas:  —  As you'll no doubt agree, Roe v. Wade was an ill-judged decision when it was handed down on Jan. 22, 1973.  —  It stood on the legal principle …
New York Times:
Inside Politico's Historic Scoop  —  Politico's top editors and executives spent Sunday morning sipping Bloody Marys and nibbling bite-size waffles and wienerschnitzel as they chatted with top Washington officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Alito's Plan to Repeal the 20th Century  —  If you are an American with a young daughter, she will grow up in a world without the right to choose when and where she gives birth, and in which nothing restrains a state from declaring her womb its property, with all the invasive authorities that implies.
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Unpacking the Draft Supreme Court Opinion Set to Overrule Roe  —  Neal Katyal discusses what the shocking leak means for the future of abortion rights in America—and for the Court.  —  On Monday evening, Politico published a draft of a Supreme Court majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The case against SCOTUS  —  The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America's democratic decline.  —  Two events occurred Monday night — one historic, the other rather insignificant …
Wall Street Journal:
Abortion and the Supreme Court  —  This is the moment for the Justices to turn the issue over to the voters.  —  1x  —  The Supreme Court will soon decide an abortion case in which Mississippi has asked the Justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.  The oral argument suggested …
Washington Post:
Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe, Post-ABC poll finds  —  A majority of Americans say the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion, a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week finds.
Laurence H. Tribe / The Boston Globe:
The new Supreme Court's iron fist  —  If the right of a woman to decide whether to have a baby won't qualify as a guaranteed right, then neither will most of the rights you have long assumed are yours.  —  Nobody will soon forget where they were when they got Monday's news …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and HotAir
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Senate Republicans share abortion talking points
NBC News:
Democrats energized after leaked abortion decision jolts midterms
Supreme Court of the United States:
For Immediate Release  —  For Further Information Contact:  —  Yesterday, a news organization …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court will investigate leaked draft of abortion opinion
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
An America Without Roe v. Wade Will Be a Dark Place
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Democrats push to ensure women get free birth control promised by ACA
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell closes in on Roe after years of pushing the courts rightward
New York Times:
Ohio U.S. Senate Primary Election Results  —  The author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance has secured former President Donald J. Trump's endorsement in this crowded and contentious Senate Republican primary that will serve as a test of the former president's influence over congressional races.
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
JD Vance — and Don Jr. — initiate the GOP's 2022 purge of the neocons  —  Until the end of April, J.D. Vance's storied career as a self-made Middle-American memoirist, conservative firebrand, and venture capitalist risked sputtering out as a third-place also-ran in Ohio's Republican Senate primary.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio holds off his G.O.P. primary challengers.  —  Defeating Nina Turner was the first project of a new group called Mainstream Democrats, a super PAC formed to defeat progressive challengers.  The next major showdown between the left and center of the Democratic Party …
NBC News:
Polls close in Ohio, where GOP primaries test Trump's influence
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Anarchist Collective Shares Instructions to Make DIY Abortion Pills  —  DIY medicine collectives are preparing for the horrifying prospect that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.  —  Jason Koebler  —  With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the constitutional right to abortion …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Twitchy
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Henry Redman / Wisconsin Examiner:
In interview, Sen. Johnson says it ‘may be true’ that COVID vaccines cause AIDS  —  In a video interview published on the right-wing social media platform Rumble, Sen. Ron Johnson said it “may be true” that vaccines against COVID-19 cause AIDS.  —  Johnson was being interviewed …
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Repairman who revealed Hunter Biden laptop sues Schiff, CNN, Politico and The Daily Beast  —  The Delaware computer repairman who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden's laptop — filed a multi-million-dollar defamation suit Tuesday against Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, CNN, The Daily Beast and Politico …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Max Tani / Politico:
Jonathan Karl tests positive for Covid after sitting next to Kim Kardashian  —  ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl has tested positive for Covid-19, people familiar with the matter confirm, days after sitting next to Kim Kardashian at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and interacting with President Joe Biden.
 
 
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
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Discussion: The Times of Israel
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John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
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Wall Street Journal:
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