Law & Crime reports: Citing the First Amendment right to “engage in political speech,” a judge has ruled that Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado cannot dodge a defamation lawsuit filed against her by political activists critical of her during her 2022 reelection run. The 55-page ruling handed down by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathryn Starnella on June 9 breathed new …

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a California lawyer’s free-speech claim that he may trademark the double-entendre phrase “Trump Too Small” for use on T-shirts criticizing former president Donald Trump. The Biden administration asked the justices to uphold the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to deny the trademark application from attorney Steve Elster because federal …

CNBC reports: Donald Trump on Thursday brought up the idea of imposing an “all tariff policy” that would ultimately enable the U.S. to get rid of the income tax, sources in a private meeting with the Republican presidential candidate told CNBC. Trump, in the meeting with GOP lawmakers at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, D.C., also talked about using …

NewsBreak reports: The Wilton Manors Police Department is actively searching for Craig Jungwirth, a man known for his history of harassment and scams. Jungwirth has been charged with stalking after making hundreds of appointments with a local barber, effectively shutting down his business. Jungwirth has proven to be adept at evading law enforcement and process servers1. Recently, he has been …

Mediaite reports: The 45th president is evidently no fan of beer, bratwurst, and Brewers baseball. During a closed-door meeting with Republican Congressional leaders, former President Donald Trump trashed Milwaukee, the site of the looming Republican National Convention, as a “horrible city” — according to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman. If Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel had any sense of humor, their headline tomorrow morning …

CNN reports: Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice president, liked tweets in 2016 and 2017 that harshly criticized Trump and his policies — including one speculating that Vance could serve in former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s administration. Other tweets liked by Vance said Trump committed “serial sexual assault,” called him “one of …

Via press release from GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. ET to examine Alvin Bragg’s political prosecution of President Trump. With his unprecedented politicized indictment of President Trump, Manhattan District Attorney Bragg has opened the door for politically motivated prosecutions of federal officials by state and …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the commonly used drug can remain widely available. The court found unanimously that the group of anti-abortion doctors who questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s decisions making it easier to access the pill did not have legal standing to sue. As a result, …

Media Matters reports: A segment from one of Fox News’ daytime “straight news” programs cited a study to claim that the COVID-19 vaccine caused millions of “excess deaths” in the U.S. The journal that published the study had clarified nearly a week earlier that this interpretation was false. The study, published June 3, 2024, in the British Medical Journal, found …

NBC News reports: When Donald Trump visits Washington on Thursday to meet with lawmakers near the Capitol, he will be greeted with video of a mob of his supporters rioting there on Jan. 6, 2021. The Democratic National Committee plans to launch a mobile billboard ahead of Trump’s visit that will aim to follow the former president as he moves …

Politico Europe reports: A brawl erupted in Italy’s parliament on Wednesday, with one lawmaker leaving the chamber in a wheelchair. The scuffle kicked off during a vote in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy’s lower house of parliament, on the government’s controversial bill paving way to give Italy’s regions greater autonomy. As seen in a video of the incident, Leonardo Donno, …

“One of the companies that does a lot of this stuff is headquartered in Florida. So I was down and I was interested in trying other things, but they had me try this burger that was not made of meat, it was not lab grown, it was like plant based, all this other stuff, which look, if that’s what you …

“What did he do to earn that money from the communist Chinese? You do not see a national security threat here? You know, maybe that’s why they got away with the spy balloon. “Maybe that’s why they get away with confronting and making hostile maneuvers against our fighter jets in international airspace and against our Navy in international waterways and …

Politico reports: Donald Trump makes his first visit to Capitol Hill since leaving the presidency Thursday morning, meeting with Republican lawmakers in what is being billed as a resolutely forward-looking session focused on a potential 2025 legislative agenda. In fact, Trump has bigger, more immediate legislative priorities. He has been obsessed in recent weeks with harnessing the powers of Congress …

The Birmingham News reports: Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has some thoughts on voter fraud and election integrity, and, under the right circumstances, he’ll share them. When Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, Marshall sued to overturn the results. Later, he appeared before Congress to testify as an expert witness. But when asked repeatedly whether President Joe Biden had …

The Associated Press reports: The ex-husband of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment Wednesday after separate altercations with his ex-wife at a local restaurant and their son at home earlier this year, according to online court documents. Jayson Boebert allegedly got into the physical fight with his son, leading to the reckless endangerment charge Jayson Boebert pleaded …

The Daily Beast reports: Money raised by Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is being sent right back into the former president’s pockets in various forms, according to a new report from Forbes based on Federal Election Commission records. Trump has not donated any money personally to his 2024 presidential campaign, but he is certainly charging others for it, according to the …

Reuters reports: One late afternoon in mid-May, a half dozen Hispanic day laborers were paid $20 each to parade in front of the White House on camera, holding signs with slogans like “I Love Biden” and “I Need Work Permit for My Family.” The stunt was orchestrated by Nick Shirley, a pro-Trump online influencer. “We want to take you to …

“Kamala’s hopeless because she’s Kamala. I mean, anybody who watches her knows that the idea of her being president makes Biden look good, which is really hard nowadays. “So, you have to start with the idea that she’s imprinted on the country permanently that she is a really shallow, uneducated and uneducable person, and that other than her weird laugh, …

ABC News reports: Parts of southern Florida continued to get inundated with heavy rainfall Wednesday, with Gov. Ron DeSantis declaring a state of emergency tonight for several counties, including Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade and Sarasota. The National Weather Service in Miami said Wednesday evening that portions of Broward and Miami-Dade counties — including Hallandale and Hollywood — are continuing to …