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June 22
Top Headlines
- Washington Post, Appeals court blocks federal judge’s ruling to overturn California’s assault weapons ban
Washington Post, In Oklahoma, the 1995 bombing offers lessons — and warnings — for today’s fight against extremism- Washington Post, Justices rule against NCAA limits on some school perks for student-athletes
Trump Watch
Proof via Substack, Investigation and Commentary: A Comprehensive Overview of All Five of Donald Trump's January 6 War Rooms, Seth Abramson- Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Trump's connection to the KGB highlighted in full-page ads in 1987, Wayne Madsen
- New York Times, Trump Sues N.Y.C. for Ending Golf Course Contract After Capitol Riot,
Justice Dept. Accountability
Washington Post, Garland tries to untangle the Trump legacy at Justice Dept.- Washington Post, Opinion: If the Justice Department won’t investigate itself, Congress should, Jennifer Rubin
Virus Victims, Responses
Washington Post, 177.3 million U.S. vaccinated- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 617,463
- Washington Post, Book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts in Trump pandemic response
- CNN, A coronavirus outbreak hit a Florida government building. Two people are dead but a vaccinated employee wasn't infected
Washington Post, Philippines’ Duterte threatens to arrest anyone refusing to get vaccinated- Washington Post, Wuhan lab’s classified work complicates search for pandemic’s origins
- Washington Post, Coronavirus cases surge in Cornwall, England, after G-7 summit, sparking fury
U.S. Law, Courts, Crime
- Washington Post, U.S. judge tosses most claims against Trump in clearing of Lafayette Square
- Washington Post, Biden administration to back bid to end disparity in drug sentencing
- Palmer Report, Opinion: New York prosecutors are now closing in on Donald Trump from all sides, Bill Palmer
U.S. Elections, Politics, Governance
- Washington Post, New Yorkers vote in primaries for mayor after a race dominated by crime and coronavirus recovery
- New York Times, Opinion: Only the Women Can Save Us Now, New York, Michelle Goldberg
- Washington Post, Live Politics: Senate to vote on whether to begin debate on voting rights bill
Washington Post, Opinion: We have more to lose than gain by ending the filibuster, Kyrsten Sinema- Washington Post, Opinion: Manchin got Republicans to admit to the ‘big lie.’ Democrats should celebrate, Catherine Rampell
- Washington Post, If Republicans block a compromise voting-rights bill, reform the filibuster
World News
Washington Post, Opinion: Pakistan is ready to be a partner for peace in Afghanistan, but we will not host U.S. bases- Washington Post, Iran’s Raisi says ballistic missiles, regional presence ‘not negotiable’ — and he doesn’t want to meet Biden
- New York Times, Spain Pardons Jailed Catalan Separatist Leaders
- Washington Post, Australia’s runaway mouse plague targets prisons, forcing mass evacuation
U.S. Jobs, Economy, Race
- New York Times, Opinion: The Week Inflation Panic Died, Paul Krugman
- New York Times, As Lumber Prices Fall, the Threat of Inflation Loses Its Bit
- Washington Post, Recovering U.S. economy is drastically changed and it’s not going back
- Washington Post, Maryland finds more than 500,000 ‘potentially fraudulent’ jobless claims
- Washington Post, Retail workers are quitting at record rates for higher-paying work
- Washington Post, Sen. Whitehouse defends family’s membership in private beach club amid questions about whether it is all-White
Top Stories
Washington Post, Appeals court blocks federal judge’s ruling to overturn California’s assault weapons ban, Timothy Bella, June 22, 2021 (print ed.). A three-judge panel in a one-page order on Monday issued a stay of the June 4 order from U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California, in which he likened an AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has blocked a federal judge’s ruling overturning California’s longtime ban on assault weapons, in which he likened an AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife.
A three-judge panel in a one-page order on Monday issued a stay of the June 4 order from U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez of the Southern District of California, in which the judge ruled that sections of the state ban in place since 1989 regarding military-style rifles are unconstitutional.
Senior Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Silverman, Circuit Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen and Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson wrote that the stay will remain in place pending the outcome of another case challenging the ban.
Destroyed Murtha federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995 (Photo via ABC News).
Washington Post, In Oklahoma, the 1995 bombing offers lessons — and warnings — for today’s fight against extremism, Hannah Allam, June 22, 2021 (print ed.). Many Oklahomans are alarmed to see terrorist Timothy McVeigh’s far-right ideology spread in the state he attacked, while a political class that is increasingly dominated by those who rarely speak against extremism or, worse, promote it.Talking about political violence is especially fraught this year, as Oklahoma faces its long-buried history of racial bloodshed. This is the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when a White mob razed a prosperous Black district in what President Biden called “an act of hate and domestic terrorism.”
An hour outside of Tulsa, Leonardo DiCaprio and other Hollywood stars are filming a movie about the “Reign of Terror,” when wealthy Osage Native Americans were killed in the 1920s.
Many Oklahoma educators, activists and politicians view this moment as an opportunity to confront historical violence in an unflinching way that serves as a national model. The same goes, they said, for sharing lessons from the Oklahoma City bombing, which is getting renewed attention under Attorney General Merrick Garland, who oversaw the criminal investigation and is now leading a reinvigorated fight against domestic terrorism at the Justice Department. In a speech this month, Garland cited the Tulsa and Oklahoma City attacks as inspiration for the Biden administration’s revamped domestic terrorism strategy.
“The people who live in Oklahoma City have a special obligation to figure out what are the paths out of that type of extremism, because we know where it leads,” said Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, an anti-Trump Republican. “Ultimately, it leads to violence.”
Washington Post, Justices rule against NCAA limits on some school perks for student-athletes, Robert Barnes and Molly Hensley-Clancy, June 22, 2021 (print ed.). The NCAA had contested a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to offer greater academic-related perks to Division I football and men’s and women’s basketball players.- Washington Post, High school sports will feel impact of athlete branding changes. For some, that’s cause for concern.
Trump Watch
Proof via Substack, Investigation and Commentary: A Comprehensive Overview of All Five of Donald Trump's January 6 War Rooms, Seth Abramson, June 21-22, 2021. During Insurrection Week, Trump's
insurrectionists had at least five secretive war rooms inside Washington. Here's everything we know about each of them so far.Research by Proof into the January 6 insurrection reveals that Team Trump opened five “war rooms” during Insurrection Week. Trump lawyer John Eastman was the first to call his own space (of the
five) a “war room”; another participant in the same room, Joe Oltmann, called it a “command center”; and at another point Eastman noted that he had been working in a “communications coordination.” The five spaces that answer to such descriptions are summarized below and then discussed in more detail.#1: The Trump International War Room; Location: Trump Townhouse in Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC; Occupants: 19+.
Seth Abramson, shown above and at right, is founder of Proof and is a former criminal defense attorney and criminal investigator who teaches digital journalism,
legal advocacy, and cultural theory at the University of New Hampshire. A regular political and legal analyst on CNN and the BBC during the Trump presidency, he is a best-selling author who has published eight books and edited five anthologies.Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Ph.D. program in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include a Trump trilogy: Proof of Corruption: Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump (2020); Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Is Threatening American Democracy (2019); and Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America (2018).
New York Times, Trump Sues N.Y.C. for Ending Golf Course Contract After Capitol Riot, Jonah E. Bromwich, June 22, 2021 (print ed.). The Trump Organization, which had a 20-year contract to operate a public golf course in the Bronx, claims it was unfairly targeted.Wayne Madsen Report, Investigative Commentary: Trump's connection to the KGB highlighted in full-page ads in 1987, Wayne Madsen, left (author and former Navy Intelligence officer and NSA analyst), June 21, 2021. Donald Trump's role as an intelligence asset for the
Soviet Committee for State Security (KGB) and Czechoslovak State Security (StB) in the 1970s and 80s was revealed in WMR's August 19, 2020 article, ...
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