Pitchfork Day 3: Off To A Mellow Start

This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide stabilizing care for all ER patients—including abortion care, even if it conflicts with a state’s own stricter abortion rules. Enter Idaho.

Lara Trump, new co-leader of the RNC, admitted on NewsmaxTV that Republicans have set up poll watchers for the upcoming election to challenge and most likely attack legally cast votes and polling stations. This election, I think we can all see the most important thing aside from getting out the vote is protecting that vote.

President Joe Biden Tuesday called out Donald Trump's deal with conservative evangelicals that led to the revocation of federal abortion rights. At a campaign stop in Tampa, Biden noted that Trump had taken credit for the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which protected abortion rights at the federal level. "He described the Dobbs decision as a miracle," Biden told supporters.

Donald Trump took another hit to the ego in the PA primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans voted for Nikki Haley instead. Via the Philadelphia Inquirer: Sure, he won the primary in the my swing state with 82.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 788,000 votes. But Nikki Haley still received 16.5 percent, with 156,950 votes. Poor Don.

Donald Trump is currently a criminal defendant in a New York state trial. But on Thursday, his lawyers will argue before the Supreme Court that as a former President he’s largely immune from criminal prosecution, setting the stage for one of the most pivotal decisions on presidential power in a generation. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The case, Trump v.

“Don’t google your cancer,” the oncology nurse said to me as she drew my blood ahead of my first round of chemotherapy. It was 2006 and I was 17 years old. I was very confused by the emphasis she put on this advice. Still, I took the print-out of “safe” web addresses she gave me home and pinned it on the noticeboard in the kitchen, where it stayed, ignored, as I slowly progressed through six months of cancer treatment. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] I was confused because the opportunities for me to use the internet to research my recent diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a kind of blood cancer, were minimal anyway.