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3:35 PM ET, June 21, 2023

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ProPublica:
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court  —  Friends of the Court  —  Clarence Thomas' Beneficial Friendship With a GOP Megadonor  —  In early July 2008, Samuel Alito stood on a riverbank in a remote corner of Alaska.
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Samuel A. Alito Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers  —  The publication levels false charges about Supreme Court recusal, financial disclosures and a 2008 fishing trip. … ProPublica has leveled two charges against me: first, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Alito Defends Private Jet Travel to Luxury Fishing Trip  —  In an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal, the justice disputed a ProPublica report, saying he was not required to disclose the trip or recuse himself from his benefactor's cases.  —  Reporting from Washington
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Washington Post:
ProPublica asked about Alito's travel.  He replied in the Wall Street Journal.  —  Questioned about an undisclosed fishing trip hosted by a GOP billionaire, the Supreme Court justice instead shared his rebuttal in a rival media outlet — before the investigative journalists could publish their scoop
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CBS News
Politico:   Playbook: Alito picks a fight with ProPublica
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C. Ryan Barber / Wall Street Journal:
Jan. 6 Rioter Who Used Stun Gun on Police Officer Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison
Discussion: HuffPost
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
What the New, Low Test Scores for 13-Year-Olds Say About U.S. Education Now  —  What's New  —  The math and reading performance of 13-year-olds in the United States has hit the lowest level in decades, according to test scores released today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold-standard federal exam.
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Mackenzie Wilkes / Politico:
National math and reading scores for 13-year-olds drop  —  Test scores for math and reading dropped across gender and racial and ethnic groups, but overall scores have been on the decline since 2012.  —  Math scores among the nation's 13-year-olds had the largest drop since the federal government began …
Discussion: nagb.gov, The Messenger and NPR
Washington Post:
DeSantis donor supplied golf simulator for 'Governor's Cabana' and private flights  —  The simulator was lent by Mori Hosseini, a major home builder and donor who chairs the University of Florida's Board of Trustees.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's wealthy donors and supporters lent …
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C-SPAN.org:
John Durham Testifies on His Investigation of the FBI  —  Justice Department special counsel John Durham testified on his investigation of “Crossfire Hurricane,” the code name for the FBI's investigation of links between the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian operatives.  —  Report Video Issue
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Ursula Perano / The Daily Beast:
Dem Rep. Jerry Nadler Tries to Embarrass John Durham
CNN:
McCarthy warns House GOP now is not time to force vote impeaching Biden: ‘What majority do we want to be?’  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy urged House Republicans to vote against the resolution brought forward by GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado forcing a vote to impeach President Joe Biden this week …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
House to vote on Biden impeachment and Schiff censure
The Hill:
Republicans bash Boebert for forcing Biden impeachment vote: ‘Frivolous’
David McCabe / New York Times:
F.T.C. Sues Amazon for Inducing Users to Subscribe to Prime  —  The lawsuit was the first time that the Federal Trade Commission under chair Lina Khan has taken Amazon to court.  —  David McCabe reports on tech policy from Washington.  —  The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued Amazon …
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process
Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Trump's penchant for talking could pose problems as Mar-a-Lago criminal case moves ahead  —  Criminal defendants are routinely advised to avoid commenting on pending charges against them.  But Donald Trump, the former president and current White House hopeful, is no ordinary defendant.
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Philip Rotner / Bulwark+:   Scoring Trump, Biden, and Hillary on Handling Classified Documents
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Judge finds no merit in Justice's request to shield financial disclosures because of U.S. Senate run  —  A federal judge says Gov. Jim Justice has to provide financial information in a long-running lawsuit, finding no merit in Justice's position that such disclosures could be used against him in his run for U.S. Senate.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge orders Gov. Jim Justice to provide financial information in lawsuit
Discussion: WV MetroNews
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Backtracks After Fox Host Points Out Hypocrisy  —  BLINDSIDED  —  In a Fox News interview Tuesday, anchor Bret Baier highlighted to Donald Trump in part two of his heated interview that under the former president's 2024 proposal that convicted drug dealers …
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Americans See Federal Criminal Charges Against Trump As Serious, 51% Say He Should Be Prosecuted, 62% Say Politics Is Motivating DOJ's Case, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Supreme Court Job Approval Hits All-Time Low  —  mail_outline  —  In the week since former President Donald Trump …
Beege Welborn / HotAir:
Missing sub CEO wouldn't hire the uninspirational “50 yr old white guys” who are out there looking to save him now  —  This developing story is rapidly veering from background noise for a truly horrific accident to “no way that's possible” to “YGTBFKM, that's damn near criminal negligence.”
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
The new Trump acolyte you didn't expect: Nancy Mace  —  Mace isn't ruling out endorsing Donald Trump's primary campaign.  —  He called her a “grandstanding loser” and a RINO.  She said his “entire legacy was wiped out” on Jan. 6, 2021.  —  But all of a sudden, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) …
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Leaked Audio: Michigan GOP Chair Says Outrage Over Holocaust Tweet Was ‘Completely Hilarious’  —  Kristina Karamo, a far-right hero, doubled down on her GOP organization's official tweet that invoked the Holocaust to attack gun restrictions and sparked outrage.
Associated Press:
Underwater noises heard in frantic search for submersible missing with 5 aboard near Titanic  —  A Canadian military surveillance aircraft detected underwater noises as a massive search continued early Wednesday in a remote part of the North Atlantic for a submersible that vanished …
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Rolling Stone:
Searchers for Titanic Tourist Sub Heard ‘Banging’ From Area, Internal Comms Reveal
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News' Geraldo Rivera Says He's Been Booted From ‘The Five’  —  Rivera had been tapped to be one of the late-afternoon chat show's regular “liberal” co-hosts last year, but he has seen his appearances dry up in recent months.  —  Longtime Fox News correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera …
KFF:
A National Survey of OBGYNs' Experiences After Dobbs  —  Introduction  —  One year ago, the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to ban or severely restrict the availability of abortion care.
publication:
Scientists shouldn't debate gaslighters  — 21 JUN 2023 - BY H. HOLDEN THORP- 2 MIN READ  —  Last weekend, Twitter and later the mainstream media exploded with a controversy surrounding an invitation to prominent vaccine scientist Peter Hotez to debate anti-vax charlatan …
Discussion: American Wire News
The Lever:
The Unfolding Medicaid Disaster  —  Now that Biden and Congress have ended pandemic protections, nearly a million have lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons so far — and many more will.  —  As states have begun clearing out their Medicaid rolls for the first time since the start …
Andrew Court / New York Post:
I divorced my dying husband — he wallowed in self-pity and killed my vibe  —  'Til near death do us part.  —  A woman has opened up about why she divorced her dying husband, saying his five-year cancer battle took a toll on their marriage as he wallowed in self-pity.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Durham: You better believe Obama, Biden, and Comey knew that this was a Hillary dirty trick  —  What did Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Loretta Lynch, and James Comey know about Russia-collusion — and when did they know it?  John Durham dropped a bombshell in his testimony today at House Oversight …
Kat Rosenfield / The Boston Globe:
Progressives are minting conservatives  —  A lot of rhetoric on the left is proving to be unpersuasive — and even alienating.  —  The graphic novel “Gender Queer,” a memoir of sexual and gender identity written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe, has been described as the “most banned book in the country.”
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump unveils his plans to defund the ‘deep state’  —  The News  —  Donald Trump unveiled another sweeping piece of his plans to slash federal spending and defund the “deep state” on Tuesday, effectively claiming vast, unchecked powers to shape the government.
Discussion: The Messenger and Roll Call
 
 
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