abortion
Where Things Stand: Trump Judge Orders Lawyers To Undergo Training With Far-Right Christian Legal Group
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The far-right Christian legal group whose work you’re almost certainly familiar with is in the news today for an incredibly befuddling reason: a Trump-appointed judge in Texas ordered lawyers with Southwest Airlines to attend eight hours of “religious-liberty training” courses with the group, Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Where Things Stand: DeSperate DeSantis Tries To Appeal To … Someone On Abortion
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As my colleague Josh Marshall notes below, today’s Times/Siena Poll gives us the clearest sign yet that, if you’re a Republican candidate and you’re not named Donald Trump, your grip on the Republican Party and the minds and hearts of GOP voters is tenuous at best and barely existent at worst.
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Republicans Keep Making Every Single Fight About Abortion
The House’s right flank is loading up once-anodyne appropriations bills with riders focused on the culture war and fabricated controversies.
Democratic Women Vets In House Express ‘Shock’ That So Few Republicans Voted Against Abortion Amendment
They expected “15 or so” Republicans to vote down the far-right amendments, based on their conversations.