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Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at Jamie Raskin as he grills her over downplaying the Jan. 6 attack

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) clashed during a House Rules committee hearing on Friday.

While questioning Greene, Raskin asked her if she thinks it's constitutional for states to ban private militias, to which she replied that since the federal government "isn't protecting our border," they shouldn't be banned.

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Conservatives melt down after Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy blasts 'insane' abortion ruling

Dave Portnoy, the founder of the Barstool Sports digital media empire, has been hailed as a rising star in the conservative world. But Portnoy stirred up anger on Friday after releasing a video in which he blasted the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.

“To me, this is just pure insanity,” Portnoy said in the video, which he posted to Twitter. “We are going backwards in time. We are literally going backwards in time.”

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'God made the decision': Trump deflects credit for ruling to overturn abortion rights

Donald Trump praised the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade but declined to claim credit during an interview with Fox News.

"God made the decision," Trump told Fox News.

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Jamie Raskin mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene to her face at tense hearing: 'Sounds like you want to arm' fetuses

Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-MD) on Friday mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to her face after she went on a mini-tirade about legalized abortion.

During a discussion at the House Rules Committee that was initially about the Second Amendment in the United States, Greene said that more Americans should want to take up arms because it would deter mass shooters from entering into schools.

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Exclusive: Lawmakers join protest outside Supreme Court over abortion ruling

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Throngs of protesters, including some Democratic lawmakers, marched on the U.S. Supreme Court after the right-wing majority struck down abortion rights.

The justices ruled 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade, and protesters chanting "we won't go back" walked to the barriers that have been placed around the court.

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Anti-abortion activist dodges CNN host's question about whether women who get abortions deserve punishment

An anti-abortion activist was asked by CNN's Erica Hill whether she favored punishing women who get abortions on Friday, and she twice dodged the question.

During a discussion about the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, Hill asked Mary Szoch of the Family Research Council about the measures she was prepared to take to enforce bans against abortion in the United States.

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Watch: Legal analyst warns the Supreme Court has just unleashed ‘legal chaos’

Speaking on CNN this Friday, legal analyst Steve Vladek addressed the questions about both the immediate and long term implications of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, determining that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion.

The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 abortion decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

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Illinois Republican 'trying to butter up the crazy right' in primary battle with Hitler-quoting Trump endorsee

A mainstream Republican is facing off against a Hitler-quoting first-term Republican in a newly drawn Illinois congressional district.

Rep. Rodney Davis has represented a swing district in central Illinois since 2012 as one of the GOP's more moderate lawmakers, but the state lost a House seat after the 2020 census and redrew its congressional map to place him in a primary battle against hardcore conservative Rep. Mary Miller -- which drove the veteran lawmaker to the right, reported The Daily Beast.

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Undercover feds arrest Nazi-loving intel contractor for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 insurrection

A Naval reservist who had held a top-level security clearance – along with Nazi sympathies – was arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor charges in connection with the January 6 riot, the Washington Post reported.

In court filings unsealed today, federal prosecutors argued that Hatchet M. Speed posed an “alarming” threat to public safety, the Post reported. Speed faces charges of illegal entry, disorderly conduct and parading in the U.S. Capitol.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s team has to 'rush' her away from Supreme Court after crowd gets rowdy: reports

In the wake of the Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that established the constitutional right to abortion in 1973, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene made an appearance outside the Court, gloating that the ruling was an "answer to prayer."

"We're going to protect life," Greene can heard saying in one video while being ushered away from an increasingly aggressive crowd.

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Exclusive: 'Expect pissed off constituents': Democrats vow to fight after SCOTUS overturns Roe

WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressional Democrats angrily denounced the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn a 50-year precedent set by Roe v. Wade, and vowed to continue fighting for women's reproductive rights.

In an interview with Raw Story, Rep. Madeline Dean (D-PA) accused the Supreme Court of "taking us back more than 50 years" and vowed to fight back.

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Mo Brooks texts email to CBS containing instructions from Donald Trump on how to request pardons

On Thursday evening, CBS News Chief Election and Campaign Correspondent Robert Costa posted a January 11th, 2021 email sent by United States Representative Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) to then-Special Assistant to the President and Oval Office Operations Coordinator Molly Michael on behalf of himself and congressional allies with instructions from former President Donald Trump on how they should request pardons for their roles in the January 6th, 2021 attempted coup.

The extraordinary memo was texted to CBS by Brooks and contains numerous typos as well as references to constitutional clauses that do not exist.

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GOP suffered 'profoundly embarrassing day' after Jan. 6 hearing exposed party's 'seditionist liars': conservative

Republicans cannot possibly support former President Donald Trump or any of his allies who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election after the public revelations from the latest House select committee hearing, according to conservative commentator Charlie Sykes.

Some of Trump's top Justice Department officials testified that the former president pressured them to declare the election corrupt, so he could try to hold onto power, and other witnesses revealed that GOP lawmakers who assisted his attempted coup -- including Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene -- had asked for pardons before he left office.

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