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12:50 PM ET, July 6, 2020

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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: ABC News, Fox News, Axios, Breitbart and The Hill
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CNN:
Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters  —  (CNN)The Supreme Court said Monday that states can punish members of the Electoral College who break a pledge to vote for a state's popular vote winner in presidential elections.  —  The case comes as the election season is heating up …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules State ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws Constitutional
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says states may require presidential electors to support popular-vote winner
Discussion: Mother Jones, ABC News and Althouse
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court rules ‘faithless electors’ can't go rogue at Electoral College
Discussion: MSNBC
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: Axios, Raw Story and Washington Times
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 …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Advisers Wonder: ‘Is the Statue Shit Going to Work?’
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:   Don't gorge on polls that show Biden ahead. COVID and voter suppression boost Trump's odds.
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.
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: Twitchy and Power Line
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
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.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Defends Confederate Flag in Latest Race-Based Appeal to White Voters
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
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WSB-TV:
Police search for shooter who killed 8-year-old girl near burned Wendy's
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.
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 and Breitbart
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trump Camp Vows to Protect Brazil's Most Iconic Statue From Left Wing Mobs  —  A new ad warns that the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro is under threat.  It's unclear if this is even true or how the president would actually save it.  —  President Donald Trump's determination …
Discussion: Raw Story
Hollie Silverman / CNN:
At least 6 children were killed by gun violence across the nation this holiday weekend  —  (CNN)At least six children were killed in shootings across the country over the holiday weekend, sparking calls from officials to end the gun violence plaguing their communities.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox News Apologizes, Says It Mistakenly Cropped Trump Out of Jeffrey Epstein Photo (UPDATE)  —  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.
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.
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
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
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 …
Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times:
Simon & Schuster Names Dana Canedy New Publisher  —  Ms. Canedy, a former journalist at The New York Times and the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, will run the namesake imprint at one of the country's largest book publishers.  —  Simon & Schuster on Monday named Dana Canedy executive vice president …
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
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Trudeau turns down White House invitation amid pandemic  —  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic outside his residence at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, Thursday, June 18, 2020.  (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
Associated Press:
Supreme Court upholds cellphone robocall ban  —  The Supreme Court has upheld a 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a 1991 law that bars robocalls to cellphones.  —  The case, argued by telephone in May because of the coronavirus pandemic …
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 …
Politico:
Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021  —  Donald Trump's collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they're imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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.
 
 
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Jonathan Guyer / American Prospect:
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
White House teases executive orders on China, immigration and prescription drugs
Discussion: The Hill
Tami Luhby / CNN:
These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump doesn't have a clue what America is about
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
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Just Security:
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Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Trump campaign operative's letter to RNC illuminates GOP's problem in Nevada
Discussion: Raw Story
Courier-Journal:
Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
7 men arrested after allegedly harassing Black family on Oregon beach
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden's running mate