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8:40 PM ET, August 31, 2022

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured his office, closets and drawers  —  Just six days before the Justice Department subpoenaed to recover highly sensitive documents housed at Mar-a-Lago, one of Former President Donald Trump's attorneys scoured the estate searching …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The photo of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, annotated  —  Perhaps the most intriguing component of the court filing submitted Tuesday night by the Justice Department did not involve legal argumentation or an articulation of the department's possible case against former president Donald Trump.
New York Times:
Conservative Lawyer a Likely Target in Atlanta Trump Investigation, His Lawyer Says  —  John Eastman, who developed strategies to block certification of the 2020 election, appeared before a grand jury in Atlanta on Wednesday.  —  ATLANTA — John Eastman, the lawyer who developed strategies …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Forbes
Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Are Trump's Passports the FBI's Smoking Gun?  —  DOJ's latest filing suggests the proximity of Trump's personal identification to top secret government documents could prove the former president is personally culpable. … When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's Mar …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
If It Were Anyone Else, They'd Be Prosecuted  —  Among the documents disclosed in a Justice Department filing last night in the case involving former President Donald Trump's possession of classified documents is a striking photograph, one showing documents marked secret and top secret strewn across the floor of Mar-a-Lago.
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges  —  Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar.  —  The unprecedented prospect …
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
New York Times:
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe
Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and CNBC
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Department Opposes Any Special Master and Alleges That “Obstructive Conduct Occurred” at Mar-a-Lago
Associated Press:
Michigan election board rejects abortion rights initiative  —  A Michigan elections board on Wednesday rejected an abortion rights initiative after its two Republican board members voted against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Michigan board blocks certification of abortion rights ballot measure, throwing it to the courts  —  The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Wednesday deadlocked 2-2 along partisan lines on whether a sweeping abortion-rights amendment can be included on the November ballot, blocking certification of the measure.
Washington Post:
Peter Thiel rebuffs Mitch McConnell over Senate rescue in Arizona  —  The Senate minority leader and the billionaire venture capitalist each say the other should be subsidizing Blake Masters in the final months of his campaign  —  After J.D. Vance won the Republican primary for Senate in Ohio …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:   Republican super PAC drops $4M in New Hampshire Senate primary
Quinnipiac University Poll:
Biden's Approval Rating Surges After Hitting Low Mark In July, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Half Of Americans Say Trump Should Be Prosecuted On Criminal Charges Over His Handling Of Classified Documents  — mail_outline  —  Six weeks after President Joe Biden scored …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Why Yesterday's DOJ Filing Suggests a Trump Indictment Is Coming  —  Former president Trump is likely to be charged with obstruction of justice and causing false statements to be made to investigators.  —  WORLD  —  The Good Loser  —  By THE EDITORS August 31, 2022
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Miami Herald:
Cases against arrested voters on shaky legal ground.  Florida issued them voter IDs  —  Two weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's top election officials stood in a Broward County courtroom and announced the arrest of 20 people for voting illegally, the state's case is starting to fall apart.
Discussion: Raw Story
Salt Lake Tribune:
The fan who was banned by BYU does not appear to have yelled slurs at volleyball match, campus police say  —  University officials are asking for help with their investigation after police initially reviewed footage of game against Duke.  —  By Courtney Tanner and Kevin Reynolds
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The Cougar Chronicle:
Exclusive: Racist Comments at BYU Volleyball Game Never Happened, Sources Suggest
Darryl Campbell / The Verge:
The Humiliating History of the TSA  —  There's no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travelers any safer — so why does the theater of airport security persist?  —  all the time.  So when Jai Cooper heard sobbing from the back of the security line, it didn't really faze her.
Yahoo News:
Report: Drunk Russian soldiers in Kherson fired assault rifles at FSB officers in deadly incident  —  When Viktor Zolotov, director of the Russian National Guard, briefed his boss, President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday on the status of military operations in Ukraine, one remark in particular stood out.
Discussion: HotAir, Insider and Al Jazeera
Karl Salzmann / Washington Free Beacon:
‘Shoot.  Me.  Now.’: Obama Wanted To Drop ‘Condescending’ Biden, New Book Says  —  Barack Obama and Joe Biden had such a “fraught relationship” that Obama wanted to drop Biden from the 2012 Democratic ticket, according to excerpts from a new book obtained by the Daily Mail.
Discussion: Townhall, Daily Mail, Breitbart and OutKick
ABC News:
Pennsylvania's John Fetterman ramps back up campaign schedule with Hamptons fundraiser  —  The Democratic nominee regularly attacks Dr. Mehmet Oz as an elitist celebrity.  —  By Will McDuffieVideo by Jessie DiMartino  —  Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee …
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NBC News:
Lawmakers warn of potential political violence in campaign's homestretch  —  WASHINGTON — National leaders are warning of the potential for political violence as campaign rhetoric heats up, fueled by an FBI investigation into Donald Trump's handling of classified documents that has generated …
Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes and The Federalist
Kaitlin Lange / The Indianapolis Star:
McDermott campaign poll shows tight Indiana Senate race  —  A poll released to IndyStar by Democrat Thomas McDermott Jr.'s campaign shows that the Senate race against Republican Sen. Todd Young could be closer than expected.  —  According to crosstabs on the poll conducted Aug. 20-24 …
Kevin Williams / Washington Post:
A neighborhood's cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’ … MURPHY, N.C. — It's midnight, and a jet-like roar is rumbling up the slopes of Poor House Mountain.  Except there are no planes overhead, and the nearest commercial airport is 80 miles away.
American Prospect:
Why Obama-Era Economists Are So Mad About Student Debt Relief  —  It exposes their failed mortgage debt relief policies after the Great Recession.  —  A vacant home surrounded by a chain link fence is seen in Los Angeles, February 16, 2010.  —  President Biden's long-awaited decision …
Discussion: Vox
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Gavin McInnes Allies Believe Proud Boys Founder Faked Arrest  —  What once looked like an arrest now looks like a desperate bid for attention.  —  When Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes suddenly vanished last Thursday while recording his internet show, moments he claimed that someone had barged …
Discussion: The Unz Review, Raw Story and Mediaite
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Live results: The return of Sarah from Alaska?  —  Tonight's the night we finally learn who won the special election to be Alaska's new representative in the House that was held, uh ... 15 days ago.  —  Life moves more slowly in Alaska.  —  Read this post if you missed it on Friday …
Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suing Biden admin over Canadian drug importation program application delay  —  DeSantis said the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve an application to let Florida import cheaper medications from Canada  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 31
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Mike Davis, California's ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’  —  His warnings of ecological and social breakdown have proved accurate.  But with months to live, Davis is anything but defeated  —  or decades, the southern California writer Mike Davis …
 
 
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
A New York City Rug Expert Weighs In On Mar-a-Lago's Flooring
Discussion: National Review
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin holds ‘Back to School’ rally, says fight is not over
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Reported sexual assaults across US military increase by 13%
Discussion: New York Times and CBS News
U.S. Department of Justice:
United States Obtains Warrant for Seizure of $45 Million Airplane Owned by Russian Energy Company PJSC LUKOIL
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Mississippians with no water to drink? Blame racial politics.
Discussion: Reuters, Yahoo News and UPI
Houston Keene / Fox News:
Biden unsettles Marine Band members by campaigning for Democrats at official event where they played
Discussion: The Liberty Loft
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’
 Earlier Items: 
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Oberlin's Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery
Discussion: RedState and The College Fix
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Save Our Political System: Impeach and Convict Joe Biden
Discussion: Twitchy and American Greatness
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
West Point Has K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall
 

 
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