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- Washington Post, With sweep and speed, Supreme Court’s conservatives ignite new era, Robert Barnes
- Washington Post, Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case
- New York Times, Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis
- Washington Post, Editorial: We can no longer avoid a criminal investigation into Donald Trump
- Washington Post, Investigation: How Trump World pressures witnesses to deny his possible wrongdoing, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Jacqueline Alemany
- Washington Post, ‘Take me up to the Capitol now’: How close Trump came to joining rioters, Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig
- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Kyiv accuses Moscow of ‘deliberate terror,’ asks Turkey to detain grain ship
- New York Times, Advanced U.S. Arms Make a Mark in Ukraine War, Officials Say
- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: At least 18 dead in Odessa region after Russian attack
More On U.S. Courts' Radical Activism
- New York Times, Gridlock in Congress Has Amplified the Power of the Supreme Court
- Washington Post, Voting patterns in major rulings of 2022 reflect conservative ascendance
- New York Times, As Federal Climate-Fighting Tools Are Taken Away, Cities and States Step Up
New Threats To U.S. Abortion Rights, Privacy
- Washington Post, Opinion: As abortion rights collapse, Black and Brown women will suffer most
- Washington Post, Texas Supreme Court blocks order that allowed abortions to resume
- New York Times, Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion
- Washington Post, Opinion: Et tu, Alito? Murder of stare decisis creates legal circus maximus, Dana Milbank
- Washington Post, Texas lunges into center of battles over personal freedom, starting with abortion and sodomy
More On Jan. 6 Hearings, Riot, Election Probes
Washington Post, Liz Cheney says Republicans face a choice: Trump or the Constitution- New York Times, Trump Group Pays for Jan. 6 Lawyers, Raising Concerns of Witness Pressure
- New York Times, Jan. 6 Witness Anthony Ornato Is at the Center of a Battle Over Credibility
- Washington Post, Analysis: Secret Service’s Anthony Ornato has repeatedly disputed key White House conversations, Aaron Blake
- Washington Post, Opinion: Prosecuting Trump could do more harm than good, Andrew C. McCarthy
World News, Global Human Rights
- New York Times, China’s Leader Hails a Hong Kong ‘Reborn From Ashes’ Amid Crackdown
- New York Times, Israel’s Parliament Dissolves, Paving Way for Another Election
- Washington Post, In Brazil, a 10-year-old rape victim sought an abortion. A judge urged: Stay pregnant
- Washington Post, Griner’s trial on Russian drug charges set to open in Moscow courtroom
U.S. Law, Immigration, Crime
- Washington Post, Ex-Georgetown tennis coach sentenced to 2.5 years in admissions scandal
- Washington Post, Jan. 6 showed two identities of Secret Service: Gutsy heroes vs. Trump yes-men, Carol D. Leonnig
U.S. Politics, Education, Governance, Economy
- New York Times, Trump Eyes Early 2024 Announcement as Jan. 6 Scrutiny Intensifies
- New York Times, Trump Media Is Subpoenaed in Federal Inquiry of Truth Social Deal
- New York Times, Opinion: Wonking Out: Taking the ‘Flation’ Out of Stagflation, Paul Krugman
- Washington Post, In trainings, Florida tells teachers that religion belongs in public life
- Washington Post, DeSantis’s plans for colleges rattle some academics
- Washington Post, Biden to award Medal of Freedom to Biles, John McCain, Denzel Washington
More On Ukraine War
- New York Times, Ukraine Live Updates: Russia-Ukraine War
- New York Times, How the Russian Media Spread False Claims About Ukrainian Nazis
- New York Times, Analysis: A Confident Vladimir Putin Shifts Out of Wartime Crisis Mode
- Washington Post, Ukraine Live Updates: Russian forces withdraw from Snake Island; Biden speaks at NATO summit
More On Mass Shootings, Gun Control
- National Bureau of Economic Research, More Guns, More Unintended Consequences: The Effects of Right-to-Carry on Criminal Behavior and Policing in US Cities, John J. Donohue, Samuel V. Cai, Matthew V. Bondy, and Philip J. Cook
- Washington Post, Gun owners sue D.C., demanding to carry firearms on Metro
- Washington Post, Journalists in Uvalde are stonewalled, hassled, threatened with arrest
Pandemic, Public Health, Disasters
- Washington Post, Editorial: How one doctor wrecked the pandemic response
- Washington Post, Supreme Court lets N.Y. vaccine mandate stand without religious exemption
- New York Times, Investigation: McKinsey Guided Companies at the Center of the Opioid Crisis, Chris Hamby and Michael Forsythe
- New York Times, Vladimir Zelenko, 48, Dies; Promoted an Unfounded Covid Treatment
Energy, Climate, Environment, Disasters
- Washington Post, The U.S. is ditching coal. The Supreme Court ruling won’t change that
- Washington Post, Biden plan could allow more offshore drilling, despite his climate vow
- Washington Post, San Antonio had 17 days of triple digit heat in June. There’s usually two
- Washington Post, Record heat wave cooks Japan, straining power grid
- Washington Post, Think U.S. gas prices are high? Here’s how far $40 goes around the world
Media, Religion, Sports News
- New York Post, Inventor of world’s first cellphone: Put down your devices and ‘get a life’
- Washington Post, LAPD confirms Miles Bridges’s domestic violence arrest; wife details injuries
- Washington Post, Retropolis, The Past, Rediscovered: As Watergate simmered, Nixon buckled down on a sportswriting project
Top Stories
Shown above are the six partisan Republicans, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, shown at top left, who are undertaking radical changes in laws governing all Americans. All but Clarence Thomas, top center, were named by presidents who lost the popular vote for presidency but were installed via the Electoral College system. 
Washington Post, With sweep and speed, Supreme Court’s conservatives ignite new era, Robert Barnes, July 2, 2022. Observers say this term should be seen as much as the beginning of an era at the court as the culmination of years of work to solidify a conservative majority.The avalanche of change achieved by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority this term spans the breadth of American life, and its work draws comparisons to the most momentous decisions in the court’s history.
Its signature moment — erasing the constitutional right to abortion extended by the court nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade — would have been enough to highlight the term. The court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the rare decision whose impact was felt within hours, as Republican-led states began prohibiting elective abortions, and will play out over years.
But the justices of what scholars say is one of the most conservative courts in decades did far more than that.
They continued a string of victories for conservative religious groups that dismantle the old rules regarding the role of religion in public life. After a decade of Supreme Court inaction, they expanded Second Amendment jurisprudence to bless the right to carry a weapon outside the home. And in a final flourish, the court’s dominant six-justice bloc limited the ability of government agencies to issue sweeping protections of health, safety and the environment without specific authorization from Congress.
With Justice Clarence Thomas, 74, the oldest member of the coalition and Amy Coney Barrett the youngest at 50, the term should be seen as much as the beginning of an era at the court as the culmination of years of work to solidify a conservative majority.
Washington Post, Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case, Colby Itkowitz and Isaac Stanley-Becker, July 2, 2022 (print ed.). The justices will consider “independent legislature theory,” which some legal theorists describe as a literal reading of the Constitution. Voting rights advocates fear it could let state lawmakers twist election laws to favor one party.Voting rights advocates expressed alarm Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider a conservative legal theory giving state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections, warning that it could erode basic tenets of American democracy.
The idea, known as the “independent legislature theory,” represents to some theorists a literal reading of the Constitution.
But in its most far-reaching interpretation, it could cut governors and state courts out of the decision-making process on election laws while giving state lawmakers free rein to change rules to favor their own party. The impact could extend to presidential elections in 2024 and beyond, experts say, making it easier for a legislature to disregard the will of its state’s citizens.
This immense power would go to legislative bodies that are themselves undemocratic, many advocates say, because they have been gerrymandered to create partisan districts, virtually ensuring the party-in-power’s candidates cannot be beaten. Republicans control both legislative chambers in 30 states and have been at the forefront of pushing the theory.
New York Times, Spurred by the Supreme Court, a Nation Divides Along a Red-Blue Axis, Jonathan Weisman, July 2, 2022. Two Americas — one liberal, one conservative — are moving in opposite directions, ...
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