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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed  —  Now that the Supreme Court has gutted yet another piece of the Voting Rights Act, this one concerning redistricting, here's one thing we know for sure: Democrats will have to enter into a new era of procedural total war.
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Voting Rights Ruling Could Fuel Era of Endless Redistricting Wars  —  The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.  —  The Supreme Court's decision …
Louise Radnofsky / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Rush to Redraw Maps After Supreme Court Race Ruling  —  GOP eager to gain from decision curbing use of race in electoral maps  —  WASHINGTON—Republican leaders are pushing for Southern states to rapidly redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections …
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander
Discussion: Letters from an American and Axios
Politico:
Jeffries lays out more targets for gerrymanders in response to GOP's renewed push
Seung Min Kim / Associated Press:
Trump administration says its war in Iran has been ‘terminated’ before 60-day deadline  —  The Trump administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April, an interpretation that would allow the White House to avoid the need to seek congressional approval.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Poised to Defy Congress on War Authorization  —  Defense Secretary Hegseth tells lawmakers that the U.S.-Iran cease-fire stopped the clock on the war authorization deadline  —  The Trump administration is on course to blow past an initial deadline for congressional approval for the Iran war …
Jonathan Tamari / Bloomberg:
GOP Steers Clear on Iran as War Hits Key 60-Day Milestone  —  Trump is looking to buy more time to reach a deal, and most Republicans are glad to give it. … Trump's Overtime  —  Today marks 60 days since President Donald Trump notified Congress about his attack on Iran, a key milestone for his legal authority to continue the war.
Politico:
Schumer's primary slump
Discussion: The Hill and The Intercept
Victoria Craw / Washington Post:
A deadline for the Iran war is here. What does the War Powers Act say?
Washington Post:
Poll: Trump's Iran war reaches Iraq- and Vietnam-era disapproval levels  —  A Post-ABC-Ipsos poll shows most Americans call the military action a mistake, even as Republicans remain strongly supportive.  Many Americans fear the conflict will lead to a recession.  —  Summary
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Truthout and Axios
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Emily Guskin / ABC News:
Americans are increasingly bleak about their own finances, most say using the US military against Iran was a mistake: ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll
Discussion: Straight Arrow News
Beth Mole / Ars Technica:
Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general … In a series of social media posts Thursday, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Make America Health Again influencer Casey Means to be surgeon general, lashed out at Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) for Means' stalled nomination in the Senate …
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Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Casey Means: Murkowski sank my nomination
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Trump Withdraws Nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General
New York Times:
Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage  —  Americans can't afford the higher health insurance premiums that resulted from Congress's refusal to extend federal tax credits.  —  Millions of Americans appear to be dropping Obamacare coverage …
Discussion: Forbes and KFF
Politico:
‘Divided us with a smile’: GOP groaning over Mike Johnson reaches a fever pitch … This week's chaos came to a head late Wednesday, with multiple members of key Republican factions yelling and swearing at Johnson on the House floor and in closed-door meetings.
Discussion: Associated Press, DNYUZ and Raw Story
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G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Pundits are wrong about the Democrats' “missing” voters  —  In individual-level polling data, two-thirds of Trump disapprovers who aren't backing Democrats on the generic ballot look like closeted Republicans, not swing voters waiting for a pivot on crime
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
Trump's Reichstag fire presidency is immolating  —  The day after an alleged gunman tried to barge into the White House Correspondents Dinner, Todd Blanche — the nation's chief law enforcement official — appeared on national television to denounce that act of political violence.
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Washington Post:
Trump said he would end her political career, but Democrats did her in
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
Scott Dance / New York Times:
FEMA Is Reversing Job Cuts Made Under Kristi Noem  —  The agency said staff members who had been let go or placed on administrative leave were now needed to prepare for hurricanes and the World Cup.  —  The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that Kristi Noem …
Discussion: The Guardian and NewsMax.com
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Laura Strickler / NBC News:
FEMA is welcoming back 15 whistleblowers placed on leave during Kristi Noem's tenure
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein's Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View … A suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail has been kept secret for nearly seven years, locked up in a New York courthouse.  —  A cellmate said he discovered the note in July 2019 …
Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
Nebraska faces challenges as first state to impose Medicaid work requirements under GOP bill  —  Nebraska on Friday is set to become the first state to impose Medicaid work requirements under the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, racing ahead of the national deadline by eight months.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Something Liberals and Conservatives Agree On: Hatred of Data Centers  —  Americans have soured on the projects, polls show, and the sentiment is profoundly bipartisan.  How that will change our politics?  —  The monthly meeting in Lyon Township, a small town in southeast Michigan …
CNN:
House Ethics Committee investigating allegations of sexual harassment against GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards  —  The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations of sexual harassment against GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Zoe Hussain / New York Post:
Missing Republican Oklahoma Senate candidate, 54, found dead in rural area  —  The body of a missing Republican Senate candidate was found inside a truck in rural Oklahoma, according to authorities and reports.  —  Barry Christian, a 54-year-old candidate for District 38 in western Oklahoma …
New York Times:
Pentagon Makes Deals With A.I. Companies to Expand Classified Work  —  The agreements with six technology companies come amid the Defense Department's dispute with Anthropic.  —  The Pentagon announced on Friday that it had reached deals with some of the technology industry's biggest companies …
Financial Times:
Trump sons take stake in Kazakh miner that won $1.6bn US contract  —  Donald Jr and Eric have sought to capitalise on sectors backed by father's presidential administration  —  A shell company backed by Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump has merged with a critical minerals group that last year secured …
Portia Crowe / Reuters:
Al Qaeda-linked insurgents call on Malians to rise up, establish Sharia law  —  Al Qaeda-linked insurgents have called on Malians to rise up against the military-led government and transition to Sharia law in a rare French-language statement issued days after carrying out unprecedented attacks across the country.
New York Times:
Congress Passes Another Short-Term Extension of Expiring Surveillance Law  —  Senator Ron Wyden secured an agreement to seek the declassification of a recent intelligence court ruling about the FISA Section 702 program.  —  Congress voted on Thursday to extend a high-profile warrantless surveillance law …
Gregory Svirnovskiy / Politico:
‘Just go to Hell’: Ed Martin, Thom Tillis squabble amid Tillis' anti-Jan. 6 litmus test  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and pardon attorney Ed Martin traded personal insults Thursday on social media, a remarkably public feud between a sitting Republican senator and member of the administration.
Benoit Faucon / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Is Grasping for a Solution to an American Blockade It Can't Break  —  Siege reveals hole in Tehran's strategy of guerrilla warfare and controlling Strait of Hormuz  —  For almost five decades, Iran's Islamic government has survived financial pressure from the U.S. by selling oil to China.
Charlotte Hazard / WKRC:
Sen. Rand Paul introduces constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship  —  WASHINGTON (TNND) — Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul announced Thursday that he would be introducing a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship. … Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments …
Theodoric Meyer / Washington Post:
A key Senate rule is slowly losing its grip, and both parties know it  —  Senate Majority Leader John Thune has resisted Trump's pleas to kill the filibuster, but Republicans circumvented it in trying to fund immigration enforcement agencies.  —  Summary  —  For months, Senate Majority …
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
Spanberger's bad day in court
New York Times:
Trump's Plans to Boost Weapons Production Might Not Deliver for Years
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Is the One Without the Cards at the Poker Table
Kerry Breen / CBS News:
Trump administration ends funding for fentanyl test strips, baffling public health groups: “It doesn't make sense”
Discussion: Foreign Affairs
Elizabeth Findell / Wall Street Journal:
‘No Country for John Cornyn’: A Texas GOP Senator's Last Stand
Discussion: Texas Monthly
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
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Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump signs DHS legislation, ending record-breaking shutdown
Gabby Deutch / Jewish Insider:
DOJ's Harmeet Dhillon compares contemporary antisemitism of ‘educated elites’ to 1930s Germany
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Slaying of the Voting Rights Act by the Coward Samuel Alito
Annie Massa / Bloomberg:
Trump Family-Backed Drone Firm Signs Weapons Deal With US
 

 
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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
A group of TV consumers sue in federal court in California to block Paramount's acquisition of WBD on antitrust grounds; Paramount says the suit lacks merit
 
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