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SCOTUS Pasting Birth Tourism Into The Constitution Demands A Legal System Rebuild

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SCOTUS Pasting Birth Tourism Into The Constitution Demands A Legal System Rebuild

That a court with six Republican-appointed justices could hand down such a patently un-American decision is an indictment of America's rogue legal system.

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Urgent warning as outbreak of deadly disease hits water system of crowded LA neighborhood

New York Post

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Urgent warning as outbreak of deadly disease hits water system of crowded LA neighborhood

Trucks stacked with pallets of bottled water had been deployed throughout the neighborhood as residents picked up free supplies.

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Congress' power was just 'nuked from orbit' as the system risks 'crashing down': expert

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Congress' power was just 'nuked from orbit' as the system risks 'crashing down': expert

The Supreme Court just took "one more big step toward autocracy," Slate legal writer Mark Joseph Stern argued Monday, and he warned Congress was left in the rubble.Stern wrote that the court's two same-day rulings on presidential firing power are "almost comically irreconcilable." In Trump v. Slaughter, the 6-3 conservative majority overturned Humphrey's Executor, a unanimous 91-year-old precedent, and held the president can fire the heads of independent agencies at will, clearing President Donald Trump's removal of Democratic FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.Yet in Trump v. Cook, the same chief justice led a 5-4 ruling shielding the Federal Reserve and blocking Trump from ousting board member Lisa Cook. Roberts, Stern wrote, "barely bothered" to explain the contradiction."On what basis could Roberts and Kavanaugh possibly allow Trump to purge Democratic appointees from the rest of the administrative state while zealously protecting members of the Fed?" asked an indignant Stern.The Slaughter ruling, he said, strips independence from agencies overseeing nuclear energy, consumer safety, unions and much of the economy, handing Trump sweeping control. He called the impact "gobsmacking."The biggest winner, he argued, is the court itself, which now gets to rewrite the rules of American governance and bend them toward outcomes it prefers.Stern pointed to fallout already unfolding, including Trump pushing out a postmaster general who balked at his demands and installing one who, Stern wrote, agreed to withhold mail ballots in blue states — part of an effort a federal judge has blocked.In her dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the majority had distorted the structure of government to fit a theory of "unitary, total executive control.""It is tempting to say that the biggest loser is Congress, which just saw its express authority to structure the executive branch nuked from orbit. And certainly, the legislative branch just suffered a massive blow," he said.But the real casualties, he argued, are Americans who would rather live in a democracy than the autocracy he claimed the court is building.His closing question: how many more hits before it all comes "crashing down"?The rulings landed the same day the court rejected an RNC bid to toss late-arriving mail ballots.

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Trump's 'not on this planet' lie ensures historic blowout in competitive state: CNN expert

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Trump's 'not on this planet' lie ensures historic blowout in competitive state: CNN expert

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) appears to be “leaning into” President Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims in his bid for re-election, but according to CNN data guru Harry Enten, the Trump-endorsed candidate’s midterm strategy is all but certain to hand Democrats a decisive victory.“If Mike Collins thinks that Donald Trump is going to carry him over the finish line, then I have a brave new world that he needs to face because that is a belief that’s just, simply put, not on this planet,” Enten said on Monday. “It is in some galaxy far, far away.”Despite no evidence supporting Trump’s claims of there being systemic election fraud in the 2020 election, a staggering 63% of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was, in fact, “stolen,” up three percentage points from 2021. And, while leaning into Trump’s false claims may bode well among GOP voters, such claims were “a losing message,” Enten cautioned, in a general election.According to a recent Reuters/IPSOS poll, 64% of Georgia voters overall believe that the 2020 election was “not stolen,” an increase of five percentage points from 2021. Furthermore, Trump’s net favorability among Georgia voters, according to polling data aggregated by Enten, was at -14.“Donald Trump deeply unpopular in Georgia,” Enten said. “Mike Collins should be running from Donald Trump – instead, he’s leaning into a belief that, simply put, has no evidence to back it up about the 2020 election.”Trump’s false claims of election fraud still remain supported by a majority of Republican voters, however, something Enten was taken aback by.“They just believe this garbage!” Enten said. “Most Republicans, despite all the evidence to the contrary, believe that the 2020 election was, in fact, stolen.”CNN’s John Berman asked Enten whether leaning into false claims of election fraud was a “winning message” for a general election in Georgia.“No!” Enten shouted. “This is the whole problem, which is the Republican Party is in one camp all the way over here on the right, and the rest of the American public is in the ‘this-is-the-real-world-we’re-dealing-with camp.’”Enten: "There's no proof, but now 63% of Republicans believe that the 2020 election was stolen" pic.twitter.com/NihGw3N4Lw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 29, 2026

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Venezuela Quakes Push Fragile Health System to the Brink

Bloomberg Politics

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Venezuela Quakes Push Fragile Health System to the Brink

Earthquake victims are overwhelming healthcare centers in Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira and beyond, pushing an already fragile health system past its limits.

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Jesse Kelly Warns American Citizens on the Communist Movement within the Democrat Party “These People Have the Exact Same Sick, Demonic Religion Flowing Through Their Souls That Vladimir Lenin Did So Many Years Ago” (VIDEO)

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Jesse Kelly Warns American Citizens on the Communist Movement within the Democrat Party “These People Have the Exact Same Sick, Demonic Religion Flowing Through Their Souls That Vladimir Lenin Did So Many Years Ago” (VIDEO)

Jesse Kelly of "The First" warned American citizens this week of the extreme danger of communism that is taking over the Democrat party. The post Jesse Kelly Warns American Citizens on the Communist Movement within the Democrat Party “These People Have the Exact Same Sick, Demonic Religion Flowing Through Their Souls That Vladimir Lenin Did So Many Years Ago” (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

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Jesse Kelly Warns American Citizens on the Communist Movement within the Democrat Party “These People Have the Exact Same Sick, Demonic Religion Flowing Through Their Souls That Vladimir Lenin Did So Many Years Ago” (VIDEO)