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Trump Privately Called a Roe v. Wade Reversal ‘Bad’ for His Party By Katie Glueck New York Times June 25, 2022 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade on Friday catapulted the explosive battle over abortion rights into the center of several marquee midterm races, turning the fight over key governor’s contests and coveted Senate seats into heated debates about personal freedom and public health. Devastated Democrats, facing staggering political challenges amid high inflation and President Biden’s low approval ratings, hoped the decision might reinvigorate disaffected base voters. They also saw the moment…
June 24, 2022: The Day Chief Justice Roberts Lost His Court By Adam Liptak New York Times June 25, 2022 WASHINGTON — In the most important case of his 17-year tenure, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. found himself entirely alone. He had worked for seven months to persuade his colleagues to join him in merely chipping away at Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. But he was outflanked by the five justices to his right, who instead reduced Roe to rubble. In the process, they humiliated the nominal leader of…
Why the Hell Was Sean Penn at the January 6 Hearings on Thursday? Esquire June 25, 2022 Sean Penn made an unexpected appearance at Thursday’s hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol on January 6. Penn did not testify. He sat in the audience between D.C. Metropolitan Police officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, both of whom responded to the attacks. CNN’s Annie Grayer asked Penn why he was at the hearing. “I’m just here to observe—just another citizen,” he said. “I think we all saw what happened on January 6 and now…
DP World Tour sanctions golfers who participated in LIV Golf series’ inaugural event | CNN By Homero De la Fuente CNN June 25, 2022 The DP World Tour, formerly the European Tour, announced it has fined and suspended member golfers who participated in the inaugural LIV Golf series event earlier this month. The first event for the Saudi-backed breakaway series took place at the Centurion Club just north of London from June 9 to 11. The DP World Tour said the golfers who breached the Tour’s regulations have been fined ����100,000 and suspended from participating in the Scottish…
Attorney General Garland says states can’t ban FDA-approved abortion pills on safety grounds By Jacob Knutson Axios June 25, 2022 With Roe overturned, pills that terminate pregnancies are likely to become the next major contention between abortion rights activists and opponents of abortion rights. Already, almost half of U.S. states have banned or tightly restricted abortion pills — two medicines named mifepristone and misoprostol — and more could soon follow suit, Axios’ Oriana Gonzalez, Ashley Gold and Jacque Schrag report. How it works: Mifepristone and misoprostol have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in…
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DP World Tour announces sanctions for LIV golfers…including heavy fines Golf WRX June 24, 2022 In a dramatic move by the DP World Tour, all players involved with the LIV Golf Series will be fined and banned from entering the Scottish Open in July. With the highly-regarded tournament set to take place at the Renaissance Club for the fourth year in succession, many of the top players will have planned to use the event to prepare for The Open Championship, set to have its 150th running at St. Andrews, just a week later. Whilst the R&A, the organisation…
Biden accidentally flashed a cue card telling him exactly where to go and what to do at a White House event By Mia Jankowicz Business Insider June 24, 2022 Biden accidentally flashed his cue card for a White House meeting, which held simple instructions. They included “YOU take YOUR seat” as well as an instruction to say hello to the guests. Cue cards are common, but right-wing commentators treated this one as a serious gaffe. President Joe Biden accidentally flashed a cue card at a White House meeting on Thursday, offering a glimpse of simple instructions for the…
USA Navy and Iran Corps Clash in Strait of Hormuz Rig Zone June 24, 2022 U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs announced Tuesday that three vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) interacted in an “unsafe and unprofessional manner” as U.S. Navy ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on June 20. Patrol coastal ship USS Sirocco (PC 6) and expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Choctaw County (T-EPF 2) were conducting a routine transit in international waters when three Iranian fast inshore attack craft approached, the U.S. Navy noted. One of the IRGCN vessels approached Sirocco…
Bill Barr says he’s ‘not sure we would have had a transition at all’ to Biden if DOJ hadn’t investigated Trump’s baseless voter fraud claims By C. Ryan Barber Business Insider June 24, 2022 Former Attorney General William Barr said he was “not sure we would have had a transition at all” if the Justice Department had not investigated Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud and found them baseless. In a closed-door deposition, Barr suggested to the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol that Trump might not have left office voluntarily…