DL Open Thread Tuesday May 3 2022

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This obliterates all other news. I don't have much to say about it other than to point out that some argued that the court wouldn't do this because it would risk "stirring up" Dem voters. Those people are idiots. It is the Democrats who don't act for fear of "stirring up" Republican voters.

Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v Wade  decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.

The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision – Planned Parenthood v. Casey– that largely maintained the right. “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito writes

DL Open Thread Monday May 2 2022

I like Zelenskyy. He is always on message, "Great. Thanks. Send More." Pelosi Goes to Kyiv House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Ukrainians' “ferocity” and promised military and financial support after…

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Boebert (who assembled her four young children in front of a Christmas tree and had them pose with AR-15s for social media likes) is sick of being lumped in with Greene because Greene is  cR@Zy!!
Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert reportedly almost came to blows over Greene’s appearance at a white nationalist event in February, to the point that someone had to step in between them to de-escalate the confrontation. Three people close to the Freedom Caucus confirmed the spat to Politico, which took place during a meeting of the caucus’ board of directors.