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| |  Abortion-rights protesters chant during a session of the Indiana State Senate, reflected in a viewing window, at the Capitol on July 25, 2022 in Indianapolis. The Legislature was holding a special session to consider curtailing abortion rights in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. | Jon Cherry/Getty Images | One year ago, when the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs overturned 50 years of legal precedent and erased a Constitutional right, POLITICO Magazine surveyed experts and thinkers from across the political spectrum about how the end of Roe would change American politics. They offered a wide array of compelling prognostications — a rivening of red and blue states, alarming health outcomes, a reshuffling of policy priorities for both Republicans and Democrats. Now that it’s been a year, we’ve gone back to those experts to find out what’s surprised them most about the impact of Dobbs — and how the issue of abortion will factor in the coming presidential campaign. Their answers provide eye-opening insights into perhaps the most divisive political issue of our time: “Despite having decades to think about a post-Roe world, pro-life Republicans splintered.” “For Black women and other women of color — who already endure greater burdens in our healthcare system — these developments are disastrous.” “Legally and politically, one could be forgiven for forgetting that Dobbs was supposed to ‘change everything.’” “The results of the federal midterm elections were a ringing repudiation of the court’s activism.” “I have been disappointed that the rollback of abortion rights in red states — like mine, Texas — hasn’t been met with more robust financial support and protection for mothers and children.” Read the story.
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| “Anyone who knows Dan knows that he would rather play golf than have sex any day.” Can you guess who said this about Dan Quayle in 1981? Scroll to the bottom for the answer.**
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Megan Moreno, a patient at the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead, Minn., listens as a doctor prepares her for an abortion procedure. | Photo by Jenn Ackerman for POLITICO | The Abortion Divide in Photos … Last year, as North Dakota moved to ban abortion, the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo — the only abortion provider in the state — prepared to pack up and move across the Minnesota state line, where abortion is still illegal. Now, just minutes away from its old location, the clinic operates in a different legal world, drawing patients from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Nebraska. To get an up-close glimpse at how America’s patchwork of conflicting state laws impacts both providers and patients, photographer Jenn Ackerman went to the clinic to follow a woman through her abortion. “I feel like women should have the right to have an abortion,” the woman told Myah Ward. “I want women out here to feel safe, and not harassed.”
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| |  Neighbors discuss Joe Biden's re-election chances during a backyard barbecue at the home of Brooke O’ Harra and Sharon Hayes in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — a Biden stronghold — on Sunday, June 11, 2023. | Photos by Michelle Gustafson for POLITICO | What’s Bothering Biden’s Base? … If there’s any city in the country that loves Joe Biden, it’s Philadelphia — particularly the West Philadelphia neighborhood where a dance party celebrating his 2020 win went viral. But even among the most die-hard fans of the homestate hero, anxieties about Republican attacks on Biden’s age, sagging poll numbers, declining voter turnout and general lack of enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris have started to creep in. So Matt Taylor went to Philadelphia to find out why Biden’s block isn’t exactly dancing anymore.
| | | |  | Hunter Biden reached an agreement this week with the Justice Department to resolve a long-running federal criminal investigation by pleading guilty to a couple of misdemeanor tax charges. Here’s how to sound like you know what this is all about when it comes up this weekend. (From Ankush Khardori) — Be sure to note — perhaps with a knowing sigh — that this outcome was not surprising at all. It’s rare for the sort of conduct at issue to lead to felony convictions under federal law. — Feel free to roll your eyes if someone claims that this is a “sweetheart deal” that represents a “two-tier” system of justice. The U.S. attorney handling the case was appointed by Donald Trump and stayed on after Joe Biden’s election to finish the investigation. — If you happen to be talking to a Hunter hater, tell them not to get their hopes up simply because prosecutors said that “[t]he investigation is ongoing.” This could mean many different things (including that the government is still looking at other possible defendants), but by all outward appearances, the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter’s conduct is over. — Despite the lack of evidence that the Justice Department missed serious criminal conduct, Republicans will likely continue their meandering inquiry into Hunter’s business dealings. After all, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has some experience with congressional investigations that are designed to hurt the opposing party’s presidential candidate.
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| |  Hubert Humphrey became a champion of civil rights following the 10 months he lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and studied at LSU. | LSU Gumbo | Hubert Humphrey’s Civil Rights Awakening … In 1948, Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, who would go on to become vice president in the Lyndon Johnson administration, gave a landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention, pushing the party to fully embrace a civil rights platform — which he later saw realized as a senator, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — and arguably changed the party into the one we know today. But how exactly Humphrey — a white man who spent most of his early life in Minnesota and South Dakota, at a far remove from Southern segregation — came to understand the grave necessity of racial justice is an under-appreciated part of his legacy. It was his 10 months in graduate school at Louisiana State University — where he saw the devastation of segregation and oppression up close and studied with a visionary anti-Nazi professor who had fled Germany — that set him on the path toward his most enduring contributions to American life, writes Samuel G. Freedman, author of the upcoming biography, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.
| | | **Who Dissed answer: That would be Marilyn Quayle, the future vice president’s own wife, responding to a story about her husband going on a golf outing that included a female lobbyist who had posed for Playboy. | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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