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Eyal Press writes in The New Yorker. Audm subscribers can listen to that article.)In the rest of today’s newsletter, we look more closely at the 10 states.Furthest alongInitiatives seem most likely to happen soon in two states.In Ohio, a coalition of abortion rights groups is collecting signatures to place an initiative on the ballot this year that would protect access through roughly the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. For now, most abortions remain legal in Ohio, thanks to a court ruling blocking a ban.In South Dakota, organizers are optimistic that they can collect the signatures needed for an initiative next year. It is a compromise measure that would seek to reinstate the minimum access required by the Roe v. Wade decision. All abortions would be legal in the first trimester (roughly 12 weeks), and some would be in the second trimester.Early effortsIn several other states, efforts have begun, but they’re less advanced.In Missouri, advocates have not yet settled on one approach. Some petitions — an early step to putting an initiative on the ballot — would protect most abortion access until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Others would be narrower and let the state enact parental consent laws.In Florida, where Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a near-total ban, advocates are hoping to place an initiative on the ballot that would allow most abortions until 24 weeks. But the state’s pro-marijuana movement helps highlight the slowness of the effort: Organizers of a 2024 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana have already raised $30 million and collected nearly all the required signatures — while organizers of an abortion initiative are just getting started.Arizona has tough rules for ballot initiatives, requiring hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Although Senate action on policing reform has proven difficult, from the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act to more targeted reforms, I will never stop working to build a broad coalition to enact the changes that will make our nation safer, stronger, and more just.

– Cory Booker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is urgent and necessary that we enact this omnibus package, so that we may keep government open and delivering for America’s families.

– Nancy Pelosi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21; strengthen background checks; enact safe storage and red flag laws; repeal the immunity, that protect gun manufacturers from liability; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Americans have a choice right now between two paths reflecting two very different sets of values, the MAGA Republicans are counting on you to be as frustrated by the pace of progress, which they've done everything they can to slow down, that you will hand power over to them... so they can enact their extreme agenda.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[H]e waited far too long to enact sanctions that would deter Putin in some way, our president should not be telling our adversaries what we won’t do.

– Mike Garcia

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way they dealt with it in 2014/15, the way they'll deal with it now, is just to take inflation on the chin, enact substitution policies, and use the oil revenue to keep public spending going.

– Charles Lichfield

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Tonight San José became the first city in the United States to enact an ordinance to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance, and to invest funds generated from fees paid by gun owners into evidence-based initiatives to reduce gun violence and gun harm.

– Sam Liccardo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess President Donald Trump. I can not make up my mind — it is made up for me. I can not live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact — I can only submit to the edict of others.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is Russian ransomware diplomacy, it is a signal to the United States : If you don't enact severe sanctions against us for invasion of Ukraine, we will continue to cooperate with you on ransomware investigations.

– Dmitri Alperovitch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The DC Hospital Association, where I work, has asked the DC government for permission for hospitals to enact crisis standards of care, and that's coming to every city in the United States.

– Jonathan Reiner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is time for the president and the leaders in Congress to enact the Equal Rights Amendment. They need to do it f---ing now, this is the most dangerous time to be a woman in America.

– Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It lends itself to dysfunction, we should have a system where you send a party to DC, and they are able to enact an agenda.

– Emily Kirkland

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of that because they're empowered now by the state to kind of like enact vigilante justice.

– Makayla Montoya

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Inviting the former President, who incited the January 6th insurrection in an effort to overthrow the government and prevent the peaceful transition of power, is nothing short of a slap in the face to South Texans, instead of coming down to try and divide people by misrepresenting the border community on the national stage, I urge the Governor to work together to enact meaningful policy solutions that will bring real border security.

– Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As President Biden moved to enact his radical agenda.

– Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Consent decrees are sometimes appropriate to enact a shared goal. These agreements are not one-sided. The Justice Department has been given these tools by Congress and I believe it is important that The Justice Department consider all tools at The Justice Department disposal when tailoring resolutions.

– Dwayne Crawford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It can’t be discounted that many of these background checks for the purchase of a firearm are attributed to threats by the Biden administration to enact the most radical and far-reaching gun control agenda ever proposed, americans are continuing to purchase firearms at a blistering pace.

– Mark Oliva

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our caucus believes that the fairest easiest and most bipartisan way to come to an organizing resolution is to enact the 2001 agreement that senators Lott and Daschle came to in a bipartisan way back then. We, our caucus, is strongly opposed to any extraneous provisions.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

So when you compare the fact that Joe Biden has been absolutely terrible for the black communities in this country and hes telling you if you dont vote for him, youre not black versus Donald Trump, who is actionable, actually enact and substantive change for these communities, i think Joe Biden is probably doing pretty poorly with the black community in this country.

– Eric Trump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For that reason, lawmakers need to act now to enact a direct renter assistance program.

– Doug Bibby

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As Congress seeks to enact a uniform comprehensive data privacy and security framework, thoughtful and targeted legislative efforts, like this bill, will address specific consumer privacy violations resulting from COVID-19.

– Jerry Moran

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Northam is sending two other proposals back to state lawmakers with recommended changes. One would allow local authorities to regulate firearms at certain buildings and events, and the other would ban those subject to protective orders from possessing firearms and require them to turn over firearms within 24 hours, according to the newspaper. The measures come as the Democratic-led General Assembly has taken efforts to enact a slew of gun control measures following a mass shooting in Virginia Beach last year. Republicanstate lawmakers have pushed back. In July, they ended a special session called by Northam to take up gun control measures in 90 minutes.The gun lobby was able to water down some of the bills backed by the governor. While we still dont like them, theyre not as bad as they once were.

– Van Cleave

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The pictures coming out of Wisconsin are troubling. This is unnecessary and harmful, if we do not enact electoral procedures that are health sensitive, we will be putting the well-being of all Americans -- no matter their political preference -- at risk.

– Eric Holder

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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