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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 …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rules for web designer who refused to work on same-sex weddings — In a blow to LGBTQ rights, the court said creative businesses can refuse to sell certain products and services if they disagree with the message the customer wishes to convey. — Supreme Court rules …
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NBC News:
Live updates: Supreme Court rules for web designer in LGBTQ protections case … In the web designer case, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, “At the same time, this Court has also recognized that no public accommodations law is immune from the demands of the Constitution.
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple
Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Discrimination Of Same-Sex Couple
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ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court
Key document may be fake in LGBTQ+ rights case before US supreme court
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns — The justices are forced to confront the gun policy disaster that it created. — Last February, the far-right United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that a federal law prohibiting individuals from …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders
Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns
Supreme Court to weigh right of accused domestic abusers to own guns
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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 …
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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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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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Linda Chavez / Bulwark+:
Affirmative Action Ruling: Actually a Win for Minority Students
Affirmative Action Ruling: Actually a Win for Minority Students
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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.”
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Trump Jan. 6 Mob Member Arrested Near Obama Home With Weapons — Bomb Materials — Taylor Taranto — a Trump supporter with a Jan. 6 warrant — was arrested near former President Barack Obama's home with guns and bomb materials. — Taranto was arrested Thursday on charges related …
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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 …
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.
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The White House:
Statement from President Joe Biden on Supreme Court Decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis — In America, no person should face discrimination simply because of who they are or who they love. The Supreme Court's disappointing decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis undermines that basic truth …
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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 …
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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 …
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Andreina Itriago Acosta / Bloomberg:
Venezuela Opposition Leader Machado Banned From Public Office for 15 Years — Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado is ineligible to participate in upcoming elections, the Comptroller's office said Friday, causing more tension in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential vote.
The Hill:
Supreme Court lets stand gender dysphoria case in liberal win — The Supreme Court on Friday let a lower court ruling stand that sided with a transgender woman who contested that her rights were violated in jail when she was deprived of her hormone treatment.
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 …
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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 …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Biden wanders off set as Nicolle Wallace wraps softball MSNBC interview — Critics joked the president was going for a ‘bathroom run’ — President Biden could not wait until the commercial break to flee the set of a live televised interview with MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.
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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 …