Montana’s Republican Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen certified a ballot measure on Tuesday night that will ask voters on Nov. 5 to amend their state constitution to “expressly provide a right to make and carry out decisions about one’s own pregnancy, including the right to abortion.”

Montana law currently prohibits abortion beyond “fetal viability,” which the state defines as beginning at 24 weeks gestation. The ballot measure if passed, however, would effectively ban the GOP legislature from passing any laws that limit abortion before that cutoff. It would also keep the government from holding abortionists accountable for misconduct like ending life in the womb late in pregnancy.

“CI-128 prevents the government from penalizing patients, healthcare providers, or anyone who assists someone in exercising their right to make and carry out voluntary decisions about their pregnancy,” the amendment states.

The proposal doesn’t simply ostracize the 55 percent of Americans who think ending life in the womb beyond the start of the second trimester, around 14 weeks gestation, should be “generally illegal.” It also uses vague language to deliberately prohibit the state from interfering with abortions at any point in pregnancy as long as a “healthcare professional determines it is medically indicated to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.”

This sweeping modification to the state’s already radical permissions means practically any abortion could be construed to meet the “medically necessary” qualifier required for taxpayer funding under Montana’s Medicaid program.

“Montana allows abortion until a baby reaches viability and that apparently isn’t

Georgia’s Republican attorney general announced Monday his office would not conduct an investigation into Fulton County for its conduct during the 2020 election. The Georgia State Election Board (SEB) ruled in May that Fulton County repeatedly violated election law during the 2020 election.

Attorney General Christopher Carr said in a post on X on Aug. 1 that the state would “investigate specific claims of voter fraud.”

“Based on the facts and evidence, we stand ready to prosecute any voter fraud found in the State of Georgia,” Carr’s post continued.

The State of Georgia will investigate specific claims of voter fraud.

Based on the facts & the evidence, we stand ready to prosecute any voter fraud found in the State of Georgia.

— GA AG Chris Carr (@Georgia_AG) August 1, 2024

Six days later the SEB voted 3-2 to ask Carr to investigate Fulton County, with members of the board specifically referring to a complaint labeled SEB 2023-025, which was filed by Kevin Moncla and Joseph Rossi. The complaint included allegations of roughly 3,000 “duplicate ballots” and nearly 18,000 votes “for which no physical ballot was in evidence.” In May, the SEB passed a motion finding that the county double-scanned 3,075 ballots, though it did not rule on the 17,852 votes allegedly missing ballot images or other allegations made in the complaint.

The resolution says if Carr does not investigate then the board can hire an independent investigator, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.

But in a letter to SEB Chairman John

Have you noticed that “gaffe-“prone vice presidential candidate Tim Walz misspeaks quite a bit, tends to use “sloppy” rhetoric, and is regularly compelled to “clarify” his statements? Really, Walz lies a lot. Yet, a political press that not very long ago featured “lie counters” on chyrons for Donald Trump is awash in euphemisms to cover for Walz’s deceptions.  

It’s one thing to exaggerate your political accomplishments or lie about your political opponents. Walz isn’t the first politician to spin some fiction about a drunk driving arrest. All in the game.

Lying about serving in war, on the other hand, is a shameful appropriation of bravery and honor. Years ago, it was unlikely a candidate could recover from the indignity of misleading the public about his military service. Today, apparently, it’s no big deal. Walz, picked by Kamala Harris two weeks ago as a running mate, won’t even answer any genuine questions about his history of misleading voters.

And make no mistake, Walz isn’t being “accused” of lying by the GOP, as so many in the press contend. He’s been caught on tape. Indeed, Walz, who also often misrepresented his rank, spent years — at best — allowing voters to believe he’d courageously gone off to Iraq or Afghanistan when in fact he was in Italy, and then avoided deployment to enter politics.

Lying about fighting in a war is unethical and dishonorable. It’s nothing new. Lying about how your children were conceived to score some cheap political points is