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Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for independent review — WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Donald Trump's lawyers contended Wednesday that the Department of Justice is trampling on his rights and demanded an independent review of materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump tells court that classified material should have been expected in presidential records found at Mar-a-Lago — Hear what ex-FBI special agent noticed in evidence photo taken inside Trump's home — Former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing Wednesday that the National Archives …
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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.
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.
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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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Can't Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
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Cheryl Teh / Insider:
A photo shared by the DOJ shows Trump kept a framed copy of an unflattering Time-magazine cover at his Mar-a-Lago home
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Trump team fires back at Justice Department in special master dispute
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges
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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 was the apparent winner of Alaska's special U.S. House race and is set to become the first Alaska Native in Congress, after votes were tabulated Wednesday in the state's first ranked choice election.
Joseph Gedeon / Politico:
Democrat Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset — Democrat Mary Peltola has defeated Republican Sarah Palin in the special election for Alaska's vacant House seat, a big upset over the former governor in the state's first election under ranked-choice voting.
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Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Peltola beats Palin, wins Alaska House special election
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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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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction
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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens
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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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Summer Concepcion / NBC News:
John Eastman invokes the Fifth in Georgia election probe
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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
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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 …
CNN:
US war-gamed with Ukraine ahead of counteroffensive and encouraged more limited mission — Ukraine launches offensive in Russian-occupied Kherson region 02:19 — In the buildup to the current Ukrainian counteroffensive, the US urged Kyiv to keep the operation limited in both its objectives …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
What Republicans refuse to grasp about the ‘Clinton standard’ — For those who don't care about factual details, the GOP's “Clinton standard” framing may very well have superficial appeal. But it's still ridiculous. — Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing quite a bit of criticism over his …
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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 …
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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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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
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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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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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.
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 …
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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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Commuter Tunnel Under the Hudson Won't Be Finished Until 2035 — The crucial Gateway transit link from New Jersey to New York will now open three years later than expected and is likely to cost $2 billion more to construct. — Eight years ago, the head of Amtrak warned …
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.
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