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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 …
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 …
ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for website designer in case involving free speech, LGBTQ+ protections
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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Politico:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student debt relief plan
ABC News:
Supreme Court strikes down Biden student loan debt forgiveness program
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Major Guns Case Involving Domestic Violence  —  The court, which has decided very few Second Amendment cases, will consider whether the government may disarm people subject to restraining orders for domestic abuse.  —  Reporting from Washington
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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 …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court will decide if abusive spouses have a right to own guns
Discussion: Politico and USA Today
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to decide whether Second Amendment protects gun owners subject to domestic violence restraining orders
Discussion: The Hill and SCOTUSblog
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and NPR
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.
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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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
DeSantis's ugly descent into ‘invasion’ hysteria can't go unanswered
Miami Herald:
Ron DeSantis faces one setback after another in battle against LGBTQ rights
Discussion: Political Wire
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
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: CNN, USA Today and Fox News
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 …
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Eliot Spitzer: RFK Jr. asked about giving paid speeches in office  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn't run for office before in part because he couldn't afford it.  —  That's what Kennedy told then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, when Kennedy was considering running to replace him in 2006 …
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.
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Supreme Court sends back Ohio redistricting case  —  The Supreme Court on Friday sent an Ohio redistricting case back to the state's top court, in light of a decision it delivered earlier this week on a similar case in North Carolina.  —  Ohio Republicans had appealed to the nation's highest court …
Discussion: CNN
Gary Fineout / Politico:
DeSantis scores big legal win upholding $2.5B gambling deal with Florida tribe  —  The three-judge panel concluded that a lower court judge had wrongly stopped the deal and said that any dispute over the compact between Florida and the tribe should be fought in state court.
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 …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Cyberattack knocks out satellite communications for Russian military  —  Was it pro-Ukrainian hackers or Wagner rebels?  —  A satellite communications system serving the Russian military was knocked offline by a cyberattack late Wednesday and remained mostly down on Thursday …
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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Bradford Wilcox / Washington Examiner:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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