The United States Senate leaped to unanimous action after the leak of Alito's draft opinion erasing federal abortion rights. Not to protect those rights, mind you, or to do anything else to begin to repair a Supreme Court that has been so stacked with far-right ideologues that it no longer bears any resemblance to the social fabric of the nation itself; the Senate instead swiftly acted to allow Supreme Court justices to use court officers to protect their families as well.
Family planning clinics, however, continue to receive no such security.
In other news, Sen. Susan Collins gave America a taste of where the U.S. Senate draws the line on free speech when she called the cops to report ... sidewalk chalk art outside her house. Meanwhile, her Republican allies are still pushing forward; gender-affirming health care is now illegal in Alabama, while Texas' new laws have effectively criminalized having a miscarriage. And things are still about to get much, much worse if Collins’ Senate colleagues have anything to do with it:
Well, that one’s going to go into the yikes hall of fame. And into Sam Alito’s next draft opinion, no doubt.
Some of the goings-on in today’s busy news day:
In Ukraine: