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11:05 PM ET, August 31, 2022

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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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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 …
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
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 …
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, CNBC and Associated Press
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.
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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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Republicans notably silent, split as Trump probe deepens
Discussion: New York Times, The Hill and NBC News
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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NBC News:
Lawmakers warn of potential political violence in campaign's homestretch
Discussion: Mediaite, Forbes and The Federalist
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges
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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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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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: Raw Story and Mediaite
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
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.
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: Daily Mail, Townhall, OutKick and Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: CNN, Insider and UPI
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 White House:
Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the Alternative Plan for Pay Adjustments for Civilian Federal Employees
Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Commuter Tunnel Under the Hudson Won't Be Finished Until 2035
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
Kaitlin Lange / The Indianapolis Star:
McDermott campaign poll shows tight Indiana Senate race
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Gavin McInnes Allies Believe Proud Boys Founder Faked Arrest
Discussion: The Unz Review, Raw Story and Mediaite
American Prospect:
Why Obama-Era Economists Are So Mad About Student Debt Relief
Discussion: Vox
Marc Rod / Jewish Insider:
Dozens of House Democrats set to express concerns on Iran deal to Biden
Discussion: The Intercept and Fox News
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Forces Ordered to Stop Using Gender Pronouns to Improve ‘Lethality’
Kevin Williams / Washington Post:
A neighborhood's cryptocurrency mine: ‘Like a jet that never leaves’
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
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