Politics

The Georgia Recorder reports: An all-male panel of anti-abortion religious leaders from around the country met Friday night to discuss the strategies that should be used to end abortion in every state at any stage of pregnancy, without exceptions for rape and incest, and with criminal punishment for the pregnant person in line with existing criminal penalties for murder, which …

Politico reports: President Joe Biden is eyeing redemption in North Carolina next year. Biden lost the Tar Heel state to Donald Trump by just 1.4 percentage points in 2020, and a Democrat at the top of the ticket hasn’t managed to turn North Carolina blue since Barack Obama did in 2008. Now Biden’s team sees opportunity in 2024 amid a …

CNN reports: DeSantis hit back Friday, accusing Harris and Democrats in a tweet of spreading lies “to cover for their agenda” and telling reporters in Utah that the vice president’s criticism of Florida’s Board of Education was “absolutely ridiculous.” Asked by CNN about the benchmark, DeSantis deflected. “You should talk to them about it. I didn’t do it. I wasn’t …

Reuters reports: Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Florida “extremists” on Friday for backing educational guidelines that taught “revisionist history” about slavery in the United States. Florida’s board of education approved new guidelines this week with “benchmark clarifications,” including one for middle school students that states “instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their …

Earlier this week multiple Kennedy family members trashed RFK Jr. after his lie-filled appearance before the US House. Today John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, joins in. From his Instagram post: President John F. Kennedy is my grandfather, and his legacy is important. It’s about a lot more than Camelot and conspiracy theories. It’s about public service and courage. It’s …

The Messenger reports: The FBI repeatedly warned lawmakers not to share the contents of a sensitive document related to a Department of Justice investigation of Hunter Biden, The Messenger has learned. In spite of those warnings, congressional Republicans have made the document a central focus of their investigation of President Joe Biden and his son. FBI officials cautioned lawmakers on …

Florida Politics reports: Someone shot a bullet into the front window of a children’s room at Republican state Rep. Spencer Roach’s home Thursday morning, leaving the North Fort Myers lawmaker “shaken up.” No one was harmed in the incident. The shooting at Roach’s home comes two days after the Lee County Republican Executive Committee was to consider a resolution condemning …

CNN reports: The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. These birth certificates belong to 33 children of Italian women who underwent artificial insemination abroad and then registered their children under the city’s center-left …

Florida Politics reports: New polling shows fewer than 1 in 4 women approve of Ron DeSantis, and that women are twice as likely to disapprove of him than regard him favorably. A Yahoo! News survey conducted between July 13 and July 17 shows just 24% of the U.S. adult women polled approve of DeSantis, with 48% disapproving. Meanwhile, a “very …

Bloomberg News reports: A plan to charge motorists driving into midtown Manhattan in New York City was challenged by neighboring New Jersey, which seeks to block the proposal as unfair to commuters. The challenge came in a federal lawsuit the state filed Friday against the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, or FHWA. Drivers may have to …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump and his team are making a concerted push to ensure that the convention is packed with loyalists who could fortify their position, should another candidate win enough delegates during the primary to potentially maneuver for the nomination. The effort includes calls from Trump and his advisers to senior party leadership in early primary states as …

Congress Minutes reports: He’s running? Rep. Ralph Norman isn’t ruling out a primary challenge against Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina conservative confirmed Thursday. Details: Norman indicated he has sensed weakness from Graham after the longtime GOP senator was repeatedly booed — “not once, but three times” — by a Republican crowd in his home state when he took the …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama has executed James Barber for the 2001 beating death of a 75-year-old Madison County woman. The execution early Friday morning at Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore came after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Barber, 64, to stop the lethal injection execution because he claimed the previous two attempts on other inmates in …

CNN reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is urging the state’s pension fund manager to consider legal action against Bud Light’s parent company amid conservative backlash to the beermaker’s recent marketing efforts, the latest attempt by the Republican presidential candidate to inject himself and the state he runs into the country’s culture wars. In a Thursday letter obtained by CNN, DeSantis …

ABC News reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday — for the first time — voted to advance legislation that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt a binding code of ethics, to adhere to more stringent disclosure requirements and explain recusal decisions to the public. The vote was 11-10 along party lines, with all Democrats in support and …

The Colorado Sun reports: Democrat Adam Frisch is ammassing a formidable campaign cash advantage over Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District ahead of a 2024 race that could decide which party controls Congress. Frisch outraised Boebert for the second quarter in a row, bringing in $2.6 million from April through June, more than three times the …

Politico reports: Kevin McCarthy denies he made any deal with Donald Trump to expunge his impeachment record. Even if the speaker did call for such a vote, a bloc of House GOP centrists would likely defeat it. Roughly a half-dozen swing district Republicans said Thursday they were skeptical — or even downright opposed — to any vote designed to symbolically …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: A former GOP Florida House candidate suing blogger Jacob Engels, who has repeatedly missed hearings and deadlines in the case, is asking an Orange County judge to order Engels to explain why he shouldn’t be arrested and brought into court. Former candidate Elizabeth Cornell, who lost in the Republican primary for a Central Florida House seat …

Bloomberg News reports: A new poll finds just 16% of registered voters would consider supporting a fusion third-party ticket with West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin for president, highlighting the uphill path for the Democrat if he were to enter the 2024 race. The Monmouth University poll released Thursday highlights dissatisfaction among a significant bloc of American voters at the prospect …

The Hill reports: The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for five years. The measure — formally titled the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act — passed in a bipartisan 351-69 vote. It now heads to the Senate, where lawmakers are considering their own bill to reauthorize the FAA. …