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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The United Christian Nationalist States of America [1]
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Date: 2022-07-06
Greg Sargent/WaPo:
Numerous health-care providers in Louisiana just filed affidavits in the case, describing why the trigger laws are such a menace. The affidavits, which were submitted Tuesday morning, argue that the state has passed multiple trigger laws, creating a mishmash of directives to health-care providers that are too vague to be actionable.
A new development in Louisiana illustrates why this question is urgent and how it constitutes another major conflict defining the post-Roe world. It concerns a lawsuit by women’s health-care groups to halt Louisiana’s “trigger laws,” which criminalized abortion in the immediate wake of Roe being overturned.
x A popular Twitter narrative is returning full scale: "The Democrats" need to inspire young people to vote, and they are failing. It's an annual ritual. No one who makes this argument ever considers that THROUGHOUT US HISTORY, YOUNG PEOPLE VOTE IN LOW NUMBERS. Red line = 18-29yo pic.twitter.com/kuI4ZQxT5X — Professor Darren Hutchinson (@dissentingj) July 5, 2022
Scott Patterson/WSJ:
x A goal of fascist politics is to have multiple scapegoats, to lure each group whose single issue is that target into the fold. So you gather a coalition of single issue voters, each of whom can maintain that they don’t share the hateful ideology of the other groups in the fold. — Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) July 5, 2022
Politico:
Despite rebukes, Trump’s legal brigade is thriving Their claims were dismissed as baseless, but many attorneys have never faced discipline and have found new business as go-to MAGA lawyers. In total, at least 16 lawyers who represented plaintiffs in five federal lawsuits promoting Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in the key battlegrounds of Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona remain in good standing or have no record of disciplinary action with their respective bar associations or licensing authorities, according to a POLITICO review. Fourteen of them have since engaged in additional work in support of the election fraud conspiracies or conspiracists behind Trump’s attempt to remain in power despite losing the election to President Joe Biden. These include defending accused Jan. 6 rioters, consulting for partisan election “audits” or partaking in advocacy or legal cases sowing doubts about the integrity of the nation’s elections, POLITICO found.
x …2017 very, very fucking concerned that Trump was going to repeal the Affordable Care Act or roll back Dodd Frank. (And rightfully so.)
Yeah, you voted. But you lost when it counted most (2010 and 2016) and now you have more work to do. — Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) July 5, 2022
Amanda Carpenter/Bulwark:
Doug Mastriano’s Election-Takeover Plan Stop the Steal is only a pretense for seizing control. Those are only the highlights of what Mastriano has done in the past. But what about the future? People like Mastriano are never going to let Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss go. If anything, Trump’s “Stop the Steal” lies provide a pretext for actions intended to ensure MAGA types win in future elections. How will they do it? Well, Mastriano has some ideas. (Well above and beyond hiring Trump’s throne-sniffing flack Jenna Ellis as his legal adviser.) Although Mastriano evades scrutiny by blockading typical media interviews, with some help from his insurrection-friendly friends, he doesn’t hesitate to talk about his plans when he feels comfortable. Put those snippets together, and it shows Mastriano has a pretty well-thought-out election takeover plan in mind. His platform includes the following: loosening restrictions on poll watchers to make it easier to challenge votes;
repealing vote-by-mail laws;
appointing a fellow 2020 election-denier to be secretary of state who could enable him to decertify every voting machine “with a stroke of a pen”;
forcing all Pennsylvania voters to re-register; and
defunding the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
x .@BetoORourke and his son just joined @WillieNelson on stage for his annual 4th of July picnic in Austin pic.twitter.com/2kgr5yDogG — Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) July 5, 2022
ABC:
2024 rumblings loom over 2022, from Newsom v. DeSantis to a rematch for Trump and Biden Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat who won his party's primary last week, said in a statement on Monday that "grief will not bring the victims back, and prayers alone will not put a stop to the terror of rampant gun violence in our country." His Republican challenger, Trump-endorsed state Sen. Darren Bailey, called for the state legislature to convene in a special session. Bailey once supported a now-failed fringe resolution that would have separated Chicago from the rest of Illinois.
x People can legitimately disagree about what exactly needs to be done. But the notion that heavily armed gunmen perpetrating massacres on a regular basis is just the price of living in a free society is utter bullshit. — Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) July 5, 2022
Tobe Jaffe/The American Prospect:
How Much Will the Abortion Police State Cost? In addition to the obliteration of privacy and criminalization of women’s health, it’s a waste of money. For now, the “War on Abortion” will be led, and paid for, by state governments. Some states, most infamously Texas, had already begun pumping in money to set up authoritarian anti-abortion programs before the Dobbs decision. Most prominently, the state established the so-called Alternatives to Abortion program in 2006. Through the program, the Texas state government currently sends $100 million in taxpayer dollars to Christian anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy centers,” which use deceptive tactics to talk pregnant people out of having an abortion. Until 2017, neither lawmakers nor the general public were able to access even basic information as to what these crisis pregnancy centers did with taxpayer money. Moreover, specific data about pregnancies, abortions, and the general well-being of patients as it relates to these centers remains elusive. What is known is that the budget for the Alternatives to Abortion program in Texas grows every year, as a percentage of the overall budget. As a University of Texas law student named Audrey Gow pointed out in 2020, while COVID decimated the Texas state budget for social spending, the Alternatives to Abortion program was left untouched. Texas has also spent millions of dollars in recent years on abortion-related legal fees.
x New ultra-contagious Omicron subvariants BA.4, BA.5 worsening California coronavirus wave
https://t.co/ibeWOB3E42 — Morgan Fairchild (@morgfair) July 5, 2022
Bloomberg:
7 Things We Learned So Far From the Jan. 6th Hearings With at least two more hearings, more surprises loom. Trump knew he’d lost A slew of testimony shows that even after top-level administration and campaign aides had accepted and directly told Trump that he’d lost the election, he persisted with public claims it had been stolen or rigged. Election defense fund was ‘big rip-off’ Trump’s campaign raised at least $250 million from supporters claiming the money was to be used by an “election defense fund” in a battle to prove the election was stolen via voter fraud. But committee member Zoe Lofgren of California said that “big lie was also a big rip-off.”
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