memeorandum: Trump-heavy courts block Biden LGBTQ school protections in many states (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)

7:15 AM ET, June 18, 2024

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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:

Clarence Thomas's disgracefully unserious bump stock opinion — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 🏛️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🏛️

Discussion: Twitchy, Michigan Advance and New York Daily News

Stephen Neukam / Axios:

Scoop: Senate Dems line up behind Schumer's bump stock ban … - Republicans are likely to object to Schumer's unanimous consent request to pass the bill. — Even a single GOP objection would give Democrats the opportunity to paint Republicans as broadly against a ban that polls have shown …

Discussion: Raw Story, New York Daily News and Fox News

NBC News:
‘Shame on him for disrespecting the dead’: Nevada senator erupts after Sen. JD Vance's bump stock remarks

Discussion: Raw Story

Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:

Biden to Give Legal Protections to Undocumented Spouses of U.S. Citizens — Undocumented spouses of American citizens will be shielded from deportation, provided work permits and given a pathway to citizenship, according to officials briefed on the plan. — President Biden on Tuesday …

Discussion: Bloomberg, Associated Press, CBS News, Washington Post and Reason

NBC News:

Biden plans to announce new policy shielding undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation — The action would shield about 500,000 immigrants living in the U.S. from deportation. “This is the biggest thing since DACA,” said an immigration advocate.

Discussion: The Hill, Politico, USA Today, Washington Examiner, ABC News, New York Times, The Texas Tribune, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, WKBN-TV and PBS NewsHour

Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Majority of Hispanics Now Favor Mass Deportation

Discussion: One America News Network, The Daily Caller and New York Post

Judd Legum / Popular Information:

Why so many Americans have misconceptions about crime trends — According to the latest FBI data, violent crime and property crime are down sharply in 2024. The new data shows substantial drops in every category, including murder (-26.4%), rape (-25.7%), robbery (-17.8%), and property crime (-15.1%).

Discussion: New Republic

Chris Geidner / Law Dork:

Trump-heavy courts block Biden LGBTQ school protections in many states — The effect of the Trump judicial appointees on the federal courts has been clear in recent years. The stark reality of how sex discrimination protections are viewed by many of those judges — and some of their fellow …

Discussion: CNN and Law & Crime

Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Biden's Title IX law expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students is dealt another setback

Discussion: Breitbart, Advocate, Virginia Mercury, New York Times, The Daily Signal, Los Angeles Times, The College Fix and Indiana Capital Chronicle

Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:

What Donald Trump Learned From Don King — The decades-long friendship of two men who never especially changed. — For more than three decades, the boxing promoter Don King and Donald J. Trump have shared an enduring friendship and some defining surface similarities …

Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:

Closing asset loophole could add billions to tax collections, IRS says — The Treasury Department said it will enact rules to prevent certain large businesses from depreciating the same asset repeatedly. — The Biden administration plans to stop businesses and wealthy individuals …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Forbes

Associated Press:
The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process

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Dan Morrison / USA Today:

Donald Trump Airport? Trump on the $500 bill? Republicans can't stop honoring ex-president — Donald Trump on the $500 bill. A Congressional gold medal. An international airport. — It's the Summer of Trump in the House of Representatives, where Republican lawmakers have flooded …

New York Times:

The war cabinet is gone. Who's left in Netanyahu's inner circle? — Israeli Daytime Pause in Combat Appears to Take Hold in Gaza … The daily pause applies to part of southern Gaza, but not to some of the places most in need. — The Israeli military said on Monday …

US Department of Justice:

Texas Man Sentenced to Nearly 3 Years in Federal Prison for Threatening Violence Against Los Angeles-Area Congresswoman — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Central District of California — LOS ANGELES - A Texas man was sentenced today to 33 months in federal prison …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, Axios, The Hill, Raw Story and Daily News

Martin Pengelly / The Daily Beast:

Bob Bauer: I Played Donald Trump to Get Joe Biden Ready for Debate — I AM THE DON — Biden adviser Bob Bauer tells in a new book how he insulted Biden to his face after watching hours of tapes of Trump. The two candidates debate again next week. — A close Joe Biden ally has revealed …

Discussion: HuffPost

Mitch Smith / New York Times:

Judge Blocks Iowa's Attempt to Enforce Its Own Immigration Law — The Justice Department sued the state over the Republican-backed law, which creates state-level criminal penalties for some unauthorized immigrants. — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Iowa from enforcing …

Discussion: Associated Press, New York Post, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Washington Examiner and ABC News

Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:

Trump maintains big lead over Biden and RFK Jr. despite felony conviction, Iowa Poll shows … Two weeks after he was convicted in a New York courtroom of multiple felony counts, former Republican president Donald Trump still holds a double-digit lead over Democratic incumbent Joe Biden in Iowa.

Discussion: Iowa Capital Dispatch, Breitbart, New York Post, RedState, Fox News, The Hill, New Jersey Online, Washington Free Beacon and The Guardian

US Department of Justice:

Doctor charged for unauthorized access to personal information of pediatric patients at Texas Children's Hospital — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas — HOUSTON - A Houston doctor has been indicted for obtaining protected individual health information …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Signal, Houston Public Media and The Daily Caller

USA Today:

Secret Service agent robbed at gunpoint during President Biden's trip to California over the weekend — It was not immediately clear whether the Secret Service agent's work assignment was connected to the president's visit. — Romina Ruiz-Goiriena Michael CollinsUSA TODAY

Discussion: New York Post, ABC News, Associated Press, UPI, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, ABC7, RedState, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Politico, Raw Story, Boing Boing, Washington Examiner, Twitchy and Daily News

Federal Trade Commission:

FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions — Complaint charges that maker of Photoshop and Acrobat deceived consumers about early termination fees, inhibited cancellations

Discussion: The Verge, TechCrunch, Variety, The Register, UPI, WKBN-TV, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fox Business and CBS News, more at Techmeme »

Doug Bock Clark / ProPublica:

North Carolina Supreme Court Secretly Squashed Discipline of Two GOP Judges Who Admitted to Violating Judicial Code — The decisions came despite the Judicial Standards Commission's recommendations to publicly reprimand the judges, and these are likely the only times in more than a decade …

Yonah Jeremy Bob / Jerusalem Post:

Half of Hamas in Rafah beaten, IDF will gain full control in two weeks — The IDF also revealed that the houses and tunnels in Rafah had new kinds of defenses and boobytraps, with some houses having video surveillance in each room of the given house to facilitate ambushes.

Discussion: Middle East Monitor, The Times of Israel, Breitbart and Washington Free Beacon

Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The Surgeon General's Fear-Mongering, Unconstitutional Effort to Label Social Media — Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's extraordinarily misguided and speech-chilling call this week to label social media platforms as harmful to adolescents is shameful fear-mongering that lacks scientific evidence …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, ABC News, Hackaday, CT Mirror, WKBN-TV, UPI, CBS News, NJTODAY.NET, 9to5Mac and New York Times

Kiera Butler / Mother Jones:

Christian Nationalists Are Opening Private Schools. Taxpayers Are Funding Them. — Trump's favorite Arizona megachurch has one. — Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump held his first campaign rally as a convicted felon at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona …

Discussion: Ohio Capital Journal, Raw Story, Diane Ravitch's blog and New York Times

NBC News:

Trump, Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans gang up on Freedom Caucus chair in primary — Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., is facing a hotly contested primary Tuesday against state Sen. John McGuire. — GOOCHLAND, Va. — For Rep. Bob Good, Tuesday's primary is about much more than the next member …

Discussion: Washington Post, NOTUS, CBS News, Politico, Fox News, ABC News, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, The Times of Israel, Washington Times, NBC Bay Area, OpenSecrets.org, The American Conservative, New York Times, Virginia Mercury, Washington Examiner and Cardinal News

Politico:

New Jersey AG charges Democratic power broker George Norcross in bombshell indictment — He has long been the subject of scrutiny by law enforcement and a political task force, but has never been charged. — New Jersey's attorney general on Monday charged one of the state's most powerful Democrats …