Thursday News: Even Trump’s Con is a Con; VA Supreme Court Takes Up Ex-Felons Voting Rights Case

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, June 2. Also check out President Obama explaining why he doesn’t say Donald Trump’s name.

• Trump’s vendetta against federal judge alarms legal experts (It should greatly alarm all Americans.)
• Hillary Clinton to Portray Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Positions as Dangerous (Which they are — disastrous, actually.)
• Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be “Killed” (“A Patriot Movement supporter, approved by the Trump campaign, talks of violently overthrowing the federal government.”)
• Trump’s pattern of stiffing charities
• Is the GOP losing its religion?
• Trump U: The Big Con Behind the School Accused of Fraud
• Donald Trump’s California drought conspiracy theory comes straight from Alex Jones’ InfoWars (Craaaaazy.)
• The Trump-Sanders debate farce: Trump did Bernie a big favor by chickening out (“What a horrendous idea: A faceoff between Trump and Sanders would’ve been nothing more than a cheap stunt”)
• Obama Urges Social Security Increase in Preview of Campaign Role
• Reports: Even Trump’s Defense Of Trump U. Is Fraudulent (“Redstate, USA Today Expose Trump Ties Behind New Video”)
• Donald Trump is a thief: Trump University documents reveal a strictly regimented scam operation
• Why Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un Are Rooting for Donald Trump (“Of course Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un support the presumptive GOP nominee. He serves their interests.”)
• The Huckster-in-Chief (“The Trump U playbooks don’t reveal much new about Trump. What they say about us is more troubling.”)
• Led By Solar And Wind, Renewable Energy Grew Like Never Before Last Year (Great news, but now it’s got to grow much faster.)
• New Rules Will Radically Reshape Payday Loan Market (Preferably shut it down.)
• Paul Krugman: Bad Narratives (“Maybe the Trump phenomenon is about the rage of angry white Republican men, a rage not shared by voters at large. Maybe Clinton is a much better candidate than she’s given credit for — her main problem is not lack of ‘authenticity’ or whatever, but the unremitting hostility of the media, which have given her far more negative coverage than they’re given anyone else.”)
• Virginia Supreme Court takes up challenge to McAuliffe rights restoration order
• Federal officials: GreenTech’s missed targets damaged company’s credibility
• Emergency room visits for heroin overdoses rise sharply in Virginia
• Lawyers in Rolling Stone lawsuit acknowledge ‘Jackie’ has ties to fake persona
• Our view: Trump can’t save coal (Nope, nor should anyone want to.)
• Virginia tourism revenues up, reached $23 billion in 2015
• Hampton rally calls for support for restoration of rights
• Virginia Beach woman who took chained pit bull on Eastern Shore is released from jail (Rescuing an animal from abuse should NOT be a crime!)
• Virginian-Pilot editorial: The wrong fight in Portsmouth (“Portsmouth residents should be concerned about two aspects of an effort by members of the City Council to relocate the Confederate Monument in Olde Town.”)
• Mayor lets budget amendments curtailing his security detail pass with no veto
• Seasonably warm and humid; Storm chances increase going into weekend