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9:05 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 …
New York Times:
Trump's Legal Jab Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike  —  A legal back-and-forth produced a straightforward narrative of how Mr. Trump and his lawyers repeatedly dodged the government's attempts to recover sensitive documents for more than a year.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump …
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens  —  At first, Republicans were highly critical of the FBI search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, but as new details emerge about the more than 100 classified documents the former president haphazardly stashed at his private club Republicans have grown notably silent.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Can't Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe
Discussion: CNN, Associated Press and CNBC
New York Times:
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Department Opposes Any Special Master and Alleges That “Obstructive Conduct Occurred” at Mar-a-Lago
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 …
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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
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
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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
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Biden unsettles Marine Band members by campaigning for Democrats at official event where they played
Discussion: The Liberty Loft
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.
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, OutKick and Breitbart
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
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
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.
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 …
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
 
 
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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
A New York City Rug Expert Weighs In On Mar-a-Lago's Flooring
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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Mike Davis, California's ‘prophet of doom’, on activism in a dying world: ‘Despair is useless’
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.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Save Our Political System: Impeach and Convict Joe Biden
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David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
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