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- Moms for Liberty founders unable to answer the most basic questions about their constant “grooming” claims against libraries and public schools on 60 Minutes

BREAKING: A bunch of self-described “Constitutional Originalists” decided they don’t care about the Fourteenth Amendment. 
 

• On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Colorado State Supreme Court decision to disqualify disgraced former president Donald Trump from the state’s primary under the clause of the 14th Amendment that bars anyone who participated in an insurrection from running for office. The six conservative justices (half of whom were appointed by Trump, but surely that’s no conflict of interest) could have left it at that and said, “hey we gave our guy a win, no need to do anything crazy.” But naturally, they couldn’t help themselves. 
   

• Five of them (including Chief Justice John Roberts!) went further and declared that congress must enforce the insurrection clause. So much for “states’ rights” amiright folks? The three liberal justices objected to this strenuously, and conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett objected more temperately. But all of the four indicated that the majority should not have gone so far. The liberal justices agreed that allowing Colorado to disqualify Trump would lead to “chaos,” but disagreed that congress alone should be tasked with enforcing the 14th Amendment. 
   

• So yeah: a bunch of “states’ rights” conservatives said: “Well… not in this case!,” and then punted enforcement of the Constitution to Congress. Conservative legal scholars William Bauder and Michael Stokes Paulsen even weighed in last year and concluded that through the “originalist” prism of interpretation (which most of the conservative justices claim to follow) Donald Trump would be disqualified from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. As a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling, Maine’s Secretary of State withdrew her determination that Trump should be blocked from the state’s ballot.

Hopes of blunting Trump’s campaign of terror through the courts seem to be crumbling.
 

• In direct response to the Supreme Court declaring that only Congress can enforce the 14th Amendment, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, announced he is preparing legislation that will do just that. Raskin plans to revisit the legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) in 2022 to create a pathway for the Justice Department to sue to keep candidates off the ballot under the 14th Amendment in light of Monday’s decision.
   

• Such legislation would almost certainly be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled House, as even more “moderate” Republicans in swing districts praised the Supreme Court’s ruling. For his part, President Biden’s deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said “We don’t really care,” about the decision, which may be an appropriate response. He continued: “It’s not been the way we’ve been planning to beat Donald Trump. Our focus since day one of launching this campaign has been to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box.”

If nothing else, the Supreme Court’s decision proves it can act quickly to resolve a dispute of national importance when the conservative justices feel like it!

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday and it may mark Nikki Haley’s last chance for a shot at the White House. Can she defy all odds, casino bets, and oujia board predictions? Listen to Pod Save America for a deeper analysis on the results and make sure to subscribe on Amazon Music so you never miss an episode!

This fall, the nation’s most pivotal and most expensive gubernatorial race of the year will be hosted in North Carolina. All eyes are on current primary front runners Attorney General Josh Stein (D-NC) and Lt. Gov Mark Robinson (R-NC) who are expected to advance to the general election in November to replace Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), who has reached his term limit. Republicans have an iron grip on the state legislature, meaning this is their opportunity to win a trifecta and pursue the kind of truly horrific policies that, so far, Gov. Cooper has been able to veto. North Carolina is one of two battleground states with a gubernatorial election this year (the other is New Hampshire). But North Carolina is expected to receive the most attention from national party figures and organizers.

North Carolina’s population dwarfs New Hampshire’s, and voters in the latter state vote for governor every two years as opposed to four. Republicans are planning to tie Stein to President Biden—whose approval ratings are in the gutter in the Tar Heel State—while Democrats will paint Robinson as an extremist on abortion, education, and LGBTQ issues using the seemingly-innumerable batshit public statements he’s made on the issues over the years. In the same way that many blue New England states often elect Republican governors, North Carolina regularly elects Democrats to the Governor’s mansion while rejecting Democratic presidential candidates. If you're in North Carolina and want to get plugged in to volunteer in this massively-consequential race, head over to Vote Save America. 

Tomorrow is Super Tuesday! Get out and vote if you live in one of the 15 states up for grabs tomorrow. In less good (but entirely predictable) news, Trump is likely to win all 169 GOP delegates in California. 

A team of United Nations experts found “reasonable grounds to believe” that people were sexually assaulted at “multiple locations” during the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack, including at the Nova Music Festival and surrounding areas. The team estimated that the scope of the sexual violence that occurred that day will not be known for years. The report also determined that at least two alleged instances of sexual violence reported in the media were unfounded, including the “graphically publicized case of a pregnant woman whose womb had repeatedly been torn open.”

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued an order on Monday temporarily blocking Texas’ immigration law—the one giving broad powers to any Texas police officer to arrest people who are suspected of entering the country illegally—from going into effect until next week until the Court decides next steps. Earlier in the day, the Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court to intervene. 

State Attorney General Dave Yost (R-OH) is trying to thwart the proposed Ohio Voters Bill of Rights that was submitted as a ballot initiative that would amend the state constitution last year. A Republican trying to undermine voting rights??? Well now we’ve seen it all. 

A new Wall Street Journal poll found that 42 percent of American voters think Israel has gone too far in its response to the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack. 60 percent of voters disapprove of Biden’s handling of the war. Not great!

The Wisconsin state Supreme Court rejected a request on Friday to reconsider the state’s congressional map ahead of the next election, which means the current map will remain in place for 2024. 

Trump recently declared he would defund any public school that required vaccinations while at a campaign stop in Virginia, which has been ground-zero for “parental rights” as a mobilizing right-wing issue. Like most states, Virginia requires basic childhood vaccinations (MMR, chicken pox, polio, etc.) so he effectively threatened to defund every public school. 

Republican state senators in Georgia passed a bill on Thursday that would force state libraries to cut ties with the American Library Association, in part because of the group’s progressive (read: just not regressive) policies, and the fact that the ALA’s president is a lesbian. “Who’s Afraid of a Lesbian Librarian?” coming to theaters this fall. 

BBC Panorama discovered that Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of Black voters with Trump in order to encourage Black people to vote Republican in the fall. “So few Black people vote for us we had to invent them with AI” is definitely a new level of pathetic for Republicans.

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In a huge win for reproductive rights, the first contraceptive pill available without a prescription in the United States, Opill, will hit shelves later this month. The drug has been around for decades, but the manufacturer has spent nine years trying to make it available over the counter. 

French lawmakers overwhelmingly approved on Monday a bill that will make abortion a constitutional right for all citizens. Imagine such a thing! “American influence” is passing laws so draconian that other countries change their most foundational documents out of fear that the same thing could happen in their country. USA! USA!

After getting blowback from Biden’s Justice Department and a federal judge, JetBlue called off its merger with Spirit Airlines. Crazy what happens when a government actually enforces antitrust law! 

Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) announced that her administration will erase medical debt for 1 million Arizonans using $30 million in Covid relief funds to buy around $2 billion in medical debt. Still not sure how that works but we can all agree that money is fake and medical debt should never exist!