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Missouri’s GOP lawmakers vote to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature has passed a bill to ban Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood. 04/24/2024 - 7:56 am | View Link
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Sen. Pete Ricketts donates $500K to Nebraska's 12-week abortion ban ballot campaign Sen. Pete Ricketts is backing an effort to enshrine a 12-week abortion ban in Nebraska's constitution two years after he supported a total ban without exceptions for rape or incest. 04/17/2024 - 9:01 am | View Link
Although Donald Trump complains that his criminal trial keeps him off the campaign trail, he spent Wednesday — the day when court isn’t scheduled — playing golf and not campaigning, CNN reports.
Critics say the justice should not judge Trump's election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump's Jan6 rally.
“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to restore ‘net neutrality’ rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others,” the AP reports.
“The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration.
“Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation that could lead to the prosecution of librarians under the state’s obscenity law for providing minors with ‘harmful’ materials,” The Hill reports.
During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival.
Justice Sotomayor was not amused.
Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?
Sauer: It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.
Sotomayor: It could.