I asked Alabama Sen Tommy Tuberville for his response to the AL Supreme Court's ruling that has resulted in clinics there pausing IVF treatments.
TT: We need to have more kids...And I thought this was the right thing to do.
DB: But IVF is used to have more children...
WATCH:
🚨🚨 BREAKING -- THE HOUSE HAS VOTED TO REMOVE KEVIN MCCARTHY AS SPEAKER.
8 Republicans and all Democrats present voted to oust McCarthy after 269 days as speaker.
216-210
The House, once again, is in a state of chaos.
Question at Calvacante press conference: "Sir, was there any concern he would team up with another small man to step inside a trench coat Little Rascals style?"
Answer: "No."
Former President Trump is expected to appear for his arraignment on the 15th floor on Tuesday - it’s the same courtroom where Weinstein was convicted in 2020, and across the hall from the courtroom where The Trump Org. trial took place in 2022, which resulted in guilty verdicts.
TRUMP INDICTMENT LATEST:
• Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former President Donald Trump
• Trump’s attorneys have been notified that he has been indicted
https://t.co/95w80ESmQS
Following the guilty verdict, Alex Murdaugh’s lawyers attempted to make a motion for a mistrial, which the judge promptly denied, saying:
‘The evidence of guilt is overwhelming. I deny the motion.’
This model obviously oversimplifies, but I think useful: Trump is pushing further into what had long been the least crowded quadrant of US politics. More like Old Southern Democrats than Grover Norquistian small-governmentism.