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"AOC wonders if pro-life Democrats should continue to serve: 'We really need to reassess'"


Cortney O'Brien

26 JUNE 2022

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., suggested in an Instagram video Saturday night that pro-life Democrats should no longer serve in the wake of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The conservative-leaning court overturned the landmark 1973 abortion ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, which centered on a Mississippi law that banned abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, on Friday.

"We end this opinion where we began."

"Abortion presents a profound moral question."

"The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion."

"Roe and Casey arrogated that authority."

"We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court's opinion.

AOC sounded off on the Supreme Court ruling by listing several "action items" on Instagram, including what to do with pro-life Democrats.

"Also, if you live in a blue area, when people say ‘go vote,’ that should include primary elections too," she told her followers.

"Because, the thing that a lot of people don't like to talk about, is the fact that not every Democrat is pro-choice."

"Okay?"

"So, the ones that aren't, we really need to reassess if it's appropriate for them to continue to serve in 2022 because people should have the right to control their own body."


"This is pretty basic."

The congresswoman said that her guidance should be applied to elections at the municipal, state and federal levels.

Ocasio-Cortez noted that goes for even deep blue states like New York, where some of the veteran politicians serving aid corporations "that finance anti-choice Republicans."

Several other Democrats and liberal media figures have sounded off on the abortion ruling in the past few days, with Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison calling the decision "illegitimate."

"It isn’t up to you, this illegitimate court, or a bunch of state elected officials to decide what happens to a woman’s body… that choice belongs to a woman and no one else!"

"Period!!!" the DNC chairman said.


President Biden responded to the abortion ruling, saying the Court ended what he claimed "was a correct decision," and that it "expressly took away a constitutional right from the American people that it had already recognized."

Pro-life pregnancy centers have also been vandalized in the days following the ruling.

The group "Jane’s Revenge" claimed responsibility for a handful of the attacks and published a letter this month declaring "open season" on crisis pregnancy facilities.

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"Violent Portland Pro-Abortion Protesters Destroy, Vandalize Property"


Caroline Downey

26 JUNE 2022

Pro-abortion protesters in Portland, Oregon charged through the city Saturday night, damaging and vandalizing property following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade.

A crowd of about 60 black-clad marchers stormed downtown Portland, the Hollywood district specifically, “breaking windows and scrawling graffiti,” a Portland police report notes.


“Officers were monitoring the crowd, but did not have resources to intervene in the moment,” it said.

Damage inflicted by the rioters included broken windows on several banks and coffee shops.

Protesters also vandalized a pregnancy resource facility, the Mother and Child Education Center, and broke the windows of and spray-painted a van owned by Portland Public Schools.

“If abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either,” a flier advertising the march​ read, Oregonlive​ reported.

This slogan has, especially in the last month, been loosely associated with Jane’s Revenge, a collective of pro-abortion terrorists that has allegedly targeted dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers nationwide with firebombing and arson.

Earlier in June, activists claiming to represent Jane’s Revenge promised to unleash a new rampage of violence on clinics providing an alternative to abortion, announcing it “open season.”


On a storage box read the phrase “abort the court,” OregonLive reported.

An aide to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called the violence “despicable.”

“We need more police,” he told Oregonlive.​

“Individuals who engage in violent activity or property destruction will be investigated and are subject to arrest and prosecution. . . ."

"We will continue to conduct follow-up investigations, make arrests, and forward cases to the Multnomah County District Attorney for prosecution,” the Portland police department said.

The police said they are also working to contact affected business owners and make an arrangement to protect their storefronts as well as remove the graffiti.

On Friday, the Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling the Roe precedent and returning the abortion issue to state legislatures to regulate.

Since the outcome, leaders in the pro-life movement have urged vigilance and compassion, encouraging followers to donate to pro-life pregnancy centers now increasingly vulnerable to attack and likely to be overwhelmed by a surge of women seeking prenatal and maternal care.

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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"With Roe dead, Democrats look to abort Biden"


Opinion by Conn Carroll

6 JULY 2022

“Rudderless, aimless, and hopeless” is how one congressional Democrat described the White House to CNN.

Washington Post and Politico quickly followed, each outlet publishing long stories filled with quotes from Democrats trashing President Joe Biden’s administration.


“There is a leadership vacuum right now and he’s not filling it,” said Adam Jentleson, a former adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), to the Washington Post.

“He’s missing the boat here."

"This is our time to dig in and be absolutely furious because one-half measures are not working."

"He’s got a real excitability problem,” New Deal Strategies partner Camille Rivera told Politico.

Biden has never enjoyed support from Republicans, and his support among independents cratered soon after he promised a peaceful withdrawal from Afghanistan that became a historic catastrophe.

But a string of new failures, capped off by a weak response to the Supreme Court’s completely foreseeable overturning of Roe v. Wade, has Democrats running to the press with calls for a change in leadership atop the party.

“In the view of many distraught Democrats,” the Washington Post’s Ashley Parker and Matt Viser write, “the country is in full-blown crisis on a range of fronts, and Biden seems unable or unwilling to respond with appropriate force."

"Democracy is under attack, they say, as Republicans change election rules and the Supreme Court rapidly rewrites American law."

"Shootings are routine, abortion rights have ended, and Democrats could suffer big losses next election.”


Democrats aren’t the only ones who feel the country is in crisis.

A recent Monmouth University poll found that a record-high 88% of respondents — including 92% of Republicans, 91% of independents, and 80% of Democrats — believe “things in the country have gotten off on the wrong track.”

Unlike Democrats, however, most people aren’t freaking out about fake issues like the supposed end of democracy.

They are worried about inflation and gas prices, two issues on which the vast majority know that Biden’s policies have made lives worse.


Some Democrats, however, are not ready to throw Biden under the bus quite yet.

“He’s the president of the United States, he’s the leader of our party."

"He defeated Donald Trump,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a likely replacement for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), told the Washington Post.

“There’s a tone in which to challenge the administration and offer new ideas, and that tone ought to be one of good faith to help the president, not throwing darts to weaken him when he’s the leader of our party.”

If Biden remains this unpopular by this time next year, expect less loyalty from Democrats like Khanna and more refusals to support Biden, which are already coming from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

“What the president and the Democratic Party needs to come to terms with is that this is not just a crisis of Roe, this is a crisis of democracy,” Ocasio-Cortez told NBC News.

“This is a crisis of legitimacy, and President Biden must address that.”


Later that same day, Ocasio-Cortez refused to endorse a 2024 Biden run.

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THE WASHINGTON POST

"If Democrats listen to AOC, they’re going to lose seats"


David Brady, Bruce Cain

13 JULY 2022

According to most forecasts, the Democrats probably will lose control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.

That would be consistent with the pattern for nearly 30 years: When one party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress, voters divided it up again in the 1994, 2006, 2010 and 2018 midterm elections.

Given that looming possible midterm loss, progressive and centrist Democratic politicians are once again arguing over electoral strategy.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), for instance, asserted recently that the real reason for the Democrats’ dismal midterm prospects is that they’ve failed to pass bold legislation like the Build Back Better spending package.

But our research suggests the opposite.

A strongly progressive strategy would more likely alienate moderate voters and jeopardize Democrats’ ability to sustain a united government.


Lessons from the 2010 midterm elections

Consider evidence from the midterms in 2010, for example.

In March that year, a Democratic Congress had passed President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which Republicans attacked as a risky departure from the existing system of private health care.

In the figure below, you can see the Obama 2008 vote in the districts of Democratic incumbents by different levels (45 percent and below, 46-50 percent, 51-55 percent, 56-60 percent, above 60 percent) along with the percentage of House Democrats who won despite voting for the ACA at each level.

The higher the prior level of support, the more likely the Democratic incumbent won, despite voting for the ACA.

That’s because moderate and conservative Democrats and true independents (meaning independents who say they don’t lean toward one party or the other) defect after a bold progressive move.

To determine this, we looked at the YouGov/Economist survey data from the week before the elections of 2010, 2014 and 2018.

Here we looked at who liberal, moderate and conservative Democratic voters said they intended to vote for during a period of unified Democratic government (2010); divided government with a Democratic president (2014); and unified Republican control (2018).

The Economist YouGov poll is done weekly and is a national sample of 1,500 adult citizens surveyed via the internet.

The polls are weighted by age, gender, race, education and previous presidential vote.

The data show that moderate and conservative Democratic voters turned against the party in 2010 after it passed the ACA, as you can see in the figure below.

However, by 2014, some of the moderate and conservative Democrats of 2010 began to return as they witnessed Republican control of the House and Senate.

And the unified Republican government under Donald Trump brought back even more moderate and conservative Democrats by 2018.

Moderate House members pay the electoral price

Why, then, are some progressives more willing to risk losing power by dragging their party to left of the median voter?

One answer is they are far less likely to suffer at the ballot box.

The figure below compares the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) scores of winning and losing candidates from 2000 to 2020.

ADA scores members of Congress on the basis of how they voted on 20 or so roll call votes.

A perfect score of 100 indicates a liberal voting record.

(You’ll see that the figure doesn’t include 2006 or 2018 because no Democratic incumbents lost to Republicans in those years.)

In the nine elections in which incumbent Democrats lost to Republicans, the average ADA score for defeated Democratic incumbents was in all instances lower than the average House Democratic ADA score.

In other words, Democrats who lost general elections were not as progressive as the average Democratic member of the House.

To put it another way, progressive incumbents don’t have to worry about losing general elections — because they typically represent safe seats in which the only plausible threat to a very liberal Democrat comes from someone even further to the left.

When Democrats control the presidency and both houses of Congress, moderates’ seats are at risk

When Democrats take control of Congress, the party promotes policies that are further left — even though the party has taken control by adding new Democratic members who flipped Republican seats, meaning that they tend to be more moderate.

At the same time, losing the flipped seat shifts the Republican Party to the right, making it even harder to win their votes for Democratic legislation — and leaving Democrats solely responsible for those policies.

Expecting midterm defeat can create a “grab and go” mentality on the left: Grab the policies that they can get and accept loss of power as the price.

Centrist Democratic members are in a difficult position: Defy the progressives and face a primary challenge, or go along to get along and face a difficult reelection fight in November.

The more that progressives believe that losing government control is inevitable or out of their hands because of circumstances such as inflation, the more rational it is for them to try to take what they can get in the short run.

They can count on the fact that divided government will eventually place Republican dysfunction back in the spotlight, enabling Democrats to unite again around what they oppose instead of what they agree on, get back into power, and replay the grab-and-go cycle.

Where does this leave centrist voters and candidates?

Since incumbents will be tied to the most left-leaning proposals regardless of whether they supported them, united Democratic control looks like a bad deal to them.

Unsurprisingly, many prefer divided government.

In the figure below, a more recent YouGov survey reveals liberal, moderate and conservative Democratic voters’ preference for control of the House in 2022.

Only 69 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats, who make up 40 percent of party ranks, want the House of Representatives to be controlled by the Democrats; almost 90 percent of liberal Democrats do.

Unified government control is a bad deal for moderates, as they are seeing more and more over time.

Following progressive electoral logic risks leading to Republican unified control — which would enable them to enact policies that move in the opposite direction from where all factions of the Democratic Party want to end up.

David Brady is an emeritus professor of political science at Stanford University.

Bruce Cain is a professor of political science at Stanford University.

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"AOC Says Supreme Court Impeachment Should ‘Be On The Table’ After Roe Decision"


By David Wetzel

13 JULY 2022

New York (Knewz) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., blasted the Supreme Court over its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade while speaking with reporters, according to The Hill.

The liberal Congresswoman said the high court has “gone rogue” by overturning the 1973 abortion rights decision.

The Supreme Court, which now has a conservative majority, should undergo changes, according to Ocasio-Cortez.


“I believe impeachment should be on the table."

"I believe court expansion should be on the table."

"I believe that ethics rules should be on the table."

"I believe that recusal requirements should be on the table,” Ocasio-Cortez told reporters on July 12, according to The Hill.

“I think all of it should be considered right now."

"And we shouldn’t be putting any tools out because of … the degree of which this court has gone rogue.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also said that one Supreme Court justice who has been controversial should be impeached.

“I believe that Clarence Thomas should be impeached without a shadow of a doubt,” she said, according to The Hill.

Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader that urged Democrats to look into whether justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, two members of the majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, lied under oath about their thoughts on the abortion ruling during their confirmation process, The Hill reported.

Not all Democrats are on board with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“I don’t think it’s realistic,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told “Fox News Sunday” over the weekend regarding impeaching Thomas.

“I think it’s a mistake as to whether he’s going to be impeached."

"It’s not realistic, but [Thomas] should show good judgment."

"If this court is going to be credible, it has to be as apolitical as possible.”

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether or not the U.S. is now going to accept lies under oath when confirming nominees, The Hill reported.

“Here’s where I think there’s a very serious issue: Is the United States Senate about to establish a new precedent that it is now acceptable and there will be no consequence for a nominee to lie to duly-elected members of the United States Senate in order to secure a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land?” she asked.

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"AOC says Capitol Police were 'opening the doors' for Jan. 6 rioters"


by Ryan King, Breaking News Reporter

July 14, 2022

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tore into U.S. Capitol Police for failing to forestall the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, alleging some officers were sympathetic to the event.

Ocasio-Cortez stressed that authorities never "got to the bottom" of whether officers aided and were "opening the doors" to rioters who stormed the Capitol while warning fellow lawmakers, "We're not safe" at the Capitol.

"There were actual officers working with this, and we never got to the bottom of that, and we never got any answers about that," Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday.

"I have no idea what happened to the people on the inside, who were very clearly sympathetic with what was going on and opening the doors wide open for that."

Some footage circulated on social media after the riot showing officers standing aside or retreating while a mob of angry protesters swarmed the Capitol.

Dozens arrested in the riot argued in court documents that officers had either not stopped them from entering the building or never told them they weren't allowed inside.

The New York Democrat also contended that workers in the building, such as janitors, are not safe.

"I'm supposed to sit here and pretend like none of that ever happened."

"And then, right afterwards, you just have this idea that throwing money at that problem is going to make it go away without any accountability," she continued.

"This is where these things are breaking down."

"We're not safe."

"And it's not just about members of Congress not being safe — workers aren't safe."

Earlier in the day, the congresswoman was catcalled by right-wing provocateur Alex Stein, dubbing Ocasio-Cortez his "favorite big booty Latina."

"It's just a bummer to work in an institution that openly allowed this," she said after the exchange.

After the riot, some users tweeted footage claiming police opened the doors to the Capitol for the rioters.

But some have disputed this characterization of events.

A May 2021 Factcheck.org article disputed similar claims that Capitol Police allowed rioters to enter the building.

A freelance journalist who captured footage of the scene also contradicted similar assertions that police allowed protesters to breach barricades, stressing that police "backed away" only after being outnumbered by rioters, Newsweek reported.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the Capitol Police for comment.

Authorities have investigated whether responding officers acted inappropriately during the riot.

Last fall, the Capitol Police recommended disciplinary action against six officers for various forms of misconduct, such as failure to comply with directives and improper remarks.

The recommendation was the culmination of 38 inquiries into claims of wrongdoing by officers during the riot.

When investigators released that recommendation, they noted they were unable to identify officers in 26 of those cases.

Last October, Capitol Police Officer Michael Riley was indicted on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly instructing someone to delete his or her social media footage from the riot.

He was not in the building when the riot commenced because he had been responding to reports of explosive devices planted near the complex, prosecutors alleged.

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"Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount"


Joan E Greve in Washington

18 JULY 2022

Joe Biden is having a rough summer.

The US supreme court has overturned Roe v Wade, ending federal protections for abortion access.

Although gas prices are now falling, they remain high and have driven inflation to its largest annual increase in more than 40 years.

West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has finally ended any hopes that the president had of passing a climate bill in Congress.

With an evenly divided Senate, Biden’s options for addressing these problems – or enacting any of his other legislative priorities – are bleak.

The American people have taken note.

Biden’s approval rating has steadily fallen since April and now sits in the high 30s.

A recent Monmouth poll found that only 10% of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction.


Amid this pessimism, Democrats are bracing for a potential shellacking in the midterm elections, as Republicans appear poised to regain control of the House of Representatives.

Faced with a grim outlook for 2022, some Democrats are already looking ahead to 2024 and asking, is Joe Biden the best person to lead the party and the nation?

Questions over whether Biden should seek re-election in 2024 have grown louder in recent weeks.

A New York Times/Siena College poll taken this month found that 64% of Democrats say they would prefer a different nominee for 2024.

Among Democrats under 30, that figure rises to 94%.

Ellen Sciales, a spokesperson for the youth-led climate group Sunrise Movement, said voters of her generation have grown disillusioned with Biden and other Democratic party leaders.


After turning out to vote at near-record levels in 2020, young voters are now watching in dismay as the climate crisis accelerates and reproductive rights are stripped away, Sciales said.

“Democrats should be treating the loss of my generation as an existential threat,” Sciales said.

“We’ve been warning Democrats that unless they pass real meaningful policy immediately, like what was promised in Build Back Better, they are going to lose the engagement of so many voters, threatening their chances in 2022, 2024 and even further.”

In addition to his sinking approval rating, Biden is facing increasingly pointed questions about his age.

At 79 years old, Biden is already the oldest president in US history, and if re-elected, he would be 86 when his second term ended.

The Times/Siena poll found that age and poor job performance ranked as the top two reasons why Democrats said Biden should not run again in 2024.

The White House has publicly dismissed concerns about Biden getting older.

“That is not a question that we should be even asking,” the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said last month.


But some of Biden’s aides privately tell a different story.

According to a recent New York Times report, White House staffers have expressed hesitation about scheduling long international trips for Biden, out of concern that they are too taxing for him.

They also worry that Biden’s slower, more shuffling gait could cause him to fall, and they fret over his tendency to jumble words in speeches.

David Axelrod, who previously served as Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist, has said that Biden’s age could be a “major issue” if he seeks re-election.

A New York Times columnist last week wrote an article titled “Joe Biden is Too Old to be President Again”, but pointed out that this was a wider problem with US politics.

“There’s a problem here that goes beyond Biden himself."

"We are ruled by a gerontocracy."

"Biden is 79."

"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is 82."

"The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer, is 83."

"The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, is 71."

"Often, it’s not clear if they grasp how broken this country is.”

Biden insists he still plans to run again in 2024, assuming his health cooperates.

“I’m a great respecter of fate."

"Fate has intervened in my life many, many times,” Biden said in December.

“If I’m in the health I’m in now, if I’m in good health, then in fact, I would run again.”

But those comments have not quelled the 2024 conversation, even among fellow Democrats.

When progressive congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked whether she would endorse Biden as the Democratic nominee in 2024, she demurred.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it,” Ocasio-Cortez said last month.

Weeks later, she dodged questions from late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert about whether she would consider launching her own presidential campaign in 2024.

If Ocasio-Cortez or another progressive leader chose to challenge Biden, it would be a historic candidacy.

No sitting Democratic president has faced a primary challenge since 1980, when Ted Kennedy chose to run against Jimmy Carter as the country faced record-high inflation and gas shortages.

Carter was able to defeat Kennedy in the primary, but he ultimately lost the general election to a Republican candidate who promised to “make America great again”: Ronald Reagan.

Jon Ward, author of Camelot’s End, which chronicles the 1980 Democratic primary, said there are some clear parallels and important distinctions between Carter and Biden.

While Carter had a clear-cut opponent in Kennedy, it remains unclear who – if anyone – from the Democratic party’s highest ranks would challenge Biden.

But one element working in Biden’s favor is time, Ward said.

The 2024 presidential election is still more than two years away, giving the economy some breathing room to return to a place of greater stability.

“There’s time for inflation to ease and for the economy to turn around,” Ward said.

“However, it’s not clear that’s where we’re headed, since there are a lot of forecasts of recession and even the prospect of the very ‘stagflation’ that crippled Carter.”

Biden’s allies insist he has time to improve the economy and the nation’s broader outlook, and they are generally dismissive of polls indicating he should step aside in 2024.

“Polls are a snapshot of the time,” said Antjuan Seawright, Democratic strategist and senior adviser to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

“Truth be told, what’s hot today could be cold tomorrow, and what’s cold today, it could be very hot tomorrow.”

Seawright criticized the recent 2024 chatter as “a manufactured outrage from a few in our party”, suggesting those who are engaging in the speculation should instead rededicate themselves to the midterm elections.

Even some of the progressives who did not support Biden in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary echo that point.

Rahna Epting, executive director of the progressive group MoveOn, said she has not yet been talking about the 2024 election because of her single-minded concentration on the midterms.

Emphasizing the urgency of the upcoming elections, Epting noted that some of the gubernatorial, state legislative and secretary of state races being held this year will have sweeping implications for 2024.

A number of Republican candidates who have embraced Trump’s lies about widespread fraud in the 2020 race are now running for posts that could help them determine election rules in 2024.

“We’re going to find out whether our elections in 2024 are going to be free and fair, based on who ends up in office in 2022,” Epting said.

“The very terrain of our democracy and our election system is going to be decided this election cycle.”

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"AOC Among Lawmakers Arrested at Supreme Court Rally"


Ella Ceron

19 JULY 2022

(Bloomberg) -- More than a dozen US lawmakers, most from the Democratic Women’s Caucus, were arrested by US Capitol police on Tuesday during an abortion-rights rally in front of the US Supreme Court.

New York Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Carolyn Maloney and Nydia Velazquez were among those who were arrested, as were Representatives Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.

When reached for comment, the United States Capitol Police pointed to statements made on its Twitter account.

The US Capital Police said they arrested 35 people, including 17 members of Congress, for obstructing traffic.

Video footage of the event, which took place in front of the Supreme Court steps, shows Ocasio-Cortez being escorted away by police.

Representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The demonstration underscored Democrats’ ire over the June Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that dismantled the constitutional right to an abortion set by Roe v. Wade.

States that have historically been hostile to abortion rights had been lying in wait with trigger bans and other restrictions regarding abortion care.

Some 33 million women live in states with so-called trigger bans on the books that sought to immediately ban abortion.

Many of those have since gone into effect.

Experts warn that the shock waves of such restrictions will likely jeopardize care for those in states protecting abortion rights as well.

“I have the privilege of representing a state where reproductive rights are respected and protected — the least I can do is put my body on the line for the 33 million women at risk of losing their rights,” said Maloney in a statement.

She added that anti-abortion lawmakers and groups “are not pro-life, but pro-controlling the bodies of women, girls, and any person who can become pregnant."

"Their ultimate goal is to institute a national ban on abortion."

"We will not let them win."

"We will be back.”

Bush, who represents parts of St. Louis, Missouri, pointed to legislation she has introduced to protect access to medication abortion as well as the demonstration, when reached for comment.

"We need to be doing everything in our power to secure reproductive justice and access to abortion," she said.

"St. Louis sent me to Congress to do everything in my power to protect our rights and improve our lives."

"That’s why I’m fighting with everything I’ve got for my community.’’

Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib said abortion patients and providers "face much graver dangers, including arrest, but also violence in states across this country."

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THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"AOC and Ilhan Omar coordinated Supreme Court arrest stunt with Soros-funded dark money group"


Andrew Kerr

20 JULY 2022

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the 15 other Democratic lawmakers who were arrested Tuesday outside the Supreme Court coordinated the stunt with a progressive dark money group funded by billionaire George Soros.

Getting arrested was the whole point of the stunt, Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram post on Tuesday.

She said organizers of the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund asked her and her colleagues to "submit themselves for arrest in front of the Supreme Court."


The New York lawmaker insisted in the post what she and her colleagues did was "very different than a 'publicity stunt.'"

Omar spokesman Jeremy Slevin tweeted about 30 minutes before the lawmakers hit the street that a film crew with the dark money group would be on the scene live streaming the event.

"Members of Congress, including [Omar] will be participating in a civil disobedience at the Supreme Court, potentially including arrests, shortly," Slevin tweeted before the lawmakers began illegally obstructing the street outside the Supreme Court.

"@CPDAction is live streaming it."

"Follow along!"

Andrew Friedman, the co-executive director of CPD Action, told the Washington Post in 2018 that the group and its sister organization, Center for Popular Democracy, receive over $1 million a year from Soros's Open Society Foundations.

As a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group, CPD Action isn't required to disclose the identity of its donors.

CPD Action said its leaders were among the 18 nonmembers of Congress who were arrested alongside Ocasio-Cortez and the other Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday.

"Moments ago, leaders from CPD Action network organizations, members of Congress & more participated in a powerful civil disobedience demonstration & got arrested to protect our RIGHT to SAFE & LEGAL abortions," the dark money group posted on Facebook Tuesday afternoon.

"This is a clear message to SCOTUS and lawmakers that #WeWontBackDown until ALL pregnancy-abled people are treated as full human beings with the autonomy to make decisions about OUR OWN bodies," the group added.

CPD Action linked to a fundraising page in its Facebook post that urged activists to "continue acts of civil disobedience," such as the one it coordinated with the 17 arrested members of Congress on Tuesday to secure access to abortion across the country.

Ocasio-Cortez was widely mocked by conservative commentators for creating the impression that she was handcuffed by police during her arrest.

The New York lawmaker was filmed crossing her hands behind her back while she was being escorted off the scene by police.

She then pumped her fist toward a crowd of supporters while still detained by police.


Ocasio-Cortez insisted she wasn't pretending to be in handcuffs during her arrest.

"No faking here," Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet on Wednesday.

"Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest."

"But given how you lied about a fellow rape survivor for 'points,' as you put it to me, I don't expect much else from you."

A Capitol Police spokesperson told the Washington Examiner that nobody arrested outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday was handcuffed.

"As is standard for peaceful, planned protests, those who were arrested were ticketed and released on site," the spokesperson said.

"Nobody was handcuffed, as is standard for a noncustodial arrest."

"Everyone was arrested for Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307)."

"They have up to 15 days to pay a $50 fine or they can have a hearing."

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The Democrats do not acknowledge OUR Constitution as pertaining to them, because they believe it was written by misogynistic racist troglodytes who believed women like HILLARY Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and AOC should be kept barefoot and pregnant and chained to the bedpost with only enough chain to reach the kitchen stove.
THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

"Biden, Harris, and other Democrats don't acknowledge anniversary of Constitution on social media"


Opinion by Christopher Tremoglie

18 SEPTEMBER 2022

Yesterday was the 235th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States.

It's one of the most influential documents in history and the world's oldest active codified constitution.

Yet you would have never known, given the deafening silence on the social media accounts of our country's president and vice president.

While they often pander to crowds, touting the importance of the Constitution, neither President Joe Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris appeared to acknowledge Constitution Day on their social media accounts.


The Constitution is one of the greatest documents in the history of the world, so it is a little peculiar that our country's leadership failed to acknowledge Constitution Day on any of their social media platforms.

Instead, President Biden and Vice President Harris spent the day tweeting about the need for abortion, the Inflation Reduction Act, and climate change.

Considering both made multiple posts across different platforms celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month on Sept. 15, just two days earlier, it's a telling sign that neither posted about the significance of Sept. 17.

Yet this lack of patriotism and appreciation for the Constitution did not stop with Biden and Harris.

This slight appeared to be widespread among the Democratic Party.

Neither the Senate Democrats nor House Democrats' Twitter accounts acknowledged Constitution Day.

Neither did the Democrats' Twitter account.

However, all managed to post about National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also failed to acknowledge Constitution Day but did acknowledge National Hispanic Heritage Month — multiple times.


But somehow, he managed to find time out of his busy day to tweet about something called "Passport Month."

But when it came to Constitution Day, Schumer's Twitter had a deafening silence.

And, probably to no one's surprise, neither Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) nor any of the "Squad" members appeared to acknowledge Constitution Day.

This was in stark contrast to the Republicans, and honestly, this revelation shouldn't be surprising.

Unlike their left-wing counterparts, the House Republicans and Senate Republicans' Twitter accounts tweeted about Constitution Day and the 235th anniversary of our country's governing document.

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) were among the many, many Republicans who tweeted about Sept. 17.

Oh, and Republicans also tweeted about National Hispanic Heritage Month, effectively showing it was possible to tweet about both.

Republicans decided to do so.

Democrats chose not to.

But this is quite odd given the Democrats' constant rhetoric about constitutional rights.

It's even stranger that 16 days after Joe "Soul of the Nation" Biden gave the most hateful and divisive speech by any president in our nation's history, at the site where the Constitution was ratified, he did not mention anything about its 235th anniversary.

The same goes for Vice President Harris.

Count how many times she uses the phrase "constitutional rights" in her speeches.

Yet she couldn't find the less than five seconds it takes to send out a message on any social media platform commemorating the Constitution of the United States of America.


Then again, given that Biden and the Democrats repeatedly fail to follow the Constitution's principles or adhere to many of its guidelines, maybe this slight wasn't unintentional.

Perhaps it shouldn't be all that surprising that Democrats failed to celebrate Constitution Day on social media like they did National Hispanic Heritage Month — or Passport Month.

Clearly, Democrats have shown their priorities.

Biden, Harris, and all the Democrats that failed to acknowledge this date should be ashamed of themselves.

It's disgraceful.

It's indicative of the lack of patriotism the Left has for the country.

When the cameras are rolling or it benefits them politically, they tout the Constitution.

Yet, when it comes to honoring one of the greatest documents in human civilization, Biden and his Democrats largely were nowhere to be found.

On the date that honored the 235th anniversary of the Constitution of the United States, Biden, Harris, and many others on the Left revealed their true colors — and they weren't red, white, and blue.

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