Today’s edition of quick hits.
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* The latest loss for campaign finance laws: “The Supreme Court’s GOP-appointed majority ruled for Republicans in their campaign finance challenge to restrictions on political parties spending on ads with input from the party’s candidate. In the latest instance of the court overturning a precedent, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the court that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s political party-coordinated expenditure limits violate the First Amendment.”
* The other 6-3 ruling that many saw coming: “The Supreme Court approved state bans on transgender women and girls in sports, siding with Idaho and West Virginia in cases that affect bans in more than half the states across the country.”
* In Moscow: “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia faced a fresh round of pressure on Tuesday as Ukraine launched another attack on the Russian capital, continued to disrupt Russian fuel supplies and pressed its campaign to cut off Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, reported several waves of drones, starting Monday night, less than two weeks after Ukraine launched the biggest drone assault on the Russian capital since the start of the war.”
* Uncertain talks with Iran: “Iranian and U.S. negotiating teams were due in Doha this week, but Iran said on Monday no meeting had been scheduled as weekend missile fire from both sides tested the interim ceasefire to end the four-month-old war. U.S. President Donald Trump is sending his son-in-law Jared Kushner and his envoy Steve Witkoff to lead the negotiating team, according to his press secretary Karoline Leavitt.”
* Combatting wildfires: “The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire service and its revival of a previously discredited policy to stomp out all wildfires quickly.”
* The judge’s use of the word “flagrantly” in this case certainly stood out: “A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to permanently abandon its efforts to suspend funding for a $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River, describing those attempts as ‘flagrantly’ illegal.”
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* The bill, known as the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (or KIDS Act), faces an uncertain future: “Online safety legislation focused on children and teens that has come under fire from key senators passed the House Monday, setting the stage for continued wrangling as Congress seeks to address concerns raised by parent and free speech groups.”
* The latest in a series of payments for those who were punished for criticizing Charlie Kirk in ways Republicans didn’t like: “The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a settlement with former assistant professor Tamar Shirinian, agreeing to pay the fired faculty member $1.9 million. Shirinian will not be reinstated at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. State officials, including the attorney general and Gov. Bill Lee, need to approve the settlement.”
* Quite an error: “NPR published, then retracted, a story on Tuesday that said the Supreme Court had announced Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. was retiring. The story briefly appeared on NPR’s homepage Tuesday morning, minutes after the Supreme Court issued several major rulings on its final day of the 2025-26 term. The story was taken down minutes later and replaced with an editor’s note that said it had been ‘erroneously published.’”
See you tomorrow.
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