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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Democrats skeptical SCOTUS will save them in November  —  One Democratic pollster said the issue “will help at the margins,” but to maintain control of Congress “we need inflation to go away.”  —  People take part in a demonstration at the Supreme Court in reaction to news that the court …

The Institutionalist's Dilemma  —  On trusting the process after it's openly failed  —  Sometimes when I am explaining the somewhat eclectic variety of topics I write about in my newsletter, compared to the work I did at other publications for many years, l joke that “I just ran out of ways to say the Senate shouldn't exist.”

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.

Who Won and Who Lost in the Ohio and Indiana Primary Elections  —  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 …