memeorandum: Wisconsin Court Validates a Republican Strategy to Preserve Power (Michael Wines/New York Times)

10:35 AM ET, June 30, 2022

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‘I Keep Waiting for the Feds to Come’: The Jan. 6 Investigations Have Trumpworld on Edge — A bombshell congressional hearing and aggressive Justice Department investigation have the former president's cronies wondering who'll be targeted next — After a jaw-dropping Jan. 6 committee hearing …

Discussion: Fox News and Daily Kos

CNN:

Former prosecutors say blockbuster January 6 testimony increases Trump's criminal exposure — (CNN)Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the House select committee this week increased the criminal exposure former President Donald Trump faces in the Justice Department's ongoing January 6, 2021, investigation.

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Post, Select Committee …, Unprecedented, Just The News, Washington Examiner, The North Star with Shaun King, Washington Post and RAPPLER

Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:

Republican Party must choose between Trump and the Constitution, Liz Cheney says in California speech — Warning that America faces a “domestic threat we have never faced before,” GOP Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday accused Republicans who ignore former President Trump's efforts to overturn …

Discussion: CNN, NBC News, New York Times, The Hill, Associated Press, ABC News, CNN, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Bulwark+, ABC7, Mercury News, Fox News, ABC News, Bloomberg, Politico, USA Today and Washington Times

Mona Charen / The Bulwark:

Cassidy Hutchinson Is a Heroine — May her courage be as contagious as most Republicans' cowardice. — You have to wonder how Cassidy Hutchinson was raised. What did her parents do to instill a conscience and courage in such a young person? The House January 6th Committee reportedly decided …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Washington Examiner

Esther Wickham / Washington Examiner:

Cassidy Hutchinson did not do her job — The Jan. 6 House committee held a last-minute hearing on Tuesday, again attempting to distract people from other disastrous events unfolding in the country. Unfortunately for them, their “star witness” didn't do her job in helping with that distraction — she merely exposed it.

Discussion: Fox News, National Review, Ian Haworth, Poynter, The Federalist, IJR and The Bulwark

NBC News:

Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan. 6 testimony comes under increased scrutiny — WASHINGTON — Republicans and other sources are rebutting elements of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, handing Donald Trump and his allies ammunition as they seek …

ABC News:
Rep. Liz Cheney ‘confident’ in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony

Discussion: Insider, The Hill and The Federalist

New York Times:
Hutchinson Testimony Exposes Tensions Between Parallel Jan. 6 Inquiries

Discussion: Vicky Ward Investigates, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Althouse, Breitbart, CNN, Just The News and Political Junkie

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Testimony Paints Mark Meadows as Unwilling to Act as Jan. 6 Unfolded

Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Mercury News

Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former White House counsel Pat Cipollone

John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Are we supposed to believe the Republicans didn't know?

Discussion: Raw Story, Puck, HuffPost, Occupy Democrats and Vox

Christi Carras / Los Angeles Times:
‘Trump tantrum’: Late-night hosts recap Cassidy Hutchinson's ‘wild’ Jan. 6 testimony

Discussion: CBS News, USA Today and The Daily Wire

Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
Jan. 6 Poll: 52% already say Trump should be prosecuted. How that number could grow after Cassidy Hutchinson's bombshells.

Discussion: Mediaite

Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:

Debunking AOC's absurd argument for impeaching Supreme Court justices — It was inevitable that the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would prompt tremendous backlash from liberals. — But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken things a step further than most of her allies …

Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News, National Review, Fox News, Florida's Voice and The Spectator Australia

Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:

McConnell: Blocking Obama's SCOTUS pick led to overturning Roe v. Wade — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that his decision to block former President Obama's Supreme Court pick to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 led to the Roe v. Wade getting overturned.

Discussion: Bloomberg and The Washington Current

Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Biden Reportedly Plans to Appoint Anti-Abortion Kentucky Judge to Lifetime Seat

Discussion: Law Dork, with Chris Geidner, The Hill, Forbes, RADAR, Twitchy, Raw Story, Insider, HuffPost and Rolling Stone

Ximena Bustillo / NPR:
Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court

Discussion: ABC News, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Reuters, USA Today and NBC Los Angeles

Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:

The rot runs deeper — What the actions of an obscure Wisconsin political appointee tell us about GOP democratic backsliding — The January 6th hearings have illustrated the deep threats to American democracy such that only the most die-hard Trumpists can deny them.

Michael Wines / New York Times:

Wisconsin Court Validates a Republican Strategy to Preserve Power — The Senate's method of keeping G.O.P. board members in office, by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, was endorsed by a State Supreme Court ruling. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:

Senate Democrats see ‘major progress’ on Biden agenda bill, hope for July vote — Schumer and Manchin are close to a deal on prescription drug savings, new details obtained by NBC News show. They're also negotiating energy and tax provisions in the bill. — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Data For Progress

Punchbowl News:
6/30/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM.

Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg

Politico:
What Dems can — and might — do in Congress to fight the end of Roe

Discussion: Fox News, FiveThirtyEight and We Are Speaking

Associated Press:

Putin: Western leaders would look ‘disgusting’ topless — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look “disgusting” if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Post, Breitbart, Fox News, The Guardian and Metro.co.uk

Anna Peele / Washington Post:

The Pandemic Is Waning. Anthony Fauci Has a Few More Lessons to Share. — America's most famous doctor on mitigating covid, giving your adversaries the benefit of the doubt and working way too much — You gotta f—ing suck it up," Anthony Fauci tells me from the deck of his home in Washington …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Fauci says he's taking 2nd course of Paxlovid after experiencing rebound with the antiviral treatment

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Times, The Hill, American Greatness, Breitbart, Townhall, Bloomberg, BizPac Review, WANE-TV, TheBlaze, New York Post, Washington Times, Substack Alexander … and Daily Mail

Natasha Korecki / NBC News:

‘Certainly possible’: Illinois governor says Biden could face primary challenge — CHICAGO — Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker told NBC News on Wednesday “it's certainly possible” that President Joe Biden could face a primary challenge should he run for re-election in 2024.

Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner

Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:

12-Year-Old Incest Victims Should Birth Dad's Child, House Speaker Gunn Says — Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says abortion should be illegal even for a 12-year-old rape victim carrying her father or uncle's child. He made the remark to reporters in the hours after the U.S. Supreme Court struck …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Insider and The Hill

Washington Post:
Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines

Discussion: Daily Kos, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Missouri Independent, NPR and Jezebel

Marcel Plichta / The Daily Beast:

Putin Should Be Very Worried About Ukraine's New Kamikaze Drone — These new, cheaply made drones only need to get lucky once. — The war in Ukraine is no stranger to drones, but the kamikaze drone strike on the Russian city of Rostov last week marked the beginning of a whole chapter in drone warfare.

Andy Meek / Forbes:

The Daily Wire, Which Now Boasts 890,000 Paid Subscribers, Signs Jordan Peterson To Its New DailyWire+ — Over the past three months, The Daily Wire has added tens of thousands of new paying subscribers — pushing the overall subscriber number for the conservative news and media empire founded …

Discussion: The Daily Wire

Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:

Democrats push for campaign reset in the most pro-abortion rights swing state — Vulnerable Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is hitting the airwaves with a direct appeal to New Hampshire voters after the end of Roe v. Wade: Return her to office or risk a nationwide abortion ban at the hands of Mitch McConnell.

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo

SpyTalk:

‘Italygate’ Conspiracy Pusher Was Fired by CIA — SpyTalk's new ‘Live Drop’ feature highlights on Bradley Johnson and other intelligence items of interest — The Live Drop — Bradley Johnson, Agent 006 — The former CIA man at the heart of “Italygate,” the pro-Trump …

Associated Press:

1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest — JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A team searching a Mississippi courthouse basement for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant charging a white woman in his 1955 kidnapping …

Discussion: The Root, New York Post, Mississippi Free Press, Mississippi Today and SuperTalk Mississippi

David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:

The Military Went Woke. Now It Can't Find Recruits — The transgender pronouns, diversity training, and lesbian wedding ads aren't working. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, BARE NAKED ISLAM and The Federalist

Hope Yen / Associated Press:

Buttigieg launches $1B pilot to build racial equity in roads — WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday launched a $1 billion first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects …

Discussion: Breitbart and Outside the Beltway