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Politico:
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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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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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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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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New York Times:
Trump's Legal Jab Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike
Trump's Legal Jab Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike
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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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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction
How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction
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Metro.co.uk, Media Matters for America, Washington Post, Raw Story, BizPac Review and NPR
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens
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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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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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Blake Hounshell / New York Times:
Mary Peltola, a Democrat, Defeats Sarah Palin in Alaska's Special House Election — Ms. Peltola notched a major upset against Ms. Palin and will finish the remaining four months of the term of Representative Don Young, who died in March. — In an upset with the potential to reverberate nationally …
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Financial Times and The Gateway Pundit
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 Peltola beats Palin in Alaska special election upset
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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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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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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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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
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
Michigan board blocks certification of abortion rights ballot measure, throwing it to the courts
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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
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
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 …