Where Things Stand: Gosar Is Done ‘Dealing With Nick’ Fuentes So Stop Asking

Posted on by Nicole LaFond

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has addressed the crowds at white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ events the last two years in a row — most recently sparking uproar after both he and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared at the America First Political Action Conference last month.

Despite receiving abnormally swift condemnation from GOP leadership after news of his appearance broke, Gosar had not yet addressed the bipartisan backlash to his speech until just a few days ago.

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Key Selling Point For Oklahoma Abortion Bill: It Slams Door In Face Of Desperate Texans

Posted on by Kate Riga

The Oklahoma legislature passed a bill making it illegal to perform abortions while floods of Texan women, barred from the procedure in their own state, have been crossing the border in search of services.

It’s not a coincidence.

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Republicans Smell Blood In The Water On The Voting Rights Act. Again.

Posted on by Matt Shuham

Lawyers in the office of Texas’ attorney general smell blood in the water.

They’re hunting the Voting Rights Act, and specifically Section 2, which was significantly weakened by the Supreme Court last year, and has been the prey of choice for conservatives around the country since. 

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Biden Cheers On Union Movement: ‘Amazon, Here We Come’

Posted on by Summer Concepcion

President Biden went further than he has publicly before in firmly aligning himself with the effort to unionize Amazon.

“Amazon, here we come,” Biden told a cheering audience of North America’s Building Trades Unions members Wednesday.

The President’s remarks follow the Amazon Labor Union’s election victory at one of the company’s warehouses in State Island, New York last week.

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Israeli Coalition on the Brink of Collapse

Posted on by Josh Marshall

Out of the blue the government of Naftali Bennett appears to be on the brink of collapse as one of the members of his own party, Idit Silman, has moved to the opposition. The development is part of the on-going splintering of Bennett’s own party, Yamina. But a catalyst or trigger appears to have been opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu offering her a ministry in a new Netanyahu-led right-wing government.

For now, the coalition government has lost its majority. But the Knesset isn’t currently in session. So there’s no immediate way for the opposition to topple it. And it would be difficult for Netanyahu to form a majority himself. So this likely means new elections.

Arizona Is Daring SCOTUS To Revisit Proof Of Citizenship To Register To Vote

Posted on by Matt Shuham

Last month, staff lawyers in the Arizona legislature informed Republican lawmakers that a new proof-of-citizenship requirement to register to vote blatantly contradicted Supreme Court precedent — precedent made when another Arizona law was checked by the Court just a few years prior. 

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Russia’s War Tests Evangelicals’ Longtime Support Of Putin As An Anti-LGBTQ World Leader

Posted on by Nicole LaFond

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It originally appeared on The Conversation.

In February 2022, evangelical leader Franklin Graham called on his followers to pray for Vladimir Putin. His tweet acknowledged that it might seem a “strange request” given that Russia was clearly about to invade Ukraine. But Graham asked that believers “pray that God would work in his heart so that war could be avoided at all cost.”

The backlash was fast and direct. Graham had not solicited prayers for Ukraine, some observers commented. And he had rarely called on believers to pray for U.S. President Joe Biden.

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US/EU vs Russia/China and Then Everyone Else

Posted on by Josh Marshall

In the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we saw what appeared to be almost universal global condemnation of Russia’s actions. There was that lopsided UN vote condemning the action in which only four other nations, all pariahs or under de facto Russian occupation, took Russia’s side. But over time, a somewhat different story has emerged. Russia has very, very few backers. But there’s a big chunk of the world, likely the majority of the world’s population, living in countries where the governments basically do not want to take sides.

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Roberts Joins Liberals In Opinion Criticizing Conservative Majority’s Use Of Shadow Docket

Posted on by Kate Riga

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberals in a dissent Wednesday perhaps most striking for its final paragraph: a critique of the conservative majority’s frequent use of the shadow docket, in which Justice Elena Kagan writes for the group that “the Court goes astray.” 

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