Four people served with arrest warrants after being charged with “disturbing the peace” for cheering too loud at graduation ceremony.
Another state scrambling to get situated in case the Supreme Court nixes Obamacare’s federal subsidies. Tierney Sneed talks to Delaware’s health and social services director.
I’m chagrined I didn’t know about this earlier. But it is another amazing development out of the fun-house world of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the progenitor of anti-immigrant laws around the country but most known as perhaps the biggest charlatan in the on-going war on voting which goes under the heading of anti-‘voter fraud’ activism. And, Good Lord, is it a high bar. Generally, someone in a position like Kobach occupies must make a referral to a prosecutor if they believe they have evidence of a crime like voter fraud. But apparently even in Kansas, where he should have a friendly audience among local prosecutors, he can’t find anyone to indict people over his bogus claims and witch hunts. So he’s got a solution. He’s got a new law passed which in addition amping up a bunch of criminal statutes gives him as Secretary State the ability to prosecute supposed offenders on his own. (The law is currently on the governor’s desk.) In other words, he no longer has to convince actual prosecutors that a crime has been committed. He can just prosecute anyone he wants. Here’s the story.
That terror suspect shot and killed in Boston yesterday allegedly had plans to behead Pam Geller.
Bridget Anne Kelly’s lawyer wants to see the interview notes for the Christie administration report which exonerated Gov Christie and inculpated Kelly. But it seems like the outside firm Christie hired with state money to do the report might have destroyed the records, which would be a big no-no. Brian Murphy has the story.
Conservative hardliners in the House are starting to budge on enacting a ‘fix’ if the Supreme Court nixes Obamacare subsidies in most states. But the ‘fix’ would be to push the cut off out past the 2016 election.
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Michigan wingnuts get Obama military takeover envy and the results ain’t pretty. Watch.
From Hillary Clinton’s speech on voting rights: “What is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to the other.”
More here on the details of the speech and reaction from voting rights experts.
Some good trolling from Ted Cruz on Jeb Bush’s path to the nomination.