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12:55 PM ET, June 30, 2023

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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
The Supreme Court rules for a designer who doesn't want to make wedding websites for gay couples  —  In a defeat for gay rights, the Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Supreme Court sides with designer who declines to make same-sex wedding websites  —  Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a Colorado graphic artist who does not want to design wedding websites for same-sex couples, finding the First Amendment prohibits the state …
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple  —  The court's conservatives used a dubious case to greatly expand the right of business owners to discriminate against same-sex couples.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday greatly expanded the rights of people who want to discriminate …
ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections  —  The conservative majority ruled 6-3 for the evangelical Christian creator.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for an evangelical Christian website designer in a case involving whether creative businesses …
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Brazil Set to Bar Bolsonaro From Office for Election-Fraud Claims  —  Brazil's electoral court had enough votes to block former President Jair Bolsonaro from office until 2030 for spreading false claims about voting.  —  Jack Nicas, The Times's correspondent in Brazil …
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Tom Phillips / The Guardian:
Judges ban Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years over ‘appalling lies’  —  Former far-right leader will only be able to seek elected office again in 2030, when he will be 75  —  The political future of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro has been cast into doubt …
Marina Dias / Washington Post:
Court votes to bar Bolsonaro from running for office  —  BRASÍLIA — Brazil's top elections court voted Friday to bar Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years — a period that covers the next presidential election — for making what members of the panel said were claims …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects Biden student loan forgiveness plan  —  The Supreme Court on Friday said President Biden does not have the authority for his nearly half-trillion dollar plan to forgive student loan debt, the latest blow from a Supreme Court that has been dismissive of this administration's bold claims of power.
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ABC News:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden student loan debt forgiveness program  —  The program would have benefited 43 million Americans at a cost of $400 billion.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration's program to forgive student loan debt for more than 43 million American borrowers.
Politico:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan  —  In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservative majority ruled that Biden's effort to erase roughly $400 billion of student debt was an illegal use of executive power.  —  The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Joe Biden's plan …
Variety:
Alan Arkin, Oscar Winner for ‘Little Miss Sunshine,’ Dies at 89  —  Alan Arkin, an Oscar-winning actor for “Little Miss Sunshine” with a body of work that spans seven decades of stage and screen acting, died June 29 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif, Variety has confirmed.  He was 89.
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Coalition of the Distrustful  —  Before Covid, Gabe Whitney, a 41-year-old from West Bath, Maine, didn't think much about vaccines.  He wasn't very political — he didn't vote in 2020, he said, because he thought Donald Trump was a “psycho” and Joe Biden was “corrupt.”
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Reason
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Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
RFK Jr.'s Inside Job
Discussion: Semafor
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
With Supreme Court Decision, College Admissions Could Become More Subjective  —  Colleges have a game plan, like emphasizing the personal essay, but so do conservative groups that promise to monitor and, if necessary, go back to court.  —  阅读.体中文.閱讀.體中文.
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Tyler Austin Harper / New York Times:
I Teach at an Elite College. Here's a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions.
Erwin Chemerinsky / Los Angeles Times:
The Supreme Court's ultimate ‘judicial activism’: striking down affirmative action in college admissions
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Republican candidate Chris Christie: ‘Trump wants to be Putin in America’  —  The former New Jersey governor on his mission to stop the ex-president returning to power  —  I arrive a quarter of an hour early at the Tick Tock Diner to discover that Chris Christie is already there.
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
The Stunning Place Where Trump Is Beating DeSantis the Worst  —  There was supposed to be a deluge of support for the Florida governor in Congress.  It hasn't worked out that way. … Not Quite Ron Demand  —  Before Ron DeSantis officially announced his 2024 run, one of the first members …
Discussion: Raw Story and Financial Times
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Miami Herald:   Ron DeSantis faces one setback after another in battle against LGBTQ rights
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
DeSantis's ugly descent into ‘invasion’ hysteria can't go unanswered
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns  —  A major new case tests the scope of the Supreme Court's ruling a year ago that expanded gun rights outside the home.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to weigh whether people accused of domestic violence …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns
Discussion: USA Today
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US Department of Justice:
Member Of White Supremacist Group Charged for Allegedly Defacing Synagogue With Neo-Nazi Symbols  —  For Immediate Release  —  A Michigan man was indicted for conspiring with others and allegedly defacing Temple Jacob - a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Mayor Compares Housing Activist, Whose Family Fled Holocaust, to Plantation Owner  —  Mayor Eric Adams criticized the woman, whose family left Germany in the 1930s, after she questioned him about back-to-back rent increases.  —  The first question at a community conversation with Mayor Eric Adams …
Isabelle Khurshudyan / Washington Post:
Ukraine's top general, Valery Zaluzhny, wants shells, planes and patience  —  KYIV, Ukraine — For Ukraine's counteroffensive to progress faster, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, the top officer in Ukraine's armed forces, says he needs more — of every weapon.  And he is telling anyone who will listen …
Casey Smith / Indiana Capital Chronicle:
Indiana Supreme Court upholds abortion ban, but leaves door open for other legal challenges  —  The ban takes effect again, despite another ongoing legal challenge to the law.  —  Indiana's near-total abortion ban that prohibits the procedure with only narrow exceptions will go back into effect …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting law  —  The 1890 state constitutional amendment was intended to disproportionately remove voting rights from Black people convicted of certain crimes.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a challenge …
Neal Lawson / The Guardian:
After 44 years, Labour is expelling me.  And my MP and activist friends are asking: who will be next?  —  There seem to be bullies at the top who don't understand pluralism.  They see only true believers and sworn enemies  —  ast Friday an email from the Labour party …
Julio Rivera / The Western Journal:
Op-Ed: Biden Just Failed America - It Could Be Years Before We Know the Extent of the Damage  —  Prior to new developments regarding a possible implosion in Russia amid the war with Ukraine, the news cycle had been dominated by the classified docs indictment of former President Donald Trump …
CNN:
Biden's Iran envoy placed on leave after security clearance suspended amid investigation into possible mishandling of classified material, sources say  —  Rob Malley, the US special envoy on Iran, has been placed on leave without pay, which occurred after his security clearance was suspended earlier …
Bradford Wilcox / Washington Examiner:
House Republican plan penalizes marriage  —  We just got more bad news about marriage.  —  A record-high 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States were never married in 2021, according to sobering new statistics from the Pew Research Center.  That statistic compares to just 6% …
Discussion: Raw Story
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson Spar Over Affirmative Action Ruling  —  Even as Justices Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson appeared to agree over the policy's aim, they harshly criticized each other's conclusions on what to do.  —  Reporting from Washington
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
The right's shameless Hunter Biden obsession  —  They won't let a lack of evidence get in the way of trying to minimize Trump's corruption.  —  ∙ Paid … Last week, Hunter Biden reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.  After a five-year investigation, the president's son admitted to failing to pay taxes for two years.
Wall Street Journal:
Ethics Official Owned Meta Stock While Recommending FTC Chair Recuse Herself From Meta Case  —  Federal Trade Commission's designated ethics official says she acted properly, but faces questions from watchdog group  —  WASHINGTON—An ethics official owned Meta Platforms stock when she recommended …
Jeff Berardelli / WFLA-TV:
‘Off the charts’: Earth's vital signs are going haywire  —  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — In my 3 decade-long career being a weather forecaster, and now Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist, I have never observed so many of Earth's vital signs blinking red.  Meteorologists and climate scientists …
Discussion: Reuters and The Messenger
 
 
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