as trump s lawyers are arguing? or is that claim not just constitutionally wrong, but also say license for future presidents to commit crimes while in office, as the justice department argues? and on the eve of a hearing on the question of whether trump can be prosecuted for his actions while in office, we are learning incredible new details about what donald trump said on january 6 and what h did and did not do. thanks t testimony, to the special l closest aides, the deputy chief of staff dan scavino. from that reporting, quote, sources say scavino told smith s investigators as the violence began to escalate that day, trump was just not interested in doing more to stop it sources also say that the former trump aidk luna told federal investigators that when trump wa informed that then-vice president mike pence had to be ush rushed to a secure location, trump responded so what. luna saw an unexpected willingness by trump to let potential harm come to a long time loyalist. and
but it s worth just, sort of, going back to brass tacks, i think, for a second. in a two-party system, each party is important, right? in a two-party system, the relative strength, the relative skill, the organizational capacity, the financial status, the size, the health and capacity of each party is at least a little bit important in every single state in the country. even in states that are dominated by one party or the other, the health and the capacity of each party matters. it s particularly crucial, of course, in swing states, though, where one party doesn t dominate and the places it s likely to be a close race between the republican nominee and the democratic nominee and the general election this fall. it is particularly important how healthy the state parties are on both sides.e and the battleground states, the swing states these days, it s at familiar list. states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, a few others. given all that, though, here s today s po
Texas has come under heavy scrutiny in recent months over their laws protecting preborn children from abortion, with state legislators accused of putting women’s lives at risk, all because women cannot electively kill their preborn children. Texas laws do allow an abortion if the mother “has a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places [her] at risk of death or poses a substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.” Yet this is deemed to be cruel and insufficient to safeguard women’s health so much so that an article in the New Yorker even falsely blamed the state’s laws for the tragic death of a pregnant young woman.
repealing child labor laws. who doesn t think there isn t anything wrong with america that couldn t be fixed by chaining more children to the looms? the biden campaign, i m sure, would love to be running on issues like that. on the issue of abortion rights, as of tonight, we are seeing the first news reporting from the new yorker about the first american woman who may have died in texas because of the om republicans abortion ban there. her name was yeni glick. she was married. it was a high-risk pregnancy. four outside experts have concluded that when the life-threatening complications started in her high-risk pregnancy, had she been offered an abortion, it, quote, probably would have saved her life. she died. the united states supreme court, dominated by republican appointees, has just allowed republican controlled idaho state government to reinstate its new abortion ban, which threatens doctors with five years in prison if they perform an abortion in the case of a medical emergenc
life really for many in many cases. what it is about is controlling women. it s about controlling women and it s about treating women as less than equal and essentially just baby-making machines. and i believe that we are worth more than that, that our lives are worth saving and that we have a right to make medical decisions about our own bodies with our providers. remember that time that margaret atwood wrote a novel about that and everybody said that s not going to happen. mini, to mara s point that this is not theoretical, the yorker published a story of a woman named yeni glick who was never offered an abortion despite significant hlt risks to carrying a pregnancy to term. i going to read you a little bit fm this. new yorker asked four outside experts to review yeni s medical file which her mother obtained. all four said that yeni s death was preventab a a therapeutic abortion if offed and accepted would probably have saved her life. joanne stone, the chair of the ob-gyn depa