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6:00 AM ET, September 7, 2023

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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
With Jan. 6 Rioters Sentenced, Prosecuting Trump Will Be a Different Challenge  —  With leaders of the far-right groups that helped drive the attack on the Capitol sentenced to long prison terms, attention is shifting to the fraught process of prosecuting Donald Trump.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Shoots Down Trump's Attempt at Trial Delay in 9 Words  —  HOW 'BOUT NO?  —  A New York judge—unmoved by the incessant pleas from Donald Trump's legal team to delay trial—made quick work of the former president's last-minute request Tuesday night to push back his first big upcoming trial for bank and tax fraud.
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
Witness in Trump documents case reached deal with prosecutors, ex-attorney says  —  A key witness in the case accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump of mishandling classified documents after leaving office has entered into a deal with prosecutors to provide testimony, his former attorney said in a Wednesday court filing.
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Georgia Prosecutors Land a Significant Win in Trump Case
Politico:
Georgia judge frets about timetable for Trump racketeering trial
Jim Garamone / U.S. Department of Defense:
Senate Confirmation Still in Limbo for 301 Military Leaders  —  The Senate has returned to work, and there is still no resolution in sight of confirmation of general and flag officers by the body.  —  Alabama Sen. Thomas H. Tuberville has put holds on the nominations of 301 senior military leaders …
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Tommy Tuberville's Hissy Fit Shows McConnell Has Lost His Hold on the GOP  —  The ex-football coach-turned-junior senator is holding up vital military promotions and brazenly thumbing his nose at the longest serving Republican Senate leader. … It should be a national embarrassment …
Brad Raffensperger / Wall Street Journal:
I Can't Keep Trump Off the Ballot  —  Voters should decide elections: That's the simple lesson of Georgia in 2018 and 2020.  —  Atlanta  —  Some legal scholars are arguing that secretaries of state should remove Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Colorado Lawsuit Seeks to Keep Trump Off Ballots Under 14th Amendment
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump suffers big loss in E. Jean Carroll defamation case, judge says he's liable
ABC News:
Group sues to block Trump from 2024 ballot in Colorado citing 14th Amendment and Jan. 6
Politico:
The Giuliani aide who ‘vanished’  —  Documents reviewed by POLITICO — and also in the hands of federal prosecutors — offer new details about Rudy Giuliani's ill-fated efforts to reverse the 2020 election.  —  In December 2020, an adviser to Rudy Giuliani circulated a draft email addressed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
‘A Big Circle Jerk’: John Fetterman Dares Republicans To Impeach Joe Biden  —  “Go ahead.  Do it, I dare you,” said the Democratic senator.  “It's a loser.”  —  LOADING  —  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) had some blunt words for Republicans who are pushing to impeach President Joe Biden: It'll bite you in next year's elections.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Wisconsin Republicans Threaten to Impeach Liberal State Supreme Court Justice
The Hill:
Prosecutors will seek Hunter Biden indictment by end of September  —  Special counsel David Weiss will seek to indict Hunter Biden before the end of this month, the prosecutor said in a court filing updating a judge on his investigation into the president's son's failure to pay taxes.
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Kara Scannell / CNN:
Special counsel to indict Hunter Biden in gun case this month, DOJ says
Associated Press:
Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access to procedure  —  Mexico's Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women's rights …
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Gabriella Borter / Reuters:
Mexico's Supreme Court upholds abortion rights nationwide, paving way for federal access
Discussion: Washington Post
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Trump privately urged to support Biden's Saudi mega-deal  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Axios he has urged former President Trump to support the mega-deal President Biden is negotiating with Saudi Arabia, which could pave the way for a historic peace agreement between the kingdom and Israel.
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
A crisis in U.S. presidential legitimacy is looming
CBS News:
Newly obtained George Santos “vulnerability report” spotted red flags long before embattled Rep. was elected  —  When an outside firm hired by then-congressional hopeful George Santos in 2021 delivered a secret internal report detailing aspects of the candidate's checkered background, several of his aides found it too much to stomach.
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
Judge Orders Texas to Move Barrier From Middle of the Rio Grande  —  A federal judge ordered the state to move the barrier, placed to discourage illegal crossings from Mexico, to the banks of the river.  —  A federal judge ordered Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday to move a barrier of floating buoys …
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Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Federal judge orders Texas to remove floating barriers aimed at deterring migrants on Rio Grande
Associated Press:
Texas AG Ken Paxton's Affair Explains Illegal Acts, Former Aide Testifies  —  An impeachment trial for the suspended Republican began in the state Senate Tuesday.  —  LOADING  —  An extramarital affair Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had with a donor's employee helped connect the dots …
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Ken Paxton Impeachment / The Texas Tribune:
Paxton trial updates: Prosecutors expected to continue building case that AG is corrupt
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Heather Hunter / Washington Examiner:
Cancer among adults under 50 surged by 79%: Study  —  A study found that cancer cases in adults under 50 years old have risen sharply.  —  The study was published by BMJ Oncology and analyzed data between 1990 to 2019, finding an increase of 79% in cancer among people under 50 years old in just three decades.
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
America's Authoritarian Exceptionalism  —  Demagogues usually arise in times of chaos and privation.  In America, our demagogues have become powerful during a period of peace and prosperity.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Decadence  —  We're going to keep doing this and I'm sorry.
Reuters:
Biden rejects conditions of plea deal for Sept. 11 attacks defendants  —  U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected several conditions sought by five Guantanamo Bay prisoners as part of a deal with federal prosecutors that would see them plead guilty to conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
Military Times:
QAnon-embraced film pulled from screening on-base at SOUTHCOM  —  U.S. Southern Command planned, and then canceled, two showings of the Christian-faith-based thriller “Sound of Freedom” at its headquarters this summer.  The movie's been a runaway hit, grossing more than $200 million …
 
 
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Politico:
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
‘A riot is the language of the unheard’
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Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
To settle suit, NYPD agrees to scale back enforcement of protests
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Jonathan Swan / New York Times:
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Biden Administration to Bar Drilling on Millions of Acres in Alaska
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
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Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
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