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Trump Calls for Recusal of Judge as His Lawyer Denies Pence's 2020 Claims — Former President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend on the attack on Truth Social while his lawyer, John F. Lauro, ran through a gantlet of interviews Sunday morning. — Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning …
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Trump says he'll seek a new judge in election case — Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss in 2020. — He claimed there is “NO WAY HE CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL,” in a post on his social media site.
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
If Trump committed ‘a technical violation of the Constitution,’ it's not a crime, his lawyer says — Later on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, who sat on the House panel that investigated the Capitol riot, said Lauro's argument was “deranged.” — Chuck Todd pushes …
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NBC News:
Full Trump lawyer: Election fraud case will be ‘most important’ civil rights case in decades — John Lauro, attorney to Donald Trump, joins Meet the Press to discuss the former president's legal defense following his indictment over efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Washington Post:
Awkwardness in Trump's circle: Top aides could be trial witnesses
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CBS News poll finds after latest Trump indictment, many Americans see implications for democracy. For some, it's personal — America's response to this week's indictment of Donald Trump is providing a window into more than just how Americans view his alleged actions per se …
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Russian and Chinese ships patrolled ‘near Alaska’ but were not ‘a threat’: US officials — Four destroyers and P-8 aircraft were deployed to shadow the formation. — A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday.
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Russia and China Sent Large Naval Patrol Near Alaska — Four U.S. destroyers were dispatched to monitor Russian and Chinese ships — A combined Russian and Chinese naval force patrolled near the coast of Alaska earlier this week in what U.S. experts said appeared to be the largest such flotilla to approach American shores.
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CNN:
Black mayor of tiny Alabama town says he was ousted by his White predecessor — Patrick Braxton accomplished something no Black man in his Alabama town had done in its 166-year history: he became mayor. — He told CNN he ran for office in 2020 to serve the fewer than 300 residents of Newbern …
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Nina Lakhani / The Guardian:
Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns — Racism is at the heart of the American government's failure to tackle the growing threat of deadly heatwaves, according to the author of an authoritative new book on the heating planet.
emptywheel:
On January 19, 2022, SCOTUS Upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan's Decision Rejecting Trump's Executive Privilege Claims — On November 9, 2021, Judge Tanya Chutkan — the judge who randomly got assigned to Trump's January 6 prosecution — rejected Trump's request to enjoin the Archives from turning over documents to the January 6 Committee.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republican Attacks on ‘Woke’ Ideology Falling Flat With G.O.P. Voters — New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations. — When it comes to the Republican primaries, attacks on “wokeness” may be losing their punch.
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New York Times:
Putin's Forever War … Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational conflict with the West far larger than Ukraine. Will they follow him? — Roger Cohen and Nanna Heitmann traveled from Moscow to Siberia to Russia's border with Ukraine to report and photograph this article.
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Nancy Cook / Bloomberg:
DeSantis Camp Hit by Gloom as Aides Worry Race Is Slipping Away — Aides frustrated and disappointed by campaign's inner workings — DeSantis continues resetting bid as Trump holds primary lead — Ron DeSantis promised a reset of his presidential campaign. Many of his campaign staffers are still waiting.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Campaign Anguishes His Storied Family — The presidential bid by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tested the bonds of an iconic Democratic clan that does not want him to run and does not know what to do about it. — Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent and has covered the past five presidents.
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