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This Week’s “Party on the Peninsulas”
✹ Chairperson Barnes: The potential for decades-long judicial tyranny
✹ Justice Kyra Harris Bolden on judicial impartiality
✹ This week’s Trump/GOP Outrage: Rigging the rules in Georgia
In the News
Michigan Politics
- Justice For Generations – Kyra Bolden ad via YouTube
- VIDEO – Unite for America Rally with Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey – YouTube
- In Michigan, Kamala Harris calls for ‘common sense’ gun reforms after school shootings – Bridge Michigan
- Tom Barrett’s Anti-Abortion Record on Display In MI-07 – DCCC
- House Dems’ ‘sleeper’ seats suddenly in sight – POLITICO
- Slotkin, Rogers lean into immigration policy fight in U.S. Senate race – Detroit NewsACLU spending $2M on abortion rights ads in Michigan Supreme Court race – Bridge Michigan
- Mike Rogers wants voters to forget his record of backing abortion bans – The Michigan Independent
- In Michigan, Democrats Hope to Benefit From a Post-Biden Surge of Youth Energy – The New York Times
- Elon Musk super PAC working with Michigan GOP ahead of presidential election – Bridge Michigan
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again loses in bid to get off Michigan’s ballot – Detroit News
Michigan Policy
- Belleville, Romulus, townships sue over radioactive waste shipments – Detroit Free Press
- Judge blocks Wayne County landfill from importing radioactive waste – Detroit News
- Hundreds of tipped workers rally at Michigan Capitol over wage ruling – Detroit Free Press
- Friske probe referred to AG’s office as case involves ‘multiple’ counties – Detroit News
Trump/GOP Outrages
- MAGA Republicans Pass New Election Rules in Georgia That Could Rig the State for Trump – Mother Jones
- Seven Trump campaign proposals that show he’s getting desperate – MSNBC
- How Trump’s Tariffs Would Radically Redistribute Wealth Upward – The New Republic
- Trump Ignores Mark Robinson Controversy, Hoping Gubernatorial Candidate Will Drop Out – The New York Times
- Trump’s Pitch to Working-Class Voters Is a Scam – The New Republic
- As President, Trump Demanded Investigations of Foes. He Often Got Them. – The New York Times
- Trump Levels Disturbing Accusation About Election at Jewish People – The New Republic
- Shameless JD Vance Vows to Keep Falsely Calling Haitian Migrants ‘Illegal’ – The Daily Beast
- Day by day, how JD Vance tweeted misinformation about Springfield – The Washington Post
National Politics and Policy
- VIDEO – billie eilish on X: Endorsing Kamala Harris
- VIDEO – CNN Airs Montage of Donald Trump Doing Exactly What JD Vance Told Dems NOT to Do – The Daily Beast
- You Are Way Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago – The New Republic
- Republican Divisions Sink House Bill as Government Shutdown Nears – Wall Street Journal
- 111 Former G.O.P. Officials Back Harris, Calling Trump ‘Unfit to Serve’ – The New York Times
- Kamala Harris isn’t done picking up support from Republicans – Maddow Blog
- Voters split on Harris and Trump’s handling of the economy: AP-NORC poll | AP News
- Opinion | Mike DeWine: I Don’t Recognize the Springfield That Trump and Vance Describe – The New York Times
- Arizona’s top court says voters missing citizenship proof can receive full ballots – The Washington Post
- Lifting the SALT Cap: Estimated Budgetary Effects, 2024 and Beyond — Penn Wh
- What Fed Interest Rate Cuts Means for Mortgages, Car Loans and More – The New York Timesarton Budget Model
- Veep Cast Reunites: Table Read of Viral Episode After Kamala Harris – Hollywood Reporter