Trump says abortion laws are up to the states. But some of the swing states already have extreme bans. More in our April 9, 2024 newsletter.
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Will DeSantis’s Terrible Governing Give Florida to Biden?
Plus, Biden’s secret weapon: Kamala Harris, the case against selling U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, which states help college grads find jobs, and more in the April 4, 2024, Washington Monthly Newsletter.
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With Abortion Drug, Alito Seems to Abandon His Usual Hard Line on Who Can Sue
In the mifepristone case, the usually stalwart monitor of who can sue in federal court seemed awfully eager to relax the rules over “standing” on behalf of anti-abortion plaintiffs.
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The Supreme Court Hears Abortion Drug Arguments or Why Samuel Alito Wants To Be Your Gynecologist
The Court’s conservative supermajority doesn’t seem likely to curtail the availability of mifepristone, but not for lack of trying by the justice who wrote the Dobbs opinion.
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Given What Is at Stake, Democrats Should Use the Word “Abortion”
Vice President Kamala Harris understands it’s essential to use the word “abortion” rather than euphemisms
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Democratic Rights Are the Issue
Biden should campaign on democratic rights because Americans don’t want rights snatched from them like what happened with abortion.
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What Do You Get When You Cross Samuel Alito with the State of Texas?
Two developments last week—a New York Times exposé on Supreme Court maneuvers to overturn Roe and a Texas woman compelled to deliver a fetus with a rare and fatal genetic defect—underscore the slipshod nature of the Dobbs ruling.
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Haley’s Comet
The former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina governor is having a moment, but as her abortion hustle shows, there is no there there.
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The Washington Monthly Newsletter: November 9, 2023
“Dobbs has backfired on anti-choicers in every possible way” and the latest from the Washington Monthly website.
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Glenn Youngkin’s Big Fat 15-Week Abortion Ban Belly Flop
The aw-shucks Republican made reproductive rights the issue in Virginia’s statehouse elections and got clobbered, proving his 15-week ban isn’t “a place we can come together.” Here’s why.
