May 2022 News, Views
Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in May 2022
May 3
Top Headlines
- Washington Post, Justices poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaked draft opinion shows; Disclosure seen as extreme breach of modern Supreme Court protocol
- Washington Post, Opinion: The leaked draft Roe opinion is a disaster for the court, Ruth Marcus
- Washington Post, Roberts says court will investigate leak of draft Roe v. Wade opinion
- Washington Post, Majority of Americans say Roe v. Wade should be upheld, poll finds
- Washington Post, What would happen if Roe v. Wade is overturned
- Politico, Exclusive, Supreme Court has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows, Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward
- MSNBC, Politico Reporter On Obtaining Leaked SCOTUS Draft Opinion Overturning ‘Roe V. Wade
- New York Times, Live Updates: Biden Urges Lawmakers and Voters to Fight for Abortion Rights
- Washington Post, Live Updates: Mariupol steel plant evacuees near safer city
- Washington Post, Overview: Russia planning to annex new areas of Ukraine, U.S. finds
- New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: First Mariupol Steel Plant Evacuees Reach Relative Safety
- New York Times, Desperate Civilians Gather for Evacuation From Mariupol
- Washington Post, Ukraine Updates: Russia-Ukraine war live updates Nancy Pelosi met Zelensky in Kyiv; Mariupol evacuation push resumes
Pro-Trump Capitol Insurrection, Elections Claims
Washington Post, Former NYPD officer Thomas Webster guilty in first Jan. 6 police assault trial- Washington Post, Analysis: The status of key investigations involving Donald Trump, Matt Zapotosky
- New York Times, Georgia Jury to Consider Whether Trump Illegally Interfered in 2020 Election
- Politico, Jan. 6 committee asks three pro-Trump GOP lawmakers for testimony
- Washington Post, Editorial: Congress must act to prevent an election coup in 2024
- Washington Post, Judge rejects RNC bid to block fundraising, email data from Jan. 6 panel
- Associated Press via HuffPost, Evidence Mounts Of GOP Involvement In Trump Election Schemes
U.S. Law, Courts, Security
- New York Times, Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration
- Associated Press via Politico, Supreme Court rules against Boston in Christian flag case
- Washington Post, Kathy Boudin (1943–2022): Weather Underground outlaw dies at 78
- Washington Post, Ex-Philadelphia officer charged with murder in killing of 12-year-old
U.S. Politics, Governance, Economy, Disasters
- Washington Post, Analysis: Overturning Roe v. Wade could upend the midterms
- New York Times, In Ohio Senate Fight, G.O.P. Shows Strains of Its Identity Crisis
- New York Times, What to Watch in Tuesday’s Primary Elections in Ohio and Indiana
- Washington Post, As Ohioans head to polls, a Senate primary tests Trump’s sway
- New York Times, As Feinstein Declines, Democrats Struggle to Manage an Open Secret
- Washington Post, Central U.S.
