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Notable & Quotable: There’s a New Kid in Town

Notable & Quotable: There’s a New Kid in Town

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton poses during a photo session in Paris, June 10.



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Juan Williams

writing for the Hill, June 27:

Democrats need a strong voice ready to fight to restore women’s rights, now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade.

There’s only one Hillary Clinton.

Right-wingers on the Supreme Court rescinding the constitutional right to abortion “is incredibly dangerous and it is not just about a woman’s right to choose. It is about much more than that,” Clinton told CBS News back in May, when a draft version of Friday’s decision emerged.

“Any American who says, ‘Look, I’m not a woman, this doesn’t affect me. I’m not Black, that doesn’t affect me. I’m not gay, that doesn’t affect me’—once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold you have no idea who they will come for next,” she said.

Go, Hillary. . . .

Clinton is exactly the right person to put steel in the Democrats’ spine and bring attention to the reality that “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, as President Biden calls them, are tearing apart the nation. . . . These decisions amount to a political powerplay by former President Trump’s three nominees. . . . So let Hillary roar her message to suburban white women who will be key to deciding the outcome of the midterms. . . .

Clinton has the added potential to change the national conversation by scolding social media sites, newspapers and television networks for attempting even-handed treatment of both parties, even though one party is now an autocratic cult complicit in a violent insurrection against the U.S. government.

“I don’t think the media is doing its job, to be honest,” she recently told

Harry Lambert

of the British…

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