Mo Brooks Sent Email To Trump Aide Seeking Pardons For GOP Lawmakers: CBS
Brooks sought preemptive “all-purpose” pardons for Republicans who challenged the results of the 2020 election, CBS’s Robert Costa reported.
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‘It’s now up to the states’: Republicans move to ban abortion after Roe falls
It may take months for the status of abortion rights in many states to become clear as lawmakers pass new bills, proponents and opponents of abortion rights file lawsuits and governors take executive action.
They Really Did It
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.I remember the days when my fellow conservatives hated activist judges and fulminated against attempts to gain in the courts what could not be won at the ballot box; today, a new kind of “conservative” is cheering a radical unraveling of women’s rights.
The Pro-Life Movement’s Work Is Just Beginning
The entire legal and cultural ethos of the pro-life movement can be summed up in two sentences: A just society protects all life. A moral society values all life.Justice is thus necessary but not sufficient for a culture of life. The pro-life movement should greet the reversal of Roe v. Wade with a spirit of gratitude. The people of this country have, for the first time in almost 50 years, an opportunity to enact laws that truly protect the lives of unborn children.
Elvis Is Utterly Disorienting. That’s the Point.
Baz Luhrmann is a filmmaker who picks subjects as extravagant as the genre allows. When he made a teen romance, it was William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. His musical Moulin Rouge was scored with love songs from nearly every pop era. For a literary adaptation, he went with the totemic, supposedly unadaptable The Great Gatsby. He’s an Australian director who made a movie about Australia and literally called it Australia.
If the Supreme Court Can Reverse Roe, It Can Reverse Anything
For months and even years I have seen this coming, and yet the reality of the Supreme Court’s decision is still a shock. How can it be that people had a constitutional right for nearly half a century, and now no more? How can it not matter that Americans consistently signaled that they did not want this to happen, and even so this has happened?The Court’s answer is that Roe is different.
What’s next for virtual abortions post-Roe
The decision creates a new and expansive legal frontier for telemedicine.
Without Choice
This poem is a cento, consisting entirely of lines from other poems, compiled here in chorus. Some punctuation and tenses have been changed. I’m grateful to these poets for their lines, each attributed at the bottom of the page.Soon enough, the whole small
city of my being will demolish—
Without choice, no politics,
no ethics lives.
I hold my grief like two limp
tulips.
Guess Which Republican Congressmembers Sought Pardons After Trying to Help Trump Subvert Vote
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol revealed Thursday that six Republican members of Congress who supported Donald Trump’s lies sought broad presidential pardons for their involvement in the campaign to discredit the election results: Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona.
Top DOJ Staff Threatened Mass Resignation as Trump Weighed Naming Jeff Clark AG to Overturn Election
Former top officials in President Trump’s Justice Department told the House January 6 committee Thursday they threatened to resign en masse when Trump mused about appointing Jeffrey Clark, a loyalist who backed the baseless voter fraud claims, as acting attorney general. “I said, ‘Mr.
“Pure Insanity”: Trump Pushed DOJ to Chase Absurd Conspiracy Theories to Overturn 2020 Election
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol has revealed new details about former President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to help him stay in power after he lost the 2020 election. In the committee’s fifth televised public hearing Thursday, former top DOJ officials testified about how Trump urged the department to seize voting machines and declare the election results corrupt.
Radical Supreme Court Guts State Gun Laws & Right to Remain Silent Under Arrest
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a century-old New York state law that limited who can carry concealed weapons in public, with Justice Clarence Thomas writing for the 6-3 majority that the statute violated the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. The ruling vastly expands gun rights in the U.S.
Health systems want government help fighting off the hackers
Hospitals look to Washington to provide more security for what they consider critical national infrastructure.
CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for babies and toddlers
Shots will be be available for children from 6 months to 5 years as early as next week.
Iowa court: Abortion not protected by state constitution
The Iowa Supreme Court cleared the way for lawmakers to severely limit or even ban abortion in the state.
Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
‘When do you stop?’: Fed inflation fight could trigger slump
Things are so dire that central bank policymakers might hike rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, a move not taken in almost 30 years.
U.S. inflation hit a new 40-year high last month of 8.6 percent
America’s rampant inflation is imposing severe pressures on families, forcing them to pay much more for food, gas and rent.
California Vows Stronger Gun Laws After Supreme Court Decision
“Today’s Court thinks that gun regulations should be frozen in time,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
News Roundup: Supreme Court erases a century of gun laws; witnesses testify on Clark’s role in coup
In another ruling relying on historical errata of the 1600s to nullify laws passed centuries later, Supreme Court conservatives overturned a New York law that put limits on who can carry concealed handguns. The families of future mass murder victims can rest assured that their loved ones did not die in vain, but as a nod to the beliefs of 17th century witch hunters and English partisans concerned about the political dynamics after the Stuart Reformation.
In radical decision, Supreme Court all but nullifies states’ right to control guns
When Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was confronted over his support for the bipartisan bill addressing elements of gun violence, he defended his Second Amendment record, telling reporters: “I spent my career supporting, defending and expanding” gun rights, and stressing that he had “spent years” confirming conservative judges.
Ukraine update: Ukrainian ‘pocket’ south of Lysychansk folds as fighting continues in Severodonetsk
On Wednesday, I started an update on the situation south of Severodonetsk several times, and each time I updated a map, or wrote several paragraphs of text, I found myself having to change that information well before it was ready to publish. Things haven’t settled down much since then, so consider this an update likely soon to be an outdate.
Senate Passes Bipartisan Gun Safety Bill A Month After Uvalde Shooting
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called it the “most significant piece of anti-gun-violence legislation Congress has passed in three decades.
GOP insiders are desperately trying to derail Eric ‘RINO-hunting’ Greitens’ U.S. Senate bid
The standard operating procedure for Republicans seeking statewide office is to move as far to the MAGA right as possible during the primaries and then moderate as much as they plausibly can for the general. It’s what Dr. Oz is doing in Pennsylvania, and it’s presumably what any Republican will do during the upcoming campaign for U.S. Senate in Missouri.
Angry Trump Again Demands The Impossible From Jan. 6 Panel After Riveting Hearing
He calls for evidence of what doesn’t exist: a rigged election.
‘Put the food on our table every day’: Labor icon Dolores Huerta urges passage of farmworker bill
The U.S. House under the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year passed a historic bill that would put undocumented farmworkers onto a path to legal status. That legislation passed the chamber with support from 30 Republicans, surpassing the bipartisan support for the bill legalizing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals beneficiaries.
But more than a year after House passage, the U.S.
Former U.S. Attorney General Highlights Trump’s ‘Smoking Gun’ In New Jan. 6 Testimony
This could be the quote that demonstrates the former president’s criminal intent, according to Eric Holder.
Bob Woodward: 20% Of Republicans Would Now Like To ‘Push Trump Off The Cliff’
Whether Republicans are watching the hearings or not, they know the “earth is shaking,” adds Woodward’s Watergate partner Carl Bernstein.
The Problem Is Gun Culture, Not SCOTUS
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.I used to think of myself as a gun-control conservative—I supported both the right to own firearms and the interest of the state to limit that right—but America’s gun culture isn’t about rights. It’s about performative insecurity.
What a Gas-Tax Holiday Won’t Do
Gas prices in the U.S. are close to $5 a gallon, President Joe Biden’s approval rating is 36 percent, and the first phenomenon has a lot to do with the second. But the factors that have driven gas prices higher are largely out of Biden’s control, at least in the near term. So it wasn’t a shock when he announced yesterday that he was asking Congress to suspend the 18.4-cents-a-gallon federal gas tax for three months.