What to know about Ohio special election at center of abortion fight ( thehill.com )
Ohio’s special election on Tuesday could raise the threshold for amending the state’s constitution and have a potentially critical impact on the future of abortion rights in the state. With few other elections happening in an off year, a ballot measure in Ohio that would enshrine abortion rights in its constitution will be...
[News] Trump attorney says he won’t accept plea deal in Jan. 6 case ( thehill.com )
Former President Trump’s attorney John Lauro said he would not accept a plea deal in connection to the federal Jan. 6 case, in which the former president is charged with four federal counts related to alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election....
[News] A Georgia judge has rejected former President Trump’s efforts to quash an investigation into his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. ( thehill.com )
“The movants’ asserted ‘injuries’ that would open the doors of the courthouse to their claims are either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized,” Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in the nine-page ruling.
High school boys are trending conservative ( thehill.com )
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Hunter Biden’s attorney files ethics complaint against Marjorie Taylor Greene for showing sexual images ( thehill.com )
Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she …
Analysis: Democrats put RFK Jr. on blast in change of strategy ( thehill.com )
Democrats are no longer trying to ignore Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and have taken to calling him out in public after a week of controversies.
Democratic senator: GOP will ‘100 percent’ pass national abortion ban with control of Congress ( thehill.com )
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) on Monday warned about “the stakes” of the 2024 election, arguing Republicans will push to approve a national abortion ban if they win Congress next…
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism ( thehill.com )
Republican senators say they’re worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them signifi…
Bipartisan senators unveiling measure to ban stock ownership by lawmakers, administration officials ( thehill.com )
Greene displays sexual images of Hunter Biden at IRS whistleblower hearing ( thehill.com )
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) leaned in on some of the more salacious issues concerning Hunter Biden in her questioning of IRS whistleblowers who investigated Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday — and brought sexually explicit posters to make her point.
Boebert’s Democratic challenger raises three times more than her ( thehill.com )
Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came close to beating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year’s midterms, raised three times more than the incumbent in second-quarter fundraising as he seeks a 2024 rematch.
RFK Jr. attempts to walk back controversial remarks that COVID-19 was ‘ethnically targeted’ ( thehill.com )
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted to walk back his controversial remarks suggesting that COVID-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people on Saturday.
Democratic jitters grow over Cornel West’s third-party bid ( thehill.com )
Cornel West’s third-party presidential campaign is stirring up unpleasant flashbacks to 2016 for members of the Democratic Party
[The Hill] Heat wave pushes demand on Texas grid to record highs ( thehill.com )
Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll ( thehill.com )
More than 20 percent of Republicans surveyed said certain criminal charges against former President Trump have made them more likely to support him in the 2024 election, according to a new Ipsos poll released Thursday.
[The Hill] Texas floating barriers will cause ‘imminent and irreparable harm,’ lawsuit claims ( thehill.com )
Conservative women are embracing extremism under the guise of motherhood ( thehill.com )
The rise of this new, female group fits into a pattern of post-Jan. 6 domestic extremism.
Washington state fined over $100M for failing to provide timely resources for mentally ill in jail ( thehill.com )
A federal judge on Friday ordered Washington state to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely competency evaluations and treatment to mentally ill individuals who are char…
Activists want to disqualify Trump from ballot in key states under 14th Amendment ( thehill.com )
Two civil rights organizations are launching a campaign to pressure state governments to disqualify former President Trump from appearing on ballots in 2024. The groups say secretaries of state are…