Legitimacy of 'customer' in Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical and legal flags (apnews.com)
Mega Thread - Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States in Arraignment - Washington DC (lemmy.world)
Trump has been charged by the Department of Justice with the following four counts:...
“Fascists Go Home!”: Philadelphians Reject Far Right “Moms for Liberty” | Over 50 local and national organizations joined to counter the harmful messaging from the far right group’s conference. (truthout.org)
Trump-appointed judge gives a 'break' to Jan. 6 rioter who wants to be a police officer (archive.is)
archive.is is having stability issues at the moment so I updated the link...
Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery” (theintercept.com)
According to the former president, Americans are now experiencing "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors."
Young Americans blame SCOTUS, GOP for unforgiven student loan debt (www.axios.com)
Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
Veterans quit DeSantis’ Florida State Guard over militialike training (www.tampabay.com)
The Truth About the GOP and the Deficit: All They Do Is Raise It — They talk deficit reduction. But what they actually do—time after time after time—is raise it via corporate giveaways. Here’s the ... (newrepublic.com)
They talk deficit reduction. But what they actually do—time after time after time—is raise it via corporate giveaways. Here’s the latest example.
Biden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit more than 30M views in 12 hours (thehill.com)
Oklahoma's top education official called out for Libs of TikTok ties after non-binary student beaten at school (www.dailydot.com)
Posters online are putting the death of non-binary student Nex Benedict on the hands of Ryan Walters, the state's anti-trans education head.
Judge blocks new Florida election law, signed by DeSantis this spring, calling it the 'latest assault on the right to vote (www.businessinsider.com)
The NAACP of Florida had accused the state of violating the US Constitution by imposing new limits on efforts to register voters.
MEGATHREAD Trump Disqualified from 2024 Election per Colorado Supreme Court (lemmy.world)
The Colorado Supreme Court is removing former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, saying he is ineligible to be president....
New speaker of the House Mike Johnson once wrote in support of the criminalization of gay sex (www.cnn.com)
A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve (capitalbnews.org)
Outrage as Republican says 1921 Tulsa massacre not motivated by race (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk supports eliminating voting rights for people without children (www.independent.co.uk)
Election workers have gotten death threats and warnings they will be lynched, the US government says (www.msn.com)
More than a dozen people nationally have been charged with threatening election workers by a Justice Department unit trying to stem the tide of violent and graphic threats against people who count and secure the vote....
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey, who oversaw 'goon squad' that tortured Black men in Mississippi, is running for reelection unopposed (www.insider.com)
A Mississippi sheriff who oversees a department where five deputies were convicted of torturing two Black men earlier this year — and where at least five people died in its custody in 2021 — is running for reelection unopposed....
President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country (www.whitehouse.gov)
Republican congressional candidate's wife convicted of 52 counts of voting fraud (www.dailykos.com)
McCarthy says hard-right Republicans ‘want to burn whole place down’ (www.theguardian.com)
Conference fails to approve procedural motion to take up defense spending bill as government shutdown looms...
Trump says it was 'my decision' to try to overturn 2020 election results | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
There it is, plain as day. He literally just admitted to his crimes.
Conservatives are on a mission to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump's vision (apnews.com)
‘Corrupt as hell’: Clarence Thomas faces fresh calls to resign after more billionaire gifts revealed (www.independent.co.uk)
Congressional Democrats have pushed for ethics reform legislation, efforts publicly rejected by Samuel Alito
Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government (apnews.com)
