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Detain AOC Outside Supreme Court During Pro-Abortion Protest <[link removed]> - At least 10 congressional Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., joined pro-abortion demonstrators Tuesday outside the Supreme Court less than a month after the justices overruled Roe v. Wade in a landmark decision. Protesters blocked the road just outside the Supreme Court building until police officers escorted them away from the roadway. As an officer held Ocasio-Cortez’s left arm while escorting her and another woman, the New York Democrat held both her hands behind her back, as if she were arrested and handcuffed. Heritage Expert: Douglas Blair <[link removed]>


Biden set to announce executive measures on climate <[link removed]> – As my Heritage Foundation colleagues recently found, the Biden administration's plan to overhaul the energy sector would cost the economy over $7 trillion dollars, reduce employment by over 1 million jobs in the first two decades, and increase per-gallon costs of gas $2 every year—without even achieving the administration's climate targets. This has left Biden with calls to use the power of the Executive to impose a climate agenda onto the American people.  Whether this is to ban gas and oil development on federal lands, to ratchet up regulatory
compliance costs through very questionable, so-called Social Cost of Carbon calculations, or by using special powers like the Defense Production Act to declare a “national climate emergency”, the results will be exactly the same: American families and businesses will carry the burden of the Left’s radical policy agenda and get absolutely nothing in return. Instead,
the President should recognize that the pain American’s are currently feeling in their pocketbooks are being substantially caused by his failed policies. Heritage Expert: Katie Tubb <[link removed]>
Latest Election Fraud Cases Underscore Importance of Election
Integrity <[link removed]> - With the latest cases of impersonation, registration fraud, absentee ballot fraud, bribery, and illegal vote trafficking added to the Heritage Election Fraud Database, the database now contains 1,365 proven instances of election fraud. These cases demonstrate the wide variety of ways in which bad actors set out to submit fraudulent ballots or steal elections. The database is not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all election fraud in the states. Rather, it presents a sampling of recent, proven instances of election fraud from across the country that is intended to highlight the many ways in which fraud has been committed. Heritage Expert: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]>
Pro-Abortion Extremist Democrats Push to Extend ‘Sanctuaries’ Nationwide <[link removed]>— Pro-abortion activists are angry. They want Democrats in Washington to produce a cohesive plan to limit or overrule the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision <[link removed]> that undid Roe v. Wade <[link removed]>.  Democrats, in turn, are scrambling to do anything they can to extend abortion on demand, which, for nearly 50 years, they could take for granted. Last week, leftist senators introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act of 2022. Led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the bill is a response to the claim that “radical” pro-life states might pass laws prohibiting women from traveling across state lines for an abortion. But the bill is a solution in search of a problem. Prohibiting such travel would clearly violate the Constitution. A state has the right to decide whether it will protect unborn life, but it has no right to impose its own laws on another state or limit the travel of its residents. Heritage Expert: Emma Waters <[link removed]>
Why Congress Shouldn’t Increase Obamacare Spending <[link removed]>— A recent analysis <[link removed]> of federal health spending by the Congressional Budget Office suggests that
allowing temporary expansions of Obamacare subsidies to expire in December would save taxpayers billions of dollars without reducing the number of those covered by individual health insurance. Senate Democrats nevertheless seek to extend the expansion of Obamacare and salvage <[link removed]> a few other provisions of President Joe Biden’s star-crossed Build Back Better <[link removed]> spending bill. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., whose support is crucial to Democrats’ passing the slimmed-down package, reportedly has agreed to put government price controls <[link removed]> on prescription medicines and to extend the expanded Obamacare premium
subsidies for two more years <[link removed]>. Congress temporarily expanded those subsidies in the American Rescue Plan Act <[link removed]>, a $1.9
trillion <[link removed]> bill that has contributed to record inflation <[link removed]>. Lawmakers argued that the pandemic required more generous Obamacare subsidies. Those subsidies are due to expire this December. An extension by Congress instead would send billions more in taxpayer money to insurance companies, largely on behalf of those who already have health insurance. Expanding the Obamacare premium subsidies because of the pandemic was a bad idea. Doubling down on those expansions amid rampant inflation is an even worse one. Heritage Expert: Nina Schaefer <[link removed]>
Welcome To The Joe Biden Recession. We Will All Pay The Price <[link removed]> - The first official estimate for second-quarter economic growth will be released on July 28 and will likely show that the nation is already in a recession. Yet the ship of state can easily get underway again by once more sailing with the wind. For that to happen, the Biden administration needs to relinquish the helm and take its boot off the necks of America’s great energy producers. Heritage Expert: EJ Antoni <[link removed]>
Biden’s Attempts at Abortion Workarounds Fueled by
Midterm Dreams, Constitutional Nightmares <[link removed]> - While the White House’s piecemeal approach to securing further abortion access might be unsatisfactory for many of its liberal allies, that approach illustrates the sometimes messy nature of democracy when the issue of abortion is, as Justice Samuel Alito wrote in Dobbs, “returned to the people and their elected
representatives.” It seems many progressive Democrats dislike this democratic outcome. “We can’t just tell people, ‘Well, just vote—vote your problems away,’” Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., told the Washington Post. “Because they’re looking at us and saying, ‘Well, we already voted for you.’” Heritage Expert: Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>
Originalism rules for Supreme Court, and that is welcomed <[link removed]> - The three words that best describe
the Supreme Court’s decisions this term are text, history and tradition. If that’s one word too many, try this: Originalism Rules! And that’s a good thing. The court considered several important constitutional cases this term. The split in most of these cases was six-to-three, with the “conservative” justices in the majority and the “liberal” justices in dissent. Heritage Expert: John Malcolm <[link removed]>
Celebrities Say They’ll Leave US but Curiously, They’re Still
Here… <[link removed]> - After the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told fans at a London concert that he would renounce his citizenship. Don’t bet on it. Armstrong is no stranger to preening wokeness. He also “threatened” to leave the U.S. when President Donald Trump was in charge, as did many other lefty celebs—Bryan Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Lena Dunham and Cher, to name but a few. Yet, curiously, they’re all still here. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>

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