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#1 Senate Passes Reconciliation Bill to Fund ICE for 3 Years, Without DOJ Fund Ban - Kaia Hubbard for CBS News, Bloomberg, CNBC, News Nation, Mario Nawfal, and Craig Caplan on X
Senate Republicans passed long-sought funding for the Department of Homeland Security's immigration enforcement agencies following a marathon vote series that began Thursday and stretched through the night and into Friday morning, approving the reconciliation package despite intense pushback over the administration's "anti-weaponization" fund that had threatened its path forward. In a 52 to 47 vote, the Senate approved the roughly $70 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the end of the Trump administration. One Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, voted with Democrats in opposition. The package now heads to the House.#2 Justice Jackson Pens Unanimous Decision Backed by SCOTUS Conservatives - Steve Mollman for Newsweek, Eric W., Law360, PatentRiff, Better Scotusblog, and CSRxP on X
The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a unanimous decision authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, with all nine justices joining her opinion in a closely watched pharmaceutical patent dispute. The justices ruled 9-0 in Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., reversing a lower court decision and sending the case back for further proceedings, marking a rare moment of full agreement on a court often portrayed as ideologically divided. Jackson, a Biden appointee, has been one of the court’s most frequent dissenters, making her authorship of a unanimous opinion all the more notable...
#3 Trump DOJ Gives Judge a Deadline to Oust Herself After ‘Discovery’ of ‘Misconduct,’ Claiming Emergency Need to Smoke Out Dead People - Matt Naham for Law&Crime, Bloomberg Law: Environment, Neal Jacobs, We the Media, Gadsden Herald, and JNeukirch61 on X
The DOJ strongly suggested that a federal judge must decide whether to disqualify herself from a Georgia voter rolls lawsuit by a deadline the government set, or else face the prospect of being forced out by an appeals court. The DOJ strongly suggested that a federal judge must decide whether to disqualify herself from a Georgia voter rolls lawsuit by a deadline the government set, or else face the prospect of being forced out by an appeals court. Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has resisted the administration's demands for a "full and unredacted" statewide "voter registration list," at a time when the DOJ is actively engaged in a criminal probe of Fulton County and the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden won...#4 House Passes Ukraine Aid Bill: Full List of Republicans Who Backed It -Anna Commander for Newsweek, RTTNews Top Stories, Terri, Dwayne Robertson, Pamela Falk Correspondent, and PatPeters,PhD. on X
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a Ukraine aid bill in a 226-195 vote, with a bloc of Republican lawmakers breaking with party leadership and President Donald Trump to advance new security assistance and sanctions against Russia. The legislation, known as the Ukraine Support Act, delivers more than $1 billion in security and reconstruction funding for Ukraine and authorizes up to $8 billion in military financing loans, alongside a package of new economic sanctions targeting Russia's key industries...
#5 Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration on Federal Regulation of Telecom Companies - Lindsay Whitehurst for AP, T, The Washington Times, NewsRadio WHAM 1180, Reuters Legal, and Roll Call on X
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission’s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican administration that could shift the regulatory landscape. The appeal from telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T challenged a combined $100 million in penalties imposed after the agency determined that the companies had failed to safeguard customer location data. The companies argued that the FCC’s process was unconstitutional because it gave them little opportunity to tell their side of the story in front of a jury. The administration defended the fines as an essential regulatory tool. But the government also said companies did not have to pay the penalties right away, a regulatory shift in the companies’ favor...
#6 Democrats Agonize Over Platner as Senate Majority Hangs in Balance - Igor Bobic, NOTUS for The Maine Monitor, Fox News, FOX & Friends, The New York Times, CNN, and New York Post on X
Revelations that the married Maine Democrat exchanged explicit text messages with multiple women have some in his party worried about a “drip, drip, drip” dynamic in the critical race. Some Democrats are worried Graham Platner’s sext messages could ruin their chances of retaking the Senate majority, with rumors swirling about potentially even more shoes to drop about the Democratic candidate seeking to oust Maine Sen. Susan Collins in November. “He has questions he’s got to answer,” Vermont Sen. Peter Welch told NOTUS, adding that a steady “drip drip drip” of negative information about a candidate is “never good.” “It’s not good, but it’s up to the voters of Maine to decide,” California Sen. Alex Padilla said...
#7 Becerra Advances in California Governor’s Race - Ryan Mancini for The Hill, Paul A. Szypula, ABC7 News, Bloomberg, News Nation, and ABC7 Eyewitness News on X
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra (D) on Thursday advanced to November’s general election in the race to become California’s next governor, Decision Desk HQ projects. Trump-backed Fox News commentator Steve Hilton (R) and billionaire Tom Steyer (D) are currently battling for the second spot in November’s election, when Golden State voters will decide on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) successor. Becerra holds 26.03 percent of the vote as of late Thursday night, while Hilton has won 27.18 percent of the vote and Steyer is in third place with 20.18 percent of the vote...
#8 John Bolton Expected to Plead Guilty in Classified Documents Case, Sources Confirm - Kayla Epstein for BBC, The Daily Mail, Good Morning America, Reuters, CNBC, and The New York Times on X
John Bolton, a onetime national security advisor to Donald Trump who evolved into one of his most prominent critics, has reached a deal to plead guilty in his federal classified documents case, according to two people familiar with the matter. Federal prosecutors indicted Bolton last year on 18 counts related to improper handling of classified material. Bolton initially pleaded not guilty. He will plead guilty to one count of retention of national defense information and will pay a $2.25m fine, both people said, requesting anonymity to discuss the not-yet-public deal. Bolton is expected to enter his plea at a re-arraignment hearing on 26 June...
#9 Carnival Breach May Put Your Travel Data at Risk - Kurt Knutsson for Fox News, Fox59 News, NBC Los Angeles, ActionNewsJax, KIRO 7, @TheBakerReport on X
Carnival Corporation has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 6 million people, and the fallout could reach travelers who may not think of themselves as Carnival customers. The company says the incident involved a social engineering attack on a single user account. In other words, someone fooled an employee and gained access to part of Carnival's IT system. For cruise customers, the real concern starts after the breach. Stolen personal details can help scammers write messages that feel far more believable. Here is what may have been exposed, what Have I Been Pwned found in the leaked data, and what you can do now to protect yourself...
#10 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to Suspend Tax Breaks Offered to Data Centers - Natasha Korecki for NBC News, Paul Lopez, ABC 7 Chicago, Shia Kapos, oesnada, and Collin Corbett on X
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday plans to temporarily halt offering tax breaks to data centers that apply to build in the state and intends to call on lawmakers and other groups to hash out a framework in the fall veto session for how the centers should be developed. In a plan first shared with NBC News, Pritzker will announce he will pause the processing of any applications to the tax incentive program handled by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity beginning July 1. Pritzker called on state lawmakers this year to suspend incentives for two years while they hammer out a comprehensive review of the impact centers are having on communities...And Now for Something Special 
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