The Guardian: “A city nestled in the northern tip of Texas, which was at the heart of a major US supreme court case over abortion rights this year, has found itself at the forefront of the abortion wars once again. Come November, residents of Amarillo, Texas, will vote on an ordinance that would declare Amarillo a “sanctuary…
“As Biden fights calls to exit race, Harris rallies supporters in North Carolina”
WaPo: “As President Biden convalesced from covid and battled the biggest political crisis of his presidency Thursday, Vice President Harris appeared before a roaring crowd of supporters in North Carolina in what amounted to an audition for the role of Democratic nominee for president. …Harris’s appearance also marked a return to normal campaigning. The Biden campaign resumed…
With 20 Minutes to Spare, SCOTUS Stays Execution of TX Man
WaPo: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a last-minute stay of execution to a Texas man who for more than a decade has requested DNA testing to prove his innocence in a 1998 killing. Ruben Gutierrez was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death 25 years ago. He was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at…
Illegal Border Crossings Have Plunged Under Biden’s Watch
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…