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New York Times:
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests  —  The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured Trump's 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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has a mantra when it comes to politically charged investigations: “We will follow the facts and the law, wherever they lead.”  —  But Garland's mantra won't get him the answers he wants in the gargantuan decision …
Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges  —  Federal prosecutors are likely to wait until after the November election to announce any charges against Donald Trump, if they determine he broke laws, according to people familiar.  —  The unprecedented prospect …
Politico:
Trump team likely sought to conceal classified docs at Mar-a-Lago, DOJ tells judge
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Department Opposes Any Special Master and Alleges That “Obstructive Conduct Occurred” at Mar-a-Lago
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers, Justice Dept. says
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump Mar-a-Lago home searched over ‘likely’ efforts to hide files, DoJ says
New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers May Become Witnesses or Targets in Documents Investigation
Discussion: NPR and Raw Story
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing
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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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: NBC News, Associated Press and CNBC
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Burnham & Gorokhov:
Statement on John Eastman August 31 Appearance Before Fulton County Special Grand Jury  —  In his appearance before the Fulton County Special Grand Jury, we advised our client John Eastman to assert attorney client privilege and the constitutional right to remain silent where appropriate.
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …
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US Food and Drug Administration:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines for Use as a Booster Dose
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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The Cougar Chronicle:
Exclusive: Racist Comments at BYU Volleyball Game Never Happened, Sources Suggest
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, Breitbart and OutKick
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.
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
A Wisconsin ‘fake elector’ works for Ron Johnson's reelection campaign  —  One of Wisconsin's “fake electors” has been working as a paid staffer for Sen. Ron Johnson's reelection campaign.  —  Alexa Henning, a spokeswoman for Johnson, R-Wis., confirmed to NBC News the campaign's employment of Pam Travis …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Lawrence Andrea / Journal Sentinel:
One of Wisconsin's Republican false electors is working for Ron Johnson's reelection campaign
Discussion: MyNorthwest.com
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
West Point Has K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall  —  A special congressional commission that recommends the removal of Confederate symbols at U.S. military sites flagged the bronze plaque in a new report.  —  For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Save Our Political System: Impeach and Convict Joe Biden  —  In this country, Congress makes the laws - and it must reassert this authority.  —  If we keep doing what we're doing, we'll keep getting what we get.  To avoid getting what we're increasingly likely to get, Congress should impeach and convict President Biden.
Discussion: Twitchy and American Greatness
CNN:
A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets  —  The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals …
Discussion: Breitbart
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion  —  The one time I saw Mikhail Gorbachev in public was on November 9, 2014.  I can pin the day down because it was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  We were in a very large, very crowded Berlin reception room …
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.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Oberlin's Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery  —  The long and vengeful campaign of Oberlin College against a small family-owned grocery has come to an end at the cost of a breathtaking $36 million for defamation.
Discussion: RedState and The College Fix
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
Performing Punditry  —  My Shadi Hamid Problem—And Yours.  —  I took a poll on Twitter asking whether I should write about the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev or my beef with Atlantic writer and Brookings fellow Shadi Hamid.  My followers indicated they'd rather read about Gorbachev than hear me gripe …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Wisdom of Crowds
 
 
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