Justice Kagan just noted a fact we reported in Slate: In the short time that Idaho has been allowed to enforce its abortion ban against women who need emergency termination, SIX women have been airlifted to another state for care that's illegal in Idaho. slate.com/news-and-polit…

Side note: Solicitor General Prelogar was born an raised in Idaho and has Atlanta-area connections as a graduate of Emory.

(She also should be on the Supreme Court)

I don't know how to raise my daughter in a country where the Supreme Court is debating how many organs are ok for women to lose before providing healthcare

Excellent

Master journalist Jeffrey Toobin sets the stage for Trump’s NYC criminal conspiracy trial as only he can: “For much of the tabloid’s history, it has specialized in investigations into the foibles of public personalities, including politicians. In 1987, the Enquirer published a

1/ UPDATE: To say today was a blow for Donald and his attorney, Todd Blanche, is an understatement.

Donald’s bad run continued as he attended this morning’s gag order hearing and the continuing testimony of David Pecker in his election interference trial.

The wheels of justice

Forcing doctors to predict when a patient is close enough to death to intervene risks irreversible damage to a patient’s organs and future fertility—if the patient survives at all.

And like E.R. Dr. Dara Kass told Dahlia Lithwick in Slate:

Together with a recent episode of Amicus, this essay from Lindsay C Harrison and Dahlia Lithwick is useful context for the EMTALA argument.

Thoughtful piece by Charlie McCrary, discussing work by Liz Reiner Platt, Dahlia Lithwick, Gillian Frank, ⁦Xiao Wang⁩ and others writing on recent developments in religious freedom and repro rights. newrepublic.com/article/180531…

By me and Dahlia Lithwick (who you should wish a very happy birthday today).

Knife by Salman Rushdie is a true miracle. Yes, it describes in painful detail the horror of what happened, but it’s also a mediation on happiness and love. Surviving the attack took strength, but this kind of writing takes wisdom.

In response to “horrific” scenes of antisemitic harassment at and around campus, the Orthodox Rabbi at Columbia/Barnard sent a WhatsApp message to more than 290+ Jewish students this morning recommending that they go home until it’s safe again for them on campus:

I’m grateful to Hakeem Jeffries and Democrats, and to Speaker Johnson and the representatives of the Republican Party who worked in earnest, for getting the aid package to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan across the finish line — helping to defend freedom against authoritarianism

Tel Aviv, Saturday night. Elections now! Special edition for those who said that people would not come out again after the Iranian attack.

Must read (always) by Dr. Mary Anne Franks on regressive devastating Idaho law forbidding pregnant women and girls from getting emergency care msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/ida… Devastating. Thank you Cyber Civil Rights Initiative President for her moral clarity.

“While it’s absolutely the case that 36% of independents saying a guilty verdict will move them away from Trump is less than the 44% saying it won’t, when your vote total is neck and neck... you cannot afford to lose anyone.” Anat Shenker-Osorio 🟧 + @dahlialithwick slate.com/news-and-polit…

“Scorched earth.” Now that’s a super unifying and uplifting campaign slogan.

In my over 20 years practicing criminal law, I have never observed a defendant refuse to stand and face the jury.

Any competent lawyer would tell their client that his fate is in the jury’s hands and they will watch everything he does.

Trump’s disrespect for the jury is unwise.

The great Yale professor & historian Timothy Snyder testified before Oversight today about foreign authoritarian propaganda in a democratic society—& then some GOP colleagues demonstrated how it works.
Thanks for your passionate defense of democracy in America & Ukraine, Tim!