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Where Things Stand: RFK Jr. Applies His Just-Asking-Questions Gambit To Abortion Politics Too
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Upholding Kacsmaryk’s Decision Would Invite Challenges To Vaccines, Contraception, Experts Warn 
How Misinformation About COVID Vaccines And Pregnancy Took Root Early On And Why It Won’t Go Away
The Insurrection Evangelist Pushing To Bring Anti-Vax Trucker Protests To The US
Leigh Dundas, an attorney who appeared at an anti-vax panel run by Sen. Ron Johnson last month, is a player in the efforts to organize a U.S. convoy.
Three US Border Crossings Closed As Canadian Anti-Vax Trucker Protests Escalate
Where Things Stand: Wendy Rogers Inserts Herself Into Canadian Trucker Protests, With A Racist Twist
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Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers (R) has made quite the name for herself in the far-right, Big Lie corners of the Republican Party in the last year. As a key figure in the state’s phony election “audit,” Rogers knows how to aggressively captivate her audience.

She’s injected herself into several election-overturning causes in recent months. In the waning days of the sketch audit of 2020 election results in Arizona’s Maricopa County, Rogers suggested imprisoning members of the Republican-majority board of supervisors when the county rejected the state Senate’s subpoena for additional election-related materials. The Trumpian state lawmaker has since proposed legislation that would make it easier for the governor’s office to investigate so-called instances of election “fraud,” setting state Republicans up to try to Big Lie their way out of any 2022 disappointments for the party.

Now, she’s getting involved in the Canadian anti-vax trucker protests in Ottawa that have devolved into a reckless display of Big Rig power over the course of the last 12 days with thousands of protesters flooding the area surrounding Ottawa’s Parliament building.

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Five Points On The Canadian Anti-Vax Trucker Protests Feeding The Far-Right Media Machine
Conservative Justices’ Disdain For Agency Power Could Have Implications Far Beyond Vaccine Mandate Decisions Prime Badge
SCOTUS Shoots Down Employer Vaccine Requirement; Lets Health-Care Worker Mandate Proceed
Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh were in the majority on both rulings.
Listen To This: Looking to the Court

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, with the Senate all but paralyzed, Josh and Kate discuss the Supreme Court’s posture on the Biden administration’s use of agency power.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

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