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May 11, 2022

Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe is still the only one circulated inside Supreme Court

Source: Politico

The Supreme Court is set to gather Thursday for the first time since the disclosure that it voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, and there’s no sign that the court is changing course from issuing that ruling by the end of June.

Justice Samuel Alito’s sweeping and blunt draft majority opinion from February overturning Roe remains the court’s only circulated draft in the pending Mississippi abortion case, POLITICO has learned, and none of the conservative justices who initially sided with Alito have to date switched their votes. No dissenting draft opinions have circulated from any justice, including the three liberals.

That could explain why no second draft of Alito’s majority opinion has been distributed, as typically the two sides react to one another’s written arguments and recast their own.

As the nine justices prepare for their scheduled, private, closed-door conference this week, they face one of the greatest crises in modern Supreme Court history, with an internal leak investigation under way, an agitated nation focused on whether the constitutional right to abortion is about to be overturned, and some justices facing angry protests at their homes.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/11/alito-abortion-draft-opinion-roe-00031648



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May 11, 2022

NYT Pitchbot: Whether it's the right painting Swastikas in blood on synagogues, or the left writing

Whether it’s the right painting Swastikas in blood on synagogues, or the left writing pro-choice slogans in chalk on Susan Collins’ driveway, both sides will stop at nothing to intimidate their opponents.


https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1524183719535431680
May 11, 2022

Second house collapses at Cape Hatteras National Seashore

MANTEO, N.C. — Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has confirmed that an unoccupied house at 24265 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, N.C. collapsed this afternoon. This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore.

The beach near Ocean Drive is closed and law enforcement officials will close Ocean Drive shortly. Visitors are cautioned to stay away from the beach in this area.

Additional details will be provided via Seashore social media, when available. As photos and videos from near the collapsed house sites are taken, they will be posted to the Seashore’s Flickr page.

https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/news/second-house-collapses-at-cape-hatteras-national-seashore.htm


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May 10, 2022

Raskin responds to Boebert: We're not interested in censoring other people's speech. We want...

Raskin responds to Boebert: We’re not interested in censoring other people’s speech. We want the whole world to see how the gentlelady from Colorado speaks.. in public.. as a member of Congress. We want everyone to look at that


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1524164011238907904

May 10, 2022

Daines on Abortion: Why do we have laws in place to protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of

Daines on Abortion: Why do we have laws in place to protect the eggs of a sea turtle or the eggs of eagles…



https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1524129432213987328

May 10, 2022

Trump Kept Asking if China Was Shooting Us With a 'Hurricane Gun'

The then-leader of the free world also inquired whether the U.S. could bomb China in retaliation for the alleged hurricane attack

Near the beginning of Donald Trump’s time in office, the then-president had a pressing question for his national-security aides and administration officials: Does China have the secret technology — a weapon, even — to create large, man-made hurricanes and then launch them at the United States? And if so, would this constitute an act of war by a foreign power, and could the U.S. retaliate militarily? Then-President Trump repeatedly asked about this, according to two former senior administration officials and a third person briefed on the matter.

“It was almost too stupid for words,” said a former Trump official intimately familiar with the then-sitting president’s inquiry. “I did not get the sense he was joking at all.”

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations, tell Rolling Stone that Trump began interrogating national-security officials and other staffers about the alleged weapon during the first year of his presidency, and his question would pop up sporadically until at least 2018. Two of the sources recalled that as Trump got deeper into the second year in his term, he started to drop the topic, and occasionally joked about it.

In certain circles within the upper ranks of Trumpland, the then-leader of the free world’s query became such a mockable occurrence that it became known among some as the “Hurricane Gun” thing.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-hurricane-gun-china-world-war-1350638/

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