With the White House MIA, blue states with arcane abortion laws on the books are scrambling to block them. But in Arkansas, it's a question of which restrictive law would stand.
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He’s relying on a mysterious internal White House council’s progress, but their work has been conducted almost entirely in secret, and even his fiercest defenders are in the dark.
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Her office said she has not been in close contact with President Joe Biden.
“It has everything to do with immigration politics and has nothing to deal with public health,” says Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute at Georgetown Law Center.
“[W]e think it’s legal, and we want to make clear that it is—but the best way to do that might be to drop it," one administration official told The Daily Beast.
“Opponents of marriage equality are failing against this rising tide of LGBTQ acceptance, but they’re still desperate to try,” says Barbara Simon, a spokesperson for GLAAD.