--- title: Morning Must-Reads: June 4 description: By TIME's Zeke Miller canonical: https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-04T13:35:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-26T19:55:17.059Z article:section: Politics og:title: Morning Must-Reads: June 4 og:description: By TIME's Zeke Miller og:url: https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Morning Must-Reads: June 4 twitter:description: By TIME's Zeke Miller twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Morning Must Reads: June 4 (4 Jun 2015) > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jun 4, 2015 1:35 PM UTC by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Jun 4, 2015 1:35 PM UTC Jeb Bush will make his presidential campaign official on June 15 in an announcement speech at Miami Dade Community College, he announced in an early morning [tweet](https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/606400680883064832). Rick Perry is trying to recover from his “oops” moment as he launches his presidential bid, and Scott Walker is on the defensive over a Wisconsin abortion law. Lincoln Chafee wants to take the U.S. onto the metric system. And the White House is being occupied by a hawk. Here are your must-reads. **Must-Reads:** [Rick Perry’s Lone Star Do-Over](http://time.com/3908633/rick-perrys-lone-star-do-over/) TIME’s Philip Elliott talks to the former Texas governor about recovering from “Oops” [Walker Defends Position on Abortion Bill](http://time.com/3908468/scott-walker-abortion-ban/) Willingness to sign ban without exceptions for rape or incest could return to hurt him \[TIME\] [Democrats Wage a National Fight Over Voter Rules](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/democrats-voter-rights-lawsuit-hillary-clinton.html?ref=politics) Hillary Clinton to hit her Republican rivals in Texas \[New York Times\] [Payback Is Coming to Rand Paul](http://time.com/3908642/payback-is-coming-to-rand-paul/) He scored a win on NSA, but made many enemies TIME’s Michael Scherer writes [Congress Takes Tiny Step Toward Authorizing Anti-ISIS War](http://time.com/3908034/isis-congress/) After nearly a year of delays and 10,000 killed, Congress a congressional committee acknowledges it has the duty to vote on the war, TIME’s Mark Thompson reports [With Some Donors Doubting Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio Seizes an Opening](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-some-donors-doubting-jeb-bush-marco-rubio-seizes-an-opening/2015/06/03/bf18ab74-09a4-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93%5Fstory.html) The senator builds some momentum at Bush’s expense \[Washington Post\] [The Campaign to Put Julian Castro on Hillary Clinton’s VP Shortlist](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/clinton-campaign-julian-castro-hillary-vp-hispanic-118619.html?hp=t3%5Fr) Putting carts before horses in a bid for Hispanic voters \[Politico\] **Sound Off:** “Here’s a bold embrace of internationalism: let’s join the rest of the world and go metric.” —Former Rhode Island Gov. [Lincoln Chafee](http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-presidential-bid-lincoln-chafee-calls-for-metric-system-1433373940) Wednesday in his presidential announcement (“Who?…Oh, my gosh,” [Paul Trusten](http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-presidential-bid-lincoln-chafee-calls-for-metric-system-1433373940), the vice president of the U.S. Metric Association, told the Wall Street Journal in response.) “People have to choose what they want. If they want robots, who say the same thing over and over again, there are plenty of them. If they want something more genuine, where everything is not always perfect — we’ll see what people want. I am who I am.” — Sen. [Rand Paul](http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/rand-paul-2016-interview-118612.html?hp=t1%5Fr) to Politico on his history of occasionally putting his foot in his mouth **Bits and Bites:** [Martin O’Malley calls for more restrictions on NSA surveillance](http://time.com/3908016/martin-omalley-national-security-agency/) \[TIME\] [Carly Fiorina and her husband have $59 million net worth](http://www.wsj.com/articles/carly-fiorina-and-her-husband-have-59-million-net-worth-1433388117) \[Wall Street Journal\] [Latest White House crasher: A hawk.](http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/politics/white-house-hawk-bird/index.html) \[CNN\] [Obama: China could join Asia-Pacific trade deal](http://time.com/3908381/barack-obama-china-trans-pacific-partnership/) \[TIME\] [Clinton campaign opens five more Iowa offices](http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/03/hillary-clinton-opens-campaign-offices-iowa/28417509/) \[Des Moines Register\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/"},"headline":"Morning Must Reads: June 4 (4 Jun 2015)","datePublished":"2015-06-04T13:35:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:55:17.059Z","description":"By TIME's Zeke Miller","url":"https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","Barack Obama","politics","Morning Must Reads","jeb bush","Lincoln Chafee"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3908824/morning-must-reads-june-4-2/","name":"Morning Must Reads: June 4 (4 Jun 2015)"}}]}] ```