memeorandum: Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

2:58 AM ET, April 2, 2023

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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:

Post-indictment poll: Trump surges to largest-ever lead over DeSantis — But the latest Yahoo News/YouGov survey also shows that most Americans don't think Trump should be allowed to serve as president again if convicted. — Read full article — President of the United States from 2017 to 2021

Discussion: Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mediaite, RedState, Florida Politics, The Post Millennial, National Review, Althouse and The Hill

Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:

Trump and Fox News, Twin Titans of Politics, Hit With Back-to-Back Rebukes — Donald Trump's criminal indictment and Fox News's civil trial have nothing in common, but, combined, they delivered a rare reckoning for two forces that have transformed politics.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Trump's G.O.P. Rivals, Shielding Him, Reveal Their 2024 Predicament — Many of Donald Trump's potential opponents snapped into line behind him, showing just how hard it may be to persuade Republican voters to choose an alternative. — Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida took a measured dig …

Discussion: Insider, USA Today, Raw Story, The Hill, Mediaite, HuffPost, New York Magazine and New Republic

Ankush Khardori / New York Times:

Trump's Prosecution Has Set a Dangerous Precedent — You were probably not alone if the news of Donald Trump's indictment seemed slightly strange: How could something so big — the first criminal indictment of an American president — seem so small? — Mr. Trump was not indicted for his efforts …

Discussion: The Guardian, Lawyers, Guns & Money and New Republic

Washington Post:
Shocked and defiant: How Trump is responding to unprecedented indictment

Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Spectrum News NY1 and NBC News

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Over 24 hours, rumblings of a reckoning for the right

Discussion: CNBC, The Hill, Associated Press and NPR, more at Mediagazer »

Andrea Vacchiano / Fox News:
Former AG Barr slams ‘pathetically weak’ legal theory behind Trump indictment: ‘An abomination’

Discussion: Breitbart, RedState, The Hill, Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit

David French / New York Times:
The Rule of Law Now Depends on Republicans

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Beast, Insider, Raw Story, WFLA-TV, Florida Phoenix and HotAir

Politico:
‘Delay, delay, delay’: How Trump could push his trial into the heart of campaign season

Discussion: The Guardian, New York Post, Washington Press, Raw Story, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Deadline, Political Wire and New York Daily News

David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast: Why The World Looks at the Trump Case and...Yawns

Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's Legal Problems Are Putting the GOP in a Vise

Discussion: Bloomberg, Digby's Hullabaloo and New York Times

Victor Swezey / The Daily Beast:

WATCH: One Trump Lawyer Shades Another on Live TV — FRIENDLY FIRE — Facing an array of legal challenges from New York to Washington and Georgia, the least former President Donald Trump could ask for is to have his own defense lawyers on the same page. That clearly wasn't the case on Saturday …

Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, Politico, The Hill, CBS News, NPR, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Axios and Wall Street Journal

Jared Gans / The Hill:

Jeb Bush questions Trump indictment, says jury should be ‘the voters’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran for president in 2016, questioned the indictment that the Manhattan grand jury issued against former President Trump on Thursday, saying the jury in deciding the case should be “the voters.”

Discussion: CBS News, Breitbart, National Review, HotAir, Washington Times, Florida Politics, Mediaite, Chicago Boyz, PolitiFact and The Daily Beast

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

Trump Weighs Asking to Move NY Criminal Case to Staten Island — Former President Donald Trump's legal team is considering asking to move his criminal case from Manhattan to the more conservative New York borough of Staten Island out of concern that he won't be able to get a fair trial, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Axios, Washington Press, Insider, Washington Examiner, CNN, Political Wire, New York Post, New York Times, Daily Mail and WinRed

CNN:

Judge orders books removed from Texas public libraries due to LGBTQ and racial content must be returned within 24 hours — A federal judge in Texas ruled that at least 12 books removed from public libraries by Llano County officials, many because of their LGBTQ and racial content …

Discussion: UPI, New York Daily News, KXAN-TV and The Texas Tribune

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:

Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign — Starbucks fired Alexis Rizzo, the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign, CNBC confirmed. — Rizzo worked as a shift supervisor at Starbucks …

Brandi Buchman / emptywheel:

Pride before the fall? Testimony from witnesses in seditious conspiracy trial leaves weaknesses in defense wide open — The end of the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial may be growing closer but the hole the defendants seemingly dug themselves into this week with yet more testimony from their own witnesses has grown larger.

Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Inside the F.B.I.'s Jan. 6 Investigation of the Proud Boys

Discussion: Alternet.org

Daniel De / The Hill:

One in four college applicants avoids entire states for political reasons — A new survey, drawing notice in academia, shows that 1 in 4 applicants decided against applying to a college this year solely because of the politics in its state. — The finding, long rumored in college admissions circles …

Tami Luhby / CNN:

These 5 states will be the first to kick residents off Medicaid starting in April — Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage in coming months, but residents in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, New Hampshire and South Dakota will be the first to bear the brunt of the terminations.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Alternet.org, Mother Jones, NBC News and NBC 6 South Florida

Tim Meads / The Daily Wire:

Has The White House Even Said The Word ‘Christian’ Since The Nashville School Shooting? — The Biden administration's response to the horrific Christian school shooting on Monday has been pretty odd. Notably, unlike other attacks on religious or ethnic groups, it does not appear that any member …

Discussion: American Action News and New York Post

Wall Street Journal:

How Disney Dodged Ron DeSantis and Kept Control of Its Florida Land — 'Disney didn't do anything secret' in securing key approvals before governor's new board gained oversight — Disney's Special Tax District, Explained — Disney's Special Tax District, Explained

Discussion: Insider, Fox News, Slate, Florida Politics, Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo

Tony Diver / Telegraph:

Joe Biden will not attend King's Coronation — US president will not join world leaders but may send first lady in show of support for Charles III — Joe Biden will not attend the King's Coronation next month, The Telegraph understands. — The US president is “not expected” …

Discussion: New York Post, TMZ.com, Mother Jones, Deadline, Breitbart and The Sun

John Psaropoulos / Al Jazeera:

Global network aims to sue Wagner as a ‘terrorist’ organisation — Ukrainians in exile are mobilising an army of lawyers to seize Wagner's assets and hobble Russia's ability to wage war. — Last January, an escaped mercenary of the Wagner private military company crossed into Norway …

Kanishka Singh / Reuters:

Judge blocks Tennessee law restricting drag performances in public — A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday temporarily blocked a law restricting drag performances in public from going into effect, saying it was likely “vague and overly-broad” in its restriction of speech.

Discussion: New York Daily News, Big League Politics, Fox News, New York Times and NBC News