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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.
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New York Times, Slate, CBS News and CBS Philly
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court — As the shock waves spread Friday from the Supreme Court's momentous decision striking down Roe v. Wade, one notable casualty of the ruling became evident: Chief Justice John Roberts. — After nearly seven months of deliberations …
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RedState, The Critical Reader, Raw Story, The Daily Advertiser, Fox News and Insider
Lawrence Richard / Fox News:
Arizona abortion protest: Police release tear gas, lawmakers ‘held hostage’ in Senate building — Arizona state lawmakers were forced to finish voting in a secure room in the Capitol — Protestors chant outside of Arizona State Senate following SCOTUS decision.
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Arizona Mirror, KSLTV.com, National Review, The Daily Caller, Conservative Brief and TheBlaze
Politico:
18 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America
18 Ways the Supreme Court Just Changed America
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Center for Health Journalism, Breitbart, The Hill, Thoughts Into Words and Townhall
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Pence draws contrast with Trump on abortion decision
Pence draws contrast with Trump on abortion decision
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Washington Post, News Items, RADAR and Raw Story
David Siders / Politico:
‘The dog that caught the car’: Republicans brace for the impact of reversing Roe
‘The dog that caught the car’: Republicans brace for the impact of reversing Roe
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New York Magazine, RedState, Raw Story, Nancy Brisson's Newsletter, CNN, Political Wire and HuffPost
Josh Barro / Very Serious:
Republicans Are Willing to Pay a Political Price to Ban Abortion. It's Up to Democrats to Make Them Pay It.
Republicans Are Willing to Pay a Political Price to Ban Abortion. It's Up to Democrats to Make Them Pay It.
Jeannie Suk Gersen / New Yorker:
When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right
When the Supreme Court Takes Away a Long-Held Constitutional Right
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NBC News and The Moderate Voice
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.
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.
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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Washington Examiner, CBS News, HuffPost and The Daily Wire
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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.
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Washington Post, Raw Story, Occupy Democrats and Insider
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 …
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The Guardian, Associated Press, Market Mad House and CBS News
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
LAPD treatment of journalists denounced, again, after abortion rights protest downtown — Independent journalist Tina-Desiree Berg was standing on a sidewalk filming the arrest of an abortion rights protester in downtown Los Angeles on Friday night when a police officer hit her on the side of the head.
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Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times:
Gasps, tears and fear: Inside a Texas abortion clinic the moment Roe was overturned
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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Regular Order and Washington Examiner
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Biden signs landmark gun legislation: 'God willing, it's going to save a lot of lives'
Biden signs landmark gun legislation: 'God willing, it's going to save a lot of lives'
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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
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Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
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
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Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
We're Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We're Going Somewhere Worse
We're Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We're Going Somewhere Worse
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The Guardian, The Forward and The Hyphen
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 …
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Human Events and Townhall
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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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.
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Washington Examiner and RedState
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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Reuters, The Local, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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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 …