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The recent rulings of the conservative-dominated Supreme Court are set to take center stage in the battle over the Senate majority, giving Democrats a better chance to keep control of the upper chamber despite President Biden's slumping approval numbers. This week's decisions by the court rejecting Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, invalidating university affirmative action policies and allowing small business owners to oppose giving services for same-sex marriages give Democrats an opportunity to play offense. |
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Former President Trump praised his appointments to the Supreme Court on Saturday, after the court struck down what he called President Biden's "unfair" student debt relief plan. "Yesterday, the Supreme Court also ruled that President Biden is not allowed to wipe out hundreds and hundreds of billions, probably trillions, of dollars in student loan debt, which would have been very unfair to the millions and millions of people who have paid their debt through hard work and diligence," Trump said at a campaign rally in Pickens, South Carolina. |
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The Supreme Court in an expected move on Friday ruled that Lorie Smith, a Colorado-based Christian web designer, is not beholden to a state law prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations and may legally refuse services to LGBTQ people. The ruling, which states that Colorado's anti-discrimination law violates Smith's First Amendment rights by requiring her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples – unions she believes to be "false" – leaves a question mark for the future of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections in the U.S. |
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BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND JULIA MANCHESTER |
Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) are engaged in an escalating back-and-forth over their respective immigration plans, competing over who presents the more hawkish vision on the border. On Tuesday, DeSantis rolled out his immigration proposal, titled "Mission Stop the Invasion No Excuses," a clear jab at Trump's handling of the issue during his administration. DeSantis's plan calls for an end to birthright citizenship, and he has endorsed the use of "deadly force" against migrants suspected of drug trafficking. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO AND BRETT SAMUELS |
House Republicans are grappling over whether to move forward with impeaching President Biden and a host of his top officials, putting a spotlight on how the conference has turned to impeachment as a tool to target administration officials. Republicans disagree over how hard to push for impeachment because some are worried the efforts could backfire after the party heavily criticized Democrats for their House impeachments of former President Trump. |
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The Mexican Foreign Ministry harshly criticized a new Florida immigration law that will require more frequent mandatory ID checks at places like hospitals and by employers, as well as increase criminal penalties to being undocumented. |
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Former President Trump said on Saturday that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) can help him get "liberal votes," after a South Carolina crowd booed his mention of their own senator. "You know, you can make mistakes on occasion. Even Lindsey down here, Senator Lindsey Graham. We love Senator Graham," Trump said at a rally in Pickens, S.C., drawing boos from the crowd. |
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Former President Trump called then-Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to pressure him to overturn the 2020 election results in that state, according to reports from The Washington Post. Trump encouraged Ducey, a tepid ally, to find votes to overcome his narrow loss in the state in multiple calls after the 2020 election and asked Vice President Mike Pence call him and ask the same, according to the outlet. |
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Georgia is set to become the only state in the country to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, and the success or failure of its plan could be a test case for other states that are planning ahead for the next Republican White House. The new program, set to launch this weekend, will allow able-bodied adults who have never qualified for Medicaid to join. It could offer health care coverage to tens of thousands additional residents — but only if they can prove they work or are enrolled in job training or other activities for 80 hours a month. |
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A Republican LGBTQ group has blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over an ad released by his presidential campaign that the organization called "homophobic." Log Cabin Republicans, the largest GOP organization representing LGBTQ individuals, said in a tweet that DeSantis's message for his presidential campaign is "divisive and desperate" and is alienating swing-state and younger voters. |
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OPINION | Important historical events often get lost in the daily shuffle. Only last week, news of China building a "military training" facility in Cuba came just a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken's brief June 19 meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which was touted as having stabilized Washington-Beijing relations.
Then President Biden weighed in, opining that Xi had been unaware of Beijing's spy balloon over the United States, which reflected "a great embarrassment for dictators: when they didn't know what happened." |
OPINION | "Disappointing and cruel." Those words from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) after the Supreme Court's rejection of the Biden administration's loan forgiveness program may say more than the opinion itself.
The court's "cruelty" was in supporting Congress's core constitutional power of the purse. Schumer's disappointment in having to address and vote on the forgiveness of hundreds of billions of dollars in loans speaks volumes about the collapse of our constitutional values. |
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics also make it an especially dangerous holiday, typically resulting in more than 10,000 trips to the emergency room. Yet fireworks remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years in the making. |
BY JOE WALLACE AND ANNA HIRTENSTEIN |
The oil market has sent a warning to Saudi Arabia and everyone else betting that prices are poised for a rebound: Don't count on it. |
The almost simultaneous police killing of Nahel M. and a ban on head scarves in soccer were coincidental, but they illuminate France's crisis of identity and inclusion. |
BY VICTORIA BISSET AND JACLYN PEISER |
"I've been active and vocal on LGBTQ rights," he told The Washington Post on Saturday. "So it was frustrating to see my name being used." |
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