Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
6:40 PM ET, May 3, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
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 …
RELATED:
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.
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 …
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 …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion The Supreme Court bombshell may soon get even worse for Democrats  —  During the 2021 gubernatorial race in Virginia, Democrats poured millions of dollars into ads highlighting the GOP candidate's opposition to abortion.  Democrats also raised the possibility that the Supreme Court …
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 …
David Klion / New York Magazine:
The Leak Is Good, Actually  —  The first thing to be said about Justice Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion striking down Roe v. Wade, which was published by Politico last night, is that it represents a catastrophe for Americans in general and Americans with uteruses in particular.
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden  —  We do not know whether this draft is genuine, or whether it reflects the final decision of the Court.  —  With that critical caveat, I want to be clear on three points about the cases before the Supreme Court.  —  First, my administration argued strongly …
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.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Senate Republicans share abortion talking points  —  The Senate Republicans' campaign arm is circulating a three-page memo, obtained by Axios, laying out how candidates and lawmakers can maximize their messaging on the U.S. Supreme Court's leaked draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Washington Post:
Roberts directs investigation into leaked draft of abortion opinion  —  The document is authentic but not final, the chief justice said in a news release Tuesday.  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the leaked draft opinion proposing to overturn Roe v. Wade is authentic but not final …
Politico:
Republicans rage about breach of draft Roe opinion  —  Few Republican lawmakers on Tuesday were celebrating a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.  Instead, they were angrily demanding answers to how the document became public in the first place.
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Anarchist Collective Shares Instructions to Make DIY Abortion Pills
Discussion: Twitchy
Christine Filer / ABC News:
With Supreme Court poised to reverse Roe, most Americans support abortion rights: POLL
Dan Diamond / Washington Post:
Democrats push to ensure women get free birth control promised by ACA
Discussion: Washington Examiner, Bolts and NPR
Associated Press:
Biden blasts ‘radical’ Roe draft, warns other rights at risk
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins: Draft Roe decision ‘completely inconsistent’ with what Gorsuch, Kavanaugh said
CNN:
Supreme shock  —  “Just now on our site, we've published a story, along with an accompanying side bar …
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Amazon's Abortion Travel Benefit Doesn't Include Its Most Vulnerable Workers
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:   CNN's Jeffrey Toobin Worried SCOTUS Could Take Away His Right To Bribe Mistress To Get Abortion
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Opinion Democrats finally have a message. Will they seize it?
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Sen. Collins: ‘Completely inconsistent’ that Gorsuch, Kavanaugh would support overturning Roe v. Wade
New York Times:
How Americans are reacting to the Supreme Court news.
Washington Times:
Legal experts: SCOTUS leaker could be caught but not face criminal charges, possibly disbarred
Discussion: alicublog
New York Times:
What Would the End of Roe Mean? Key Questions and Answers.
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Democratic candidates call on Senate to nix filibuster for Roe
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post and Mediaite
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Choose What State You Live in Carefully  —  Also: Larry Hogan is wrong about the future of Trumpism.  —  Thank you: To everyone who ordered Tim's book, Why We Did It, yesterday.  We got Tim all the way up to #165 on Amazon's book list—which is amazing for a book that's not even out yet.
Discussion: National Review
Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Norman Mineta, transportation secretary who helped create TSA, dies at 90  —  He became one of the country's highest-profile Asian American political leaders, as a big-city mayor, a 10-term congressman and a Cabinet secretary  —  Norman Y. Mineta, a first-generation Japanese American …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 6:40 PM ET, May 3, 2022.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Madison Cawthorn's lawyer argues that states can't enforce age and residency rules for congressional candidates
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: U.S. explores holding regional leaders' meeting during Biden's Middle East visit
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Michael Balsamo / Washington Post:
US Capitol officer fires gun in break room, gets suspended
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Proud Boy Love and Racist Memes: New State Audit Uncovers Sickening Conduct by Calif. Police
Discussion: Raw Story
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Yuma mayor privately asked Biden team to stop releasing migrants into city
Discussion: Fox News
 Earlier Items: 
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
The Slow and Sudden Death of Majority Rule
Discussion: National Review and Wolf
Davide Lerner / Financial Times:
Ukraine war casts shadow over Transnistria as security alerts sow fear
Jason Chaffetz / Fox News:
Stacey Abrams got special treatment in office and even got wealthy on the taxpayer dime
Discussion: Breitbart
T.J. Quinn / ESPN:
U.S. reclassifies WNBA star Brittney Griner as ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia, sources say
Bill de Blasio / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden Can Learn From My Mistakes
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page