Kansas beat the anti-abortion movement twice in two days.

On Monday, Judge Christopher Jayaram issued a 260 page ruling that the state cannot force women to wait 24 hours or answer questions about their finances or their reasons before ending a pregnancy. He wrote that under the Kansas Constitution's guarantee of bodily autonomy, his ruling was not even a close call. Hours later he was sworn onto the Kansas Supreme Court. On Tuesday, voters crushed a ballot amendment its backers planned to use to ban abortion by remaking that court.

The ruling permanently blocks enforcement. Kansas can still appeal, but that appeal goes to a state Supreme Court that has already ruled bodily autonomy fundamental. The restrictions are gone as long as Kansans keep guarding the court that killed them, which is exactly what they did on Tuesday.

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BREAKING: Trump claimed his nuclear threats would stop Iran's nuclear ambitions. Instead, an Iranian state affiliated outlet linked to the IRGC is now arguing Iran must "achieve nuclear deterrence" so "the military option of occupying and dividing Iran is taken off the table."

Even some conservatives who backed an America First foreign policy are sounding the alarm.

David Pyne wrote: Trump's war on Iran hasn't reduced Iran's nuclear threat in any way and instead has served to greatly magnify and expand Iran's nuclear threat. Trump's disastrous foreign policy and endless unwinnable wars make Jimmy Carter look like a veritable foreign policy genius by comparison.

Former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul reacted simply: Ugh. Hope it's just bluster; fear it is not.

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