PLATT - MISC News

GENERAL INTEREST
Slow driver backed up traffic in the left lane. People love this officer's response
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article213374269.html

The News in Zingers 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0618/hamilton.php3

Big Lemonade lawyers give 'Legal-Ade' to squeezed lemonade stands
Big Lemonade lawyers give 'Legal-Ade' to squeezed lemonade stands

HEALTH
Nearly Eradicated in Humans, the Guinea Worm Finds New Victims: Dogs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/health/guinea-worms-dogs-chad.html?emc=edit_nn_20180619&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=5893540820180619&te=1

CIVIL FORFEITURE
Supreme Court Will Decide If Civil Forfeiture Is Unconstitutional, Violates The Eighth Amendment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2018/06/19/supreme-court-will-decide-if-civil-forfeiture-is-unconstitutional-violates-the-eighth-amendment/#41fad92c7165

ENVIRONMENT
Giant hogweed, plant that causes blindness and third-degree burns, discovered in Virginia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/giant-hogweed-plant-causes-blindness-third-degree-burns-discovered-in-virginia-other-states/

LAW ENFORCEMENT
Elizabeth Warren’s Criminal-Justice Illiteracy
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/low-level-drug-offenses-do-not-drive-mass-incarceration/

IMMIGRATION
'Do Your Job, Fix the System': ICE Director Hits Back at Gillibrand for Calling Trump Admin 'Evil'
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/19/kirsten-gillibrand-calls-trump-administration-evil-acting-ice-director-thomas-homan

Republicans Propose Stand Alone Fix for Family Separations
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/family-separation-republicans-senate-back-standalone-fix/

Analysis: Amid the Shouting, Ted Cruz Has a Sensible Plan to Alleviate the Child Separation Crisis
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/06/19/sensible-ted-cruzs-good-plan-to-alleviate-child-separation-crisis-n2492229?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

ELECTIONGATE
Horowitz Report Day 5
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/56625?mailing_id=3553&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3553&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

Peter Strzok escorted out of FBI building
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jun/19/peter-strzok-escorted-out-fbi-building-reports/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

POLITICS
20 weeks out from midterms, Dems and GOP brace for surprises
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/392872-20-weeks-out-from-midterms-dems-and-gop-brace-for-surprises?userid=288549

Trump changed the electoral map; new polling shows it’s changing back
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/19/17474984/trump-state-polling

This is what voter suppression doesn't look like
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/noemie-emery-this-is-what-voter-suppression-doesnt-look-like?utm_source=Examiner%20Today_06/19/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Examiner%20Today

‘Future Pres’ Hillary — the Font of all the Scandals
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/clinton-email-investigators-broke-rules-to-please-hillary/

I Think My Dog's a Democrat
https://www.youtube.com/embed/H3VLqLLWxbQ?rel=0

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