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9:20 AM ET, May 4, 2022

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Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
The Institutionalist's Dilemma  —  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.”  I say “joke,” but it's also a fact.
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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 …
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.
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
With Roe at risk, GOP faces pressure to support families after birth  —  Republican supporters of policies to help children say new restrictions on abortion should change political calculus  —  Republican lawmakers are facing renewed internal pressure to support child benefit programs …
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 …
Politico:
Democrats skeptical SCOTUS will save them in November  —  The day after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Democratic donors poured more than $30 million into Democratic campaigns and groups through ActBlue, shattering its own one-day fundraising records.
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 …
Kara Voght / Rolling Stone:
They're the ‘Last Line of Defense’ to Protect Abortion Rights
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Unpacking the Draft Supreme Court Opinion Set to Overrule Roe
Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Just over half favor banning abortions after 15 weeks
Discussion: Politico and Opinion Today
Wall Street Journal:
Abortion and the Supreme Court
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
A Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach
Molly Jong-Fast / The Atlantic:
My Mother Was Wrong  —  Sign up for Molly's newsletter, Wait, What?, here.
Axios:
J.D. Vance's Trump-like effect  —  If J.D. Vance follows his Tuesday night victory in Ohio's Senate primary with a general election win in November he'll arrive in a Washington filled with enemies and be seen as arguably the hardest-edged populist nationalist in the Senate GOP.
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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.
Sarah Longwell / New York Times:
J.D. Vance Is More Proof That Trump Is King of the Republican Party  —  J.D. Vance's come-from-behind victory in the Ohio Republican primary was the first test of Donald Trump's influence in 2022 election cycle as well as the future of the Republican Party.  Spoiler alert: He's influential.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary
Discussion: Power Line
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Which Trumpism Won in Ohio?
Associated Press:
Tim Ryan wins Ohio Democratic Senate primary
NBC News:
Polls close in Ohio, where GOP primaries test Trump's influence
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.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend  —  New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter.  You can sign up for free right here.  —  Trevor Noah joked about the event becoming …
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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 …
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Joseph Cox / VICE:
Data Broker Is Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Abortion Clinics
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Ron DeSantis and the Unlearned Lessons of the G.O.P.'s Culture War  —  Previous clashes between Republican lawmakers and prominent businesses in the states they control have not always worked out as planned.  —  In late March, when Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, in an act of Trumpian belligerence …
Discussion: USA Today
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:   Madison Cawthorn's lawyer argues that states can't enforce age and residency rules for congressional candidates
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Detroit Free Press:
Democrat upsets candidate who made controversial rape comments in bid for Michigan House
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
Amanda Gokee / New Hampshire Bulletin:
Secretary of state's pick for voter confidence commission draws criticism
Discussion: Raw Story
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden to sign executive order, national security memo to advance quantum technologies
Discussion: Defense One and The White House
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