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…

SCOTUSBlog: “The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two Republican legislators in North Carolina can join a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the state’s voter-identification law. Two lower courts had rejected the legislators’ request, reasoning that the state’s Democratic attorney general and the board of elections were already defending the law, but the justices…

WUNC: “”We want to have healthy fisheries in North Carolina. Our mission is to help build a sustainable growing fish population for generations,” said David Sneed, executive director of the Coastal Conservation Association of North Carolina. “(To start), you have to have a healthy habitat for the fish to grow and reproduce in. That’s what these artificial…

North State Journal: “Andrew Gillum, the 2018 Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has been indicted on 21 federal charges including conspiracy and wire fraud for funneling donations through third parties back to himself for personal use, prosecutors said Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida said Gillum, 42, is also charged with…

ABC News: “Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed two abortion bills into law Tuesday that ban most abortions in the state and criminalize providers who perform the procedure. One of the bills strengthens a 2006 trigger law on the books in Louisiana that would go into effect if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, which it appears…

AP: “Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was arrested Friday night for allegedly driving under the influence after leaving a music festival in the state. Hargett, a Republican, was booked into the Coffee County Jail shortly after midnight Saturday and released a few hours later, according to jail records. Hargett’s office released a statement on…

WaPo: “Few ideas are more deeply ingrained in the American psyche than the power of the gun. The gun is alpha and omega; it puts dramas in motion by empowering a bad guy, then wraps them up in the hands of a good guy. If a gun creates a problem, the solution is another gun…