Right Wing Round-Up: A Busload Of Something

  • Miles Klee @ Rolling Stone: GOP Lawmaker Thinks He Exposed Busload of ‘Illegals’ … It Was the Gonzaga Basketball Team
  • Matt Maddock, an election denier who has predicted another U.S. civil war, shared pictures of NCAA athletes to push a conspiracy theory about immigration.

  • Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern @ Slate: The Anti-Abortion Endgame That Erin Hawley Admitted to the Supreme Court
  • Somewhat lost in the debate around abortion pills and oral arguments that took place at the Supreme Court in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on Tuesday was one deeply uncomfortable truth: The very notion of what it means to practice emergency medicine is in dispute.

  • Telling Jefferson Lies: Still Searching for Christian America, Part Two
  • In this episode, I describe the National Prayer Breakfast movement, right-wing Christian nationalists, Reconstructionists, and non-denominational charismatic Christian nationalists.

  • Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Trump, Yet Again, Sources Baseless Attack on Judge’s Family Member From Far-Right Conspiracy Theorist Laura Loomer
  • Former President Donald Trump continued this week his controversial and widely condemned practice of publicly attacking the family members of judges overseeing his various trials.

  • Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Why it matters that Kari Lake won’t defend her statements in defamation suit
  • As Arizona’s Kari Lake prepares to lose a closely watched defamation case, she has quite a bit of company among Republican election deniers.

  • Roger Sollenberger @ The Daily Beast: Matt Schlapp’s Accuser Was Paid to Drop Sexual Assault Suit
  • The GOP operative who sued Matt Schlapp over allegations of sexual assault dropped his lawsuit, prompting Schlapp to take a victory lap. It’s more complicated, however.

  • Media Matters: Michael Knowles: “I think divorce should basically be outlawed”
  • “I care about divorce as a political fact. I think divorce should basically be outlawed, or it should be at least greatly restricted. I care about divorce in the sense that it’s a public matter.”

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