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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court upholds GOP voting restrictions in Arizona — The Supreme Court today upheld a pair of voting restrictions in Arizona, likely paving the way for new limitations across the country. — Why it matters: It's the court's biggest voting rights decision in several years.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions — The decision, a test of what remains of the Voting Rights Act, suggested that challenges to many new measures making it harder to vote may not be successful. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs Donor Privacy for California Charities — Conservative groups challenged the state's disclosure requirements, saying they could lead to harassment. — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that California may not require charities soliciting contributions in the state to report the identities of their major donors.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds restrictive Arizona voting laws in test of Voting Rights Act … WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld two election laws in the 2020 battleground state of Arizona that challengers said make it harder for minorities to vote.
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The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court Throws Out A State Law Requiring Nonprofits To Name Rich Donors
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court strikes down California donor disclosure requirement
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Supreme Court says that California can't require all nonprofits to disclose their donors
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 6-3 Vote Rejects Voting Rights Act Section 2 Case in Brnovich Case— A Significant Weakening of Section 2
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
The Supreme Court Deals A New Blow To Voting Rights, Upholding Arizona Restrictions
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Nicholas Rowan / Washington Examiner:
Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting rules, including ballot harvesting ban
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court strikes down California law requiring charities to disclose top donors to attorney general
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting laws a lower court found were unfair to minorities
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Supreme Court expansion push starts to fizzle
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Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Kinzinger on McCarthy's Jan. 6 investigation threat: ‘Who gives a s—?’ — Rep. Adam Kinzinger knows GOP leaders wanted to scare him away from serving on the Democrat-led panel investigating the Capitol riot. And he doesn't care one bit. — “Who gives a shit?” the Illinois Republican …
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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Which Republicans Should Be Put on the January 6 Committee? — The committee is too partisan, moans Kevin McCarthy. Gee, who's to blame for that? — Let's get Kevin McCarthy's record straight: — The House Republican leader supported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's bogus lawsuit …
Jamie Gangel / CNN:
McCarthy threatens to strip GOP members of committee assignments if they accept an offer from Pelosi to serve on 1/6 commission — Pelosi announces House will establish January 6 insurrection probe — (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday issued a blanket threat during …
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Ryan Nobles / CNN:
House Democrats call on McCarthy to ‘take immediate action’ to address Greene's behavior — (CNN)Nearly 40 House Democrats are demanding House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy take what they call “immediate action” to address the behavior of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Names Members to Select Committee to Investigate January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol — Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi today named her appointments to a bipartisan Select Committee to examine and report upon the facts and causes relating to the terrorist mob attack …
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New York Times:
Top Trump Executive, Allen Weisselberg, Surrenders to Face Charges — The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg have been indicted in connection with a tax investigation and are expected to appear in court Thursday. — Donald J. Trump's long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump aide: Ex-prez emboldened by indictment news — DRIVING THE DAY — TRUMP ORG INDICTMENT DAY — “New York grand jury returns criminal indictments against Trump's company and its CFO, the first from prosecutors probing the former president's business dealings,” …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Alleging She Covered Up Affair Between Network President and Employee
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered — In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war. This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Donald Rumsfeld, Killer of 400,000 People, Dies Peacefully
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Elizabeth Wagmeister / Variety:
Judge Denies Britney Spears' Request to Remove Father From Conservatorship Again … New court documents that were filed by the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday show that the judge has denied the request by Spears' attorney, Samuel Ingham III, to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator.
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Politico:
Team Trump quietly launches new social media platform — Former President Donald Trump's team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites. — The platform, called GETTR, advertised its mission statement as “fighting cancel culture …
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Joe Rogan Is Too Big to Cancel — He's now one of the most consumed media products on the planet. His Spotify deal, estimated at $100 million, speaks to the allure of making audiences feel they're in on something subversive. — The other comics called him “Little Ball of Anger” …
Joe Sonka / USA Today:
Charles Booker makes it official, announces run for US Senate seat held by Rand Paul — LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Almost exactly one year after his bid for U.S. Senate came up just short in the Democratic primary, Charles Booker formally launched his new candidacy for the office Thursday …
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Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Most Complete Picture Yet of America's Changing Electorate — Can Big Data explain the passion and vitriol of American politics? Like almost everything else in modern life, the choices are multiplying for analysts looking to understand how the key groups in American society divide in presidential elections.
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CBC News:
Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says ‘the whole town is on fire’ — Several out-of-control wildfires burning in other parts of province after heat wave — A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed …
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Los Angeles Times:
17 hurt in huge blast during LAPD detonation of explosive devices — A major explosion in South Los Angeles on Wednesday evening damaged homes and injured 17 people, including police officers, as a bomb squad attempted to safely detonate improvised explosive devices that had been seized …
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Ryan Randazzo / Arizona Republic:
Republic takes Senate, Cyber Ninjas to court for audit records — The Arizona Republic has gone to court to demand records from the state Senate and one of its contractors to shed light on the audit of 2020 election results. — The news organization on Wednesday filed a special action …
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Decency, R.I.P. — If manners are the small change of morality, we've gone bankrupt a few cents at a time. — Sen. Mitt Romney appeared on Jake Tapper's CNN show last weekend and for a few brief minutes I felt transported to a saner world. Asked about the gross things some on the right …
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Ed Yong / The Atlantic:
The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta — Fifteen months after the novel coronavirus shut down much of the world, the pandemic is still raging. Few experts guessed that by this point, the world would have not one vaccine but many, with 3 billion doses already delivered.
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Julie Gordon / Page Six:
Meghan McCain to announce she's leaving ‘The View’ — Meghan McCain is bidding farewell to “The View,” according to a new report. — The conservative co-host is set to announce her resignation on Thursday morning's show, ending her four-season run at the end of July, according to the Daily Mail.
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Kara Swisher / New York Times:
Biden's Chief of Staff Is Worried About ‘Everything.’ Except the Midterms. — (SINGING) When you walk in the room, do you have sway? — I'm Kara Swisher, and you're listening to “Sway.” My guest today is Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff. He's one of the most powerful people in America.
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