Republicans: STILL No Choice For Women (10 anniversary edition)
Back in 2008, I developed the McCain: No Choice For Women graphic image. Over the years I updated it in light of continuing trends (e.g., in Texas and elsewhere.) Feel free to use it as you see fit.I...
View ArticleTrump Sees SCOTUS Nomination as Political Win-Win-Win-Win; May Turn Out...
By Karen Rubin, News & PhotoFeaturesPolitically, Trump’s Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is a win-win-win-win for him. Any one on that list assembled for him by the Federalist Society...
View ArticleTrump would rather overturn Roe v. Wade than actually reduce the abortion rate
In case there was any doubt, let’s get one thing clear. If Brett Kavanaugh ends up on the Supreme Court—and, as Katha Pollitt wrote, he won’t get there without a political fight—he will vote to...
View ArticleTrump's Supreme Court pick the most unpopular in a dozen years
Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee from Russia asset Donald Trump, has the weakest net support from the American public since George W. Bush's bizarre nomination of Harriet Miers, according to...
View ArticleWhether you have a miscarriage or an abortion, they'd force you to have a burial
Less than a month after Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement and Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade’s already a hot topic in courtrooms dealing with...
View ArticleMcConnell threatens Democrats over Supreme Court vote, Democrats yawn
Campaign ActionSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to blackmail Democrats over the upcoming vote on Russian asset Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee. Democrats are responding with a...
View ArticleMedicaid, Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood: Trump's Supreme Court pick...
Campaign ActionAbbe Gluck is a very smart health policy analyst, in addition to being a professor of law and faculty director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. So when...
View ArticleDemocrats' demand records for Trump's Supreme Court nominee before starting...
Campaign ActionSenate Democrats are demanding that Russian asset Donald Trump cough up the huge amount of documents amassed in his Supreme Court nominee's career in public service. For good reason....
View ArticlePreparing for an America where self-managed abortion is the (illegal) norm
Now that Roe v. Wade has gone from canon to a likely fatality of the Trump administration, reproductive justice proponents are hustling to get better laws on the books at the state level—and to repeal...
View ArticleWhat are Senate Republicans trying to cover up for Trump's Supreme Court...
Campaign ActionThe Senate Democrats' fight to make Brett Kavanaugh's record in politics public has increased in urgency. Kavanaugh, Russian asset Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, worked for...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court nominee document fight isn't politics, it's existential to...
Campaign ActionSenate Democrats remain steadfast in their demand that the nomination process for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court wait until all of his documents from his time with the George W....
View ArticleSigns of trouble in GOP-land as Republicans concern-troll Democrats on...
Campaign ActionRepublicans are worried enough about the potential for defection by one or two Republican senators that they're blatantly concern-trolling red-state Democrats up for re-election this...
View ArticleNever-Trumper Republican might actually be proving himself useful, or not
Campaign ActionSen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has been making a lot of noise about opposing Russian asset Donald Trump, giving impassioned floor speeches and making vague threats, but when it comes down to...
View ArticleThat time when Trump's Supreme Court nominee helped him out with his casino's...
Campaign ActionRussian asset Donald Trump was going out on absolutely no limbs in nominating Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court to fill the seat being vacated by Justice Anthony Kennedy. For one...
View ArticleSenate Democrats break meeting boycott with Trump's SCOTUS nominee to press...
Campaign ActionSenate Democrats have been unofficially boycotting meeting with Russian asset Real Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, pending an agreement from Judiciary Chairman...
View ArticleThis Week in the War on Women: The Ripple Effect, and a Storm
Once in a while, a story happens along that is so blatant and awful, you couldn’t use it in fiction because it would be deemed too far over the top. The current scandal with the Federal Emergency...
View Article"Didn't you ever have a condom break?"
I’ve always gotten a naughty pleasure out of asking questions you’re not supposed to ask. I thought of this one at a session of Netroots Nation last Saturday morning, August 4, 2018, “No Choice:...
View ArticleNever mind that Trump's SCOTUS pick hired people of color for his clerks,...
Campaign ActionBrett Kavanaugh, Russian asset Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, has been publicly auditioning for the job for years, taking every opportunity to appear as if he's a moderate...
View ArticleThe Senate's quietest rock star has some very tough questions for Trump's...
Campaign ActionQuietly and determinedly, Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii has become one of the fiercest voices among the still too-small cadre of women senators. She's doing it in the nomination...
View ArticleTrump's SCOTUS pick apparently believes only the president gets to decide how...
Campaign ActionRussian asset Donald Trump's pick to go to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, has some problematic views of executive authority and the untouchability of the president. Those views seem...
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