This is getting worse and worse. My colleagues and I noted yesterday that Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita had threatened the doctor who treated the 10 year old rape victim from Ohio with investigation, loss of licensure and even imprisonment. This was another effort to shift the story after Republicans at first tried to claim the girl didn’t exist. Rokita suggested that the doctor, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, had failed to file mandated reports with the state about the abuse and the abortion. At least, Rokita claimed, he could find no evidence for any reports. Bernard is an “abortion activist acting as a doctor with a history of failing to report,” Rokita told Fox News on Wednesday. “We’re gathering the information, we’re gathering the evidence as we speak and we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at [Bernard’s] licensure, if she failed to report. In Indiana it’s a crime for … to intentionally not report.”
Continue reading “More GOP Lies About Child Rape Story Collapse With Hours”Where Things Stand: Ken Paxton Sues To Stop Biden Abortion Mandate
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made a predictable move today. He filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s recent executive order asking the Department of Health and Human Services to take action to protect abortion access in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s overturning.
Continue reading “Where Things Stand: Ken Paxton Sues To Stop Biden Abortion Mandate”Secret Service Deleted Jan. 5 And 6 Text Messages After Oversight Officials Requested Records
The Secret Service reportedly deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications, a letter sent to the Jan. 6 Select committee indicates. The Intercept first reported the news.
Continue reading “Secret Service Deleted Jan. 5 And 6 Text Messages After Oversight Officials Requested Records”Far-Right Sheriffs Mull Schemes To Surveil Voters At Election Conspiracy Theory Event
A half dozen sheriffs from across the country addressed a far-right conference focused on bogus claims of voter fraud this week.
Continue reading “Far-Right Sheriffs Mull Schemes To Surveil Voters At Election Conspiracy Theory Event”Judge Issues Warrant For Indicted MAGA Clerk After She Attends Far-Right Event In Vegas
A Colorado judge issued an arrest warrant for Mesa County, Colorado clerk Tina Peters Thursday after she attended a far-right conference in Las Vegas earlier in the week, saying Peters had violated the terms of her release, which required the court’s permission to travel out of state.
Continue reading “Judge Issues Warrant For Indicted MAGA Clerk After She Attends Far-Right Event In Vegas”Listen To This: Courts And Constitutions
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the dynamics of the new abortion politics.
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Trump Claims He’s ‘Already Made That Decision’ On 2024 Presidential Bid
After multiple recent reports on the matter and months of toying with the notion of launching a 2024 presidential bid, former President Trump has finally spoken on the record: he has, in his own words, “already made that decision.”
Continue reading “Trump Claims He’s ‘Already Made That Decision’ On 2024 Presidential Bid”Conservatives, Right-Wing Media Left Flailing After Arrest Confirms Child Rape Story
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) announced on Fox News Wednesday night that he was going to investigate Caitlin Bernard, the doctor who provided abortion care for a 10-year-old rape victim who had traveled from Ohio, where abortion is banned after six weeks with no exceptions, to have the procedure in Indiana.
Continue reading “Conservatives, Right-Wing Media Left Flailing After Arrest Confirms Child Rape Story”As Red States Try To Seal Borders Against Abortion, Mailed Pills Zoom Around The US
In these earliest days of the post-Roe world, those both supporting and opposing abortion rights are scrambling on shifting sands to find loopholes in anti-abortion regimes, and to snap them shut.
Continue reading “As Red States Try To Seal Borders Against Abortion, Mailed Pills Zoom Around The US”Reports: Jan. 6 Witness Trump Tried To Call Was White House Support Staffer
At the end of Tuesday’s Jan. 6 panel hearing, committee vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) offered up a surprising revelation: Former president Donald Trump, she said, had personally reached out to a witness after ex-Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson gave her jaw-dropping testimony last month.
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