Republican members of the Oregon Senate extended their boycott of Senate proceedings into a second day, delaying action by the majority Democrats on bills on gun safety, abortion rights and gender-affirming health care.
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work in 2012, but a conservative activist instructed her name be left off billing paperwork, The Washington Post reported Thursday. Leonard Leo, a powerful figure in conservative circles who was the vice president of the Federalist Society, instructed pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a conservative nonprofit group $25,000 and “give” the money to Ginni Thomas, according to documents reviewed by the newspaper. Conway billed the group, the Judicial Education Project, that day, citing “supplement for constitution polling and opinion consulting” as the service.
A new deep-dive survey on abortion reveals how resonant the issue will continue to be in the coming presidential election cycle... The polling, conducted by Civiqs for Daily Kos, found that 85% of registered voters are closely following abortion news (44% very, 41% fairly closely)—the very issue Republicans repeatedly promised would fade into the rear view mirror by Election Day 2022. Now, just 13% of respondents say they aren't closely following abortion news and only 2% say they're not following it all. . . The survey also revealed that pundits fundamentally underestimated voters’ ability to distinguish between their personal views and the policies they support. Roughly equal numbers of people who were personally against abortion said it should be legal vs. illegal (27% legal, 26% illegal). That finding completely upends the assumption that everyone who personally considers themselves "pro-life" also supports banning the procedure. Combined with the 42% of voters supporting the baseline right to an abortion, 69% total believe abortion should be legal—a net 43-point advantage for team legal.
Trump Says Stars Get Away With Sexual Assault—‘Unfortunately or Fortunately’
More Republicans (24%) prefer a presidential candidate who supports the people who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 than a candidate who criticizes them (15%), according to a new CBS News poll. 60% prefer a candidate who does not comment on Jan. 6 either way. And 61% want a candidate who claims Trump won the 2020 election.
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