The Angle

The Angle: No Therapist Edition

Slate’s daily newsletter on Trump’s voter fraud commission, #TinyDeclaration, and mental health coverage through the ACA.

People protest against the Senate health care bill on Wednesday in New York City.

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We need that: Jonathan Foiles, a therapist at a safety net hospital in Chicago, has seen what a difference Medicaid coverage newly available through the ACA made for his patients. He hopes they get to keep coming to see him.

Deep-down motives: Donald Trump’s so-called election integrity commission meets no standards for bipartisanship or fairness, Richard L. Hasen writes. Happily, though, “it’s being enacted so clumsily it just might backfire.”

Here comes Texas: In ruling that same-sex couples don’t have a constitutional right to equal treatment in all arenas, the Lone Star State’s Supreme Court has made a decision that directly contradicts Obergefell v. Hodges, Mark Joseph Stern writes.

Free advice: Reporters in the White House are miserable with their new working conditions. Dahlia Lithwick, who’s long had a beat that affords journalists comically little access, has some pointers.

For fun: Fifteen finalists in our #TinyDeclaration contest.

My money’s on the emojis,

Rebecca