A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
The Supreme Court is about to dismantle Roe v. Wade, per an unprecedented leak of a majority opinion draft penned by Justice Samuel Alito in the Mississippi abortion case. According to Politico, which first reported on the February draft, the opinion was written after Alito and fellow Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch voted in conference.
State by state there are going to be attempts to peel back Obergefell, Lawrence and Griswold. Eventually, as with Roe, future SCOTUS decisions will give the American Taliban what they want. The war on LGBTQ and contraceptives is now on, in earnest.
People blaming Democrats for not governing by decree are morons.
A large plurality (40%-45%) of women who vote select the GOP candidate in every election, and a third never vote at all. We can expect nothing other than what we’re about to get with numbers like those.
Hillary Clinton told us all of this was in the balance and women voters just shrugged. Am I supposed to feel bad, or surprised?
No reason to storm the Court. We do, however, need to storm the ballot boxes in elections. This is it everyone, get out and vote. The choice is stark between Democrats and Republicans. Vote.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls everywhere, there are midterm elections on the calendar. Get off you asses and let the rethugs know how you feel about abortion rights.
That better happen. Every American on this comment board, everyone that can stand and walk, every damn stupid Dem that didn’t vote back in 2016 or worse.