Supreme Court; French protests; Twitter limits

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Millions of Americans will be affected by last week’s Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, student loan forgiveness and LGBTQ+ rights. The decisions have big implications for the 2024 election.

Vice President Kamala Harris sits with NPR’s Michel Martin for a discussion on the Black Maternal Healthcare Crisis during Essence Festival in New Orleans, LA on June 30, 2023.

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• “This is really going to come down to a political messaging war,” NPR political correspondent Domenico Montanaro says on Up First this morning. While some think Biden overpromised and underdelivered, the White House blames Republicans. Young voters will be a key base for Democrats, and Montantaro says there are also questions about whether more Black Americans will be motivated to vote next year.
• “This is a serious moment, and fundamental issues are at stake,” Vice President Kamala Harris tells Michel Martin on Morning Edition in her first interview since the rulings came down. “I do believe that there is a national movement afoot to attack hard-won and hard-fought freedoms.

Violent protests in France have raged for nearly a week over the police killing of Nahel M., a teenage boy of Algerian and Moroccan descent, despite the teen’s grandmother calling for calm. The government has deployed 45,000 police across the country. Here’s everything we know about the unrest so far.

• NPR’s Eleanor Beardsley is in France and spoke to young protesters. Many were of Arab and African descent, and they told her police are…