Month: June 2022

USA Today: “The death toll after an abandoned tractor-trailer was found in San Antonio continued to grow Wednesday, reaching 53 people in what officials are calling likely the deadliest smuggling incident in U.S. history.  Of the 53 people who died, 40 were identified as male and 13 as female, according to the Bexar County Public Information Office. Most…

WaPo: “Brooke Alexander turned off her breast pump at 6:04 p.m. and brought two fresh bottles of milk over to the bed, where her 3-month-old twins lay flat on their backs, red-faced and crying. Running on four hours of sleep, the 18-year-old tried to feed both babies at once, holding Kendall in her arms while…

NBC News: “Embattled Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., was defeated by Mike Ezell in a runoff in the state’s Gulf Coast-based 4th Congressional District on Tuesday, NBC News projects. Palazzo, a six-term incumbent who is a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, faces a House ethics investigation into potential misuse of campaign funds. Ezell, a longtime local sheriff…

Political Wire: “Rudy Giuliani “has emerged as a central figure in a Georgia criminal investigation of efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his election loss in the state, with prosecutors questioning witnesses last week before a special grand jury about Mr. Giuliani’s appearances before state legislative panels after the 2020 vote,“ the New…

NY Times: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated a Republican-drawn congressional map in Louisiana that a federal judge had said diluted the power of Black voters. The court’s three liberal members dissented. The Supreme Court’s brief order, which included no reasoning, blocked the judge’s ruling and granted a petition seeking review in the case. The justices will,…

Slate: “That queer agitator, that provocateur, was none other than New Orleans’ “political animal” Stewart Butler. Perhaps the most important person in the history of queer Louisiana politics never held elected office. He was an old, bald, gay, white hippie whose friends had burned to death, who wore dashiki hats and was once arrested at…

Slate: “How did Mississippi go from resoundingly voting down a “fetal personhood” amendment in 2011 to being the state that brought down Roe v. Wade? Outsiders have long viewed the state as a potential fulcrum to overturn abortion laws in America, to the point where three different legislators introduced three identical bills to ban abortion 15…

Political Wire: “A Texas abortion clinic said they had to turn away people seeking abortions away just minutes after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, The 19th reports. The staff described people screaming, crying, and begging for help after being denied abortions.”

North State Journal: “North Carolina House Republicans pitched a plan Thursday that could authorize expanding Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of additional low-income adults, which their leader argued would bring more certainty to ensuring rural hospitals and substance abusers get help. The legislation is being promoted by Speaker Tim Moore, who said it was a…

Reckon South: “On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ruling the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion. The court’s 6-3 decision in the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturns the federally protected right to an abortion, which stood for nearly 50 years following the Roe decision. The new…