For almost 2 years, we awaited an update on Melissa Lucio, who was nearly executed in 2022. Turns out the DA quietly signed an agreement to vacate her conviction, admitting that the state hid exculpatory evidence. She should soon be free. w/Jordan Smith theintercept.com/2024/04/22/mel…

YES! CO is the *only* state running an abortion ballot measure that does not enshrine the state's compelling interest in pregnancy. Historic!! And before you say 'well that's CO,' please know the advocates have done the work to get here, over *decades* with serious opposition.

NEW: Ahead of next week's SCOTUS oral arguments re whether a fed law barring discrimination in emergency health care preempts a portion of Idaho's near total abortion ban, here's a bit of an explainer on the law and the situation in Idaho The Intercept

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Idaho goes to the Supreme Court to argue that pregnant people are second-class citizens interc.pt/3UlTxlt by Jordan Smith interc.pt/3UlTxlt

Good news, tho it took way too long

Kansas prosecutor who framed innocent man surrenders law license, will soon be disbarred kcur.org/news/2024-04-1…

Hello! I do not really post here anymore. But I spent a few years working on this one. I hope you'll watch it. youtube.com/watch?v=SOn3wb…

John Avlon has praised Republicans who fight unions, suggested there are reasonable restrictions on abortion, and snagged an endorsement from NY Dem Part Chair Jay Jacobs without specifying what exactly he’s running on. Welcome to the Dem primary in NY-1 theintercept.com/2024/04/15/no-…

NEW: Internal documents show Microsoft privately pitched using OpenAI's DALL-E image generator to the Department of Defense to help develop battlefield software—months before OpenAI reversed course on working with the military. theintercept.com/2024/04/10/mic…

NEW: Pamela Prices is calling bullshit on the attacks behind the push to recall her. “My predecessor was the district attorney for 13 years,” Price told me. “I haven’t seen anyone make a correlation between her policies and the rise and fall of crime.” theintercept.com/2024/04/02/pam…

The anti-abort doctors told SCOTUS they should totes ban mife because some day, somewhere the docs will be forced to do something to someone that will totally violate their conscience. Alito tried to help out but no one else seemed to being buying it

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Anti-abortion doctors struggle to explain mifepristone harms before Supreme Court theintercept.com/2024/03/27/abo… by Jordan Smith

Breaking: In a stunning decision announced just weeks before he was scheduled to face a jury, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has reached a deal with prosecutors to have the felony securities fraud charges against him dropped and his trial canceled. 1/
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Nothing to see here, just an Attorney General vowing to investigate the identities of everyone who contributes to an organization that criticizes him.

Emails I obtained via FOIA request show Elon Musk's Twitter/X was selling user data for government surveillance at the exact same time it was fighting government surveillance in court theintercept.com/2024/03/25/elo…

Excellent short and infuriating 🧵 from the indefatigable Liliana Segura

I wrote about an under-discussed aspect of the national TikTok freakout: Jacob Helberg, who has been instrumental in driving anti-TikTok fear in Congress, also works at Palantir, which stands to immensely benefit from US/China tensions or conflict theintercept.com/2024/03/21/chi…

As we ready for SCOTUS arguments next week in the mife case, it's a good time to recall that the umbrella grp challenging med abortion was incorporated in TX solely to ensure an anti-abortion judge would hear it, as The Intercept reported last yr.
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THREAD: How Republicans are meddling to support a challenger in the Democratic primary against Rep. Summer Lee theintercept.com/2024/03/20/sum…

I wrote about Willie Pye, the man Georgia plans to execute tonight. His lawyers call his case 'a shocking relic of the past' and I have to agree. theintercept.com/2024/03/20/geo…

Documents and recordings from the FBI's Gov. Whitmer kidnapping case raise questions about whether the FBI pursued a larger effort to encourage political violence ahead of the 2020 election, Eric L. VanDussen and I revealed in The Intercept. 🧵 bit.ly/3wNue2i