Today’s biggest stories:
- The Senate is about to reject efforts to close gun-show and terror-watch-list loopholes.
- Sonia Sotomayor cited Ferguson, Black Lives Matter, The New Jim Crow, and Ta-Nehisi Coates in an epic dissent from a SCOTUS ruling on the Fourth Amendment.
- The Pentagon has proposed allowing lifelong civilians to enter the armed services as high-ranking officers.
- The Obama administration quickly reversed a pointless decision to omit the word “ISIS” from transcripts of Omar Mateen’s 911 call.
- Donald Trump fired Corey Lewandowski, his notorious campaign manager. (Here’s today’s Trump Apocalypse Watch.)
- A man who was arrested at a Trump rally for trying to grab a police officer’s gun said he was there to kill Trump.
- And the Cavaliers won Cleveland’s first major-sports championship in 52 years after LeBron James led the greatest NBA Finals comeback ever.