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Leonard Leo, former head of the “nonpartisan” Federalist Society, got a rich Republican donor to give him the proceeds of a $1.6 billion corporate transaction to spend as dark money—structuring the sale so neither party pays taxes on the proceeds. nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/… Rather than merely giving c...
After stacking the federal courts with conservative friends and allies, Leonard Leo has single-handedly amassed a $1.6 billion dark money slush fund that will dwarf Democratic spending for years to come. An extraordinary manipulation of loopholes in tax and campaign finance law.

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Aug 22
Cannon is a very far-right Trump judge who once forced someone to testify in person *while they had COVID.* I also have it on good authority that she is an anti-vaxxer who fought against her court’s vaccine mandate.

This assignment is great news for Trump.
Looking forward to a nationwide injunction requiring every single FBI agent to send Trump a personal handwritten apology and a My Pillow gift card
Let us hope that Cannon’s previous job as an assistant U.S. Attorney insulates her from the overwhelming political pressure to return a favor to the guy who put her on the bench. 🤷‍♂️
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Aug 3
Since Roe's reversal, anti-abortion advocates have declared that rape victims should never be allowed to terminate their pregnancy, even if they are 10 years old.

This claim reflects profound distrust of women—a certainty that they're unable to make this decision for themselves. Lila Rose tweets saying 10-year-old rape victims should be f
The anti-abortion movement has long insisted that it knows better than rape victims—that while victims might *think* they want an abortion, they are actually just confused, and so the state must step in to ensure that they birth their rapist's child.

It's morally obscene.
Abortion foes were able to claim the moral high ground for decades because they were fighting for a legal regime that remained theoretical. For 50 years, the Supreme Court prevented them from using the machinery of the state to force victims into birthing their rapist's child.
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Aug 3
The anti-abortion movement has long claimed that voters would reward Republicans for overturning Roe. Conservative lawyers and many GOP politicians convinced themselves this was true. They are now discovering how delusional that conviction has always been.
Remember that Republicans scheduled the Kansas abortion referendum for the primary rather than the general election because there are many more registered Republicans in the state than Democrats and unaffiliateds can’t vote in primary races. Abortion rights still won handily.
Worth reading the Kansas Supreme Court’s 2019 decision holding that the state constitution’s guarantee of “equal and inalienable rights” protects the right to abortion, which the people of Kansas resoundingly upheld today. It’s a stark contrast with Dobbs. kscourts.org/KSCourts/media… At the core of the natural rights of liberty and the pursuit
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Aug 2
Here is the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 5–2 decision upholding a 2019 law that allows every voter to cast their ballot by mail, no excuse required.
pacourts.us/assets/opinion…
Concurring opinion by Justice Wecht: pacourts.us/assets/opinion…

Dissent by Justice Mundy: pacourts.us/assets/opinion…

Dissent by Justice Brobson: pacourts.us/assets/opinion…

(The PA Supreme Court should really combine all the separate opinions into a single published document!)
The Pennsylvania Republican Party strongly supported the 2019 law allowing universal mail-in voting, and only began to oppose it when Trump, Hawley, and others condemned it. So you might call today's decision a victory for the GOP of 2019 and a defeat for the GOP of 2022.
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Aug 2
Because of Tennessee's stringent abortion ban, doctors could not terminate Madison Underwood's pregnancy—even though it might kill her. She had to drive four hours to a clinic in Georgia, whose own abortion ban took effect shortly after the procedure. nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/… She recalled that she went quiet, her body went still. What
Carrying the pregnancy to term could lead to a lethal case of sepsis—but Madison's death was not certain or imminent enough to clearly meet Tennessee's extremely narrow medical exception. So moments before the scheduled abortion, doctors canceled it.
nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/… But doctors told her that the fetus’s brain matter was lea
This article also hints at a growing problem in red states: When abortion is illegal except in the most dire emergencies, abortion clinics close their doors, and there are no more medical providers who are capable of performing an abortion when a woman needs it to save her life.
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Jul 29
In red states, hospital ethics committees now decide when pregnant patients are close enough to death to justify an abortion.

Here's how these panels make life-or-death judgments where abortion is illegal under all but the most dire circumstances. slate.com/news-and-polit… @Slate
The anti-abortion movement thinks women and their doctors will lie in order to exploit an exception for the patient's "health." So they have crafted extremely narrow exceptions for the patient's "life," requiring imminent death before termination is legal. slate.com/news-and-polit… The fundamental problem facing these committees is that the
But when are a patient's chances of dying high enough to justify an abortion? 10 percent? 50? 90?

Missouri's abortion ban contains no express exception for ectopic pregnancies. So these patients must wait until an ethics committee decides they're sufficiently likely to die.
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