Amanda Becker, Washington correspondent for The 19th, explains what you need to know about abortion politics in 2024: The GOP’s “extreme policies” have not changed.
Arizona for Abortion Access announced last week that they had enough signatures to put their amendment on the ballot. "And so you know, there are opportunities for voters to correct this and you've seen every state since Dobbs that when voters have an opportunity to weigh in they vote in ...
Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, the new chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and a military veteran, told the AP that the Trump administration had intentionally paused the planned U.S. arrival of more than 1,600 Afghans already cleared for resettlement in...
On abortion, Trump continued his inconsistencies and said he would “probably” not move to restrict access to the abortion pills that now account for a majority of pregnancy terminations, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights. But pressed on whether he would commit...
“I think the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” Kagan said at one point. “In other words, this question of whether a former president is disqualified for insurrection,” she continued. “It sounds awful...
The memo also highlights races that will decide if Democratic majorities to protect abortion access are formed; races where Democrats are running against “Republican candidates who who supported Trump’s lies in the lead up to the January...
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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla.Evan Vucci/AP It won't be easy. Past emulators have failed. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential bid flamed ...
The economy’s critical role in offsetting doubts on other fronts about Trump is most apparent when looking at the role of abortion in the election. In 2022,as I wrote at the time, abortion did not overcome the Republican tilt of voters in red states such as Florida and Texas, but did ...
“I think you have to do it,” he said. He suggested he would try to use executive action to end “birthright” citizenship under which people born in the U.S. are considered citizens — although such protections are spelled out in the Constitution. ...