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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Blackburn Warns Dems Could Try To Pack Court With Ketanji Brown Jackson Before Breyer Retires To Try To Save Roe v. Wade  —  Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn warned Wednesday that Democrats could try to pack the Supreme Court by adding Ketanji Brown Jackson …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court's Alito cancels conference appearance after abortion ruling leak  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has canceled an appearance at a judicial conference set to begin on Thursday after a draft decision he wrote indicating the high court would overturn …
Discussion: Political Wire
David French / The Atlantic:
What Alito Got Right  —  Sign up for David's newsletter, The Third Rail, here.  —  We do not know if Justice Samuel Alito's leaked draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health represents the current consensus of a majority of the Supreme Court.  We certainly don't know yet if it's a preview of the Court's actual ruling.
Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
Why There Are No Women in the Constitution  —  There is little mention of abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787.  This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.  —  Within a matter of months, women in about half of the United States may be breaking the law if they decide to end a pregnancy.
New York Times:
As Leak Theories Circulate, Supreme Court Marshal Takes Up Investigation
Popular Information:
These 13 corporations have spent $15 million supporting anti-abortion politicians since 2016
Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Democratic Leaders Are Getting the Abortion Story Wrong — Again
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Militia group leader tried to ask Trump to authorize them to stop the transfer of power  —  The justice department has alleged that Oath Keepers leadership called the president's confidant to allow them to use force  —  Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers militia group leader charged …
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ABC News:
DOJ, Jan. 6 committee staff clash in interview with former U.S. attorney: Sources  —  The DOJ feared investigators' questions could impact their ongoing prosecutions.  —  Attorneys with the Department of Justice recently clashed behind closed doors with staff members for the House select …
Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. interviews with Jan. 6 select panel  —  Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, interviewed with the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  He's the latest member of the Trump family to provide testimony …
CNN:
Donald Trump Jr. met with the House January 6 committee on Tuesday
Discussion: CBS News and POLITICUSUSA
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Third Oath Keepers defendant pleads guilty to sedition in Capitol riot case
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Farewell to the dumbest Senate primary ever  —  Nearly every politician commits an occasional gaffe, and nearly every election features at least one news cycle about something stupid that a candidate did or said.  —  Even so, the recently concluded Ohio Republican Senate primary was uniquely stupid, by almost any standard.
Discussion: ABC News and Reason
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Axios:
J.D. Vance's Trump-like effect
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary
Associated Press:
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike  —  LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing basement of the Mariupol theater, coated in white plaster dust shaken loose by the explosion.  Her husband tugged at her to leave and begged her to cover her eyes.
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Reuben Johnson / You searched for:   Russian troops held me captive at gunpoint for two weeks in Ukraine. Here's what I learned.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion An upset win over the ‘enjoy rape’ MAGA candidate speaks volumes  —  “Hate Won't Win.”  —  That hashtag went viral last month after Mallory McMorrow, an obscure Democratic state senator from Michigan, delivered a blistering takedown of a GOP colleague who'd falsely labeled her a “groomer.”
Washington Post:
Don't be 'Putin's altar boy,' Pope warns Russian Orthodox leader  —  Pope Francis warned the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church not to be “Putin's altar boy” and justify the Russian president's invasion of Ukraine.  —  In a Tuesday interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera …
Dave Elias / WBBH-TV:
Cape Coral art teacher fired for discussing LGBTQ topics  —  CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Cape Coral Middle School teacher claims she was fired because she spoke with her students about sexuality.  —  Video  —  She says her art students then drew flag pictures expressing their own sexuality.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The Right to Move Is Under Attack  —  For much of American history, freedom from an oppressive legal system could be found by picking up and leaving.  During the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans abandoned the Jim Crow South for the North, Midwest, and West; at a smaller scale …
Discussion: Fox News
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Mass Student Debt Cancellation Legally Risky, Says Top Obama Education Lawyer  —  Former Education Department general counsel warned it is ‘doubtful’ courts would accept Biden canceling debt for all student borrowers  —  President Biden would be on shaky legal ground if he were to pursue …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Sinn Fein eyes historic win in Northern Ireland election  —  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Ever since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state a century ago, its governments have been led by unionist politicians who defined themselves as British.
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds  —  But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what's happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Young children who transition …
NBC News:
Covid's toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths  —  The U.S. on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for the country with the world's highest recorded toll from the virus.
Discussion: The Hill
Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
Can Republicans Stop Patients From Leaving the State for an Abortion?  Some Are Willing to Try.  —  It sounds so simple, idealistic even.  Roe v. Wade and its descendants, writes Justice Samuel Alito in his leaked draft opinion, have not “ended debate over the issue of a constitutional right …
New York Times:
Putin-Linked Superyacht May Elude Sanctions, by Setting Sail  —  Gaia Pianigiani and Michael Forsythe  —  MARINA DI CARRARA, Italy— The Italian police are in a race to finish investigating the ownership of a $700 million superyacht, which U.S. officials say is linked to President Vladimir V. Putin …
Discussion: CBS News and Bloomberg
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement  —  Although overall economic activity edged down in the first quarter, household spending and business fixed investment remained strong.  Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has declined substantially.
Discussion: PennLive, Fortune, Breitbart and Politico
ABC News:
Dr. Oz's vote in 2018 Turkish election renews criticism  —  The celebrity doctor scored a key endorsement from Donald Trump last month.  —  As Dr. Mehmet Oz embarks on a bid for the U.S. Senate, the television star has largely shied away from discussing his ties to Turkey …
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
 
 
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