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A weekly roundup of TNR's political coverage
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction
It still feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land.
by Melissa Gira Grant
Ron DeSantis’s Ghoulish Embrace of American Psycho Patrick Bateman
The increasingly hopeless presidential candidate is now clinging to a weird right-wing meme in the hopes of winning over the misogynistic-sociopath vote.
by Robert Schlesinger
A Judge Says Biden Can’t Scold Social Media Firms. That Makes Zero Sense.
His ruling seems more interested in ideological grievance than the First Amendment.
by Rob Pegoraro
House Republicans’ Impeachment Fever Is a Gift to Democrats
The GOP’s nutjob squad is going after Biden and a growing list of administration officials. If they keep it up, they’ll suffer the consequences in 2024.
by Walter Shapiro
How the Supreme Court’s Idea of Religious Freedom Could Resegregate the Country
The court once held that the Civil Rights Act trumped religious freedom. After these recent decisions, that’s over. The consequences could be enormous.
by Brynn Tannehill
The Truth About the GOP and the Deficit: All They Do Is Raise It
They talk deficit reduction. But what they actually do—time after time after time—is raise it via corporate giveaways. Here’s the latest example.
by Timothy Noah
DeSantis Just Bragged About Open Bigotry, and the GOP Will Follow
His appalling anti-LGBTQ ad set a new standard—celebration of open ostracism and bigotry. History tells us that this will become the new GOP position.
by Michael Tomasky

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From The Ticker:
Is This the Weirdest Ad in American Political History?
Struggling in the polls, Ron DeSantis is leaning in to homophobia.
by Prem Thakker
MTG Has Been Officially Kicked Out of the Right-Wing Freedom Caucus
Marjorie Taylor Greene and her conspiracy theories are apparently no longer radical enough for the Freedom Caucus.
by Tori Otten
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Calls for Lifting Taboo on Quoting Hitler
Mark Robinson made the declaration at the far-right Moms for Liberty summit.
by Tori Otten
Did Jamaal Bowman Just Do the Greatest RFK Jr. Subtweet?
The New York representative seems to have called out Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his pathetic weight lifting video.
by Prem Thakker

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