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Lawyer For Oklahoma AG’s Office Arrested After Wild Multiple Hit-And-Run Crashes Police Chase [VIDEO]

The Tulsa World reports: An assistant solicitor general for the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office was arrested in Broken Arrow on Tuesday after a police pursuit following a hit-and-run collision. Two pedestrians, including a police officer, were hit by her car as she tried to get away, police said. Courtney Rae Jordan, 36, who the Attorney General’s Office confirmed is employed …

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Grassley Opposes Abortion Travel Ban: Unconstitutional

The Des Moines Register reports: Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said it would be “unconstitutional” to restrict people from traveling across state lines to seek abortion services. “We cannot stop people from traveling anyplace they want to,” he told reporters Wednesday. “It’s a constitutional issue and a freedom.” The issue has gained traction after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe …

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NY Gov Nominee Submitted Photocopied Signatures

The Gotham Gazette reports: U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican nominee for governor, was denied the additional general election ballot line for the Independence Party on Thursday after election administrators found his campaign had submitted over 12,000 invalid ballot petition signatures. The petition was reviewed after Libertarian Party officials filed an objection, claiming they found over 11,000 signatures that had …

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Indiana Doc Reported 10 Year-Old’s Rape As Required

CNN reports: An Indiana doctor who said she recently helped a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio get an abortion in her state reported the procedure to Indiana health officials within a required timeframe, documents show, as the state’s Republican attorney general has said authorities are investigating the Ob-Gyn for potential failure to report the abortion and child abuse. Dr. Caitlin …

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IN Petitions SCOTUS On Parental Notice Abortion Law

CNN reports: Indiana asked the Supreme Court Thursday to move quickly to officially transmit its opinion overturning Roe v. Wade to a federal appeals court so that the state can attempt to put its strict parental notification law into effect. The Indiana law was enjoined by a district court in 2017 as a violation of Supreme Court precedent. But last …

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Axios: Republicans Fear 2022 Senate “Debacle”

Axios reports: Top Republicans, once confident about winning control of the Senate in the midterms, fear they’ll blow it after nominating several deeply flawed candidates in winnable states, according to conversations with GOP strategists, pollsters and other officials. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been sounding this alarm for months: electing fringe candidates with checkered pasts could squander a …

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Lawsuit: Boot Riot Suspect From Michigan Gov Ballot

NBC News reports: A progressive political group in Michigan helped file a lawsuit Thursday that seeks to remove GOP candidate Ryan Kelley from the ballot in the governor’s race, citing his arrest on Jan. 6 charges. The suit, filed by a Michigan voter with the help of Progress Michigan, requests Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and the Board of State …

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TX Sues Feds Over Guidance On Emergency Abortions

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas is suing the Biden administration over guidance released Monday telling the nation’s doctors they’re protected by federal law to terminate a pregnancy as part of emergency treatment — and threatening to defund hospitals that don’t perform these procedures. The Biden administration’s guidance states that federal law requires doctors to perform abortions for pregnant people in …

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Cultist Indiana AG Claims He’s Investigating Doctor For Supposedly “Failing To Report” 10 Year-Old Rape Victim

NBC News reports: Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said he’s investigating the doctor who said she treated a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Rokita, a Republican who’s touted his efforts to combat abortion rights, referred to Dr. Caitlin Bernard as an “abortion activist acting as a doctor” who has a “history of …

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Lankford Blocks Bill To Protect Interstate Abortion Travel

The Hill reports: GOP Sen. James Lankford (Okla.) on Thursday blocked a Democratic request to unanimously pass a bill seeking to protect interstate travel for abortion. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), joined by a string of Democratic senators, had sought consent to pass a bill that would prevent states from punishing women who travel to other states where abortion is …

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Twitter: Musk’s Poop Emoji Tweet Violated Our Deal

The Insider reports: In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Twitter cited posts made by billionaire Elon Musk — including one of a single poop emoji — as evidence he had disparaged the company in violation of contracts he was beholden to when he agreed to buy it for $44 billion. When Musk sent the poop emoji on May 16, the single-character …

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Republicans Plot Multiple Anti-Transgender Bills

Reuters reports: U.S. Republicans in Congress are lining up behind legislation that critics say would roll back protections for transgender people, setting a playbook for action on a divisive social issue should they take control of Congress this fall. The bills have no chance of becoming law this year, as Democrats narrowly control both chambers of Congress. But they are …

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All GOP Reps Vote Against Rooting Out Nazi Troops

Newsweek reports: The House has approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to compel government officials to prepare a report on combating white supremacists and neo-Nazi activity in the police and military, despite every Republican voting against the measure. The amendment, sponsored by Rep. Brad Schneider, was passed in a 218-208 party-line vote on Wednesday. All 208 votes …

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Tennessee Gov To Run Unchallenged In GOP Primary

The Associated Press reports: Nearly four years ago, Bill Lee startled political insiders when the first-time political candidate survived a bruising and crowded $45 million GOP primary for Tennessee governor. He cruised to win the top elected state seat a few months later. Now, the Republican businessman is enjoying a drastically different race for reelection, with much more breathing room. …

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168 GOP Reps Vote Against Active Shooter Alert System

Bloomberg News reports: The US House passed bipartisan legislation on Wednesday night that would help state and local governments set up a warning system for active shooter situations, and enhance law enforcement’s communication with the public in such emergencies. It would be similar in operation to the Amber Alert system that’s deployed whenever a child is abducted. The legislation, approved …

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Carl Paladino Campaign Staffer Is Child Porn Felon

The New York Post reports: Congressional candidate Carl Paladino has a convicted sex offender on his company payroll who also now works as “assistant treasurer” of his campaign, The Post has learned. Joel Sartori was controller of Ellicott Development when he was busted in 2013 for accessing child porn on a company computer. Sartori was convicted of two felonies — …

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Dems Lend Risky PR Hand To QAnon AZ Gov Candidate

NBC News reports: Kari Lake watched her lead narrow in the polls and big players in Arizona’s Republican establishment coalesce around her top rival weeks before the state’s Aug. 2 primary for governor. So Democrats stepped in. The state party, in an email blast this week, thanked her opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson, for past donations she made to Democratic candidates. …

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Fox Regular: Democrats Will Make You “Eat Your Kids”

“It actually doesn’t matter whether or not you believe in man-made climate change. I obviously don’t. Maybe you do. That’s not the point. It doesn’t matter what you believe, left, right, Democrat, Republican, it doesn’t matter. “If your politicians in charge of you are saying to you that they intend to get rid of oil, get rid of gas, go …

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Graham Claims Immunity From Georgia Subpoena

Congress Minutes reports: Attorneys for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have formally asked a federal court to quash a subpoena demanding his testimony before a grand jury in Georgia. The filing asks Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office launched the investigation into Trump officials in Georgia following the 2020 election, to respond to their motion within three days …

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Boebert’s Restaurant Closes After Landlord Yanks Lease

Denver’s NBC affiliate reports: For years, downtown Rifle’s restaurant scene was furnished with one of the only places in the U.S. you could order a cheeseburger from a server packing a 9mm pistol on her hip. The establishment — Shooters Grill — was the brainchild of now-U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert. Today, the Silt Republican officially closed the doors to her …

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