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2:00 PM ET, June 27, 2025

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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Civil rights groups warn that the decision involving birthright citizenship will create chaos.  —  In a major victory for President Trump, the court restricted the ability of federal judges to block his executive orders.  The decision may reshape the way U.S. citizenship is granted, even temporarily.
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Tim Sullivan / Associated Press:
Live updates: Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but leaves fate of birthright citizenship unclear  —  Watch live as U.S. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing at the White House.  —  A divided Supreme Court ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan  —  The Trump administration wants to end automatic birthright citizenship as enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions in birthright citizenship order
MSNBC:
The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship reasoning reveals a startlingly myopic view
Reuters:
Supreme Court, in birthright citizenship case, limits judges' power to block Trump's policies nationwide
Cate Martel / The Hill:
Supreme Court's blockbuster day
New York Times:
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration  —  The Justice Department had demanded that James E. Ryan step down in order to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school.  —  The University of Virginia's president, James E. Ryan …
Discussion: Bloomberg, WUSA and Fox News
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New York Times:
Trump Justice Dept. Pressuring University of Virginia President to Resign  —  The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.  —  The Trump administration has privately demanded …
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
Where Are the University Presidents?  —  Mostly playing with live ammo and coping with existential threats.
Axios:
Trump administration tries to oust the University of Virginia's president
Discussion: NewsMax.com
Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:
Newsom Sues Fox News for Saying He Lied About Call With Trump  —  The lawsuit, which seeks at least $787 million in damages, comes as the California governor adopts an increasingly combative style with the president and his allies.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sued Fox News on Friday …
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Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call  —  The amount is nearly identical to Dominion Voting's 2023 defamation settlement with Fox News.  —  Gavin Newsom is taking a page right out of Donald Trump's media playbook.  —  The California governor accused Fox News …
NBC News:
Gavin Newsom targets Fox News in a $787-million lawsuit
Discussion: USA Today, HuffPost and Variety
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court backs parents seeking to opt their kids out of LGBTQ books in elementary schools  —  Parents sued Montgomery County, Maryland, schools after it said they couldn't opt their children out of exposure to LGBTQ books in the classroom.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court requires opt-out for LGBTQ-themed lessons in schools  —  Parents can opt their children out of school lessons with LGBTQ+ characters or themes, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. … - The school initially offered parents a way to opt their children out of those lessons but dropped …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories
Discussion: HotAir and New Republic
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court endorses Obamacare panel that requires free preventive care  —  The case grew out of a conservative religious challenge to the approval of HIV prevention treatments that insurers are required to provide at no cost to patients.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected …
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Oriana González / NOTUS:
Supreme Court Grants RFK Jr. Unprecedented Power of Key HHS Panel
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
On Iran, a reminder that party trumps values  —  Last week, I wrote in my weekly chart article “The myth of Republican isolationism” that the GOP is not in fact the party of isolationism, despite the conventional wisdom about Donald Trump and his coalition.  I pointed out that support …
Discussion: Axios and The Boston Globe
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites  —  The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older.  The justices rejected a First Amendment challenge to the law.  The court said in a 6-3 decision …
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The Hill:
Supreme Court upholds Texas age verification law for online porn
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds Texas adult website age-verification law
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Gun Silencer Provision In GOP Tax Bill Violates Rules, Says Senate Rules Ref  —  The parliamentarian ruled that the provision making it easier to get silencers, rifles and shotguns is irrelevant to the budget bill and has to come out.  —  WASHINGTON — A provision in the GOP's tax …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
With Flu Shot Vote, Kennedy's Vaccine Skepticism Comes Full Circle  —  The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety.  A panel of experts he appointed will no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Group suing over Trump's birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit  —  An organization representing immigrants fighting President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order wasted little time seeking to recalibrate its legal strategy to block the president's policy despite …
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Washington Post:
Live updates: Supreme Court ends terms with decisions on birthright citizenship, the ACA and more  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke for nearly 20 minutes as she explained her dissent in the decision on birthright citizenship, attacking the logic on both citizenship and the ruling against universal injunctions issued by lower courts.
Discussion: Associated Press, ABC News and The Hill
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The Public Is Resisting Trump.  The Elites Aren't.  —  Back in April, the White House took a sledgehammer to America's trading relationships with the rest of the world, pledging that a shiny new trade regime would be in place within three months: “90 deals in 90 days.”
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening  —  Madonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was taken by plainclothes officers from her home in New Orleans  —  A 64-year-old Iranian woman, who has lived in the US for 47 years, was detained by immigration agents …
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Cuomo Doesn't Blame Himself for Losing the Primary.  Others Do.  —  Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani.  —  For Andrew M. Cuomo, the rally rolling out a $20-an-hour minimum wage proposal …
Associated Press:
Environmental groups sue to block migrant detention center rising in Florida Everglades  —  Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” now being built on an airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery  —  The nato Secretary General goes all-in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”  —  Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump …
Discussion: The Economist
New Republic:
MAGA Rage Suddenly Takes Unnerving Turn as Trump Plummets in New Polls  —  President Trump's big budget bill is in some trouble after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that big chunks of it can't pass via a simple majority.  That enraged MAGA: Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashed a furious rant demanding …
Politico:
California donors cool on Kamala Harris: ‘No one is incredibly pumped.’  —  Some party funders have privately shared their ambivalence as the former vice president ramps up her outreach ahead of a potential run for governor.  —  LOS ANGELES — Kamala Harris is ramping up her outreach …
 
 
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Ernesto Londoño / New York Times:
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and Husband Lie in State Alongside Their Dog, Gilbert
Discussion: Associated Press
Politico:
Two major NYC unions back Mamdani's general election bid for mayor
Discussion: The Hill
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Muslim Democrats ask leaders to denounce Islamophobic attacks on Zohran Mamdani
Discussion: New York Daily News
Xochitl Gonzalez / The Atlantic:
The Three Marine Brothers Who Feel ‘Betrayed’ by America
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Democrats fume at “waste of time” Trump admin briefing on Iran
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jack Rakove / Washington Monthly:
It's Not Just a Constitutional Crisis in the Trump Era. It's Constitutional Failure
 Earlier Items: 
Andy Olsen / Christianity Today:
ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution
Discussion: ABC7
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court upholds phone and internet subsidy program for underserved areas
Perry Stein / Washington Post:
DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations
Discussion: Raw Story and MSNBC
Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico:
US State Department adviser wanted to boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen
Discussion: The Guardian
Nikole Hannah-Jones / New York Times:
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani
Discussion: CNN and Althouse
 

 
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