“If the Congress won’t act, and if somebody else won’t act, then veterans ourselves will stand up and say, ‘fine, we will act, we will fight for our country and for our people the way that we have always done,’” Lindsay Church of Minority Veterans of America, the petitioner in the suit, told me.

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

❗SCOOP: The first lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abortion ban for veterans & their dependents was just filed. Minority Veterans of America says one of its members w/ chronic health issues + a history of pregnancy complications is currently being impacted. More from me at @ms.now:

NEW: Minority Veterans of America, repped by @nwlc.org and @democracyforward.org, is suing the Trump administration over its ban on abortion care and counseling at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Here's the complaint:

NEW: On behalf of Minority Veterans of America & their members, we joined @democracyforward.org in suing the Trump administration over their cruel, extreme abortion ban for veterans.

Veterans group sues Trump administration over VA abortion ban

Minority Veterans of America is bringing the lawsuit on behalf of its members, including one who is pregnant and unable to access abortion care.

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❗SCOOP: The first lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abortion ban for veterans & their dependents was just filed. Minority Veterans of America says one of its members w/ chronic health issues + a history of pregnancy complications is currently being impacted. More from me at @ms.now:

Veterans group sues Trump administration over VA abortion ban

Minority Veterans of America is bringing the lawsuit on behalf of its members, including one who is pregnant and unable to access abortion care.

ms.now

NEW: 113 Republican members of Congress asked the Supreme Court to end telehealth prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone. They say the FDA rule change was improper *and* that it violates the federal Comstock Act www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Death, taxes, and the Supreme Court desperately trying to undo the progress of reconstruction and the civil rights movement.

Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Well, the Reconstruction Amendments were nice while they lasted.

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:

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Table setting: More than 100 studies have found mifepristone is safe and effective. It's safer than continuing a pregnancy. The only way to claim it's unsafe is if you believe abortion is murder, which is what we're going to hear today.

Are Abortion Pills Safe? Here’s the Evidence. (Published 2023)

The Times reviewed 101 studies of medication abortion, spanning continents and decades. All concluded that the pills are a safe method for terminating a pregnancy.

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Brace for nonsense: there’s a Senate hearing today that will baselessly question the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone. Expect Josh Hawley to be on his worst behavior www.youtube.com/live/M3PNge7... www.autonomynews.co/wyoming-abor... @autonomynews.co

I’m so glad to see this paper — my first solo-authored one and second from my dissertation — finally published! If you’ve heard me talk about my research in the last couple of years, you know this is the story that started it all for me, and I’m so happy to finally have it out there in the world.

My and @paytongannon.bsky.social 's latest publication on abortion access in Italy came out last week as part of the special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies! This article grew out of our conversations about the interviews we were each conducting in different regions of Italy. 1/

A special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on reproductive rights in developed democracies has been published. It has been a pleasure to work with all the authors and my co-editors @dmpullan.bsky.social and @gmripamonti.bsky.social Read it here: siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/idps

So happy to see this special issue of Interdisciplinary Political Studies on Steps Forward and Backward on Abortion Rights in Advanced Democracies published today, coedited with @gmripamonti.bsky.social and @paytongannon.bsky.social! gendersky reprosky polisky

The 26th Annual Review of Gender and the Law is now in print. It has been a joy to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for the last year. I am so grateful to the entire staff of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law for their hard work. Check it out here: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨 NEW: House passes sprawling domestic policy bill, sending it to Trump's desk Final House vote is 218-214, with TWO Rs voting no (Massie & Fitzpatrick). Senate passed it 51-50. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The Supreme Court is as powerful as it is in large part because of a reputation that it earned through fitfully at best furthering racial justice. It has diminished that reputational capital for more than a century. We should in fact respect it less because of that.

Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

🎉 Congratulations to @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social who made the Loop Best Blog 2024 shortlist for their article 'Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives'. #RoeVWade ➡️ ow.ly/2k5F50W3jR9

Emergency room abortions in the US: doctors’ objections trump patients’ lives

It is now two years since the fall of Roe v. Wade. How has this affected healthcare for pregnant Americans? Payton Gannon and Danielle Pullan explain the most recent Supreme Court cases, and contextua...

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Honored to have been considered for this prize for my work with @paytongannon.bsky.social explaining US court decisions on abortion post-Dobbs! Highly recommend publishing quick, contemporary pieces with @ecprtheloop.bsky.social — always a great experience and great editorial team!

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · last yr.

🏆 Last week we awarded our annual £500 prize for the best Loop blog piece in the previous calendar year, as judged by an independent jury. 📝 Here, Managing Editor Kate Hawkins presents the longlisted pieces — and reveals the very special winner. ➡️ ow.ly/mii350W8Q0e

A little life update: I graduated law school and will join the National Women's Law Center in the fall to continue working on repro rights. I will also continue to research abortion law and policy. On that note, I published a new article on Muller v. Oregon: www.law.georgetown.edu/gender-journ...

Abortion access works in political-geographic systems: when there is regional regulation, you’ll end up with some sanctuaries, some islands, and some deserts of access — in the US, in Italy, and beyond. So glad my oldest paper with @paytongannon.bsky.social has finally made it online!

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients. New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Sanctuaries, Islands, and Deserts: @paytongannon.bsky.social and @dmpullan.bsky.social propose a typology of regionalized abortion policy. Comparing the US and Italy, they analyze the impact of regional abortion access on abortion providers and patients. New MPIfG Discussion Paper: s.gwdg.de/p7Ps65

Every DC group chat is currently being renamed to "Houthis PC Small Group'

Shane Harris@shaneharris.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The history here is instructive: before Roe, prosecutions tended to focus on non-physicians, and disproportionately on midwives, especially those who weren't white. We see the same now--and for strategic reasons. This isn't the first prosecution Paxton could bring but the one his office chose.

David S. Cohen@dsc250.bsky.social · 2y ago

I believe this is the first post-Dobbs arrest of someone allegedly providing abortions.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

This report is damning and terrifying. Abortion saves lives.

Cassandra Jaramillo@cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · 2y ago

New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...