SUPPORT FOR LEGAL ABORTION RISES. A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll finds a significant shift in people changing their views, becoming more supportive of legal abortion. By almost 2 to 1, those surveyed oppose the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read about it here.
CHILDREN’S CLIMATE SUIT IN MONTANA. The first children’s lawsuit on climate change made it to trial this week. Montana is the nation’s fifth largest coal producer—it’s no small thing. NPR.
YOUNGER VOTERS INDICATE ELECTORAL STRENGTH FOR DEMOCRATS FOR YEARS TO COME. Millennials and younger siblings will be a majority by 2028, 60% by 2036. Their enthusiastic voting in 2022 has already made a significant difference. For more heartening demographics, click here.
THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT IS WORKING. New manufacturing construction is on pace to be close to $190 billion this year. In the entire decade of the 2010s, it was less than $100 billion. Ford Motor Company, with government support, is constructing three battery factories for electric cars in Kentucky and Tennessee. Government investment and growth in manufacturing are strongest in Republican-dominated states.
THE JANUARY 6TH INVESTIGATION IS HEATING UP. Special Council Jack Smith has compelled at least two fake electors and Trump’s Director of Election Day Operations to testify with limited immunity. A “parade of related witnesses” is appearing before the grand jury. (CNN) The special council is also looking at Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, and Jeffrey Clark.
I-95 REOPENED IN PHILADELPHIA AFTER TWO WEEKS. A tanker accident destroyed a stretch of this critical thoroughfare on June 11th and preliminary estimates said repairs would take months. A temporary fix is now in use. This is what we can do when we work together.
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS THE LOWEST in a generation.
THE MAR-A-LAGO CASE DISCOVERY MATERIAL includes 84 witnesses that have testified against Trump in the grand jury as well as additional recordings made with Trump’s permission. It’s a strong case.
THE AFL-CIO EMBRACES BIDEN. With 60 unions and 12.5 million workers, it’s the earliest endorsement of any presidential campaign cycle.
THE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BIDEN CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION LAW, enabling The Department of Homeland Security to “focus on arresting recent border crossers and those who commit violent crimes, rather than the millions of other non-citizens who have lived here for years.” Read about it here.