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September 15, 2021
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September 14, 2021
Boycott Texas
The rest of the country needs to take decisive action to stop the state’s appalling new abortion law.
Katha Pollitt
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September 13, 2021
First Texas Came for Abortion. Now It’s Going After Voting Rights.
Just a week after Texas’s abortion ban went into effect, Governor Greg Abbot signed a draconian voter suppression bill into law.
Elie Mystal
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September 10, 2021
Susan Collins, Brett Kavanaugh, and Texas’s Abortion Ban
Collins cleared the way for Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court, and Kavanaugh cleared the way for this new assault on reproductive rights.
John Nichols
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September 10, 2021
The Justice Department Strikes Back
Since the DOJ cannot force Texas Republicans to magically become decent people, its smart lawsuit against the state’s abortion ban is the next best thing.
Elie Mystal
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September 9, 2021
Abortion Politics and Republican Power
Rick Perlstein on the Texas law, plus Eric Foner on Tulsa.
Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
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September 8, 2021
Texas Is the New Republican Template
What’s happening there is about much more than the fight over reproductive rights. It’s about political control.
John Nichols
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September 3, 2021
Sotomayor’s Defiant Dissent
In her blistering dissent, the Supreme Court justice calls out her conservative colleagues’ breathtaking disregard of precedent and the Constitution.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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September 2, 2021
This Is What the First Hours of a Near-Total Ban on Abortion Look Like
The Texas law SB 8 will force abortion clinics in the state to turn away about 80 percent of all patients.
Amy Littlefield
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September 2, 2021
What Can Democrats Do to Fight Texas’s Abortion Ban? Lots.
The only question is how far Democrats are willing to go to defend women’s rights.
Elie Mystal