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Notable U.S. State laws taking effect from July 1 (www.nbcnews.com)

July 1 marks the start of a new fiscal year for most U.S. states, and with that comes the enactment of new laws. Here's a list of the notable ones:...

Trump wants to keep 'communists' and ‘Marxists’ out of the US. Here’s what the law says (apnews.com)

Experts say US immigration law already bars members of a Communist Party from becoming citizens or green card holders, but they say Trump might run into legal trouble if he tried to implement a blanket exclusion of all communists or Marxists.

Mike Pence has sudden change of heart over Trump classified documents (www.independent.co.uk)

‘Having read the indictment, these are very serious allegations,’ Mr Pence told The Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board on Tuesday

[News] Trump says he will skip GOP presidential primary debates (apnews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that he will be skipping Wednesday’s first Republican presidential primary debate — and others as well....

Opinion: Joe Walsh - Trump Is a Dangerous Criminal Who Belongs in Prison (www.thedailybeast.com)

The four count indictment Special Counsel Jack Smith handed down against Donald Trump alleges that on Jan. 6, approximately two hours after the mob broke into the Capitol, “the Defendant” joined others in the outer Oval Office to watch the attack on television....

Republican attorneys general issue warning letter to Target about Pride merchandise (www.cbsnews.com)

The letter did not include any specific demands nor did it outline how the attorneys general believe the campaign could violate child protection laws.

Trump Judge Effectively Names Himself President (prospect.org)

Terry A. Doughty says he gets to decide who the FBI, DHS, HHS, and the Justice Department can talk to.

Florida Republican who voted for anti-immigrant bill admits it's doing harm (www.newsweek.com)

Rick Roth said the bill's passage had led to "unintended consequences" and that "farmers are mad as hell" after a mass exodus of undocumented workers.

Is Iowa the next step to civil war? (unherd.com)

In the silence of the Civil War’s Antietam battlefield on a winter day, bucolic hills give way to rows of small, white gravestones in the nearby cemetery. Wandering over the deadliest ground in American history, a melancholy visitor may be excused for wondering if this November’s presidential contest poses the greatest...

RFK Jr. pulls more votes from Trump than Biden in three-way race: Poll (thehill.com)

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

Trump attorney Sidney Powell pleads guilty in Georgia election subversion case | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

Former Donald Trump attorney Sidney Powell has pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, one day before her trial was set to start....

News: Barr obliterates Trump's defense: 'He knew well that he had lost the election' (www.cnn.com)

Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday undermined a key pillar of his old boss’ defense in the special counsel’s probe into 2020 election interference, telling CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that Donald Trump “knew well he lost the election.”

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....

GOP lawmakers predict ‘fistfight’ between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert (www.independent.co.uk)

Tension between the two congresswomen has been rising in recent weeks

Trump Threatens to Appoint ‘Maybe Even Nine’ Supreme Court Justices if Elected (www.rollingstone.com)

The ex-president praised the Supreme Court’s devastating decisions during a summit for Moms for Liberty — a right-wing, anti-government group — on Friday

Opinion | As New York’s mayor, I watched Trump evade consequences for years — until now (www.msnbc.com)

Judge Engoron just handed Trump 355 million reminders that he is not, in fact, above our great city's laws.

Discussion: If I think Biden is too old, and I want to support a different nominee for the Democrats, what should I do? (mbin.grits.dev)

I am 1,000% going to vote for the Democratic nominee in November, because I don't want the world to end. I just want to make that clear because I know some people may be rightly suspicious of this type of post, for oh you know the reasons....

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic. (www.theatlantic.com)

[News] State Republicans Try to Remove NC Supreme Court Justice for Mentioning the Existence of Racial Bias (slate.com)

On Tuesday, it was reported that North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls could be ousted from her seat for judicial ethics violations. Did she fail to disclose gifts from a billionaire benefactor on whose cases she was ruling? No. Maybe she’d gone on luxury vacations across the globe paid for by some of the richest...

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