Politico: "It's easily one of the most dazzling feats of jurisprudence the nation has seen — and the sort of accomplishment that could launch him on a political rocket ship to Washington."
"Yet there were no Champagne baths in Bragg's office after the verdict. When the jury's decision was announced in Manhattan Criminal Court, Bragg stuck to the apolitical tone he has adopted throughout the prosecution. In public, he described the case as standard practice. In private, he acknowledged to his staff the enormity of what they'd taken on — and said it was time to get back to business as usual."
Averi Harper: "The felony conviction of a former president would be extraordinary at any time but in the middle of a presidential election in which that former commander-in-chief is running, it is truly remarkable. What's even more remarkable is that it likely won't significantly change the kind of broad support he has within the Republican Party."
"The party of 'law and order' is undoubtedly moving toward nominating a convicted felon to be atop its presidential ticket. And prominent voices within the Republican Party are rallying around him."
Associated Press: "It's more than drugs and border crossings. As criminals take control of territory south of the border, the U.S. could lose its top trading partner and potentially strongest ally."
"The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order as early as Tuesday," the AP reports.
"The president has been weighing additional executive action since the collapse of a bipartisan border bill earlier this year."
"The Biden administration is planning to refer some migrants in Latin America for resettlement in Greece and Italy as part of another effort to discourage people in the region from traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border," CBS News reports.
"Schools in Louisiana could soon be required by law to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom," CNN reports.
"The state House of Representatives gave final passage to House Bill 71 on Tuesday in a 79-16 vote, sending it to Republican Gov. Jeff Landry's desk. Only Democrats voted against the legislation."
"The Florida Board of Education approved several tweaks Wednesday to the state's standards for teaching social studies, but left intact controversial pieces on Black history that sparked widespread backlash last year," Politico reports.
"Florida's new teaching standards include the same language that scored national blowback last year for requiring middle school students to learn 'how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.'"
"Efforts by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives to follow Donald Trump's playbook by attacking Labour leader Keir Starmer over his age have fallen flat, an opinion poll found, as senior Tories criticized the US-style rhetoric used in the UK campaign," Bloomberg reports.
"In the opening days of the general election race, Conservative officials sought to label Starmer 'Sir Sleepy' and 'Sleepy Keir,' an apparent reference to Trump's infamous barb at 'Sleepy Joe' Biden, the 81-year-old US President. At 61, Starmer would be the oldest prime minister to take office in Britain in almost half a century."
"So far, the campaign tactic has failed to move voters and may end up backfiring on Sunak's Tories, according to a survey by More In Common that was shared with Bloomberg. Only 17% of the public think Starmer is too old to lead the country, a figure that drops to just 5% among the key swing voters who will decide marginal seats at the election on July 4, the poll found."
"Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff's deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers," the New York Times reports.
"They did it all in front of their supervisor, who often joined in the banter."
"An encrypted WhatsApp group chat… provides a yearslong record of the day-to-day conversations of a patrol unit involved in terrorizing residents across a central Mississippi county for a generation."
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, is pushing an aggressive plan to build up the Pentagon budget, a blueprint he says is the "generational investment" needed to keep pace with worldwide threats, Politico reports.
Edward Luce: "The shortest answer is disbelief. Democrats find it hard to imagine that the US could sleepwalk into another Trump presidency. At some point voters will surely wake up. Yet there is no consensus on how to make this happen."
"At the start of the year, liberals had faith that the US legal system would try Trump on his more egregious indictments, notably attempting to overthrow an election. Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, that prospect is vanishingly small before the November election. A guilty verdict on the hush money porn star case in New York this week would be poor consolation."
"Donald Trump is refusing to put his own money into his political campaign, instead relying on funds from supporters around the country. But his businesses are continuing to collect money for various services. The effect: Money from small-dollar donors turns into revenue for Trump. New filings raise the question of whether Trump is also using his campaign to convert Secret Service funds into business revenue," Forbes reports.
"The agency has paid Trump's campaign $817,000 for airfare this election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission documents released Monday. The Secret Service also owes the campaign an additional $361,000. The campaign has, in turn, paid one of Donald Trump's companies, Tag Air, $4.2 million."
"It's not clear whether all of the Secret Service payments cover flights on Trump's personal aircraft or whether they might also include flights on planes owned by other parties. The biggest airfare provider for Trump's campaign is Tag Air, in which Donald Trump holds a 100% stake."
Just published: The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America by Elizabeth Dias and Lisa Lerer.
"Reeling from Barack Obama's 2012 landslide presidential victory – and motivated by a spiritual mission – a small but determined network of elite conservative Christian lawyers and powerbrokers worked quietly and methodically to keep their true cause alive: ending abortion rights."
Playbook: "Two months before the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision was first reported, the White House was warned that the court would gut Roe v. Wade."
"Jenna Ellis, who assisted Donald Trump after the 2020 election then pleaded guilty last year in the Georgia election subversion case, has had her law license suspended in Colorado," CNN reports.
"The suspension begins July 2, according to a signed order from a state judge in Colorado. Ellis has been an attorney licensed to practice law in Colorado for more than a decade, according to court records."
A Washington, D.C. disciplinary board recommended that Rudy Giuliani should be stripped of his law license for his work on a failed lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's 2020 election loss in Pennsylvania, Reuters reports.
"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks set to engineer the first presidential encounter between Argentina's Javier Milei and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Group of Seven summit next month, while the Pope is also due to attend for the first time," Bloomberg reports.
"The leaders of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Ukraine are also confirmed on a potentially volatile cast list at the resort town of Apulia in southern Italy as Meloni looks to solidify her credentials as a stateswoman who can bring other powerbrokers together."
"Elon Musk has three essential ingredients to unrivaled political power among CEOs: control of a massive social media platform, astonishing personal wealth — and now former President Trump's open and willing ear," Axios reports.
"That makes Musk arguably the most important business player in modern American politics. He has the power to sway or repel voters — and stands ready to win or lose big, given his companies' deep ties to government."
Wired: "Since the 2022 election, Relentless has championed relational organizing, and this year the group is launching a $10.8 million program that will, in part, help pay participants in the program a $200 stipend to get out the vote.""The organizers of the program say they plan to build out a network of more than 2 million voters across seven battleground states, including Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin."
Wall Street Journal: "Automakers are fixated on easing the practical concerns around electric-vehicle ownership, primarily high prices and charging hassles. But in the industry's quest to persuade more Americans to consider EVs, a swath of the buying public could prove tough to convince: those opposed to EVs for political or ideological reasons."
Wired: "The internet is a cesspool of misinformation, and the biggest blue-chip brands and their ad agencies are the ones funding it — by stuffing money into a Rube Goldberg machine no one really understands."
"Donald Trump can proceed with a lawsuit against Mary Trump, his estranged niece, over her role as a source for a New York Times investigation into Mr. Trump's finances, a New York State appeals court said on Thursday," the New York Times reports.
A reporter asked President Biden a question during a campaign appearance:
REPORTER: President Biden, will you be serving your full four-year term or handing over power to Vice President Harris?
BIDEN: Are you okay? Are you alright? You're not hurt are you? I said are you okay? Did you fall on your head or something?
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