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Today…
Let’s start with something nice. It’s National Horchata Day.
In 1789, the first Supreme Court was established. In 2020… well. You know.
Supreme Court
The nomination
Timing? Could be Friday. Most reports say Saturday - specifically, 5pm ET Saturday.
NBC | Trump thinks a Supreme Court nomination vote is good politics. He's wrong. | David Mark
New York Times | Trump Faces Challenges Even in Red States, Poll Shows, as Women Favor Biden | Jonathan Martin, Alexander Burns
Time | Trump Allies Weigh Which Supreme Court Pick Would Help Him Win The Election | Brian Bennett, Tessa Berenson
Cosmopolitan | Trump's Vow to Replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg With "a Woman" Is a Hollow, Misogynist Insult | Laura Bassett
ACB
Daily Beast | Everything Democrats Care About Is In Danger with Justice Amy Coney Barrett | Jay Michaelson
Democracy Now! | Who Is Amy Barrett? Front-Runner to Replace RBG Is Anti-Abortion Member of Patriarchal Catholic Group | Amy Goodman
GoMag | SCOTUS Frontrunner Amy Coney Barrett Would Be Devastating For The LGBTQ+ Community | Isabelle Lichtenstein
Los Angeles Times | If Amy Coney Barrett is nominated and confirmed, it will be a shame for the Supreme Court and the country | Harry Litman
Newsweek | Amy Coney Barrett on Abortion, Roe v. Wade and Judicial Precedent in Her own Words | Emily Mae Czachor (as translated from the pre-Vatican II Latin…)
Newsweek | What Amy Coney Barrett Has Said About ACA | Jacob Jarvis
ICYMI ACB IS CATHOLIC
ABC | Supreme Court favorite Judge Amy Coney Barrett faces renewed attention for religious affiliation | Lucien Bruggeman
Bloomberg | In Trump Court Front-Runner, Religious Right Sees One of Its Own | Lydia Wheeler, David Yaffe-Bellany
Daily Beast | Can GOP Use SCOTUS Fav to Peel Off Biden’s Catholic Support? | Scott Bixby
POLITICO | ‘This is the ultimate base play’: Trump looks for Catholic vote from Court fight | Gabby Orr
POLITICO | Judge's faith becomes early flashpoint in Supreme Court fight | Ben Schreckinger
The Other Noms
Above the Law | Barbara Lagoa: Who Is She And What Fresh Hell Would She Bring To The Supreme Court? | Kathryn Rubino
Bloomberg | Lagoa Is Puzzle Beyond Florida, Limiting SCOTUS Prospects
Newsy | A Look at Potential Supreme Court Nominee Judge Allison Jones Rushing | Amber Strong
SCOTUS & Abortion
Chicago Tribune | How to overcome a conservative Supreme Court and protect abortion rights | Steve Chapman
New York Times | Biden Warns Supreme Court Would Gut Women’s Rights if G.O.P. Seats Nominee | Sydney Ember (In the same way I avoid the word “targeting” when I’m writing on gun violence, I try to avoid any form of “gutting” when it comes to repro. But that’s me.)
NPR | What The SCOTUS Vacancy Means for Abortion — And The 2020 Election | Brianna Scott, Lee Hale and Brent Baughman
Washington Post | Democrats hope Ginsburg’s passing will galvanize youth vote on reproductive rights | Jacqueline Alemany
SCOTUS & LGBTQ
The American Independent | What another Trump Supreme Court pick would mean for LGBTQ rights | Casey Quinlan
Washington Blade | Ginsburg's death leaves LGBTQ rights on Supreme Court vulnerable to religious claims | Chris Johnson
SCOTUS & Etc
Bloomberg | Kavanaugh Emerges as Man-in-the-Middle With Supreme Court Set to Shift Right | Greg Stohr
Slate | Why Obamacare Might Survive—Even If Trump Gets His New Supreme Court Justice | Jordan Weissmann
Vox | Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement will help reshape economic policy | Matthew Yglesias
The Fight (or Surrender, TBD)
The Hill | Democrats shoot down talk of expanding Supreme Court | Jordain Carney
Slate | Democrats can still play hardball. Here’s how. | Mary Harris
Washington Post | Capitulating to the right won’t end the judicial wars | E.J. Dionne Jr.
Abortion
AP | Trump works to win over Catholic voters on abortion issue | Kevin Freking
President Donald Trump promised Wednesday to sign an executive order that would require health care providers to provide medical care to all babies born alive as he makes an election-year push to appeal to voters who oppose abortion.
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LGBTQ
LGBTQ Nation | Kierra Johnson will become the first Black executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force | Molly Sprayregen
The Advocate | Rea Carey on Why She's Leaving the National LGBTQ Task Force | Neal Broverman
Bitch | Heteronormative Healthcare Is a Huge Disservice to Queer Women | Rachel Lewis
Bitch | On the Specific Disaster of the Bi Internet | Rachel Lewis
LGBTQ Nation | GOP Senator introduces bill that could require genital exams for girls competing in school sports | Alex Bollinger
The Advocate | Sen. Kelly Loeffler Attacks Trans Youth in Desperate Election Bid | Trudy Ring
The Mary Sue | Judith Butler Is Causing Gender Trouble for “Gender Critical” Feminists | Princess Weekes
Mother Jones | Mike Pompeo Brought His Backward View of Human Rights to the UN. Europe Wasn’t Buying It. | Dan Spinelli
Vox | How anonymity on Twitter and Reddit helps transgender people | Emily VanDerWerff
Vox | How voter ID laws are used to disenfranchise trans voters, explained | Katelyn Burns
Pregnancy & Parenting
Maternal Mortality
Refinery29 | The Black Maternal Mortality Crisis Deserves Radical Solutions | Kimberly Seals Allers
Pandemic Parenting
Boston Globe | What RBG would tell your kids’ teacher | Stephanie Ebbert
CNBC | Grappling with childcare while working from home? How employers plan to help | Darla Mercado
Inc. | 1 in 4 Parents Is Working While Caregiving. Here's Why Employers Need to Rethink Their Child Care Benefits | Sara Mauskopf
Vox | The future of the economy hinges on fixing America’s child care system | Anna North
Working Mother | As an Exec Mom, the Pandemic Showed Me I Didn’t Need My ‘Always On’ Persona | Erica Volini
Reproductive Health & Justice
ICE Detention
Prism | Detained women report they were inexplicably sent to doctor accused of sterilization | Tina Vasquez
The Mary Sue | One Week Later, Republicans’ Silence on Allegations of Forced Sterilizations by ICE Is Telling | Kylie Cheung
Colorlines | Reproductive Justice Activist Laura Jiménez on America's History of Forced Sterilizations | Ayana Byrd
ACA
Vox | Obamacare made birth control and IUDs more accessible. Trump changed all that. | Anna North
The Washington | Trump looks for ways to win over voters on health care after failing to deliver on promises | Josh Dawsey, Yasmeen Abutaleb
Work & Money
NPR | Cost Of Racism: U.S. Economy Lost $16 Trillion Because Of Discrimination, Bank Says | Adedayo Akala
Forbes | Inequality Has Cost The U.S. Economy Trillions Of Dollars Over The Past 20 Years | Niall McCarthy
USA Today | What's the big idea? 3 proposed solutions for reducing economic inequality. | Scott Winship, Wells King, Josh Bevins
Bloomberg | Wall Street Women Say There’s More to Be Done 100 Years After Suffrage | Melissa Karsh, Daniela Sirtori-Cortina
USA Today | COVID-19 has narrowed the divide between Democrats and Republicans on ways to support workers | Jessica Menton
California
New York Times | Meet the State Senator Shifting California’s Workplace Culture | Alisha Gupta
Sacramento Bee | How a breastfeeding lawmaker exposed what moms have to balance in the California Capitol | Hannah Wiley