Top of the Fold

• House finally passes SCOTUS protection bill: On Thursday, weeks after the Senate unanimously passed legislation aimed at protecting Supreme Court justices, and over a week after a would-be assassin targeted Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home, the Democrat-controlled House finally passed the bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi clearly didn’t think the measure was necessary based on her glib comment after the House’s failed initial attempt at passing it. “He’s protected. The justices are protected,” Pelosi insisted when pressed by a reporter about the attempt on Kavanaugh’s life. “Nobody is in danger.” This rare instance of bipartisan agreement in the Senate proved to be a difficult push in the House due to the swelling ranks of extremist Democrats. Underscoring this growing extremism is a recent disturbing poll conducted by the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center. It revealed that 44% of “younger Democrat men” approved of “assassinating a politician who is harming the country or our democracy.” Even though Pelosi finally got the SCOTUS protection legislation passed, 27 Democrats still voted against it, including the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Jamaal Bowman (NY), and Rashida Tlaib (MI).

• House Democrat predicts “violence” and “civil war” if GOP wins in November: There may be a reason House Democrat Jamaal Bowman (NY) voted against the bill protecting SCOTUS justices, and that reason appears to have everything to do with political violence. According to the far-left Democrat, if Republicans win in November and take control of Congress, it could lead to “violence” and even a “civil war.” In an interview with Leftmedia outlet MSNBC, Bowman was asked “what might the GOP do — or not do” if it reclaims control of the House, to which he responded that Republicans would end the January 6 Commission and impeach Joe Biden “as quickly as possible.” He added, “It would so embolden Republicans and the far Right and white nationalists across the country to begin to believe that it is their time to not just take power in the House but the Senate, the White House, and state houses across the country.” Bowman then ridiculously asserted, “We gotta understand that this is a group that has been radicalized by the Great Replacement myth and many other things and have been pushing for violence and pushing for even civil war. So that is what’s at stake right now in terms of this election.” Talk about projection. It has been Democrats who have been the party espousing, excusing, and even justifying violence against political opponents.

• Abortion rate rose in U.S. in 2020: It’s a sad and despicable stat that had been trending in a positive direction, but 2020 saw a reversal in what had been a long-running decline in the number of annual abortions in the U.S. A recent report from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute found that more than 930,000 babies were aborted in the U.S. in 2020, up from the roughly 862,000 preborns aborted in 2019. A shocking one in five pregnancies was ended by abortion in 2020. The majority of the preborn babies (54%) aborted were killed via the “abortion pill,” marking the first time in U.S. history that the drug accounted for more than 50% of abortions. “In 2020, fewer women were getting pregnant and a larger share of them chose abortion,” the Associated Press reports. “There were 3.6 million births, a decline since 2017.” Unsurprisingly, states like Texas that passed new laws restricting abortions saw the percentage of abortions decline, while states like Illinois, which began allowing Medicaid to pay for abortions, saw their rates increase. Governments discouraging a behavior will get less of it, while those encouraging a behavior will produce more of it.

Headlines

• Republicans flip U.S. House seat in South Texas, historically a Democrat stronghold (Texas Tribune)

• Key results from Tuesday’s primaries and special election (Roll Call)

• DCCC adds four members to incumbent protection program as 2022 red wave builds (Washington Examiner)

• “Families have less debt and more savings”: Biden makes series of false claims as he addresses labor unions (Daily Mail)

• Mitch McConnell backs bipartisan gun deal, buoying hopes for passage (Washington Times)

• House J6 Committee postpones Wednesday’s hearing (Washington Times)

• Border Patrol agents to be disciplined for horseback “whipping” incident (Washington Examiner)

• General Anthony Cotton called America racist; now he’s in charge of our nukes (FrontPage Mag)

• Medication abortion set to become next culture war battleground (Washington Examiner)

• Southern Baptist Convention passes two reforms on sexual abuse (Axios)

• Voddie Baucham loses bid to become president of SBC Pastor’s Conference (Christian Post)

• Saddleback Church remains with Southern Baptists despite ordaining women pastors (AL.com)

• New Ben & Jerry’s employees forced to watch anti-Israel videos (Daily Wire)

• Policy: Is America really producing more oil under Biden than Trump? No. (Free Beacon)

• Satire: Scholars now think “6.66” in Revelation refers to price of gas in the end times (Babylon Bee)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report.