AJC:
The abortion decision is likely to shift the focus of Georgia’s 2022 campaigns
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision paved the way for the implementation of an anti-abortion measure signed by Governor Brian Camp in 2019, a law that had long been discredited by Democrats to regulate fetal heart activity by a doctor. Will prohibit abortion after detection – six weeks in pregnancy.
The decision would sharpen the political divide over abortion months before the midterm elections for the governor of Georgia, a U.S. Senate seat that could decide to control chambers and down-ticket races for statewide, congressional and legislative offices. Is
And it is ready to rewrite the narrative around economic issues such as campaigns focused on high fuel prices and rising inflation. Senior Democrats have predicted that the ruling will mobilize voters, especially women, who saw such a decision as impossible a few years ago.
Serious response to the reversal Cry And Casey Tomorrow:
There is so much more to write about, stay tuned. Lack of content ≠ lack of importance. It takes time to write.
Rick Hassan / NY Times:
No one is above the law, and it starts with Donald Trump
The evidence presented suggests that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Justice Department should now convene a grand jury, if not already, to convict Mr. Trump of crimes related to attempting to reverse the election results. To consider, before that. Probably announces his candidacy for the presidency in 2024 As early as this summer.
Politics:
Multiple House Republicans are defending the panel’s testimony on January 6 that they have apologized after the riots.
Former senior Justice Department officials testified that they had thwarted the election by threatening to resign en masse.
A handful of House Republicans who have been strategizing with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election have refused to apologize after the Jan. 6 election committee testified Thursday that they would apologize to the former president after the capitalist attack.
Many of Trump’s top allies since January. Period 6, including Special Assistant Cassidy Hutchinson and Assistant Johnny McIntyre, described access to White House officials from several members of Congress who apologized: Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Louis Gohmart (R-Texas), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) And Matt Gates (R-Fla.)
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
Ron Johnson now says he helped Pence coordinate his efforts to pass the fake electric slates, but his new interpretation was a sharp rebuke.
Republicans argued that they were submitting paperwork in the event of a reversal of Trump’s defeat. Andrew Hitt, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, told the Jan. 6 committee that he would not support the use of paperwork to rigged the election.
[Johnson spokesperson Alexa] Henning said earlier this week that Johnson “had no involvement in creating a replacement slate for selectors and had no anticipation that it would be handed over to our office.”
“It was a staff-to-staff exchange,” Henning wrote in a tweet. “His new chief of staff contacted the vice president’s office. The vice president’s office told him not to give and we didn’t. No further action was taken. End of story.”
No. End of story.
Michelle Goldberg / NY Times:
The January 6 hearing has been much better than I expected
There are indications that public opinion is growing, at least slightly. A fresh ABC News / Ipsos Poll Found that 58 percent of Americans believe Trump should be criminally charged for his role in the January 6 riots, compared to 52 percent in late April. Sixty percent think the committee’s investigation has been “impartial and impartial.” Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican strategist, has been running the Trump Voter Focus Group since January 6. In his last two, none of the participants wanted Trump to run for re-election – something that had never happened before.
Economist:
Why by-elections are important in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honeyton
Two by-elections, anywhere in the country, provide a dry run for the next British general election.
Get started in Wakefield. All politics is local, but in Yorkshire it is narrow. Conservative candidate Nadeem Ahmed is running as a born-and-breed-in-Wakefield candidate but in an interview he made a startling confession: “I have served a term in Leeds, I will be honest with you. “
Wakefield was once the administrative center of West Riding, a historic part of the county. Leeds is now the undisputed center of the region. It causes resentment in the once rich, now medium-sized towns and small towns that m62 corridors, locations such as Halifax and Bradford. Everyone struggles to accept that they are actually the suburbs of Leeds and Manchester. Most of them voted for the holiday in 2016, as Wakefield did almost one in two.
New Statesman:
Wakefield and the results of the Tiverton and Honeyton by-elections
Full coverage because the Conservatives lost two by-elections in one night.
I wonder how many Conservative MPs will be carrying this result in their heads, and I wonder if it could be in Tiverton, could it be here …?
It’s hard to know how long this depression will last, but it’s long overdue at the moment – and deeper than the previous medieval blues. This is not about 2010-15, when you can easily leave your base by flirting with UKIP with a clean issue for the general election. This is more important. It is a depression that has no end in sight. It is the product of your Prime Minister falling like a stone with the people, and the historically positive perception of competence on the economy and key issues that once shattered your electoral victories. Wakefield is a lesson for a losing government on the battlefield, and Tiverton is a story of how bad it can really be.
Marcy Wheeler / Empty Wheel:
Attempts to corrupt Bill Bar have saved the Republic
In other words, what Engel and Rosen were describing as abusive, they themselves were very happy to be involved until the post-election period.
That’s why I’m so interested in the role of Richard Donoghu, who moved from EDNY to Main Justice in July 2020. To be replaced by Reliable Bill Bar Flankey Seth Docharme. That’s when it happened The lawyers were ready The charges against Tom Barrack were not dropped until a year later, after confirmation by Maric Garland and Lisa Monaco. Barr’s 2020 move looked like another attempt – with Jesse Liu in DC and Jeffrey Berman in SDNY – to replace the U.S. Attorney to end the investigation.
That is, by all accounts, Donoghu was only involved in all of these incidents in 2020 and 2021 because the bar was politicizing the lawsuits, exactly what Engel claimed the DJ had tried to avoid during his tenure.
It is interesting for many reasons.