Court Strikes Down Abortion Clinic Buffer Zone, US Soccer Team Fails Upward, Howard Baker Dies: P.M. Leaks

• In addition to striking down
  President Barack Obama’s attempt to bypass the Senate to
  appoint people to the National Labor Relations Board, the Supreme
  Court ruled unanimously that a
  35-foot buffer zone blocking protests at abortion clinics in
  Massachusetts was too broad a restriction. The court has two
  cases left to announce, including the Hobby Lobby Obamacare birth
  control case.
• The United States soccer team
  lost its World Cup match against Germany, but Ghana also lost
  to Portugal, and then some complicated rules about the number of
  goals applies, and so the United States is moving on anyway.
• 
  Howard Baker, former Tennessee senator and former chief of
  staff for President Ronald Reagan, has died at age 88 from
  complications due to a stroke.
• Even though yesterday’s federal appeals court ruling that
  Utah’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional has been stayed (and
  only covered Utah),
  Boulder County in Colorado has used the ruling as a reason to
  start handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
• New York City’s financial chief has signed off on a
  settlement for the five men falsely accused of raping a jogger in
  Central Park in 1989. Though the amount has not been formally
  revealed, sources tell Reuters it’s $40 million.
• The
  German government has canceled a contract with Verizon in the
  wake of Edward Snowden’s disclosures about U.S. surveillance
  there.

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