Top of the Fold

• Supreme Court upholds ObamaCare in full; 7-2 decision likely an unfortunate end to the legal battle over the disastrous law (Free Beacon)

• On the other hand, SCOTUS rightly sides with Catholic foster agency that excludes same-sex couples in 9-0 ruling (Fox News)

Government & Politics

• Fourteen Republicans are calling for President Biden to submit to a cognitive test and then release the results (Just the News)

• Biden signs politicized and non-unifying bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday (AP)

• Mitch McConnell wisely shoots down Joe Manchin’s Stacey Abrams-approved HR 1 compromise (The Hill)

• Obama’s Biden’s IRS denies tax exemption to Christian group, associates Bible with GOP (Daily Signal)

National Security

• House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq War authorization as Senate prepares to take action (CNBC)

• Biden’s half-cocked “off-limits” list for Russian cyberattacks criticized as “green light” to target everything else (Fox News)

• Chinese defector was top counterintelligence official (RedState)

Around the Nation

• “These officers find themselves in a no-win situation”: Fifty law enforcement personnel resign en masse from Portland’s crowd control unit (The Oregonian)

• Iowa governor signs “Back the Blue” bill to crack down on rioting, establish qualified immunity (Washington Examiner)

• More projection: Murder Capital Mayor Lori Lightfoot declares racism a public health emergency (Washington Times)

• Mark and Patricia McCloskey plead guilty to misdemeanors, forfeit guns (Fox 2)

Around the World

• Editors of Hong Kong newspaper arrested under bogus security law (AP)

• Beijing considers lifting all birth restrictions by 2025 (Bloomberg)

Other Notables

• Majority has an unfavorable view of Critical Race Theory (Washington Examiner)

• Trump announces first rally since leaving the White House (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: What two parents mean for black and white children (IFS)

• Policy: January 6: An intelligence failure? (AEI)

• Humor: Biden retaliates for Chinese defector by giving China the entire FBI (Genesius Times)

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