Washington’s most popular parlor game, after a round of Kamala Harris is wrong no matter what she does, is guessing What in the world is Joe Manchin up to? Manchin is now the man of the moment, with the fate of the Democratic agenda in his hands in a 50-50 Senate. He’s going about it in his wide-eyed, can’t-we-all-get-along way that his colleagues might find grating if it weren’t so sincere. Senators in his party who agree with him from afar on.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court, in a majority opinion by Justice Blackmun, declares unconstitutional the informed-consent (and various other) provisions of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act of 1982.