- David Folkenflik @ NPR: Kari Lake says OAN's far-right coverage will fuel Voice of America
Senior presidential adviser Kari Lake appears to have resolved any doubts about what she wants to do with the Voice of America.
- Katherine Stewart @ The New Republic: How Trump Will Use “Anti-Christian Bias” to Entrench His Power
On April 22, Attorney General Pam Bondi hosted the first meeting of the “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias in the Federal Government.” Attendees included the secretaries of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, Veterans Affairs, Education, and Labor, as well as over a dozen high-ranking officials in the administration. Those attending didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that no evidence of such widespread bias exists. That’s because they weren’t there to solve a problem but to create one. The Task Force claimed to be standing up for “religious liberty,” but its real goal is to amplify the persecution complex of the Trump administration’s Christian nationalist allies and base—and then to use groundless claims of religious discrimination as the basis for the suppression of dissent.
- Alice Miranda Ollstein @ Politico: ‘Rolling Thunder’: Inside conservatives’ strategy to curb abortion pill access
Abortion opponents hope a new report will spur the GOP to ban abortion pills and defund Planned Parenthood.
- Ari Berman @ Mother Jones: North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails
Democrat Allison Riggs wins the North Carolina Supreme Court race, but the GOP scheme to overturn the election will do lasting damage to democracy.
- Jordan Green @ Raw Story: Trump's pick for top DC prosecutor told AR-15-toting sect US institutions must fall
Ed Martin, Donald Trump’s embattled pick for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, once told an AR-15-toting fringe religious group that institutions preventing Trump from overturning the 2020 election would fall like Jericho, according to footage reviewed by Raw Story but now seemingly removed from the internet by the group concerned.
- Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Mike Johnson Brushes Off Trump’s ‘I Don’t Know’ About Upholding the Constitution Comment: He Isn’t ‘Expected to be an Expert’
CNN’s Manu Raju pressed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on President Donald Trump’s headline-grabbing comments on Meet the Press over the weekend, where he said he was unsure if he has an obligation to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
