This meme just about sums up what's going on right now

After RFK was shot, he asked "Is everybody OK?"

That was his immediate instinct: concern for others.

Trump’s first instinct was to put his Secret Service detail at even more risk than they already were just so he could pump his fist for a photo-op.

Shooter is a registered Republican

If the PA records are accurate.

https://x.com/sollenbergerrc/status/1812337887574430020?s=12

Source: "Glass fragments not a bullet hit Trump"

Introduce gun safety legislation but call it the "Protecting America's Presidents Act"

Maybe MAGAs will finally support it.

Supreme Court lets a truck stop sue the Federal Reserve in latest threat to agency regulations

Source: CNN

The Supreme Court on Monday revived a lawsuit by a North Dakota truck stop that is challenging the fees banks can charge for debit-card transactions in a ruling that could have deeper implications for other government regulations.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/politics/corner-post-sec-supreme-court/index.html

Mitt Romney Scored The Biggest Debate Win In History

Supreme Court curbs SEC powers to enforce securities laws

Source: NBC

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday put new limits on the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to enforce securities laws — the latest ruling in a series of cases that take aim at federal agencies.

The court ruled 6-3 that adjudication of cases by in-house judges violates the right to trial by jury.

The case is one of several on the docket involving conservative and business-led attacks on the power of federal agencies. The court’s 6-3 conservative majority is often sympathetic to such arguments.

The challenge zeroed in on how the SEC enforces securities laws, including those prohibiting insider trading. The SEC has long used in-house proceedings presided over by administrative law judges. The agency can also sue in federal court. In both sets of proceedings, it can seek financial penalties.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-curbs-sec-powers-enforce-securities-laws-rcna143446

Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

Source: NBC

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blew up the massive bankruptcy reorganization of opioid maker Purdue Pharma, finding that the settlement inappropriately included legal protections for the Sackler family, meaning that billions of dollars secured for victims is now threatened.

The court on a 5-4 vote ruled that the bankruptcy court did not have the authority to release the Sackler family members from legal claims made by opioid victims.

As part of the deal, the family, which controlled the company, had agreed to pay $6 billion that could be used to settle opioid-related claims, but only in return for a complete release from any liability in future cases.

The ruling means settlement talks would have to begin again, with the possibility of no deal being reached.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-blocks-purdue-pharma-opioid-settlement-rcna139066

"No survivors" found at crash site of helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian agencies report

Source: CNN

"No survivors" were found at the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, Iranian state news agency IRINN and semi-official news agency Mehr News reported.

Some background: A former hardline judiciary chief, Raisi was Iran’s eighth president. The former prosecutor and judge was elected in 2021 following a historically uncompetitive presidential contest.

He oversaw a period of intensified repression of dissent, according to human rights monitors.

Next in the line of succession would be First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber, if approved by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/raisi-iran-president-helicopter-crash/index.html