Pro-Lifers’ Political Irrelevance May Be Good for the Movement Threatening to withhold votes from Trump on pro-life grounds is a risky gambit: If pro-lifers sit out the election or vote third-party and Trump wins, they reveal their own political irrelevance. 09/8/2024 - 7:43 pm | View Link
On September 17, 1787, the US Constitution was signed but was not yet binding until nine of the thirteen states signed on to it.
James Madison is the father of the Constitution and became the fourth US president.
Beginning on December 7, five states—Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia and Connecticut—ratified it in quick succession.
Vice President Kamala Harris has lost no time blaming former President Donald Trump for the death of a single mother in Georgia after hospital doctors, working under the constraints of an abortion ban, delayed treating her catastrophic infection.
The story of Amber Nicole Thurman’s death in August 2022—and its connection to the six-week abortion ban enacted in Georgia the month before she died—was first reported by ProPublica’s Kavitha Surana.
On Monday, JD Vance wrote a more than 1,200 word post on X in response to a second apparent assassination attempt targeting Donald. In it, Vance said the “threat of violence is disgraceful,” called on people to “reject political violence,” and said he admired President Joe Biden for “calling for peace and calm.”
Vance’s rejection of political violence would be more persuasive had he not recently endorsed a book that celebrates right-wing political violence and dictators who committed some of the most notorious atrocities of the 20th century.