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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- [President Biden]([link removed]) going Dark Brandon mode, not fucking around about lifting millions of kids out of poverty

Arizona just reinstated an abortion ban that predates the invention of the light bulb. 

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[The State Supreme Court of Arizona on Tuesday upheld an 1864 law that bans nearly all abortions in a 4-2 decision]([link removed]). The law has a two-week stay while it’s sent back to a lower court to hear additional arguments about its constitutionality, and another 45-day delay before enforcement. But the state Supreme Court decided that because the 2022 Dobbs decision overturned the federal right to abortion, there is no federal or state law preventing Arizona from enforcing the near-total 1864 ban. 

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1864! Abraham Licoln was still alive! Women weren’t legally allowed to wear pants yet! Not only that, this law was on the books before Arizona was even a state! The law prohibits abortion from the moment of conception, except when necessary to save the life of the mother, and makes no exceptions for rape or incest. Doctors prosecuted under the law could face not only fines but prison terms of up to five years. 

 

- Shortly after the decision was announced, [President Biden released a statement calling the ban “cruel,” “extreme,” and “dangerous.”]([link removed]) He further categorized the trigger law as the “result of the extreme agenda of Republican elected officials who are committed to ripping away women’s freedom.” Biden promised to “continue to fight to protect reproductive rights and call on Congress to pass a law restoring the protections of Roe vs. Wade for women in every state.” Later in the day, the White House announced that [Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to the Copper State for an event on “reproductive freedoms.”]([link removed])

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Reactions to the proposed reinstatement of the Civil War-era ban were mostly negative, even from Republicans in the state, who know that such extreme abortion restrictions are politically toxic. 

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The Alliance Defending Freedom—the conservative Christian advocacy group behind all of today’s worst legislation—was ecstatic about the decision, with one of their attorneys saying that it “allows the state to respect the right [to life] and fully protect life again — just as the Legislature intended.” But other Republicans aware of the political moment immediately condemned the trigger law in various ways. State Senator TJ Shope (R-AZ) said he would work to repeal the 1864 ban but leave in place a 15-week ban that was passed two years ago by the legislature and signed into law by former GOP Gov. Doug Ducey. 

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MAGA darling Kari Lake said that “the pre-statehood law is out of step with Arizonans.” [But when she was running for governor in 2022, Lake supported the law]([link removed]). Just two years ago, Lake said in a radio interview: “I’m incredibly thrilled that we are going to have a great law that’s already on the books,” which she said will “prohibit abortion in Arizona except to save the life of a mother. And I think we’re going to be paving the way and setting course for other states to follow.” Lake went on to lose her bid for governor to Gov. Katie Hobbs (D-AZ) who excoriated the ban in a press conference on Tuesday. 

State Attorney General Kris Mayes (D-AZ) [said she wouldn’t enforce the “unconscionable” ruling]([link removed]), which she called “an affront to freedom.”

 

In case you missed it, Pod Save The World host Tommy Vietor and Roger Bennett of Men In Blazers teamed up again for another season of [World Corrupt]([link removed]). They unpacked how Saudi Arabia -yet another oil-rich nation with a troubled human rights record - has secured the role of World Cup host in 2034. The full series is out - head over to the Pod Save the World feed to binge now.

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United Nations workers joined Gaza health officials in returning to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday to begin [interring the unidentified remains of countless people who died there during the 12-day Israel Defense Forces raid on the complex last month]([link removed]). World Health Organization director general Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that aid workers had found bodies covered only by crude plastic sheets or partially buried under mounds of dirt. “When the dead are buried properly,” he said, “they can be identified later with forensic examinations, giving loved ones some consolation.”
 
During a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting on Tuesday, [Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rejected arguments that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza]([link removed]). Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) offered that the Israeli government is “collectively punishing” Gazans and pointed to recent comments from World Food Programme Director Cindy McCaine that famine is imminent there, to which Austin replied that the United States is “doing everything we can to encourage the Israelis to open more land routes [for aid] and to separate the Palestinian people from Hamas.” Austin added: “Failure to do so will create more terrorists.” [Hamas and Israel remain far apart on a ceasefire agreement.]([link removed]) 

[A New York appellate court judge rejected disgraced former president Donald Trump’s latest attempt to delay his criminal case in Manhattan on Tuesday]([link removed]). Tough luck!

Congress passed bipartisan legislation to provide low-income families that rely on government-subsidized meals at school with help buying food over the summer. [Almost half of Republican-led states have refused to sing on]([link removed]). Because Republicans believe life begins at conception and ends at needing government assistance. 

[About 50 peace activists calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war were arrested by Capitol Police on Tuesday]([link removed]) after protesting in the Senate cafeteria in Washington. 

[Russia and Kazakhstan ordered the evacuation of over 100,000 people after a deluge of rapidly-melting snow caused the worst flooding in the area in 70 years]([link removed]). 

[OpenAI has been hit with more than a dozen high-profile lawsuits and government investigations since comedian Sarah Silverman sued the company for allegedly stealing her work]([link removed])after it used her memoir (and countless other copyrighted works) to train its artificial intelligence products. 

[RFK Jr.’s New York State campaign director is a Trump-loving, January 6 sympathizer]([link removed]) who attended “Stop the Steal” events after the 2020 election. 

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[The Biden administration announced a new regulation on Tuesday that will require more than 200 chemical plants in the U.S. to curb their emissions of toxic pollutants into the air]([link removed]). The measure is aimed at reducing cancer risk among people living near industrial sites. 

 

[Beyoncé became the first Black woman to top the country albums chart]([link removed]) with her latest album “Act II: Cowboy Carter.”

Right-wing shithead operatives [Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman have agreed to pay $1 million to the New York attorney general’s office]([link removed]) and others for running a racist voter suppression campaign during the 2020 election. 

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