The Biden administration filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Idaho for restricting access to abortion to patients who need lifesaving medical treatment, the first such Justice Department challenge since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.
Idaho’s near-total abortion ban, which will take effect later this month, would make it nearly impossible, according to the Justice Department, for patients who need an abortion in emergency medical situations, such as an ectopic pregnancy or other complications, from receiving potentially lifesaving treatment.
Abortion rights demonstrators gather to protest against the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health case on June 24, 2022, in Austin, Texas. Where state abortion bans stand amid legal challenges
I guess I am curious where they think this is going? Certainly they are aware of the reality of Dobbs where the USSC actually ruled that abortion laws will be up to the states? The argument is going to be that laws that do not specifically include "health of the mother" are in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.
The problem here is that EMTALA actually creates the obligation for doctors to "stabilize" someone who might come into the ER regardless of their insurance. The concept of stabilizing is very well mapped out in the law and it would require doctors at the very least to perform certain tests to make sure someone is not in an emergency situation if they plan to transfer them or otherwise not treat them due to a lack of insurance.
Not sure under what specific instances that an ER doctor or hospital would feel the need to perform an "abortion" as a means to stabilize a pregnant mother. In fact, the law specifically goes in the opposite direction, providing a specific requirement to stabilize a pregnant woman for the sake of saving a pregnancy (rather than terminating it). Gasp!
Where there are serious concerns about the life of a pregnant mother, if the need to stabilize realistically would include terminating a pregnancy, the law accounts for that. As for the repeated use of the term ectopic pregnancy, that is a misnomer and generally red herring. Reality is that an entoptic situation not considered an actual pregnancy according to either medical professionals or these laws. In the case of an ectopic situation, the fetus is outside the uterus and cannot possibly survive. Therefore these laws make a distinction that ectopic fetus is not defined as a pregnancy, therefore it is not an abortion to remove it.
Bottom line is that I would love to see how often an abortion has been the go to treatment in stabilizing a pregnant woman in an ER situation, where the stabilizing was not a matter of a life threatening situation. I would bet that these examples are pretty rare, if not completely non-existent.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Republicans were deciding Tuesday between a well-known former news anchor and a development attorney in the race for governor of a crucial battleground state.
Former President Donald Trump backed Kari Lake, who walked away from her nearly three-decade career in television news and embraced his lies about the 2020 election. She faced Karrin Taylor Robson, who was backed by prominent Republicans around the country looking to push their party to move on from Trump.
The race was too early to call, with Robson leading Lake by 4 percentage points. The margin was shrinking as polling place votes, which were more favorable to Lake than early ballots, were added to the tally.
As the midterm primary season enters its final stretch this month, the Arizona races are poised to provide important clues about the GOP’s direction. Victories by Trump-backed candidates could provide the former president with allies who hold sway over the administration of elections as he considers another bid for the White House in 2024. Defeats, however, might suggest openness in the party to a different path forward.
The conventional wisdom is that “the cover up is often worse than the crime.”
But what if the crime is so bad — such as seditious conspiracy against the United States of America — that it somehow justified the cover up for those involved?
We learned today that text messages sent and received by top Pentagon officials on January 6 were wiped from their government-issued phones.
The text messages from that day — when a violent mob attempted to stop the counting of electoral votes at the U.S. Capitol — “were not preserved, and therefore could not be searched,” according to court filings.
This is in addition to the text messages deleted from the phones of key officials in the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security.
And that’s not to mention burning documents in the White House and everything else.
It’s highly unlikely that any of this is a coincidence.
Kansas voters on Tuesday rejected an amendment that would have gotten rid of abortion protections in the state's constitution, the Associated Press reports.
Why it matters: It's the first time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade that U.S. voters have cast ballots on abortion.
State of play: The amendment would have added language to the Kansas Constitution that said that "[b]ecause Kansans value both women and children, the constitution of the state of Kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion."
Kansas' constitution guarantees the "equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," which the state Supreme Court ruled in 2019 includes the right to abortion, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Garland said that the lawsuit has “nothing to do with going around” the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.
“The Supreme Court said that each state can make its own decisions with respect to abortion, but so too can the federal government,” he told reporters Tuesday. “Nothing that the Supreme Court said, said that the statutes passed by Congress, such as EMTALA are in any way invalid. It’s quite the opposite. The Supreme Court left it to the people’s representatives. EMTALA was a decision made by the Congress of the United States. The supremacy clause is a decision made in the Constitution of the United States. Federal law invalidates state laws that are in direct contradiction.”
Abortion providers and advocates in Idaho have also challenged the state’s trigger law, arguing that the law is so vague that providers are unsure whether they can provide care for patients in cases such as miscarriages. The state Supreme Court is set to hear the case on Wednesday.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/politics/justice-department-abortion-idaho/index.html
“The justice department is going to use every tool we have to ensure reproductive freedom,” Garland told reporters on Tuesday.
More than half of US states have either banned or are expected to ban abortion after the supreme court’s decision earlier this summer returned regulation of abortion to the state level.
Bans like the one Idaho has imposed are forcing patients seeking abortions to travel hundreds of miles from home, among other consequences.
Well, We the People are speaking.
Republicans have overreached.
Believe it or not, there was a time when The Southern Baptist Convention actually supported a woman's right to choose.
We the People do not want a government that dictates to us either on a state or federal level what a woman must decide in this problematic and private matter.
My comment.
Word salad.
Ch's thread comment.
Abortion Rights Score Huge Victory In Kansas
August 2, 2022 at 9:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 959 Comments
In a big victory for abortion rights, the proposed constitutional amendment in Kansas to remove protections has failed, the Cook Political Report projects.
The results don’t even appear to be close.
With the exception of Arizona the establishment Republicans won critical races for the Secretary of State and Governor.
Abortion Rights Score Huge Victory In Kansas
August 2, 2022 at 9:44 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 960 Comments
In a big victory for abortion rights, the proposed constitutional amendment in Kansas to remove protections has failed, the Cook Political Report projects.
The results don’t even appear to be close.
Taegen Goddard says:
And there’s the Democratic playbook for the midterms:
Tap into the growing anger about Republican extremism,
from taking away abortion rights
to attacking democracy.
Several election deniers backed by former president Donald Trump prevailed in closely-watched primaries held Tuesday, as a nationwide battle over the future of the GOP played out in state and federal races across five states.
In Michigan, Rep. Peter Meijer, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump last year, fell in defeat to John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official who ran with the ex-president’s support and embraced his false claims of a stolen election. Meijer, who is in his first term, becomes the second GOP House member ousted in a primary after supporting the impeachment of Trump for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election. Meijer issued a statement conceding before the race was called.
In Arizona, state lawmaker Mark Finchem — part of a national coalition of far-right candidates who baselessly reject the 2020 election results and want to oversee the vote in 2024 — was projected to win the Republican nomination for GOP secretary of state. Blake Masters, a first-time candidate who spent most of his career in Silicon Valley as a protΓ©gΓ© of tech billionaire Peter Thiel and has said he thinks Trump won in 2020, was projected to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state. Both were backed by Trump.
AMREE
AMERICA REJECTS EXTREMISM
re 4:24
The results don't even appear to be close.
Taegan Goddard's own comment:
And there’s the Democratic playbook for the midterms:
Tap into the growing anger about Republican extremism,
from taking away abortion rights to attacking democracy.
The Idaho thing is meaningless.
The outcome in Kansas was the first real evidence supporting a near-universal consensus among Democratic and Republican political operatives alike: That Roe will likely help Democrats at the margins in November, energizing base Democrats and improving the party’s standing with independent voters who elected Sleepy Joe Biden’s victory ✌️ and it was not stolen like you still believe.
The Kansas results trigger this today
President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday that will pave the way for Medicaid to pay for abortion services for people having to travel out of state, according to a senior Biden administration official.
The new directive will allow the secretary of health and human services to "invite states to apply for Medicaid waivers, so that states where abortion is legal could provide services to people traveling from a state where abortion may be illegal to seek services in their state," the official said. Technically, these states would apply through what's known as a "Medicaid 1115 waiver," according to the official.
The official noted that when the White House looked into declaring a public health emergency for abortion and what that would allow the federal government to do, this change to Medicaid -- an assistance program for low-income patients' medical expenses -- was one of the options. But the White House realized the president could also do it through an executive order instead, which he plans to do Wednesday, the official said.
Biden's order will also direct the health and human services secretary to make sure "health care providers comply with federal non-discrimination laws so that women receive medically necessary care without delay," according to the White House. That could include "providing technical assistance for health care providers who may be confused or unsure of their obligations in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs," or providing other info and guidance to providers about their obligations and consequences of not complying with non-discrimination laws.
It's way too early to say that the Supreme Court decision will change the outcome in November but...
Even the house might be in play
A mixed night for Trump
For a former president who likes to boast about his winning streak, Trump may be dealt at least a couple losses in Tuesday’s primaries.
In Arizona, Trump-endorsed former local TV anchor Kari Lake is trailing Republican Karrin Taylor Robson in the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary. Among Robson’s notable endorsers: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and former Vice President Mike Pence. Still, that race remains too close to call and there’s time for Lake to pull ahead.
Meanwhile, in Washington State, Trump’s picks to oust Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) and Dan Newhouse (R), two House Republicans who voted to impeach him last year, don’t appear likely to advance to the general elections.
It’s not all bad news for Trump. Blake Masters, his endorsed candidate in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary, is still the favorite to capture the nomination, while Tudor Dixon, whom Trump backed just last week, clinched the Republican nod for governor in Michigan.
Then there’s Missouri, where Trump vaguely endorsed an “ERIC” in the GOP Senate primary. Eric Schmitt won that race, while Eric Greitens lost. Regardless, Trump will likely tout that as a victory.
The Leftist can calm down.
The US Constitution works as designed.
Restoring Power to the State .
"Kansas votes to protect abortion rights in state constitution
Kansas is the first state to put abortion rights to a vote since the supreme court overturned Roe v Wade"
Anytime you want to know what is not happening in the real world read shut in Roger.
"Coldheartedtruth TellerAugust 3, 2022 at 5:02 AM
A mixed night for Trump
For a former president who likes to boast about his winning streak, Trump may be dealt at least a couple losses in Tuesday’s primaries.
In Arizona, Trump-endorsed former local TV anchor Kari Lake"
Kari Lake , won.
A mixed night for Trump
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! He just got his SCOTUS picks shoved up his and the GOP's ass!!!!!!!
Applies to other Areas too James?
"We the People do not want a government that dictates to us either on a state or federal level.."
Anonymous Anonymous said...
The Leftist can calm down.
BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Calm in knowing the seeds for the GOP taking it up the ass in November have been planted and appear very strong........LOLOLOLOL. The Kansas vote in a deep red state show how strong the polls show how unpopular the Roe overturn is!!!!!! Your BS excuse of putting it back to the states is most amusing......
Kansas voters turned out in huge numbers to defeat an anti-abortion amendment.
Kansas rejected the amendment by a margin of over 20 points, a blowout loss.
The exceptionally high turnout is a major loss for anti-abortion groups and a warning sign for the GOP.
Kansas voters turned out in droves to summarily reject the first anti-abortion ballot measure in the post-Roe v. Wade era — and dealt a major warning sign to Republicans hoping the drastic curtailing of abortion rights nationwide won't dent their prospects in the 2022 midterms.
Amendment 2 was pushed by anti-abortion activists and would have established no right to abortion and no right for government funding for abortion under the Kansas constitution.
With over 830,000 votes counted and 99% of the vote reporting as of 12:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, "no" was trouncing "yes" by 60% to 40%, a gaping 20-point margin.
The Biggest Winner Last Night Was Abortion Rights
August 3, 2022 at 6:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 70 Comments
“The overwhelming support for abortion rights in a traditionally conservative state bolsters Democrats’ hopes that the historic Supreme Court ruling will animate their voters in an otherwise difficult election year for their party,”
the Washington Post reports.
“The Kansas vote signals that abortion is an energizing issue that could affect turnout in the November midterms.”
The result is “a political earthquake with the potential to reshape the entire midterm campaign,” Politico reports.
New York Times:
“Consider far western Kansas, a rural region along the Colorado border that votes overwhelmingly Republican. In Hamilton County, which voted 81 percent for Mr. Trump in 2020, less than 56 percent chose the anti-abortion position on Tuesday (with about 90 percent of the vote counted there). In Greeley County, which voted more than 85 percent for Mr. Trump, only about 60 percent chose the anti-abortion position.
“We can talk about the cities all day long, but Kansas is known as a rural Republican state for a reason:
Rural Republican areas cover enough of the state that they can, and almost always do, outvote the cities.
The rejection of the amendment has as much to do with lukewarm support in the reddest counties as it does with strong opposition in the bluest ones.”
Biden to Sign Order Helping Patients Travel for Abortion
August 3, 2022 at 6:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments
“President Biden will sign an executive order Wednesday to direct his health secretary to consider actions to assist patients traveling out of state for abortions,” the Washington Post reports.
Abortion Rights Jolt the Midterms
August 3, 2022 at 7:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
Politico: “It would have been a victory for Democrats and abortion rights activists if they’d even kept it close in Kansas.
“Instead, as the heavily Republican state rejected an anti-abortion constitutional amendment, it marked a political earthquake with the potential to reshape the entire midterm campaign.
“And if the politics of Roe proved fraught for Republicans in Kansas, it’s going to be even more treacherous for the GOP in swing-ier, more moderate swaths of the country.”
Washington Post:
“Polls had suggested that the measure could go either way,
but Kansas is also a red state (albeit one with a Democratic governor). So what led to the somewhat surprising result?
Motivated Democratic voters.
Other than this ballot initiative, there weren’t many reasons for them to come out to vote in this primary.
Yet Democratic turnout was up more than 60 percent compared to 2018, when Kansas Democrats were deciding whom should be their gubernatorial nominee.”
Working from Home Works Out for Biden
August 3, 2022 at 7:48 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 27 Comments
Washington Post:
“Since first testing positive for Covid nearly two weeks ago and remaining at the White House, Biden has presided over a remarkably successful, if short, stretch of his presidency.
“Biden celebrated as the Senate, and then the House, passed the Chips and Science Act — a $280 billion bill that will subsidize domestic semiconductor manufacturing in an effort to help U.S. companies compete with China.
"He delighted as Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), the majority leader, reached a secretive and unexpected $370 billion deal on legislation to lower prescription drug prices,
cut emissions
and overhaul how the country produces energy.
“Then, after a rebound infection that the president’s doctor announced Saturday, a covid-positive Biden announced Monday evening that
he had ordered the successful killing via two Hellfire missiles of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda and one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists who, along with Osama bin Laden, helped mastermind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.”
Gas Prices Have Fallen for 49 Straight Days
August 3, 2022 at 7:27 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
“U.S. gas prices have fallen for seven straight weeks and are approaching an average price of $4 a gallon, easing the pain of record-high fuel costs amid shrinking global demand for oil,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
WOW!
Former Treasury Secretaries Back Manchin’s Bill
August 3, 2022 at 7:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 7 Comments
“Five former Treasury secretaries —
including Hank Paulson, who served under President George W. Bush —
signed a statement strongly backing the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ brokered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV),” Axios reports.
GOOD!
Taliban Facing Backlash After U.S. Drone Strike
August 3, 2022 at 7:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments
“The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri here early Sunday also struck a humiliating blow against the Taliban regime, which had secretly hosted the aging extremist in the heart of the Afghan capital for months but failed to keep him safe,” the Washington Post reports.
“Just as the Taliban was preparing to celebrate its first year in power later this month, the attack has sparked a nationalistic backlash against the beleaguered regime at home and taunting comments on social media calling for revenge against the United States.”
Judge Rejects Bid to Delay Oath Keepers Trial
August 3, 2022 at 6:52 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“The first trial on seditious conspiracy charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is on track to begin in Washington next month for nine members of the Oath Keepers’ militia, after a federal judge on Tuesday turned down a request by nearly all defendants to put off the courtroom showdown until next year,” Politico reports.
SORRY TO DOMINATE THIS MORNING, BUT THERE'S JUST SO MUCH GOOD NEWS
Americans Have Long Memories
August 3, 2022 at 6:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments
David Ignatius: “Zawahiri must have worried that in his last decade, he was a forgotten man. But that wasn’t quite true. He remained a daily obsession for the counterterrorism specialists at the Pentagon and CIA. That’s a warning for the Russians, Chinese or anyone else who doubts U.S. staying power. Americans might look impatient and undependable. But they have long memories.”
Inside the Mission to Kill Zawahiri
August 2, 2022 at 10:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 148 Comments
“Ayman al-Zawahiri, the 71-year-old leader of al-Qaeda, stepped onto the third-floor balcony of his house in an exclusive neighborhood of Kabul around 6:15 a.m. Sunday. He usually appeared in the morning, shortly after daybreak. Sometimes he read. He was always alone,” the Washington Post reports.
“And the CIA was watching… At 6:18 a.m., a CIA drone in the sky above fired two Hellfire missiles.
“It’s not known whether Zawahiri reacted. But former officials who have participated in drone strikes say it’s not uncommon, in the final seconds before impact, for the target to look up as he hears a projectile rocketing toward him.”
Ex-White House Counsel Subpoenaed by Grand Jury
August 2, 2022 at 10:42 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 104 Comments
“A federal grand jury has subpoenaed former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone in its investigation into the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and efforts to overturn the 2020 election,” ABC News reports.
“The move to subpoena Cipollone signals an even more dramatic escalation in the Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6 attack than previously known, following appearances by senior members of former Vice President Mike Pence’s staff before the grand jury two weeks ago.”
The US Constitution worked.
It has the Left passed off.
James , you don't "bully" nor " dominate ".
Boring, yet, you ✔ that box.
Abortion Issue Top Factor Urging Americans to Protest
August 3, 2022 at 9:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Gallup: “Nearly four in 10 Americans, 39%, say they have felt the urge to organize or join a public demonstration… In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eliminating abortion as a constitutional right and returning abortion policy decisions to individual state governments, 31% of those who have expressed a desire to protest name the abortion issue as their greatest motivation to do so.
“Beyond abortion, the issues now mentioned most as reasons to demonstrate are law enforcement or Black Lives Matter (22%), women’s rights (19%), civil or equal rights (11%), and government or political issues (10%).”
The Department of Justice sued the state of Idaho on Tuesday in a complaint arguing that its “near-absolute ban on abortion” conflicts with federal law mandating that hospitals which receive Medicare funds provide emergency care.
James, is it true you never produced a child?
In November, last night’s extraordinary vote suggests, Democrats have a real opportunity to make the election about Republican extremism on a variety of issues, abortion being just one of many.
MAGA can be used against them.
Hey goat fucker.....is it true you never had a fucking brain??????? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Robert Reich
We’re now fewer than 100 days from the midterm elections. When it comes to predicting election outcomes, I try to keep my expectations as low as possible. But lately I can’t help feeling more hopeful that Democrats might keep control of the Senate and possibly even the House. What gives me hope? Seven things:
The effectiveness of the January 6 committee’s hearings. The remarkable hearings have deeply tarnished the Republican brand. (I’ll be going into this in greater detail.)
Trump’s ballistic barnstorming. America’s narcissist-in-chief continues to do rallies advancing his Big Lie and supporting election-deniers across the nation. He’s also likely to declare his candidacy for re-election before the midterms. All this is creating more fear and loathing in the general public — turning voters off Republican candidates.
Biden’s foreign policy triumphs. The U.S. just took out Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, a mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. Biden has also been tough on Putin, and Putin’s war in Ukraine — in sharp contrast to Trump and his Republicans.
Domestic policy successes. Joe Manchin finally came around, making it likely that Dems will make good on promises to lower drug prices, confront climate change, and make corporations pay higher taxes. It’s a major achievement, giving Democrats justified bragging rights. Also: After a yearlong debate, Democrats and Republicans in Congress passed legislation this past week to invest $280 billion in areas like semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research to bolster competition with China.
The economy may be improving. While inflation continues to be a problem, gas prices — which peaked above $5 a gallon — have fallen every day for more than six weeks and are now closer to $4. And despite the Fed’s ill-advised rate increases, the US could avoid a recession. Unemployment remains at record lows. (We’ll know more when we get Friday’s jobs report for July.)
Covid is less of a threat. The BA.5 variant of COVID, although highly communicable, isn’t causing the hospitalizations and deaths of its predecessor strains.
The Republican Supreme Court’s decision reversing Roe v. Wade. It has convinced many voters they need to elect Democrats — to prevent Republicans from enacting a national ban on abortions, or to enact a national law protecting abortions.
Which brings me to today’s Office Hours question: In your view, will these seven factors be enough for Dems to maintain control over both chambers of Congress after the midterm elections? If so, are there other reasons for optimism? If not, why not?
Yes we have a chance to save our country from the current Republican Party π₯³
30% of GOP voters in Kansas voted no......so much for the homogeneous party of no!!!! Lots of hope going forward!!!
Mixed results last night but I feel more optimistic than before.
The Federalist philosophy was defeated by Republicans in Kansas.
Kansas restored State Powers last night.
The USSC was proven right last night.
We the People of Kansas voted.
Look it didn't take weeks to get results because of our required ID Voting laws.
Politico
Former President Donald Trump went all-in on several election-denying candidates for the Aug. 2 primaries — but as the votes rolled in, he seemed to come out on shaky ground.
Many highly watched races have yet to be called, including for two GOP pro-impeachment incumbents: Washington Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse. Michigan Rep. Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach Trump as one of his first acts in Congress, conceded defeat to a former official in Trump's administration early Wednesday morning. The fact that these battles were, and are, close might signal Trump's hold on the party is loosening.
Good news for America πΊπΈ
Kansas windfall of Nation Wide money buying ads of all kinds.
Yes vote = poured in $10 million
No vote = poured in $ 4 million
The U.S. trade deficit increased from $676.7 billion in 2020 to $859.1 billion in 2021.
And 2022 is skyrocketing under President Joe Failure
The Kansas vote should prompt states to pause before joining the forced-birth movement.
The lesson is clear.
Can the blind Socialist Stooges of CHT see and learn?
"Green Fail: Germany to Reconnect First Coal Power Plant to Energy Grid
Roger is a useful fool.
He brings us the latest Socialist talking points.
Democrats Not In Disarray
August 3, 2022 at 10:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 81 Comments
Jonathan Bernstein:
“Democrats haven’t been able to clear the field everywhere, but they have done so in many high-profile races, and they’re generally making pragmatic choices in highly contested seats. For governor in Arizona, for instance, they nominated current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs by a more than 3-to-1 margin.
“There’s no guarantee any Democrat will win in Arizona this year, even if Republicans put up a weak candidate. But Democrats are successfully avoiding intense nomination fights and emerging united, usually behind well-regarded candidates. That’s not always been the case, and it remains to be seen whether it makes any difference. But it is certainly a major theme of this cycle for the party.”
The Midterm Elections Won’t Be Just About Abortion But
No matter how you look at it, the abortion rights vote in Kansas last night was a political earthquake ahead of the midterm elections.
The ballot measure not only encouraged more Democrats to turn out to vote, but it proved unpopular to many Republicans as well — even in areas that overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump.
--T. Goddard
Abortion Is Top Factor Urging Americans to Protest
August 3, 2022 at 9:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments
Gallup: “Nearly four in 10 Americans, 39%, say they have felt the urge to organize or join a public demonstration… In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eliminating abortion as a constitutional right and returning abortion policy decisions to individual state governments, 31% of those who have expressed a desire to protest name the abortion issue as their greatest motivation to do so.
“Beyond abortion, the issues now mentioned most as reasons to demonstrate are
law enforcement or Black Lives Matter (22%),
women’s rights (19%),
civil or equal rights (11%),
and government or political issues (10%).”
Germany scrambles to secure energy sources before the winter months, the previously shuttered Mehrum coal power plant in Lower Saxony will become the first to once again be connected to Germany’s grid.
US wheat and Corn π½ join the other long list of grains that are in short supply with increasing prices.
Yes, the Internal Revenue Service did buy nearly $700K in ammunition in early 2022
The up arming of the IRS.
Republicans will try to make the midterms a referendum on the party in power and how Americans feel about the economy and the direction of the country. Gasoline prices are going down. A recession is not likely despite Scott's wishes.
But as last night’s extraordinary vote suggests, Democrats have a real opportunity to make the election about Republican extremism on a variety of issues, abortion being just one of many.
If they motivate the educated women in the suburbs again, and the Democrats find the best candidate, not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, they could win both houses and the White House in 2024.
Calling me a socialist is ridiculous.
Moderately regulated capitalism has come from both sides.
Gallup: “Nearly four in 10 Americans, 39%, say they have felt the urge to organize or join a public demonstration… In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision eliminating abortion as a constitutional right and returning abortion policy decisions to individual state governments, 31% of those who have expressed a desire to protest name the abortion issue as their greatest motivation to do so.
So if you do the actual math...39% of Americans felt and urge to protest and 31% of those wanted to protest about Abortion...
That means that 12% of Americans felt an urge to protest abortion.
12% seems like an awful small number for such a bold statement!
12% seems like an awful small number for such a bold statement!
Math is hard
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