Nashville’s District Attorney is investigating an anonymous robocall that characterized mayoral candidate David Fox as an extreme rightwing Republican. The message does not disclose who paid for it, a potential violation of federal law. Although Fox’s campaign has asked that whoever is responsible be charged with a crime, even if the DA finds wrongdoing, it’s possible the responsible party could be turned over to the state’s Registry of Election Finance, which is primarily restricted to issuing fines. Nashville Public Radio has more.

Paulette Brown took office today as president of the American Bar Association at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in Chicago. She is the first woman of color to become president of the 136-year-old organization. Brown, a labor and employment law partner at Locke Lord LLP in Morristown, N.J, plans to devote her presidency to serving ABA members and highlighting the value of the association by reaching out to lawyers and communities across the country. She also plans to build on the work the ABA has already done in the area of diversity and inclusion through a newly created Commission on Diversity and Inclusion 360.

A federal law that closed the gap in sentence severity for offenses involving crack cocaine and those involving powder cocaine has led to fewer federal prosecutions and a reduction in the federal prisoner population, according to a new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The commission, which provides guidelines to aid federal judges in sentencing, estimated the law will save the Federal Bureau of Prisons 29,653 bed years — each of which represent 12 months of prison time. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has the story.

The two candidates vying for the 14th District General Assembly seat will face off Thursday for the only debate in the truncated political race, Knoxnews reports. Knox County school board member Karen Carson will face small-business owner Jason Zachary at the Farragut Town Hall board room at 7 p.m. Election day for the primary race is Aug. 12. There are no Democratic challengers, meaning the winner of next week’s vote is all but certain to earn the seat representing Southwest Knox County.

A recent opinion issued by the Tennessee attorney general "opens the door" to concealed carry permit holders potentially being allowed to take their weapons into the facilities where the Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators play, an attorney for Senate Democrats says. Because both are owned by Metro Nashville -- even though they're operated by private companies -- they fall under guns-in-parks legislation passed last session, Junaid Odubeko told the Tennessean. The NFL bans weapons at all of its games, setting up a possible conflict.

Juvenile offenders who stayed out of trouble had the opportunity to work a summer job for eight weeks through the Madison County Juvenile Court System, the Jackson Sun reports. Christy Little, juvenile court judge, said the program was the product of a gang violence prevention task force that Mayor Jerry Gist launched four years ago. Students worked at mostly local nonprofit organizations like RIFA, the Dream Center, Salvation Army, Boys & Girls Club, the Fire Department and the Humane Society.

Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney general of Texas and a former state legislator, has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of securities fraud and of failing to register with the state securities board, officials said. The charges — two counts of first-degree securities fraud and one count of third-degree failure to register — are tied to Paxton’s work soliciting clients and investors for two companies while he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives, before he was elected attorney general in November. The New York Times has the story.

Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, plans to be in Murfreesboro Aug. 10, according to a release from the Rutherford County Republican Party. The Daily News Journal reports that Cruz will participate in a town-hall meeting at 11 a.m. at Patterson Park Community Center sponsored by the local Republican Party as a public service offered to all GOP candidates. RSVPs are appreciated and can be made to director@RutherfordGOP.org.

Nearly 60 donations of a million dollars or more accounted for about a third of the more than $380 million brought in so far for the 2016 presidential election, according to an Associated Press analysis of fundraising reports filed with federal regulators through Friday. Donors who gave at least $100,000 account for about half of all donations so far to candidates' presidential committees and the super PACs that support them. That concentration of money from a small group of wealthy donors builds on a trend that began in 2012, the first presidential contest after a series of court rulings and regulatory steps that created the super PAC. WRCB has the story from the AP.

The Memphis Sexual Assault Task Force will host in October a gathering of city leaders from across the U.S. grappling with the problem of rape kit backlogs, Memphis Daily News reports. Prosecutors, police officers, victim advocates, medical lab personnel and city administrators from 11 cities have been invited to the Oct. 19-20 gathering. The summit will offer sessions and training for sexual assault nurse examiners and public information officers, as well as look at best practices among the cities in evidence collection, victim notification, the use of forensic laboratories and the filing of charges and case prosecution.