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Wisconsin Supreme Court election sends message on abortion rights — MILWAUKEE — In overturning a national right to abortion last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court gave conservatives a policy they'd been seeking for nearly half a century. In the process, the justices also angered millions …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wisconsin's stunning outcome puts MAGA Republicans in a serious bind — To understand the significance of the victory that liberals just pulled off in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race, a win largely driven by abortion rights, consider what is set to happen some 1,100 miles from Madison …
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Rebecca Crosby / Popular Information:
What happened in Wisconsin — Rebecca Crosby, Tesnim Zekeria, and Judd Legum — This week, Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal circuit judge in Milwaukee, won a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court bench against her right-wing challenger Dan Kelly. Protasiewicz's win gives Wisconsin's highest court …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Protasiewicz's Wisconsin Victory Shows Power of Abortion Rights for Democrats — A resounding victory by a liberal judge who ran on abortion rights showed that a largely unified political left is keeping up its momentum, and served as a new warning sign to Republicans.
Wall Street Journal:
The Left Wins Big in Midwest Elections — The GOP's decline in Wisconsin's suburbs is a warning for 2024. — By The Editorial Board — Progressives had a banner day in the Midwest Tuesday, with victories for Chicago mayor and a swing seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court.
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Politico:
Playbook: A ‘five-alarm warning’ for the GOP — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — McCARTHY'S MESSAGE FOR CHINA — Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY met with Taiwanese President TSAI ING-WEN in California yesterday, where the Republican leader projected …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The last 48 hours revealed the GOP's intractable 2024 dilemma
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New York Times:
Trump's Charges Bring Doubts, Hopes and Uncertainty in Both Parties — To some Republicans and Democrats, the charges appeared flimsy and less consequential than many had hoped. To others, the case had the potential to reverberate politically. — In an ordinary presidential-primary season …
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Jed Handelsman Shugerman / New York Times:
The Trump Indictment Is a Legal Embarrassment — Tuesday was historic for the rule of law in America, but not in the way Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, would have imagined. The 34-count indictment — which more accurately could be described as 34 half-indictments — was a disaster.
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Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Depraved, Deranged, and Doing Real Damage — The former president is a grotesque man presiding over a grotesque party. In his speech last night to his supporters at Mar-a-Lago, made several hours after he was arraigned in Manhattan on 34 felony counts, Donald Trump took aim at Juan Merchan, the judge in the case.
Ann Coulter / Unsafe:
You're Being Played, Republicans! — A few years ago, I posted this riddle on Twitter: — What's easier to roll than an Easter egg? — Answer: Donald Trump. — Now, I can add: — What's easier to roll than Donald Trump? — Answer: Republican voters. — Democrats are playing Republicans like a fiddle.
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Fox News' Steve Doocy Calls Out Trump: ‘Very Bad Look To Attack’ Judge's Family — The former president and his sons targeted the daughter of the judge handling Trump's case on Tuesday. — Fox News' Steve Doocy criticized former President Donald Trump on Wednesday for going after the family …
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Jane Rosenberg's “Courtroom Sketch, Manhattan Criminal Courthouse”
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ProPublica:
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire — IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic archipelago …
San Francisco Chronicle:
‘A child of dreams.’ Friends mourn Cash App founder Bob Lee, stabbed to death in S.F. — San Francisco's tech community mourned the violent death of one of their own Wednesday, calling Cash App founder Bob Lee a standout among Silicon Valley geniuses, someone idolized as a brilliant thinker …
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Michelle L. Price / Associated Press:
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. challenging Biden in 2024 — Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country's most famous political families, is running for president. Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Robert Kennedy Jr., a Noted Vaccine Skeptic, Files to Run for President
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Rupert Murdoch Can Be Forced to Testify in Defamation Trial, Judge Says — Star hosts for Fox News like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity may also appear in person at the high-profile trial, which is set to start April 17. — The witness list for the Fox News $1.6 billion defamation trial …
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Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Judge says he can compel Fox's Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch to testify live in Dominion trial
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Vivian Jones / The Tennessean:
Expulsion vote thrusts Tennessee politics onto the national stage, could set precedent — The Democrats could become political martyrs if expelled from the legislature. The move shows the power the GOP holds and could set a precedent for the future. — Tennessee's Republican supermajority …
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Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Maryland AG accuses Baltimore's Catholic Church of widespread sexual abuse — Maryland's Attorney General on Wednesday released a report accusing Catholic priests and others at the Archdiocese of Baltimore of decades of sexual abuse against more than 600 children, following a multi-year grand jury investigation.
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Laura Jarrett / NBC News:
Pence will not fight the order that he testify before special counsel grand jury — Trump could still pursue an appeal to try to block Pence from testifying about their communications ahead of the Jan. 6 election certification. — Former Vice President Mike Pence will not appeal …
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida lawmakers swing into action after Trump smacks DeSantis on insurance — Their plan comes three weeks after the former president accused the governor of bailing out the politically-powerful companies. — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida lawmakers want to bring the “hammer” down on …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump makes play for DeSantis donors
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Twitter labels NPR's account as ‘state-affiliated media,’ which is untrue — Twitter added a “state-affiliated media” tag to NPR's main account on Tuesday, applying the same label to the nonprofit media company that Twitter uses to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
At least two Republican DAs want to prosecute Bidens: Rep. James Comer — WASHINGTON — At least two local GOP prosecutors are looking at ways to charge President Biden and his family amid Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Donald Trump …
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Wall Street Journal:
How You Can Use Social Media to Support Evan Gershkovich — The Wall Street Journal is offering resources for people who want to show their support across social media for Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia on March 29 during a reporting trip. He remains in a Moscow prison on espionage charges.
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Macron calls on Xi to reason with Russia for Ukraine peace — French President Emmanuel Macron urged China's Xi Jinping on Thursday to reason with close ally Russia and help end the Ukraine war, while Xi responded by saying he hoped the two sides could hold peace negotiations as soon as possible.
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Freedom Caucus and progressives lock arms — and that could be bad news for McCarthy — The speaker's immediate headache is a growing right-left alliance on Iraq war powers. But House liberals and conservatives are linking up on other issues, too. — The House's most conservative Republicans …
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