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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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DownWithTyranny!, The Hill, No More Mister Nice Blog and HuffPost
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe — A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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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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Lawyers, Guns & Money, New York Times, Slate, CBS News and CBS Philly
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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WTOP News, Arizona Mirror, The Daily Caller, The Mahablog, National Review, KSLTV.com, TheBlaze and Conservative Brief
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Live Updates: ‘Trigger Laws’ Set Off a Scramble for Abortion Services
Live Updates: ‘Trigger Laws’ Set Off a Scramble for Abortion Services
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court
The lonely chief: How John Roberts lost control of the court
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Washington Free Beacon, RADAR, RedState, The Critical Reader, The Western Journal, Raw Story, The Daily Advertiser, Fox News and Insider
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, The Lewsletter, 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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News Items, Washington Post, Conservative Brief and Raw Story
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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CBS News, TheGrio, HuffPost, Washington Examiner and The Daily Wire
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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, KSLTV.com, Market Mad House, CBS News and Maddog's Newsletter
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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The Local, Reuters, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
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Mike Florio / ProFootballTalk:
Report: NFL seeks indefinite suspension of Deshaun Watson, lasting at least one year — A slow Saturday on the NFL calendar has picked up considerably. — With the NFL knowing that coverage of all things Deshaun Watson is unavoidable, the league steered the emergence of reports into a window where they could be less noticed.
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Andrew Beaton / Wall Street Journal:
The NFL Prepares to Push for an Indefinite Suspension of Deshaun Watson
The NFL Prepares to Push for an Indefinite Suspension of Deshaun Watson
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Associated Press, Sports Illustrated, Breitbart, The Root, Fox News and New York Post
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.
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Patrick Wintour / The Guardian:
Iran and US ready to restart talks on nuclear deal — EU foreign affairs chief says stalemate broken after meeting with Iranian foreign minister in Tehran — Josep Borrell, the EU foreign affairs chief, has said talks will restart on the Iran nuclear deal, averting a complete collapse …
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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
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 …
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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
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Rep. Mary Miller Thanks Trump for Giving ‘White Life’ a Win — ‘HISTORIC VICTORY’ — Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) said the quiet part out loud at a Donald Trump rally Saturday night while expressing her appreciation to the former president over his role in the overturning of Roe v Wade.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Radical Reign of Clarence Thomas — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — “What is happening here?” a distraught Nancy Pelosi said on Friday. — It's a good question and I can answer it, because I was there at the start of the corrosive chain of events that led to women losing control of their own bodies.
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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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RedState and Washington Examiner
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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New York Times
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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Los Angeles Times, Fortune, California Governor and The Gateway Pundit, more at Techmeme »
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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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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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