Politico's 10 Top Stories Of The Week

The Supreme Court is poised to issue a decision punting on one of the term’s most closely watched abortion cases. The decision will leave for another day—one not just months before a presidential election—the question of whether pregnant people have the right to an abortion when it is the only treatment that will stabilize a medical emergency.

Armored vehicles rammed into the doors of Bolivia’s government palace Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt, but President Luis Arce vowed to stand firm and named a new army commander who ordered troops to stand down. The soldiers pulled back along with a line of military vehicles as hundreds of Arce’s supporters rushed to the square outside the palace, waving Bolivian flags and cheering. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Arce, surrounded by ministers, waved at the throngs of supporters who sung the national anthem.

U. S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene received flack on Wednesday after she shared interview footage of an Austin-based drag performer declaring women and children need to be protected from “men pretending to be women.” The problem— the performer, Bridgette Bandit, was born a woman. Bandit, who often performs as Dolly Parton, was featured on CNN on Tuesday morning for her activism efforts in Washington D.

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned Friday that her right-wing colleagues' finding that American citizens have no right to have their foreign spouses admitted to the United States will disproportionately harm same-sex couples—and could foreshadow a future reversal of federal LGBTQ+ marriage equality. The justices ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in Department of State v.

Speaker Mike Johnson held a presser and complained that President Biden will have a three to one advantage in the CNN debate even if he's hopped up on energy drinks. The only fair debate moderators would come from Christian nationalists and white supremacists from OANN, Stew Peters, and Sean Hannity. Johnson wildly speculated that the country would hear a positive vision for America. Hahaha. Johnson: Look, my summary is this. It doesn't matter if he drinks a whole gallon of energy drinks.

I must have missed where these 16 Nobel Prize winners predicted that Biden’s policies would cause the inflation it did.