Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 07-11-12, M, St. Benedict, Abbot

“Top Democrats have no plans to investigate reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an upside-down American flag outside his home after the 2020 election. And Joe Biden has no desire to even talk about it,” Politico reports. “Amid growing demands from the base of the party to call out the actions of several conservative justices and embrace reforms of the court, both the president and the White House have stayed mum.”

CNN's Dana Bash asks Trump VP hopeful Sen. Tim Scott about Trump's false claim that the FBI was "locked and loaded, ready to take me out" during its 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago in the classified documents case. The FBI said the same language appeared in the order to search President Biden's home.

Last December, West Ada School District in Idaho began pulling books from the library shelves deemed objectionable. One of those books was The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and adapted by Renee Nault. They did so based on ratings from BookLooks.org, a website created by “concerned parents” in Brevard County, Florida.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was booed repeatedly while addressing the Libertarian Party National Convention on Saturday night, with many in the crowd shouting insults and decrying him for things like his COVID-19 policies, running up towering federal deficits and lying about his political record. When he took the stage, many jeered while some supporters clad in “Make America Great” hats and T-shirts cheered and chanted “USA!

When you combine this with what just happened at a Marine base, it’s beginning to have a decidedly jihad feel to it.

Seán Ono Lennon, whose mother, Yoko, did a good job of raising him, asked when the Democrats became America’s “War Party.” The answer is that they never were.