Biden attacks Trump over abortion rights on two-year anniversary of fall of Roe – live

Good morning, US politics blog readers. Today is the two-year anniversary of the supreme court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the 49-year-old precedent set in Roe v Wade and allowed states to ban abortion. Since then, abortion rights advocates have succeeded in getting voters to approve measures protecting access to the procedure in states as conservative as Kansas and Ohio, while Democratic candidates across the country have campaigned on reproductive rights to win office. Now, the party is looking to continue that momentum going into the November presidential election, with an eye towards focusing the ire of pro-abortion rights voters on Donald Trump – who appointed to the court three of the justices that supported the Dobbs decision.

“Two years ago today, Donald Trump’s supreme court majority ripped away the fundamental freedom for women to access the health care they need and deserve,” Joe Biden said in a statement released this morning to mark the occasion. While he remains ensconced at the Camp David presidential retreat ahead of Thursday’s debate with Trump, Kamala Harris will hold a campaign event today in Maryland, where she’ll no doubt address the issue.

Here’s what else is going on today:

• Trump continued his tactic of campaigning in inner cities over the weekend, holding his first rally in Philadelphia with a speech that focused on blaming undocumented migrants for crime, facts be damned.

• Same-sex marriage, which is protected by a supreme court ruling and also by a recently passed federal law, remains broadly popular, though its support is slipping among Republicans, Gallup finds in a new poll.

• Neither the House nor Senate are in session today, but the lower chamber will be back tomorrow, with its Republican majority focused on passing spending bills that will likely contain a number of rightwing demands to be used as bargaining chips with the Democrats.