North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis — who notably shepherded through the state’s infamous “motorcycle abortion” bill last year — asked Dr. Mary Susan Fulghum to join his “Women For Tillis” group. But he left out the part of her biography that mentions she’s a co-founder of a Planned Parenthood affiliate.
Obama’s judicial nominees tend to come from very similar professional backgrounds, Alliance for Justice’s Nan Aron writes. Fewer than 4 percent have worked as lawyers at a public interest organization.
You’re going to hear spin from just about everyone after Obamacare open enrollment ends next week. The best advice? Ignore it. Here are three better ways to tell if Obamacare was successful in its first year.
This morning Elena Kagan cited Antonin Scalia’s own arguments in front of him to argue against overturning the Obamacare birth control mandate.
With Hobby Lobby’s arguments against the birth control mandate before the Supreme Court today, it seems like as good of a day as any to re-read Ed Kilgore’s great take on how the religious liberty campaign is backfiring.
A South Carolina college has hired the state’s lieutenant governor, who has little educational experience but deep neo-Confederate ties, as its new president.
Democratic candidate Bruce Braley, who has been favored to win the seat vacated by Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), was caught on video at a fundraiser warning that Chuck Grassley, “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” could be Senate Judiciary chair. Is this his undoing? Or just a blip in the road?
Update 4:32 p.m.: Braley’s already apologized for the remark.
Daniel Strauss looks at North Carolina, where Republicans might be bungling a serious Senate seat pickup opportunity: “With a little more than a month before the Senate primary, the GOP still lacks a de facto nominee.”