Political Wire: ““Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29 percent in June, the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to figures released Monday that provide another window on the impact of a new rule to temporarily suspend asylum,” the AP reports.”
“McCarthy Suggests Matt Gaetz Should Be In Prison”
Political Wire: “Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told NBC News that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) “probably shouldn’t be on the streets.” Said McCarthy: “He had an ethics complaint four years ago that he paid an underage girl and she had come to ethics. And he came to me to try to leverage me to stop the ethics…
“Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trump”
NY Times: “The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case threw out all of the charges against him on Monday, ruling that Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed the indictment, had been given his job in violation of the Constitution. In a stunning decision delivered on the first day of the…
“Many Undecided In Virginia”
Political Wire: “A new Virginia Commonwealth University-Wilder School poll finds Donald Trump leading Joe Biden in the presidential race, 39% to 36% with an astonishing 25% preferring neither or still undecided.”
“Peter Buxtun, Tuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower, Dead At 86”
HuffPo: “Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86. Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, according to his attorney, Minna Fernan. Buxtun is…
“RFK Jr.’s party wins approval to appear on NC ballots, but Cornel West denied”
WFAE: “The North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Tuesday to allow one third-party presidential candidate on the November ballot, but denied another. Pending any court challenges, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear on the ballot, but Cornel West will not.”
“How Blue-Collar Candidates Could Change Politics”
The Assembly: “Robinson has, to put it mildly, an unorthodox political profile. She’s a blunt progressive Democrat in a deep-red mountain county. She last worked as a shift manager for a Pizza Hut. She’s a white woman married to a Black man in a place with almost no racial diversity, and they live with their…
“Arkansas Rejects Abortion Rights Amendment Petition on Technicality”
NY Times: “The Arkansas secretary of state on Wednesday rejected an effort to put an abortion-rights amendment on the ballot this November, saying the campaign had failed to submit some of the necessary paperwork. Less than a week ago, organizers said they had successfully submitted more than 101,000 signatures in support of the effort, a…
“Dem [MS] congressman says staff member no longer employed for ‘don’t miss next time’ post after Trump shooting”
Fox News: “A staff member of Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson is “no longer” in the congressman’s employment after allegedly posting “don’t miss next time,” after the apparent assassination attempt on former President Trump on Saturday evening. “I was made aware of a post made by a staff member and she is no longer in my employment,” Mississippi Rep….
“Proposed Arkansas voter registration rule blocks access, opponents say”
AR Times: “Opponents to a rule requiring “wet signatures” on Arkansas voter registration forms crowded into a public hearing room Thursday to voice concerns about barriers to voting they say would result from the rule’s adoption. “Make no mistake about it, this rule makes it harder for Arkansans to vote,” said Toney Orr, chairman of the…