7. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has fired over 60 employees as part of an organizational restructuring, a move criticized by the SPLC Union, which highlighted the organization’s significant financial reserves. The SPLC stated the layoffs are necessary to align its work with programmatic priorities, amidst ongoing internal turmoil following leadership changes and workplace practice reviews since 2019.
6. U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y) has joined Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-Minn.) in calling on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pardon former President Donald Trump following his recent conviction, arguing that the case “undermines the impartiality and credibility of our once venerable justice system.” Tenney also urged Hochul to remove Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, asserting that Bragg’s actions have been politically motivated and have compromised the integrity of the legal system.
5. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and five Republican colleagues have vowed to block the fast-tracking of Biden administration judicial or U.S. Attorney appointees until Election Day, in response to Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records. In a joint letter, the senators oppose nominees who supported the Trump prosecutions or related organizations, Tuberville and others have also pledged to block any Democratic priority or Biden nominee on the Senate floor.
4. Senate Democrats are claiming Republicans’ are against federal protections for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other fertility treatments, despite the fact that the U.S. Senate Democrats killed a bill to protect IVF offered by U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) because it didn’t go far enough. Britt believes that Democrats voted against this bill and offered a bill that can not pass because they fear “they would lose a key scare tactic” and all of this is happening as Democrats are basing their get out the votes efforts on beer and birth control.
3. Former President Donald Trump met Republicans on Capitol Hill to rally the troops before the 2024 campaign season heats up by talking about his legal issues, hot political topics like abortion and taxes, some inside baseball party squabbles, and Trump’s continued sway within the GOP. So, of course, the media is highlighting and misleading the public on what they think is vicious and unfair insult to a swing state city when he referred to Milwaukee, a city where TV stations have a daily shooting update, as a “horrible city.”
2. The non-stop push for failed ideas from state media in Alabama continues, Medicaid, gambling, and now the push for new online sales taxes is back after going nowhere in the Alabama Legislature last session. The bill, according to Rep. Chris England (D-Tuscaloosa), aimed to align online and in-store tax rates but it is a revenue generating tax hike that favors larger cities.
1. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging the FDA’s regulation of the abortion pill mifepristone, allowing the pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor’s visit. The ruling, authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, determined that the doctors and anti-abortion groups did not have standing to sue, this decision marks a significant setback for the anti-abortion movement and maintains access to mifepristone under current FDA regulations.
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