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Robert S. Mueller III / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller: Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so — Robert S. Mueller III served as special counsel for the Justice Department from 2017 to 2019. — The work of the special counsel's office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself.
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Washington Post:
Trump confidant Roger Stone leaped over thousands of inmates seeking clemency — President Trump's commutation of Roger Stone's sentence — over the objections of some aides and without the involvement of his administration's pardon office — allowed an old friend to jump to the front …
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Raw Story, The Guardian, Just Security, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Why this Roger Stone commutation is not as controversial as some think — Washington was sent into vapors of shock and disgust with news of the commutation of Roger Stone. Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin declared it to be “the most corrupt and cronyistic act in all of recent history.”
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Twitchy
USA Today:
Resolve after appalling Roger Stone commutation: Don't let Donald Trump break us, America. — This is truly the cul-de-sac presidency. Every avenue of potential accountability is a dead end. Donald Trump and his many enablers have made sure of it. — Now comes the Roger Stone protection racket …
Lawfare:
The Roger Stone Commutation Is Even More Corrupt Than It Seems — President Trump's commutation of the prison sentence of his long-time confidante Roger Stone is wholly unsurprising. Indeed, given Trump's repeated teasing of the matter over the life of the case against Stone …
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New York Times, New Republic, Bloomberg, American Thinker, The Dispatch, The Week and Reason
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The worst president ever keeps getting worse
The worst president ever keeps getting worse
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Raw Story, IJR, Common Dreams and Slate
Emma Newburger / CNBC:
Attorney General Barr told Trump he shouldn't grant Roger Stone clemency
Attorney General Barr told Trump he shouldn't grant Roger Stone clemency
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National Review, POLITICUSUSA, The Hill, MSNBC and Common Dreams
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Debunking 12 lies and falsehoods from the White House statement on Roger Stone's commutation
Debunking 12 lies and falsehoods from the White House statement on Roger Stone's commutation
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Mediaite, Althouse, Washington Post, Vanity Fair and Bloomberg
Gerald Tracy / WOAI:
‘I thought this was a hoax’: Patient in their 30s dies after attending ‘COVID party’ — SAN ANTONIO, Texas (WOAI/KABB) - A patient in their 30s died from the coronavirus after attending what is known as a “COVID party,” according to health care officials. Chief Medical Officer …
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Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump wears mask in public for first time during pandemic — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials …
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Washington Post:
The once-mocked ‘Never Trump’ movement becomes a sudden campaign force — The grainy first-person testimonial arrived at 2 a.m. in late June. A 40-year-old man with a thick southern accent — shirtless, the red ember of his cigarette glowing in the green twilight between drags — looked into his smartphone and began talking.
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
The Republicans Who Want to Destroy Trump — Their party's a lost cause. America isn't. — Should you have any doubt about how passionately George Conway and the other Never Trumpers at the Lincoln Project want to defeat the president, check out their ads.
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The Moderate Voice
Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
‘Blood on his hands’: In scathing obituary, woman blames governor for her father's covid-19 death — When her father died of covid-19 last month, Kristin Urquiza minced no words assigning blame. — Mark Urquiza, 65, should still be alive, his daughter wrote in a scathing obituary, published Wednesday in the Arizona Republic.
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Associated Press:
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse — NEW YORK (AP) — A long-expected upturn in U.S. coronavirus deaths has begun, driven by fatalities in states in the South and West, according to data on the pandemic. — The number of deaths per day from the virus had been falling for months …
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jsonline:
Absentee ballots didn't get counted because of late delivery, misdelivery and bad postmarks, post office says — MADISON - The U.S. Postal Service has identified hundreds of absentee ballots for the April election that never made it to voters or couldn't be counted because of postmark problems, a new report says.
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
New York Times: Internal CDC documents warn full reopening of schools is ‘highest risk’ for coronavirus spread — (CNN)Internal documents from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that fully reopening K-12 schools and universities would be the “highest risk” …
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
Top Experts: DOJ's Bureau of Prison Blocking Michael Cohen Book about Trump Violates First Amendment — On Thursday morning, Michael Cohen, the president's former lawyer and fixer, was returned to prison. Many readers like myself may have passed over the headlines of this particular event thinking it was unsurprising.
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Washington Post:
Fauci is sidelined by the White House as he steps up blunt talk on pandemic — Trump hasn't talked to the scientist since early June, saying 'he's made a lot of mistakes.' — For months, Anthony S. Fauci has played a lead role in America's coronavirus pandemic, as a diminutive …
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The Daily Beast, IJR, ABC News, The Sun and The Hill
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
‘Horrendous’: Fox News Condemns Racist, Sexist Comments Made By Tucker Carlson's Top Writer in Internal Memo — Fox News brass condemned the “horrendous and deeply offensive racist, sexist and homophobic comments” secretly made by Tucker Carlson's lead writer in an internal memo sent to employees Saturday.
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Victoria Taft / pjmedia.com:
Portland Rioters Surround Car and Driver Shoots His Way Out — Every night for the past six weeks in Portland, Oregon, antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters, looters and vandals have turned what used to be a nice neighborhood in downtown into a war zone. Portlanders are sick of it.
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Power Line
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Joe Biden's family racks up arrests for drugs, drunk driving — but no jail time — In August 2019, Caroline Biden, 33, a niece of former Vice President Biden, was busted in Lower Merion Township, Penn., for driving under the influence and without a license, public records show.
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Cases Jump in Sun Belt Nursing Homes — Current surge that has mostly infected the young now shows signs of reaching more-vulnerable elderly — Covid-19 infections are accelerating in Sun Belt nursing homes, federal data show, a sign the coronavirus is reaching the most vulnerable people there.
Sonny Soleil / WTF Florida?:
Commissioner who Voted Against Masks in Critical Condition with COVID-19 — St. Augustine (WTFF) - St. Johns County Commissioner Paul Waldron caught the coronavirus and went into septic shock after voting against a motion to mandate masks for county employees last week.
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WJXT-TV and Florida Politics
Nathan L. Gonzales / Roll Call:
Rating changes: Democratic control of Senate more likely because of Trump — Alaska, South Carolina seats in play; McSally an underdog — ANALYSIS — After Donald Trump's unexpected victory in 2016, there's a temptation to avoid making political projections. But one election result shouldn't cause us to ignore the data.
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The Guardian
Jonathan Karl / Washington Post:
It's the duty of the White House press secretary to hold briefings. But not like this. — Jonathan Karl, the author of “Front Row at the Trump Show,” covers the White House for ABC News and is president of the White House Correspondents' Association. — On the Monday following President …
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Mediaite
Josh Blackman / Reason:
Why do law professors do what they do? — Law professors have almost complete autonomy over how they spend their time. There are a few exceptions. Administrations set class schedules. Faculties dole out committee work. Etc. But for the most part, professors can unilaterally set the direction of their careers.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Don Jr. plans convention-week Biden book — Donald Trump Jr., in quarantine since girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle tested positive for the coronavirus, says he's used the time to finish a book that he'll self-publish the week of the Republican convention, at the end of August.
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Martyn Mclaughlin / Scotsman:
Revealed: Trump plans to build new ‘world class coastal retreat’ in Scotland — The Trump Organisation is planning a major expansion of its flagship international property, targeting retirees and wealthy golf enthusiasts with a new “world class coastal retreat” which would see hundreds of private houses …