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Alex Pareene / The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter:
The Institutionalist's Dilemma — Sometimes when I am explaining the somewhat eclectic variety of topics I write about in my newsletter, compared to the work I did at other publications for many years, l joke that “I just ran out of ways to say the Senate shouldn't exist.” I say “joke,” but it's also a fact.
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Overturning Roe Is a Radical, Not Conservative, Choice — Dear Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas: — As you'll no doubt agree, Roe v. Wade was an ill-judged decision when it was handed down on Jan. 22, 1973. — It stood on the legal principle …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Alito's Plan to Repeal the 20th Century — If you are an American with a young daughter, she will grow up in a world without the right to choose when and where she gives birth, and in which nothing restrains a state from declaring her womb its property, with all the invasive authorities that implies.
NBC News:
Rep. Cuellar attacked on his anti-abortion stance by opponent Cisneros in Texas Democratic run-off — WASHINGTON — Texas Democratic House candidate Jessica Cisneros is demanding her party's congressional leaders drop their support of her primary opponent, Rep. Henry Cuellar, over his opposition to abortion.
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
Democratic Leaders Are Getting the Abortion Story Wrong — Again — With Roe at death's door, will the party finally change its tune? — The news of Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade on Monday didn't just break — it shattered. It was the unexpected timing, yes.
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Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
With Roe at risk, GOP faces pressure to support families after birth — Republican supporters of policies to help children say new restrictions on abortion should change political calculus — Republican lawmakers are facing renewed internal pressure to support child benefit programs …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The case against SCOTUS — The Court was the midwife of Jim Crow, the right hand of union busters, and the dead hand of the Confederacy, and is now one of the chief architects of America's democratic decline. — Two events occurred Monday night — one historic, the other rather insignificant …
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Edward Whelan / New York Post:
Alito makes masterful argument to ‘overturn’ Roe v. Wade
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Kara Voght / Rolling Stone:
They're the ‘Last Line of Defense’ to Protect Abortion Rights
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Politico:
Democrats skeptical SCOTUS will save them in November
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New York Times:
Leaked Threat to Roe v. Wade Stuns, Then Energizes Americans
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Unpacking the Draft Supreme Court Opinion Set to Overrule Roe
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Victoria Balara / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Just over half favor banning abortions after 15 weeks
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Washington Post:
Opinion The Supreme Court might never recover from overturning Roe v. Wade
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
What Americans Really Think about Abortion — Americans are far more supportive of pro-life policy …
Washington Post:
Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe, Post-ABC poll finds
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CNN:
GOP tries to steer clear of abortion politics as midterm plans take shape
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
It's About Time Someone Punctured the Supreme Court's Veil of Secrecy
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Laurence H. Tribe / The Boston Globe:
The new Supreme Court's iron fist
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Axios:
J.D. Vance's Trump-like effect — If J.D. Vance follows his Tuesday night victory in Ohio's Senate primary with a general election win in November he'll arrive in a Washington filled with enemies and be seen as arguably the hardest-edged populist nationalist in the Senate GOP.
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Sarah Longwell / New York Times:
J.D. Vance Is More Proof That Trump Is King of the Republican Party — J.D. Vance's come-from-behind victory in the Ohio Republican primary was the first test of Donald Trump's influence in 2022 election cycle as well as the future of the Republican Party. Spoiler alert: He's influential.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary — Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
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New York Times:
Ohio U.S. Senate Primary Election Results — The author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance has secured former President Donald J. Trump's endorsement in this crowded and contentious Senate Republican primary that will serve as a test of the former president's influence over congressional races.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Which Trumpism Won in Ohio?
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Tiana Lowe / Washington Examiner:
JD Vance — and Don Jr. — initiate the GOP's 2022 purge of the neocons
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New York Times:
Who Won and Who Lost in the Ohio and Indiana Primary Elections
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Marc Caputo / NBC News:
Vance's Ohio win showcases Trump's endorsement power
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Associated Press:
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike — LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing basement of the Mariupol theater, coated in white plaster dust shaken loose by the explosion. Her husband tugged at her to leave and begged her to cover her eyes.
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend — New York (CNN Business)A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. — Trevor Noah joked about the event becoming …
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Max Tani / Politico:
Jonathan Karl tests positive for Covid after sitting next to Kim Kardashian
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Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Ron DeSantis and the Unlearned Lessons of the G.O.P.'s Culture War — Previous clashes between Republican lawmakers and prominent businesses in the states they control have not always worked out as planned. — In late March, when Governor Ron DeSantis, of Florida, in an act of Trumpian belligerence …
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Reuben Johnson / You searched for:
Russian troops held me captive at gunpoint for two weeks in Ukraine. Here's what I learned. — On March 4, Breaking Defense correspondent Reuben Johnson was captured by Russian soldiers outside of Kyiv and taken prisoner. This is the story of what happened next.
CNN:
DHS watchdog says Trump's agency appears to have altered report on Russian interference in 2020 election in part because of politics — Washington (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security delayed and altered an intelligence report related to Russian interference …
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