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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
A Supreme Blow to Intimidation  —  Sheldon Whitehouse is unhappy about Thursday's ruling.  That's a good sign.  —  Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is unhappy with Thursday's Supreme Court ruling that reins in his ability to harass political opponents.  Perhaps he and his fellow intimidators should have been less brazen.
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court won't hear case of florist who sought to deny service to same-sex wedding  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a challenge from a Washington State florist who declined to create an arrangement for a same-sex wedding, the latest development in a long running dispute over LGBTQ rights.
Discussion: NBC News and UPI
Reuters:
Barrett finds own voice at center of conservative U.S. Supreme Court  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Justice Amy Coney Barrett blazed her own path during her rookie term on the U.S. Supreme Court, helping a conservative majority prevail in major cases while at times defying expectations after critics …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court turns down petition from Christian florist in same-sex wedding case  —  The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a petition from a Christian florist who refused to create flower arrangements for a same-sex couple, refusing for now to take another case asking when anti-discrimination laws must give …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Axios:
Biden aide charges “sabotage” of Harris  —  Top White House officials are mobilizing to defend Vice President Kamala Harris amid a gusher of leaks about dysfunction and infighting in her office.  —  Driving the news: White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Axios in a statement …
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Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Weisselberg indictment creates new questions about Trump kids' hidden compensation: John Heilemann  —  During a panel discussion on MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” regular contributor John Heilemann suggested that investigators might want to investigate if Trump Organization CFO Alan Weisselberg …
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Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Cy Vance's Trump case is straight from a banana republic — punish your political enemies
New York Post:
Trump Organization indictments are a travesty of justice
Discussion: BizPac Review
Kathy Gannon / Associated Press:
US hands Bagram Airfield to Afghans after nearly 20 years  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, two U.S. officials said Friday.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:
U.S. Leaves Its Last Afghan Base, Effectively Ending Operations  —  With little fanfare, Bagram Air Base — once the military's nerve center — was handed over to the Afghans, after nearly 20 years of waging war from the hub.  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — American troops and their Western allies …
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
U.S. economy added 850,000 jobs in June as labor market showed renewed strength  —  Hiring surged heading into the second half of the year.  —  The U.S. economy added 850,000 jobs in June as the pace of the recovery surged — quieting simmering fears, at least temporarily, of more lasting harm from labor and supply shortages.
Discussion: HotAir and Washington Examiner
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
The June jobs report will offer a reading on economic momentum.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CNN:
Capitol rioter accompanied members of Congress on trip to US-Mexico border  —  (CNN)A conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 riot accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border Tuesday night, serving as a translator at times.
Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis fires back after California bans state travel to Florida  —  Florida is one of 17 states on California's state-funded travel ban, due to the Sunshine State's laws involving LGBTQ people.  —  By News Service of Florida  —  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis' office fired back this week …
Jacob Silverman / New Republic:
Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald's Shameless Marriage of Convenience  —  Last week, in an appearance on a Mediaite podcast, the journalist Glenn Greenwald came to the defense once again of Fox News's chief hatemonger, Tucker Carlson.  While he rightly accused Carlson of “deliberately inflaming …
CBS Boston:
'Boston's Jewish Community Is Angry, Living In Fear': ADL Calls For Hate Crime Investigation After Rabbi Stabbed  —  BOSTON (CBS) — The Anti-Defamation League of New England is calling for a hate crime investigation into the stabbing of Rabbi Shlomo Noginski, saying there are indicators …
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Andrea Salcedo / Washington Post:
A former police officer arrested after the Jan. 6 riot was told to stay away from guns.  He bought 34, feds say.  —  In January, a federal judge agreed to release Thomas Robertson, a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer facing multiple charges over his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Smith / American Thinker:
Did Biden Really Win California?  —  The November 3, 2020, Presidential election data from California sets off alarm bells.  —  Election data generated by the natural voting process will closely match Benford's Law predictions.  (Benford's Law, or the rule of leading digits, is used as an indicator of fraud in numerical data.)
Clare Malone / The Atlantic:
Ohio Is Now Fully Trumpified  —  In another lifetime, Representative Anthony Gonzalez was the Ohio Republican Party's dream candidate.  Many of his future suburban-Cleveland constituents cheered for him at Byers Field when he was a high-school-football standout at St. Ignatius …
Discussion: National Review
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Washington lawmaker apologizes for wearing Star of David to protest Covid mandates … WASHINGTON — A Washington state lawmaker apologized Thursday for wearing a yellow Star of David on his shirt during an event last weekend where he spoke to conservative activists.
Washington Post:
Concern over crime is growing — but Americans don't just want more police, Post-ABC poll shows  —  Concern over crime has reached the highest point in four years amid a spike in killings in big cities and an uptick in violent crime, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Friday …
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Attorney General Merrick Garland orders pause of federal executions  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered a temporary stop Thursday to scheduling further federal executions.  —  In a memo to senior officials, he said serious concerns have arisen about the arbitrariness of capital punishment …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Imposes a Moratorium on Federal Executions; Orders Review of Policies and Procedures
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Protects Against Delta Variant, Company Reports  —  The vaccine also produced long-lasting immune responses, researchers said.  Booster shots seem unnecessary, at least for now.  —  The Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine is effective against the highly contagious Delta variant …
Discussion: CNN, OutKick, New York Post and NBC Boston
Rep. Rodney Davis / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi cancels the Fourth of July  —  During an average year, the U.S. Capitol welcomes 2.5 million visitors, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has refused to reopen the Capitol to visitors — school groups, families, or anyone hoping to see the legislative branch in action.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Maeve Sheehey / Politico:
White House senior adviser Anita Dunn to step down shortly from her temporary role  —  White House senior adviser Anita Dunn will leave her temporary position “very shortly,” she told POLITICO's Ryan Lizza in a Friday interview.  —  Dunn was involved in President Joe Biden's campaign …
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
The NFL's investigation was just like Daniel Snyder's workplace culture: Rotten  —  The so-called investigative report on the nasty skirt-clutching culture inside the Washington Football Team has vanished like invisible ink.  And somehow the NFL thinks it can make it all right by handing Tanya Snyder the mop and broom.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Politics Shouldn't Be Just About Fighting  —  What's so special about a Florida sit-down between a Democratic president and a Republican governor?  It bucked a depressing trend.  —  President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Thursday to comfort survivors of the condo collapse in Surfside …
 
 
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Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Progressives distance from Bernie Sanders
Discussion: HotAir
Isabella Grullón Paz / New York Times:
Wally Funk, Trailblazing Female Pilot, Will Join Jeff Bezos on Spaceflight
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
More Republican Women Plan Runs for House, Building on Party's 2020 Wins
Discussion: Forbes
American Greatness:
Defund the FBI  —  Republicans need to abandon their longtime, reflexive loyalty to the FBI.
Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘Forever Purge’ Follows Far-Left's Fear of White Supremacy, Ignores Antifa
 Earlier Items: 
Pedro Gonzalez / The American Mind:
The Hunt for Dissidents  —  Summoning an imaginary specter of white supremacy …
Discussion: The Federalist
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Inside Broke Roger Stone's Very ‘Shady’ Condo Purchase
Discussion: Raw Story
Chris Deluzio / The Hill:
Pennsylvania's election audit moves follow the partisan playbook
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
NSA And FBI Blame Russia For Massive ‘Brute Force’ Attacks On Microsoft 365
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Trump Demands Identity Of Officer Who Shot Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt Despite DOJ ‘Self-Defense’ Finding
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
Trump is here to stay, and Republicans should be worried
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
J.D. Vance, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Author, Is Running for Senate in Ohio
The Daily Beast:
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