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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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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo and Forbes
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.
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New York Times and The Hill
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction — FOLLOW THE STORY — I've been a naysayer on the notion that the Justice Department is trying to make a criminal case against former President Donald Trump based on the Mar-a-Lago raid, at least with respect to the offenses most often touted …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Can't Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
Trump Can't Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
If It Were Anyone Else, They'd Be Prosecuted
If It Were Anyone Else, They'd Be Prosecuted
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Raw Story, Twitchy and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Politico:
Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for a special master
Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for a special master
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Trump team fires back at Justice Department in special master dispute
Trump team fires back at Justice Department in special master dispute
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The Hill, USA Today, NBC News, Los Angeles Times and Townhall
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump
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Raw Story, Patterico's Pontifications and CNN
Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe
John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe
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CNN, Associated Press and CNBC
Burnham & Gorokhov:
Statement on John Eastman August 31 Appearance Before Fulton County Special Grand Jury
Statement on John Eastman August 31 Appearance Before Fulton County Special Grand Jury
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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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Iris Samuels / Anchorage Daily News:
Democrat Mary Peltola wins special U.S. House election, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress
Democrat Mary Peltola wins special U.S. House election, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress
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Reuters, Washington Post, Daily Kos and Associated Press
Joseph Gedeon / Politico:
Democrat Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset
Democrat Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset
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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
Michigan board blocks certification of abortion rights ballot measure, throwing it to the courts
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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.
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Washington Post:
Fetterman campaign says stroke recovery factors into fall debate plans — Advisers say Fetterman can engage in one-on-one conversations but struggles with more chaotic auditory environments — Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman's Senate campaign said Wednesday that his stroke recovery …
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Houston Keene / Fox News:
Biden unsettles Marine Band members by campaigning for Democrats at official event where they played
Biden unsettles Marine Band members by campaigning for Democrats at official event where they played
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The Liberty Loft
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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Politico, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Puck
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
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 …
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New York Post, HotAir, New York Times, Washington Examiner, Townhall and Political Wire
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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 …
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Mediaite, Forbes and The Federalist
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
A New York City Rug Expert Weighs In On Mar-a-Lago's Flooring — It's likely ‘machine-made.’ — When the FBI released the photo of records allegedly taken by former President Trump strewn around a floor in Mar-a-Lago, it revealed not only haphazard keeping of the government's secrets, but also an incredibly tasteless rug underneath.
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National Review and Digby's Hullabaloo
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 …
Laurel Duggan / The Daily Caller:
Jackson's Mayor Wanted To Create The ‘Most Radical’ City On Earth. Now They Have No Drinking Water — Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Democratic mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, promised to make the capital “the most radical city on the planet” during his 2017 campaign, but so far he's been unable …