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5:35 PM ET, June 25, 2022

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The End of Roe Is Just the Beginning  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  By any reasonable political science theory, any normal supposition about how power works in our republic, this day should not have come.  —  The pro-life movement has spent half a century trying to overturn …
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith: We've Seen What Will Happen Next to America's Women  —  Ms. Warren is a Democratic senator from Massachusetts.  Ms. Smith is a Democratic senator from Minnesota — and the only senator to have worked at Planned Parenthood.  —  The Supreme Court has spoken: Roe is gone.
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Constitution Is Whatever the Right Wing Says It Is  —  The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, allowing state governments to force women to give birth, is the result of decades of right-wing political advocacy, organizing, and electoral victory.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Kavanaugh Gave Private Assurances.  Collins Says He ‘Misled’ Her.  —  “Roe is 45 years old, it has been reaffirmed many times, lots of people care about it a great deal,” the justice told the senator, according to notes from a private meeting before his confirmation.
NBC News:
Sens. Warren, Smith urge Biden to declare public health emergency following abortion ruling  —  Two of the leading Democratic senators in the reproductive rights space are urging President Joe Biden to declare a public health emergency as nearly two dozen states move to ban the procedure following Roe v. Wade's official repeal Friday.
Discussion: The Hill
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right
Discussion: NBC News and The Moderate Voice
adflegal.org:
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
Alexa Gagosz / The Boston Globe:
Providence off-duty police officer on paid leave after allegedly assaulting political opponent at abortion rights rally  —  Rally organizer and R.I. Political Cooperative co-founder Jennifer Rourke was attempting to deescalate a conflict when Jeann Lugo, her Republican opponent for State Senate District 29 …
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Amy Russo / The Providence Journal:
Hundreds rally for abortion rights at RI State House; chaos erupts within crowd  —  PROVIDENCE — Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the State House on Friday, voicing rage, fear and resistance to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Supreme Court steps into a void left by congressional dysfunction  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) paused for 10 seconds as he pondered whether the Supreme Court had simply become a more powerful branch of government than Congress.  —  Finally, the former constitutional law professor came to a verdict.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
White House Report Card: Biden could get bounce from Dobbs
Discussion: RADAR, Twitchy, ABC News and Axios
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict  —  Small shifts in territorial control matter less than the overall balance of forces, which analysts say could shift back in favor of Ukraine in the coming months  —  The Russian military will soon exhaust …
Discussion: The Guardian, PBS NewsHour and CBS News
Alissa Quart / Washington Post:
Traumatic pregnancies are awful.  Dobbs will make that so much worse.  —  Some pregnancies and births are difficult enough to give mothers PTSD.  When a pregnancy is unwanted, the physical and psychological strains will be even more severe.  —  Perspective by Alissa Quart
Discussion: New York Times
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Molly Roberts / Washington Post:   My pregnancy was unlucky. My abortion wasn't.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
We're Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We're Going Somewhere Worse
Discussion: The Guardian, GC News and The Forward
Bloomberg:
Americans in 26 States Will Have to Travel 552 Miles For Abortions  —  Now that the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, millions of Americans will soon find themselves in abortion deserts, meaning they will have to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to access the medical procedure.
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Washington Post:
Many states with anti-abortion laws have pro-choice majorities
Washington Post:
Two killed in attack on Oslo LGBTQ club; Norway raises terror alert  —  At least two people were killed and 10 seriously injured early Saturday in a shooting attack on an LGBTQ nightclub in Oslo.  Norwegian authorities raised the country's terror threat to its highest level Saturday.
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New York Times:
How the House Jan. 6 Panel Has Redefined the Congressional Hearing  —  No bloviating speeches or partisan rancor.  Lots of video and a tight script.  The story of Donald J. Trump's efforts to hold on to power is being unspooled in a way totally new to Capitol Hill.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
DFRLab:
US right-wing influencers stoke fears of left-wing mass violence after Supreme Court ruling on abortion  —  Contextualizing narratives about political violence surrounding the Dobbs v Jackson ruling  —  Conservative US political figures pre-empted and reacted to the United States Supreme Court's rollback …
Discussion: Townhall and Human Events
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Hunter Biden met with Russian oligarch now wanted for murder  —  When his father was the second most powerful man in the world, Hunter Biden met in Russia with at least four oligarchs closely aligned with Vladimir Putin — including one who is now wanted for murder in the country, The Post has learned.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and RedState
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
Senator in 2010 deposition: 13-year-olds can consent to sex  —  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Before he became a leading voice for conservative causes on Capitol Hill, U.S. Senator James Lankford spent more than a decade as the director of youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center …
Sam Metz / Associated Press:
‘Mitt Romney Republican’ is now a potent GOP primary attack  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mitt Romney isn't up for reelection this year.  But Trump-aligned Republicans hostile toward the Utah senator have made his name a recurring theme in this year's primaries, using him as a foil …
 
 
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Amy Mackinnon / Foreign Policy:
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Bloomberg:
US to Join G-7 in Ban of New Russian Gold Imports to Hit Putin
Nikkei Asia:
Japan needs to update sanctions laws to face future challenges
Parisa Hafezi / Reuters:
Iran-U.S. nuclear talks to resume ‘in the coming days’, Tehran and EU say
Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee, DOJ seek footage of Roger Stone from Danish filmmakers
Discussion: Deadline
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Biden signs gun control bill in wake of deadly mass shootings: ‘Lives will be saved’
 Earlier Items: 
Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Gasps, tears and fear: Inside a Texas abortion clinic the moment Roe was overturned
Washington Post:
The Dobbs decision looks to history to rescind Roe
Discussion: New York Times
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Group aims to strip Fox News of ad revenue over ‘fueling next insurrection’
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon Creator ‘Q’ Returns After Nearly Two-Year Hiatus
Discussion: Raw Story
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
GOP lawmaker says she trusts Utah women to control their ‘intake of semen’ as abortion trigger law goes into effect
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors and Raw Story
The Guardian:
A Florida power company didn't like a journalist's commentary. Its consultants had him followed
 

 
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