Arizona House advances a repeal of the state's near-total abortion ban to the Senate PHOENIX (AP) — A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions has won approval from the state House, clearing its first hurdle two weeks after a court concluded the state can enforce the ... 04/24/2024 - 8:32 am | View Link
Biden To Florida Voters: Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Trump’s Fault President Joe Biden swooped into Florida Tuesday, hoping to parlay the state’s new restrictive abortion law — as well as a ballot initiative that could undo it — into a campaign issue that could give ... 04/24/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Here's how the U.S. Supreme Court could reshape emergency abortions in Texas The case involves Idaho’s abortion ban but will have implications for Texas, where abortions are similarly prohibited in nearly all circumstances. 04/23/2024 - 9:59 pm | View Link
Campaign seeks to unseat 2 Arizona supreme court justices who upheld 1864 abortion ban A progressive political action group is launching a campaign to unseat two Arizona Supreme Court justices who recently upheld a near-total abortion ban from 1864. 04/22/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Judge refuses to dismiss federal gun case against Hunter Biden A federal judge in Delaware refused Friday to throw out a federal gun case against Hunter Biden, rejecting the president's son's claim that he is being prosecuted for political purposes as well as ... 04/12/2024 - 12:45 pm | View Link
“The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday,” the New York Times reports.
Brian Beutler: “Ahead of Thursday’s Supreme Court argument over Donald Trump’s claim to immunity for everything he did while president, the New York Times published a stirring call for the Supreme Court to rule against Trump with haste and in no uncertain terms—so that Trump can’t tee up a new series of dilatory appeals, and the case can go to trial before the election…”
“The author was Liz Cheney.”
“I’m obviously glad Cheney’s out there making this case.
Theodore Schleifer reports Elon Musk “has made it known that he is considering either endorsing Trump after the summer — or at least making some kind of formal statement opposing Joe Biden — beyond his hourly diatribes on X.”
Lara Trump told Fox News that the RNC will have poll watchers who can actually touch ballots at polling places on election day.
Said Trump: “We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers – people standing in polling locations – but people who can physically handle the ballots.”
She added: “So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in.
“For the third week in a row, lawmakers return to the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday with abortion dominating their agendas. Even when it’s not on the agenda,” the Arizona Republic reports.
“Democrats say they will try again to move for a repeal of the 1864 near-total abortion ban that was revived earlier this month by the state Supreme Court.”
New York Times: “The previous attempts to undo the Civil War-era ban ended in chaotic failure after Republican leaders beat back efforts by Democrats and a handful of members of their own party.”