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Michael Bekesha / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Boxes and Clinton's Sock Drawer  —  A president chooses what records to return or keep and the National Archives can't do anything about it.  —  Although the indictment against Donald Trump doesn't cite the Presidential Records Act, the charges are predicated on the law.
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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Pence Reads the Trump Indictment  —  He 'can't defend' the conduct but thinks the case is also political.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Tap For Sound  —  As Mike Pence walked into the Journal's New York conference room Tuesday afternoon, the cable-TV chyron was carrying news from South Florida …
Wall Street Journal:
The Self-Destructive Donald Trump  —  The document indictment is misguided, but he made it easier for his enemies, as he always does.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday, with the typical array of supporters and opponents.
Washington Post:
Trump greets arraignment with showmanship in bid to upstage charges  —  The former president, in growing legal peril, faced down the most serious threat to his personal liberty and political future like just another day on the campaign trail  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Former president Donald Trump faced …
NBC News:
Republicans privately acknowledge Trump's legal woes are serious this time  —  Many GOP operatives who spoke with NBC News said the federal indictment is serious — and could cause problems for the party.  —  It's long been Republican orthodoxy that no matter what Donald Trump does, the GOP base will stick with him.
New York Times:
After Trump's 2nd Indictment, His 2024 Presidential Campaign Trudges On  —  On the calendar for the Republicans' 2024 front-runner: rallies and primaries mixed with court dates.  —  Reporting from Bedminster, N.J.  —  Donald J. Trump went to bed Tuesday night, on the eve of his 77th birthday …
Jess Bidgood / MSN:
As GOP candidates evoke Reagan, Michigan Republicans say the future is Trump, indictments and all  —  SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The federal criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump has set up an extraordinary confrontation between President Biden's administration and the front-runner …
Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence Makes Apparent U-Turn on Trump Indictment  —  ALMOST THERE  —  Former vice president Mike Pence made an apparent U-turn in his thoughts on the indictment of his onetime boss, Donald Trump—telling The Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board on Tuesday that he “can't defend” …
Discussion: CNBC, Raw Story and NBC News
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What Will Come From This Indictment  —  In the two places we call America, there are now two coups simultaneously unrolling at a breakneck pace, and also possibly grinding to a slow but steady halt.  For those who maintain that Donald Trump is an innocent man, subject to an unjust witch hunt …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats meet with anti-Trump conservatives to fight No Labels 2024 bid  —  Biden allies seek to undermine an effort they see as a threat to the president's reelection  —  Top Democratic strategists, including current advisers to President Biden and former U.S. senators …
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and Politico
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump would burn America before facing justice  —  The question is whether US voters will be vigilant enough to stop him  —  Politics does not get simpler than this.  American voters are likely to face a choice next year between a criminal defendant vowing retribution against his pursuers and another man.
Politico:
Playbook: Scenes from a presidential arraignment
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Fox News chryon text called Biden a ‘wannabe dictator’ who got ‘his political rival arrested’ during broadcast of Trump's post-courtroom speech
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Biden orders DNC and reelect to remain silent about Trump's indictment
New York Times:
Seeking Latino Support, Trump Raises Specter of Latin American Corruption
Discussion: Bulwark+ and The Hill
New York Times:
Trump has legal options in the case, but they might face challenges.
Anna Bower / Lawfare:
What Actually Happened at Trump's Arraignment?  —  Monday afternoon around 12:00 p.m. finds me outside the entrance to the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. federal courthouse in Miami-where Donald J. Trump is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at 3:00 pm.  Like a lot of journalists …
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
A Grim Donald Trump, President No Longer, Is Humbled in the Courtroom  —  He and Jack Smith, the special counsel, were 20 feet from each other.  But they exchanged not a word during their first, nearly hourlong encounter.  —  A grim Donald J. Trump leaned back from the defendant's table inside …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Judge allows E. Jean Carroll to amend her defamation lawsuit to seek more damages against Trump
Miami Herald:
‘Food for everyone.’ Trump detours to Versailles to court Hispanic voters after arraignment
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Leader says Belarus now has Russian nuclear weapons, wouldn't hesitate to use them  —  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that his country has received Russian nuclear weapons and would not hesitate to use them if provoked.  —  “We have got the missiles and bombs from Russia …
Ethan Strauss / The Free Press:
The NCAA Has a ‘Hot Girl’ Problem  —  We're in the Cavinder Twins' apartment eight floors above the sun-dappled sprawl of South Florida.  A blender whirrs, mixing kiwi-yogurt-almond butter smoothies.  A photographer takes pictures.  A representative from the Twins' sports-marketing agency …
Dwight Garner / New York Times:
Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89  —  “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.  —  Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Launches Quiet Diplomatic Push With Iran to Cool Tensions  —  Talks in Oman seek release of American prisoners as Iran wants billions of dollars trapped overseas  —  WASHINGTON—The Biden administration has quietly restarted talks with Iran in a bid to win the release of American prisoners held …
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Insider's top editor caught tearing down union posters in NYC as strike drags on  —  The top editor of the Insider news site was caught on video bicycling around Brooklyn and tearing down pro-union posters as a labor strike dragged into its second week.  —  In the video obtained by The Post …
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Hunter Biden Ghosted Baby Mama During Pregnancy, Texts Show  —  President's crackhead son yanked health insurance from mistress shortly after birth of daughter  —  For months in 2018, a very pregnant Lunden Alexis Roberts was unable to reach Hunter Biden, the father of her soon-to-be-born daughter.
NBC News:
UPS drivers on track to get air-conditioned trucks for the first time  —  The package carrier reached a tentative deal with Teamsters leaders representing 340,000 employees to address long-standing heat-related concerns as part of contract talks now underway.
Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
Sesame Allergy Sufferers Wanted Warning Labels.  They Got More Sesame.  —  Required to label sesame in food, some companies chose to add the food allergen  —  Congress passed legislation intended to make life better for people allergic to sesame seeds.  Instead, it made things worse.
Washington Post:
Congress just cut IRS funding.  It costs even more than we thought.  —  The White House and Congress recently agreed to claw back more than $20 billion earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service.  This deal was, ostensibly, part of a grand bargain to reduce budget deficits.
Discussion: Fox News
David Weigel / Semafor:
The GOP's new Muslim outreach  —  In late March, after the Montgomery County, Md. school district announced that students could not opt out of reading books with LGBTQ themes, the local chapter of Moms for Liberty started to organize.  County organizer Lindsey Smith arrived at a school board meeting …
Houston Chronicle:
Dan Patrick's $125,000 loan to Ken Paxton adds to conflicts in Senate impeachment trial  —  Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has cast Attorney General Ken Paxton's upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate as like a real-world courtroom, with senators sitting as jurors and Patrick serving as judge.
Discussion: Off the Kuff
Julia Rock / The Lever:
J.D. Vance Helped Lobbyists Weaken His Rail Safety Bill  —  The Ohio senator quietly delayed the timeline for safer tank cars that regulators say could help prevent train spills like the one in East Palestine.  —  For nearly a decade, lawmakers and railroad regulators have been trying …
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price charged with embezzlement and perjury  —  Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was charged with 10 counts of embezzlement, perjury and conflict of interest on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a years-long parade of elected city officials …
 
 
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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Jack Smith's indictment unmasks Trump as a complete and utter buffoon
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