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Don’t weaken enforcement of anti-patronage Shakman decrees

Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough’s office might emerge from under anti-patronage hiring monitoring, even though critics say the office does not meet good-government standards.

Chicago Sun-Times

Be aware of the pitfalls when it comes to getting a criminal record expunged

Even if an individual obtains an expungement from local law enforcement, the FBI is not required — and often won’t — expunge the record from its National Crime Incident database, a retired suburban police chief warns.

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme court closes door on affirmative action in university admissions

For decades, the admissions policies of many prestigious US universities have been deliberately skewed to increase the number of black students. And with very good reason, said Jerome Karabel in The New York Times.

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Trump valet arraigned over role in classified documents case

Walt Nauta faces six charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, corruptly concealing a record and making false statements

The Guardian - US

Union wins at New York farms raise hopes for once-powerful UFW

Five hundred farmworkers have unionized – the biggest success in years for the union co-founded by Cesar Chavez

The Guardian - US

Why MAGA loved a fake liberal

"Erica Marsh" was obviously not real, but MAGA Twitter just can't quit their addiction to disinformation

Salon

Oregon voters to decide measures related to ranked-choice voting, impeachment

Welcome to the Thursday, July 6, Brew.

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Newly unsealed portions of Trump documents affidavit shed light on how surveillance video led to Mar-a-Lago search

Justice Department makes public new parts of the affidavit that led to agents searching former president’s home

The Independent UK

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Dangerous, mistaken GOP criticisms of Biden

Despite differences on abortion and Ukraine, most members of the large Republican presidential field have generally followed former President Donald Trump’s lead in roundly condemning President Joe Biden.

Tribune News Service

Jackie Calmes: The Supreme Court's just-ended term contained some surprising gifts for Democrats

Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents to eliminate a federal abortion right, gun controls, clean water safeguards and now affirmative action has also, surprisingly, ruled twice lately to bolster…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Miami mayor had a bad month. And he has only himself to blame — mostly

Call it the Education of Francis Suarez.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: If there is a Kennedy in your past, you might weigh a Kennedy for president in your future

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. Anxious Democrats are taking note.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: What path lies ahead for ‘sojourner’ Barack Obama?

As President Joe Biden finds himself struggling with approval ratings that remain stubbornly resistant even to good economic news, Washington’s chattering classes have begun to resurrect a question that was prominent in 2020: Could former President Barack Obama be the magical healer Democrats need to reinvigorate disenchanted Democrats?

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: The one ethics rule the Supreme Court needs before its next term

The Supreme Court may be beginning its summer recess, but the furor over the justices’ ethical lapses is still gathering steam. We now know that both Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have gone on lavish vacations with court litigants without disclosing the trips or recusing themselves from their benefactors’…

Tribune News Service

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VIEWPOINT 1: How great was Gerald Ford?

Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew had never gotten along well. It likely didn’t pain the president much to acquiesce in the ousting of his vice president over illegal kickbacks while the president struggled to keep his own job. It was 1973, and Nixon still gave every indication that he wanted…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: A desperate DeSantis jumps head first into the mud with bizarre, homophobic Trump attack

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest online ad attacking Donald Trump is a bizarre juxtaposition of subtle homoerotic references, Alpha male aspirations, an allusion to a serial-killer movie character — all wrapped in the homophobia that has permeated the Florida governor’s policies on LGBTQ issues.

Tribune News Service

Justice Department reveals new details on Trump documents probe

WASHINGTON — Newly unsealed details from the Justice Department’s investigation into Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified information shed light on how investigators made their case in court last year for a warrant to search the former president’s Mar-a-Lago home, including the extent of surveillance footage they said showed boxes…

The Times of India

Donald Trump raises over $35 million for quarter despite legal woes

WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump raked in more than $35 million in the second quarter as his army of small-dollar donors rallied to his side even as his legal woes mounted.

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The Independent UK

Kingmaker California? US House control could hinge on district battles in famously liberal state

California is again emerging as a critical battleground in the fight to control the U.S. House

The Independent UK

Biden is heading to South Carolina to show his economic agenda is keeping even red states humming

President Joe Biden is heading to South Carolina to make the case that his economic agenda is helping keep even red states humming

The Independent UK

Trump valet charged in classified documents case set again for arraignment after earlier delays

A valet for Donald Trump accused of helping the former president hide classified documents from federal authorities is due back in a Florida court after an earlier appearance was postponed because of a canceled flight

The Independent UK

Abortion numbers in Indiana drop amid ‘fear and uncertainty’ of possible state ban

It’s a seismic shift from last year, when the number of abortions performed in Indiana increased by 22 per cent

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Author Bruce Wolpe on the "shocking" consequences for Australia of a Trump 24 win

Next year’s American presidential election is shaping up to be extraordinary. Donald Trump is favoured to be the Republican candidate, despite facing multiple charges over removing classified documents. President Joe Biden has indicated he intends to run again, despite the fact he’ll be 82 at the time of the poll…

Al Jazeera

US Justice Dept reveals more info about Trump Mar-a-Lago search

A federal judge in Florida declined a media request to un-redact the entire affidavit justifying the Mar-a-Lago search.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro will veto the private school voucher program he helped draft

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday he will veto a school voucher initiative that he helped create, in order to end a state budget impasse.

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