WaPo: “The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18. The case will be the first opportunity the justices have to consider the constitutionality of such restrictions, which more than 20 states have passed since 2021. The Biden administration urged the court to decide whether…

WaPo: “A Texas woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old girl in a swimming pool, police said, adding that they are recommending the incident be treated as a hate crime. The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, identified the…

Political Wire: “Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Fox News that unless the Supreme Court grants presidential immunity, President Biden should be prosecuted for crimes related to forgiving student loan debt. Explained Graham: “There’s nothing in our law that allows him to forgive student loans. If you’re out there working and didn’t go to college, Joe Biden’s forgiving…

WaPo: “In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court has rejected a law requiring the placement of the Ten Commandments in public schools. “The pre-eminent purpose for posting the Ten Commandments on schoolroom walls is plainly religious in nature,” the court’s unsigned decision stated. “The Ten Commandments are undeniably a sacred text in the Jewish and Christian…

WaPo: “Even in a decade marked by hatred and violence, what happened here on a sultry June night 60 years ago shocked the nation for its brazenness. Amid Freedom Summer, a daring effort to register Black Mississippians to vote, three young civil rights workers came to town. It was a perilous time. Black churches were being…

TX Observer: “The Texas Medical Board on Friday adopted guidance for how doctors should interpret the state’s new abortion laws, reducing paperwork requirements some saw as overly burdensome but declining to provide a list of cases in which an abortion would be legal. The board unanimously approved the new guidelines after making revisions in response…

WaPo: “In 1903, a Black man walked into an office in a small town in Texas, seeking any news about whether slavery had ended. The earnest inquiry from the man, who had been forced to labor without pay, came more than 38 years after Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger landed on Galveston Island, Tex., with more…

Democracy Now!: “As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s…. In 2023, Rhiannon Giddens won a Pulitzer Prize for her…

Political Wire: “Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday,” the AP reports. “The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in ‘large, easily readable font’ be required in…

NY Times: “I returned to my hometown, Memphis, to make a short film outside a building that once offered abortion services. In Tennessee abortion is banned, with no exception for rape and very limited medical exceptions that are being debated in state court…. These women offer distinct perspectives on this radical transformation in American society. Together…