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Succeeded. this friday a court canceled a hearing on the kiegsality of the law. a cancellation of that hearing would effectively allow the law to take effect tonight at midnight, september 1st. this aggressive intervention by the fifth circuit court of appeals, quote, forced abortion providers to do what almost seems unthinkable. they were forced to ask the u.s. supreme court for an injunction in an emergency filing. yes, the same supreme court that agreed to hear a direct challenge to roe v. wade only a few months ago. dahlia's piece explaining this at slate.com today is headlined "the suprem...

Seems unthinkable. they were forced to ask the u.s. supreme court for an injunction in an emergency filing. yes, the same supreme court that agreed to hear a direct challenge to roe v. wade only a few months ago. dahlia's piece explaining this at slate.com today is headlined "the supreme court has until midnight to decide the fate of roe v. wade," and she's right. and it's not like the supreme court is expected to issue a ruling at midnight that says, we hereby overturn roe v. wade. i'm sure they'd be shy about that. they're going to wait until the mississippi case to do that. instead, they're...

Legal fees for their attorneys. if a doctor or clinic employee does is the entity they get, sued the state will then get to use that as a pretext, to immediately shut that clinic down. what texas has devised, is it a bizarre dystopian vigilante system, for hunting women in texas, who seek abortions. a vigilante system, to effectively ban abortion, and shut down all abortion providers in the state, not to mention terrorizing women who are seeking the procedure. but they're using not the direct power of the state, instead, anti abortion activist as the vigilantes, in the state court system and t...

Of yesterday. but apparently it did not take brooks by surprise, and that's how we know. that congressman brooks tonight tells a reporter, jim newell at slate.com, that he was wearing body armor when he gave a speech on that morning on january six. quote, because of a tip he'd received about potential violence, brooks had been wearing body armor at the same very ellipse speech in which he encouraged rally and attendees to start taking down names and kicking butz. quote, that's why was wearing that nice little wind breaker, brooks told me with a grin, to cover up the body armor, he didn't say w...

This is the guy that republicans tried to install on the house-select committee to investigate the insurrection. liz cheney. one of the republican members of that committee said she agreed with speaker nancy pelosi's decision not to let jim jordan on the panel because they will, likely, have to subpoena him as a witness. maybe, they should think about subpoenaing mo brooks, too. mo brooks, who spearheaded weeks of planning to overturn the election on january 6th. who says his man the barricade speech that morning was all part of his preparation for that day's vote. i mean, the violence that da...