Today’s biggest stories:
- Yet another voter-ID law, this one in North Dakota, got taken down by a federal judge.
- NYPD commisioner Bill Bratton, champion of “broken windows” policing, is stepping down.
- Donald Trump said a bad thing. Yes, I’m serious!
- President Obama criticized Republican leaders for repeatedly denouncing Trump’s behavior without rescinding their endorsements of him.
- Trump and his cronies are laying the groundwork to portray November’s election as illegitimate if he loses.
- An upstate New York Republican congressman who’s not running for reelection announced that he’s voting for Hillary Clinton.
- And Clinton continued to climb in the polls.