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Conservative groups and legal experts said the private sector should brace for challenges.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district.

Donald Trump could soon be facing additional indictments from the Department of Justice, The Independent reports. The DOJ has made preparations for a “superseding indictment,” which are additional charges that may include allegations of more serious crimes against a defendant, according to the report.

US president says ‘the court once again walked away from decades of precedent’, as Democrats decry supreme court’s affirmative action ruling

“Imagine feeling the need to use leftist talking points and a literal MSNBC link to lie about your political rival and gaslight voters on one of the most important issues of the century. Pathetic and nauseating.”

https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1674465042102726681

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Data released by SiegedSec from six states includes South Carolina police files and contact details for Nebraska court officials

The new data could bolster the case for higher interest rates.

Jeff Timmer of The Lincoln Project was reacting to the 2024 hopeful saying he would be in favor of axing four federal agencies if elected president.

Here is the Supreme Court opinion on affirmative action released today:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

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Three Florida men have been charged with making more than $22 million illegally by insider trading ahead of the public announcement that a firm was going to take a media company owned by former President Donald Trump public.

DeSantis Refuses to Lose

 “People want to win, and the longer they have to be reminded about the tiresome aspects of the Trump Show, the more likely they are to look for an alternative. And there is none but Ron DeSantis.”

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/06/29/desantis-refuses-to-lose-n2625026

From The Guardian

So Affirmative Action is basically dead for college admissions, further dismantling Civil Rights era legislation.

Way to go, SCOTUS. /s

Florida's Republican governor said he would seek to abolish the departments of Education, Commerce and Energy, as well as the IRS.

"If Congress will work with me on doing that, we'll be able to reduce the size and scope of government," he added. "If Congress won't go that far, I'm going to use those agencies to push back against woke ideology and against the leftism that we see creeping into all institutions of American life."

The ruling, in a case brought by a Hamburger Mary's restaurant, pauses enforcement of the state's new "Protection of Children" law, which prohibits admitting children to an "adult live performance."

Experts say US immigration law already bars members of a Communist Party from becoming citizens or green card holders, but they say Trump might run into legal trouble if he tried to implement a blanket exclusion of all communists or Marxists.

The Black-white voter turnout gap has widened in states that once had to clear new voting laws with the federal government, since the court weakened the Voting Rights Act in 2013.

Hosting an anti-trans speaker in a public school would tell “queer and trans youth that they are not welcome in public spaces,” Amanda Rohdenburg, associate director of the LGBTQ+ advocacy nonprofit Outright Vermont, told VTDigger on June 16, four days before Heyer’s talk.

Behind the scenes, however, school district officials were receiving a different kind of message about the event: warnings, from the high-profile Christian law firm Liberty Counsel, against canceling it.

https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/27/before-an-anti-trans-event-at-a-vergennes-school-a-prominent-christian-law-firm-issued-a-warning/

It’s not the first time that the Florida governor has faced accusations of inappropriately blurring the lines between his official duties and his presidential campaign.

Geraldine Roll, the Pinal County elections director, wrote that “you idly stood by when I was attacked" in an email to the county’s manager.

The ex-president talked about his daughter's breasts and "what it might be like to have sex with her," a former Trump administration official writes in a new book.

Flogging a book so it's hard to know, but there's been other verified quotes about his daughter so this claim is plausible.

President Joe Biden will tout his economic agenda in remarks Wednesday as he campaigns for a second term amid low polling numbers on his job performance and the direction of the country.

The president’s plan, which the White House dubbed “Bidenomics,” aims to “move beyond” the “trickle down” economic theory that it says disproportionately benefits the wealthy and big corporations through tax cuts while reducing investment in priorities such as infrastructure and education, and failing to protect market competition.

Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss was an inside job

There are numerous bombshells in the congressional testimony of two IRS whistleblowers, but the most significant is that members of Trump’s Department of Justice helped to tip the 2020 election to his opponent by slow-walking the investigation into Hunter Biden.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/24/donald-trumps-2020-election-loss-was-an-inside-job/

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'The Focus Will Once Again Be More on Trump than Biden' | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-focus-will-once-again-be-more-on-trump-than-biden/
If the GOP nominates anyone besides Donald Trump — DeSantis, Scott, Haley, Pence, Christie — the race will be a referendum on President Biden. And a majority of the electorate has deep, perhaps irreversible concerns about Biden.
If the GOP nominates Trump, the race will be a referendum on Trump, instead of Biden. And yet, judging from the rest of the poll, at minimum half of the Republican Party is eager to make the 2024 general election yet another referendum on Trump.

You cannot save a political party that does not want to be saved.

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The case concerned the “independent state legislature” theory. It is based on a reading of the Constitution’s Elections Clause, which says, “The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof.”

Proponents of the strongest form of the theory say this means that no other organs of state government — not courts, not governors, not election administrators, not independent commissions — can alter a legislature’s actions on federal elections.

Chief Justice Roberts rejected that position. “The Elections Clause does not insulate state legislatures from the ordinary exercise of state judicial review,” he wrote.

The ruling soundly dismissed the theory, one that an unusually diverse array of lawyers, judges and scholars across the ideological spectrum viewed as extreme and dangerous. Adopting the theory, they warned, could have profound consequences for nearly every aspect of federal elections, including by erasing safeguards against partisan gerrymandering and curtailing the ability to challenge voting restrictions in state courts.

The Supreme Court rejected the independent state legislature theory in a bombshell decision Tuesday, turning back a right-wing attempt to vest the sole power in administering federal elections with state legislatures.