January 21, 2025

Members of Congress unveil Harriet Tubman coin collection

First Thing: Arizona Republicans again block effort to repeal near-total abortion ban

Only 28% of Arizona voters approve of the 1864 law.

US employers must accommodate abortions, birth control, agency says

Boeing’s problems were as bad as you thought

Experts and whistleblowers testified before Congress today. The upshot? “It was all about money.”

The MAGA Right is Flirting With Political Violence

Donald Trump and the policies of personal pique

Complaint Asks the FBI to Probe Trump Claims on a $50 Million Loan

The complaint comes after The Daily Beast first reported in January that the court-appointed special monitor in Trump’s New York business fraud case had buried a bombshell claim in a footnote to a status report: A mysterious $50 million loan, which Trump reported owing to one of his own LLCs, “never existed.”

Legal experts previously told The Daily Beast that the revelation suggests the arrangement may have allowed Trump to evade taxes on tens of millions of dollars in income.

Somebody had a very addled morning

Ketanji Brown Jackson Rails Against Supreme Court’s Over Use Of Shadow Docket

The Court should use some restraint with its shadow docket power.

Abortion Every Day

A strategy document obtained by NBC News shows that Arizona Republicans are considering proposing a ballot measure to protect abortion rights through 15-weeks—a way to undercut an existing abortion rights measure that would enshrine abortion rights through ‘viability.’

The document lays out how Republicans in the state need to change the narrative and present voters with something other than Arizona for Abortion Access’ ballot measure. That’s because they know that when voters are given a choice between an abortion ban and abortion rights, they’re going to choose abortion rights every time. They figure if they can trick voters into thinking their ballot measure is a pro-choice one, they’ll be golden. (Something similar is going down in Nebraska, as I’ll outline later in the newsletter.)

As you can imagine, Republicans don’t actually want to protect abortion rights. So their plan is to “constitutionalize existing [anti-abortion] laws” in order to make that 15-week protection impossible to use. In other words, it’s a bunch of bullshit.

That said, it’s well-packaged bullshit. You’re not going to believe the potential names they’re throwing around for this fake-out ballot measure: “Protecting Pregnant Women and Safe Abortions Act,” the “Arizona Abortion and Reproductive Care Act” and the “Arizona Abortion Protection Act.”

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