Friday Politics Roundup | Proud Boys convicted; SCOTUS corruption; more abortion bans; child labor; summer of right-wing conferences targeting schools; PA LGBTQ bill; AI is coming for us all

<p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/us/politics/jan-6-proud-boys-sedition.html'>Four Proud Boys</a>, including their leader Enrique Tarrio, were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. </p> <p>The corruption doesn’t stop when it comes to Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. New reporting in the Washington Post this week exposed that <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/'>Leonard Leo the architect of the right-wing legal juggernaut, the Federalist Society, instructed Kellyanne Conway to use her nonprofit organization to pay Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, tens of thousands of dollars</a>. Leo told Conway to make sure to leave Ginni Thomas’s name off all the paperwork. </p> <p>That reporting comes on the heels of revelations by ProPublica that billionaire <a href='https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus'>Harlan Crow paid the private school tuition for Thomas’s great-nephew</a>, who Thomas was raising “as a son.” Thomas did not disclose the tuition payments as part of his legal obligations to do so. </p> <p>North Carolina becomes the latest state to try to<a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/05/north-carolina-battle-still-looms-over-12-week-ban/'> further restrict abortion</a>. The Republican majority in passed a new 12 week abortion ban, but the state’s Democratic Governor Roy Cooper, says he’ll veto the legislation. </p> <p><a href='https://www.penncapital-star.com/blog/bernie-sanders-unveils-push-for-17-hr-federal-minimum-wage-citing-state-increases/'>Bernie Sanders unveils a new bill </a>that calls for an increase of the federal minimum wage to $17/hour.</p> <p>Meanwhile, <a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/04/iowa-child-labor-reynolds/'>Iowa becomes the latest state to rollback labor protections for children</a>, now allowing for children as young as 14 to work in roofin