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11:30 AM ET, June 10, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
A Destructive Trump Indictment  —  Do prosecutors understand the forces they are unleashing?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Tap For Sound  —  Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, his indictment by President Biden's Justice Department is a fraught moment for American democracy.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Case Puts the Justice System on Trial, in a Test of Public Credibility  —  The former president's efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.  —  Peter Baker has covered the White House under the past five presidents …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Faces 2024 Split Screen of Campaign and Criminal Trials  —  Former president's indictment ensures his legal woes will be front and center through GOP primaries, general election  —  WASHINGTON—Donald Trump is about to have his fate decided by both jurors and voters.
National Review:
The Trump Indictment Is Damning  —  Just as paranoiacs sometimes have enemies, people obsessively pursued for alleged violations of the law by their political opponents sometimes commit criminal offenses.  —  At many junctures, most recently with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's flimsy charges …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Now on the 2024 ballot: Trump's freedom  —  For Donald Trump, the 2024 campaign is more than a race to return to the White House — it's a fight to stay out of prison.  —  Legal experts say it's unlikely that Trump's criminal trial in federal court will be resolved before the November 2024 election.
Just Security:
National Security Implications of Trump's Indictment: A Damage Assessment  —  The 38-count indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges of willfully retaining documents containing national defense information, refusing to return them, and obstructing related investigations, is a watershed moment.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Here are the 37 charges against Trump and what they mean  —  A court on Friday unsealed the federal indictment against Donald Trump and an aide over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home and the men's alleged efforts to keep the government from finding the materials.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case  —  The surprise assignment of Judge Aileen Cannon could be a setback for prosecutors as they unveiled a sweeping classified files indictment.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Even as prosecutors publicly unveiled a deep …
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump indictment thrusts Biden into unprecedented territory  —  Biden's leading adversary is being prosecuted by Biden's Justice Department — a highly sensitive dynamic that is already fodder for Republicans  —  The month before he was sworn into office, President Biden vowed to keep …
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Reality Winner says she's ‘blown away’ by details in indictment against Trump
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated
Rolling Stone:
The Special Counsel Is Using Trump's Own National Security Staff Against Him
David Roth / Defector:
So It's A Crime Now To Have Boxes Full Of Cool Folders With Various Words Printed On Them?
Discussion: NPR, The Daily Beast and The Nation
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives, aren't you sick of Trump's nonsense?
New York Times:
Carefully, Backhandedly, DeSantis Comes to Trump's Defense
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's baseless ‘1,850 boxes’ attacks on Biden's legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump indictment not politically motivated, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says in Utah
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
Discussion: Insider
Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian:
Donald Trump kept boxes with US nuclear program documents and foreign weapons details, indictment says - as it happened
NBC News:
Here are 11 key takeaways from the Trump classified documents indictment
Washington Post:
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights …
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament  —  Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament.
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Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge required Pence to answer most of special counsel's questions, newly unsealed court docs show  —  “The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” D.C.'s federal district court's chief judge wrote in April.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge's decision that compelled Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe unsealed
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
National Archives:
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Presidential Records and the Presidential Records Act  —  Media Alert  —  Recent media reports have generated a large number of queries about Presidential records and the Presidential Records Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 2201-2209.
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Nico Portuondo / E&E:
Granholm contradicts testimony, reveals she did own stocks  —  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm revealed Friday that she has held financial stocks as recently as May, contradicting testimony she gave to a Senate committee earlier this year.  —  In a letter shared with E&E News and sent to the committee …
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Biden Energy Secretary Granholm admits false testimony about owning stocks
Discussion: RedState and Just The News
Kari Paul / The Guardian:
‘Fundamentally dangerous’: reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections  —  Scaling back of moderation and rise of AI are creating the perfect storm to weaken elections and democracy  —  ncreasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling …
Rebecca Burns / The Lever:
Oil Lobby Pushed Pollution Loophole for Wildfire Smoke  —  Seventy-five million people nationwide have been under air quality alerts, as days of smoke-filled skies sent soot levels soaring more than 10 times beyond what federal regulators consider safe for breathing.
Discussion: Jacobin and Vox
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Biden Names New Border Patrol Chief as Immigration Policies Come Under Scrutiny  —  Jason Owens has been the leader of the Del Rio division in Texas, one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings in the past few years.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  President Biden named …
Adrienne Cuffley / Stimson Center:
Why the Iranian government neglects the nation's cultural heritage  —  The neglect in Iran's heritage has deepened a schism between a public that values those traditions and a government that finds this lineage to be at best an annoyance and at worst a threat
Discussion: TASS
 
 
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Again: Aren't You All Tired of This Crap?
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
Despite DeSantis' Anti-Union Law, Florida's Teachers' Union Gains 5,000 Members
Oliver Willis / The American Independent:
White House touts historic investments in industry and infrastructure with new website
Discussion: Politico
OpenSecrets.org:
Companies that publicly condemned legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community send political contributions to state lawmakers who advanced anti-LGBTQ+ bills
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Man who crashed U-Haul near White House planned other attacks, prosecutor says
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Althouse
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Viral Pentagon explosion hoax took off from pro-Russian accounts
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
They Just Don't Care … So, Trump's been indicted, again.  There's already been …
 

 
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