Today on TAP: These efforts will backfire on the right—but produce a lot of suffering along the way.
mifepristone
Pharma Cash Built the Conservative Court Majority That Now Harms Pharma
Drug industry CEOs angrily dispute Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on mifepristone. But they spent millions on the Senate Republicans who confirmed him.
Resisting Kacsmaryk
Today on TAP: In Los Angeles, both the DA and the sheriff say there’ll be no arrests or prosecutions when women take abortion pills, regardless of court rulings.
Federal Judges Explain Things to Me
SCOTUS and Judge Kacsmaryk force us to pose the question: Where did it all go wrong?
How Biden Can Fight Back Against Lawless Judges
By seeking declaratory judgments on its rules, the administration can preempt right-wing efforts at forum-shopping.
One Liberal Senator Fights Back Against Judicial Tyranny
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has had it with a feral Trump judge.
The Inevitable Prosecutions of Women Who Obtain Abortions
The attorney general of Alabama finally went where the logic of the anti-abortion movement has long pointed.
Hollywood’s Role in Stigmatizing Abortion
And its responsibility now
In the Wake of ‘Dobbs,’ Biden Leans on Familiar Excuses for Inaction
‘Rooseveltian resolve’ this is not.
The Hidden Legal Abortion Provider
The United States Postal Service can deliver abortion medications through the mail, and it’s not that easy for anti-abortion states to stop it, though they will try.

