Tuesday’s elections resulted in a single large shock, as Kansas voters overwhelmingly crushed an try by state Republicans to curtail abortion rights. Even within the hard-right state, voters weren’t having it, and that implies Republicans aren’t going to have the ability to dodge their new anti-abortion bans in November’s elections both. However will it make Republican lawmakers again down from their efforts to criminalize abortion nationally? Do not wager on it.
Conspiracy blowhard Alex Jones tried to defend himself in court docket as a jury considers damages to be doled out for his monstrous lies concerning the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary Faculty mass homicide, and it couldn’t presumably have gone worse for him. Good.
And the Division of Justice’s felony investigation of the Jan. 6 coup try continues to … really present motion, as Donald Trump’s former White Home Counsel Pat Cipollone is hit with a brand new subpoena as investigators give attention to these with firsthand data of what Trump did, and tried to do, and didn’t do, earlier than and in the course of the violence.
