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January 7, 2021 08:03:02 am
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an order on Tuesday blocking Arkansas laws that ban abortions after 18 weeks of pregnancy and abortions due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Little Rock Family Planning Services sued the state in 2019. The clinic challenged the abortion restrictions in Act 493, which banned abortions after 18 weeks, and in Act 619, which banned abortions on the basis of a Down syndrome diagnosis. The clinic argued that the restrictions were unconstitutional based on Supreme Court precedent. The Supreme Court held in Planned Parenthood v. Casey that there cannot be restrictions on abortion until a fetus is viable, which is typically at 24 weeks.
Encouraged by Trump, losers storm Capitol in Washington and disrupt counting of.
Encouraged by Trump, losers storm Capitol in Washington and disrupt counting of Electoral College vote. Armed men patrolling in Little Rock, too
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Injured police officer evacuated after being attacked by Trump supporters: pic.twitter.com/OKEVDtGarb
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Violence broke out as dead-end Trumpers marched in Washington today and stormed the nation’s capitol. I expect Sen. Tom Cotton to call any minute now for federal troops to take no quarter to stop the rioting.
Hundreds stormed barricades around the nation’s Capitol and reached the steps, where Congress was debating the effort by Trumpers to force Congress to reject the Electoral College votes. It won’t happen in the end, but it will take hours before the stunt by foes of democracy is over.
January 7, 20217:36 am
Congress early today completed action on certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the Electoral College, but only after assaults on democracy by Republicans objecting to votes in two states. The foes of the democratic process included 138 members of the House, among them
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford.
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By the end of the day only a single member of the Arkansas congressional delegation had included Donald Trump’s failure in otherwise anodyne remarks condemning the mob violence at the Capitol. It was, of all people,
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, right for once.
Anybody who failed to include Trump in their statements (or in newspaper headlines about the day of infamy, as below) failed to lay blame where it belonged or to tell the whole story.