Here’s Where the Nation Stands as Control of Congress Hangs in the Balance







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Here’s Where the Nation Stands as Control of Congress Hangs in the Balance

By: Zachary Mettler


If you didn’t stay up late Tuesday night to watch returns from the 2022 midterm elections pour in, you didn’t miss much.


So far, control for both houses of the U.S. Congress hangs in the balance, with all major networks refusing to call which party has won control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate.



So, where do things stand currently?


As of publishing time, Republicans are projected to win 206 seats in the House compared to 177 for Democrats, Fox News projects. It takes 218 seats in the House for a party to gain control of the chamber.


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Abortion was on the Ballot in Five States and Voters Rejected Life in Each Case



By: Nicole Hunt







Abortion was on the ballot in five states—Michigan, Vermont, California, Kentucky, and Montana—and in all five states, voters rejected the pro-life position.



There’s no doubt about it—these election results are a serious gut punch to the pro-life movement.
Following the reversal of Roe in June, pro-life advocates knew that the culture war over abortion policy was entering a new chapter as the debate shifted to state law.



The pro-life movement cheered for states that quickly moved to protect preborn human life and watched with anticipation as legal battles ensued.



This November, three states considered abortion-friendly ballot initiatives. In Michigan, Vermont and California, voters were asked whether they wanted to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. And in all three cases, voters tragically said “yes.”



According to the New York Times, here are the results of those measures at the time of this article’s publication.



In Michigan, with 91% of the votes counted, the amendment which would create a state constitutional “right” to so-called reproductive freedom was ahead with 56.7% of the vote in support and 43.3% in opposition. This measure, like the others, goes far beyond Roe.







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Election Security Ballot Measures – Mixed Results on November 8



By: Jeff Johnston





The safety of elections was on the ballot in seven states last night, as voters made decisions about early voting, allowing non-citizens to vote, voter identification requirements, and allowing outside groups to contribute to running elections. Here’s what we know about those ballot initiatives so far.



In Arizona, 66% of ballots have been counted, and Proposition 309 is losing in a close race, 50.7% to 49.3%. The measure would tighten election security and require dates of birth and voter identification numbers for mail-in ballots. Those who vote in person would need to present a driver’s license or a government-issued ID. We’re all waiting for Maricopa County to count those last 400,000 ballots.


In Alabama, Amendment 4 will pass, as voters currently approve the measure by a large margin of almost 80% to 20%, with 72% of votes counted. The constitutional amendment prohibits changes to election laws within six months of a general election, helping increase election integrity in the state.


Connecticut’s Question 1 amends the state constitution to authorize the state legislature to provide by law for in-person early voting before an election. The measure was approved by voters by a vote of 60.4% to 39.6%. Early voting means voters sometimes choose before candidates have debated and before they have all the information about candidates, says election integrity expert Hans von Spakovsky. In this election, more than 47 million votes were cast by mail-in ballot or early in-person voting.






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Supreme Court to Hear Adoption Dilemma: Tribal Rights vs. 4-Year-Old Girl




By: Bruce Hausknecht







There are likely some days when being a Supreme Court justice will keep you up at night. An adoption case the nine justices will hear on November 9 could spark more than a couple cases of high court insomnia. It’s an agonizingly complicated lawsuit about a federal law that protects Native American tribes’ right to protect their cultural identity by giving them a sort of “veto power” over adoptions of Native American children by anyone other than members of one of the country’s Native American tribes.


But if that law is upheld in this case, the real-world result could be that a 4-year-old foster child in Texas, born to a Navajo mother with addiction problems, and whose white foster parents want to adopt her, would be ripped away from the only family she has known since her birth, a family which also includes her older half-brother, already adopted by the family. If her foster parents lose this case, she would then be sent to live with a Navajo relative she doesn’t know.



Several families in similar situations, plus three states – Texas, Louisiana and Indiana – sued the federal government in 2017 challenging the constitutionality of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. The law was passed by Congress in reaction to over a century of perceived abuse by social workers, who in some cases forcibly removed Native children from their homes and sent them away to government or missionary boarding schools and then placed them in white Christian homes.





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Post-Election Blues? Look to “Touchdown Jesus”



By: Paul Batura






Sports, and especially college football in the fall and early winter, have often provided a welcome respite from the slings and arrows of life – including politics.


Some of yesterday’s midterm election results, especially five losses for life in California, Michigan, Montana, Kentucky, and Vermont, may be leaving you a bit disheartened and discouraged. After all, as we’ve long insisted, electoral outcomes matter because policy impacts people and families. And when it comes to the sanctity of life, the sober and difficult reality is that when certain people are elected, and specific initiatives fail, the lives of innocent children are put at greater risk.


But a historic mural long associated with one of the most iconic teams on the collegiate gridiron can also serve to encourage and remind us that God remains fully and completely in control of every detail, everywhere.


Back in the early 1960s, school officials at the University of Notre Dame were looking for something to put on their newly constructed high-rise Memorial Library. The university’s president, Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, was concerned the windowless side of the building would make the new structure look like a grain elevator. Enter Millard Sheets, a popular painter and architectural designer who was making a name for himself wrapping California banks in eye-catching murals and paintings. Hundreds of his works survive across the country.







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