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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices rule states can bind presidential electors' votes  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states' popular vote winner in the Electoral College.  —  The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election …
Discussion: Fox News, Axios, ABC News, Breitbart and The Hill
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Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules State ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws Constitutional
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Pete Williams / NBC News:   Supreme Court rules ‘faithless electors’ can't go rogue at Electoral College
CNN:   Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says states may require presidential electors to support popular-vote winner
Discussion: Althouse
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Trump's Job Approval Rating Steady at Lower Level  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady at a lower level after a sharp drop in late May and early June, with 38% of Americans currently approving of the job he is doing.
Discussion: Raw Story, Axios and Washington Times
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump's Speech  —  Senator Tammy Duckworth says that, during his address at Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.”  —  This is a flat-out lie.  It is entirely untrue.  It is invented from whole cloth.
Discussion: The Bulwark
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Associated Press:
Trump at Mount Rushmore
Discussion: Power Line
Benjamin Wallace / Vulture:
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?  The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can't get audiences to notice.  —  The Emmy race has begun!  Vulture is taking a close look at the contenders until nomination-round voting closes on July 13.
WGCL-TV:
Reward for info on shooting death of 8-year-old during violent night in Atlanta  —  ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) — An 8-year-old girl died after she was shot during a night of violence across metro Atlanta.  —  The shooting occurred just before 10 p.m. on University Avenue near I-75/85.
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WSB-TV:
Police search for shooter who killed 8-year-old girl near burned Wendy's
Jordan Lancaster / The Daily Caller:
'It's Over': Atlanta Mayor Says Protesters Should Clear Out After 8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WGCL-TV
Al Goodman / CNN:
Spain's coronavirus antibodies study adds evidence against herd immunity  —  Madrid (CNN)Spain's large-scale study on the coronavirus indicates just 5% of its population has developed antibodies, strengthening evidence that a so-called herd immunity to Covid-19 is “unachievable,” the medical journal the Lancet reported on Monday.
Discussion: Scripting News
Sara Nathan / Page Six:
Alan Dershowitz hasn't been seen at his favorite nude beach in months  —  Residents of Martha's Vineyard will be seeing a lot less of Alan Dershowitz this summer — in more ways than one.  —  The lawyer famously enjoys letting it all hang out on one of the island's nude beaches, Lucy Vincent Beach.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
How Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans got into his head.  Spoiler: It was easy. … Seeking to defend President Donald Trump from questions over whether he actually reads his daily intelligence briefing, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters last week …
Bloomberg Law:
Dakota Access Oil Line to Be Shut by Court in Blow for Trump  —  Listen  —  The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by Aug. 5, a district court ruled Monday in a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and the oil industry.  —  The decision is a momentous win for American Indian tribes …
Discussion: New York Post
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Ben Geman / Axios:
Court orders temporary shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Trump and Biden campaigns shift focus to coronavirus as pandemic surges  —  The Trump and Biden presidential campaigns now see the coronavirus response as the preeminent force shaping the results of November's election, prompting both camps to try to refocus their campaigns more heavily on the pandemic …
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox News Crops Trump Out of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell Photo  —  Fox News apparently cropped President Donald Trump out of a photograph with Jeffrey Epstein on Sunday, during the network's coverage of the arrest of Ghislane Maxwell.  —  The edited photo aired on America's News Headquarters …
democratandchronicle:
Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Fourth of July Rochester speech  —  On the same weekend in which famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass 168 years ago delivered one of his most historically resonant speeches, a statue of Douglass was toppled from its base and left near the Genesee River gorge.
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:
Trump demands apology from Bubba Wallace  —  President Trump demanded Monday an apology from Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's only Black driver, after the FBI determined last month that he was not a target of a hate crime when a noose was found in his garage stall before a race.
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
White House teases executive orders on China, immigration and prescription drugs  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Monday that President Donald Trump plans to sign a handful of executive orders this week as the president looks to right his reelection campaign after a brutal June …
Discussion: The Hill
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Meadows teases Trump action on immigration, China, prescription drugs
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Are Protests Unsafe?  What Experts Say May Depend on Who's Protesting What  —  Public health experts decried the anti-lockdown protests last spring as dangerous gatherings in a pandemic.  Health experts seem less comfortable doing so now that the marches are against racism.
Discussion: Instapundit
Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism  —  It was always a given that 2020 would be a year to remember.  Even so, it continues to surprise.  It seems likely that June will go down as one of the pivotal months of our political era, a period when our streets, our press …
New York Times:
Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program  —  A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed.  —  A fire at Iran's main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage …
Bloomberg:
Trump's Support Is Withering in Areas Where Virus Cases Are Rising  — Sunbelt and other Republican areas are now getting hit hard  — Older voters most vulnerable are no longer supporting Trump  —  Coronavirus is skyrocketing in Republican-leaning Sunbelt and interior states …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus  —  Coronavirus cases per 10,000 people  —  Teresa and Marvin Bradley can't say for sure how they got the coronavirus.  Maybe Ms. Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital.  Maybe it came from a visiting relative.
Courier-Journal:
Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor's shooting was the result of a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major gentrification makeover …
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump's bluster doesn't beat a virus, calm a restive nation  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House.  The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
7 men arrested after allegedly harassing Black family on Oregon beach  —  © Lincoln City Police Department/ Facebook  —  Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said this weekend that they arrested 7 men on various charges after a group of white people they were a part of allegedly harassed …
Tami Luhby / CNN:
These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era  —  (CNN)The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 years ago, when Civil Rights-era reforms …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump doesn't have a clue what America is about  —  President Trump is single-minded in his devotion to fighting the culture wars.  The “culture” he fights for is authoritarian, reactionary, anti-intellectual and un-American.  If he would stop venerating marble and traitorous white nationalists …
 
 
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Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
How Biden's Foreign-Policy Team Got Rich
Associated Press:
Supreme Court upholds cellphone robocall ban
Discussion: NBC News
USA Today:
Don't gorge on polls that show Biden ahead. COVID and voter suppression boost Trump's odds.
DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:
Depicted kneeling before Lincoln, this enslaved man broke his own chains in pursuit of freedom
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Marijuana Superweapon Biden Refuses to Use
Politico:
Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump second-term plans remain a mystery to GOP
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Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:
Reopening Schools Was Just an Afterthought
Just Security:
Unpacking the National Intelligence Council's Memo on Russian Bounty Operation
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Trump campaign operative's letter to RNC illuminates GOP's problem in Nevada
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Michael Flynn recites oath of office using slogan associated with QAnon
Discussion: Mother Jones
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
GOP Sen.: Obama ‘Failed’ on Ebola but Trump's Stepped Up With COVID-19
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and The Gazette
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The hidden aftershocks of John Bolton's memoir as foreign government officials remain fixated
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden's running mate