It's Tuesday, June 25th, 2024. Girdierloins for these court cases, a Kamaloblady Gook update,

and Florida leads the way again. Next on the AM update. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S.

Justice Department that will free him from prison and resolve a long-running legal saga that spanned

multiple continents and centered on the publication of a trove of classified documents, according

to court papers filed just yesterday evening.

Assange is a scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. Commonwealth in the Western Pacific,

to plead guilty to an espionage act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain national defense information.

The guilty plea, which must be approved by a judge,

brings an abrupt conclusion to a criminal case of international intrigue and to the U.S.

government's years-long pursuit of a publisher whose hugely popular secret sharing website

made him a celebrity among many press freedom advocates who said he was acting as a journalist

to expose U.S. military

wrongdoing. That is a long-running story indeed that has seemingly neared its conclusion.

The United States Supreme Court will review Tennessee's ban on puberty blockers and chemical

castration for minors. In the case, United States v. Gremedy will be argued in the next term, which

starts in October. Tennessee enacted the law in 2023 to protect children from experimental,

so-called gender-affirming care, which includes surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone

therapies. The legislation allows lawsuits against health care providers who violate these restrictions.

In addition, the providers who break the law could lose their licenses to practice.

The Federal Appeals Court in Cincinnati allowed the Tennessee law as well as a law in Kentucky to take effect.

21 other states have laws on the books protecting children from harmful services.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scrimetti said in a statement, quote,

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