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Politico:
Jack Smith asks Supreme Court to keep Trump trial on track — Without the Supreme Court's swift intervention, Trump's federal election-subversion trial could be indefinitely delayed, the special counsel warned. — Special counsel Jack Smith is urging the Supreme Court …
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Roll Call and The Gateway Pundit
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Special Counsel asks Supreme Court to immediately decide Trump immunity question — A federal judge had rejected former President Donald Trump's immunity claim over his prosecution in election interference case. — WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court …
New York Times:
Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trump Is Immune From Prosecution — The request was unusual in two ways: Jack Smith asked the justices to rule before an appeals court acted, and he urged them to move with exceptional speed. — Jack Smith, the special counsel prosecuting …
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Axios, Althouse, Washington Examiner, Politico, Raw Story and The Messenger
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Found a Dangerous Workaround to Gag Orders — Donald Trump will have a number of opportunities to violate gag orders in the coming months. He may have just found a dangerous loophole. — Donald Trump is, once again, outmaneuvering the American court system.
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One America News Network, Raw Story and Law & Crime
Associated Press:
Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted
Special counsel Jack Smith asks the Supreme Court to rule quickly on whether Trump can be prosecuted
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CBS News, CNN, Wall Street Journal, The Messenger, Business Insider, Raw Story, Fox News, CNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, USA Today, New York Post, Semafor, Civil Discourse …, Declassified with Julie Kelly, Talking Points Memo, New York Daily News, NPR, One America News Network, PoliticusUSA and Daily Kos
Adam Klasfeld / The Messenger:
Trump Isn't Entitled to Appeal Gag Order to New York's Top Court, State AG Argues
Trump Isn't Entitled to Appeal Gag Order to New York's Top Court, State AG Argues
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The Hill, Raw Story, Mother Jones and KEYT-TV
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump tests federal gag order with attack on Bill Barr: ‘He was a coward’
Trump tests federal gag order with attack on Bill Barr: ‘He was a coward’
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Raw Story and Washington Times
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump holds overwhelming lead; Ron DeSantis edges ahead of Nikki Haley — A new nationally renowned Iowa Poll shows that a shrinking field has only made Donald Trump's lead grow as Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis fail to capitalize on powerful endorsements
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Sam Sutton / Politico:
Wall Street donors dreamed of a Trump alternative. Now they're waking up. — Setting aside Trump's recent noodling on what he could accomplish in a one-day dictatorship, markets are increasingly wary of how U.S. political disruptions can ripple across the global financial system.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Texas abortion case blows up the abortion ban rationale — Abortion rights activists, medical professionals and ordinary women warned the Supreme Court in advance of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision: Legislatures cannot dictate medical decisions without creating horrendous injustices and medical travesties.
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Eschaton
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Paul J. Weber / Associated Press:
Texas woman who sought court permission for abortion leaves state for the procedure, attorneys say — A pregnant Texas woman who sought court permission for an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to one of the most restrictive bans in the U.S. has left the state to obtain the procedure, her attorneys said Monday.
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Rolling Stone, KVUE-TV, Associated Press, PoliticusUSA, Crooked Media and CBS News
Stephen Neukam / The Messenger:
House to Vote on Impeachment Probe Wednesday — Republicans argue it is an essential step in getting past what they call the Biden administration's ‘stonewalling’ of their impeachment probe — House Republicans are expected to schedule a floor vote on Wednesday to formally authorize …
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CNN and Digby's Hullabaloo
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CNN:
House Speaker Mike Johnson pursues impeachment strategy he once said could cause ‘irreparable damage’ to the country
House Speaker Mike Johnson pursues impeachment strategy he once said could cause ‘irreparable damage’ to the country
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Raw Story and BizPac Review
David Weigel / Semafor:
Dean Phillips: Biden impeachment probe ‘perhaps makes him unelectable’
Dean Phillips: Biden impeachment probe ‘perhaps makes him unelectable’
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The Hill, NBC News, Fox News, Washington Post and Business Insider
Washington Post:
Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack — DHEIRA, Lebanon — Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime …
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The Messenger, The Hill and Intersectional Praxis
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Matt Berg / Politico:
US ‘concerned’ about reports that Israel used white phosphorous, Kirby says
US ‘concerned’ about reports that Israel used white phosphorous, Kirby says
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The Messenger and Reuters
Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:
Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill leaving X after Alex Jones account reinstated — Prominent civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill announced she is leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, due to the Elon Musk-owned platform reinstating far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's account.
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CNN:
CNN Polls: Trump leads Biden in Michigan and Georgia as broad majorities hold negative views of the current president — Former President Donald Trump has the upper hand over President Joe Biden in two critical battleground states - Michigan and Georgia - with broad majorities …
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NBC News, Washington Examiner, KEYT-TV, Raw Story, Loomered, The Daily Caller, Deseret News, New York Post, The Hill, The Messenger, Florida Politics and Political Wire
Sabrina Siddiqui / Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Americans Back Israel as Democrats Split Over War With Hamas, WSJ Poll Finds — Republicans and independents are more sympathetic to Israelis than Palestinians; Biden gets low marks for handling of conflict — WASHINGTON—U.S. public opinion remains favorable toward Israel …
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Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Blaze Media, The Hill, New York Post, Power Line, The Messenger and CBS News
US Department of Justice:
Dover Man Arrested and Charged with Threatening to Kill a Presidential Candidate — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, District of New Hampshire — CONCORD - A Dover man has been arrested and charged in connection with sending text messages that threatened a presidential candidate …
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The Daily Beast, Axios, The Daily Caller, The Guardian and NewsNation
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
New Hampshire man charged with death threat to Vivek Ramaswamy
New Hampshire man charged with death threat to Vivek Ramaswamy
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The Hill, ABC News, USA Today, NBC News, NBC Boston, The Messenger, CBS News, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, New York Daily News, New York Post and Associated Press
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Organized journalistic crime — On July 19, the Washington Post Editorial Board published an impassioned column calling for an aggressive national response to organized retail crime (ORC). The Editorial Board described ORC as “the term security specialists use to distinguish planned …
Discussion:
The Big Picture and Balloon Juice
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Air Force disciplines 15 for ‘lack of supervision’ after massive leak of classified docs — The Air Force inspector general cited a ‘lack of supervision’ and ‘culture of complacency’ in the leak of classified documents. — WASHINGTON - The Air Force disciplined 15 members of the National Guard …
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Axios, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, NBC News, The Messenger, Task & Purpose, Washington Examiner, New York Times and The Daily Caller
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Washington state ‘conversion therapy’ ban — Over the objection of three conservatives, the court left in place a state law that bars therapists from counseling minors to change sexual orientation or gender identity, a practice favored by some conservatives.
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Vox, CNN, Associated Press, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, The Messenger, Raw Story, The Hill, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, NPR, USA Today and Breakfast At Ralf's
Christopher F. Rufo:
Is Claudine Gay a Plagiarist? — The embattled Harvard president's dissertation raises troubling questions. — Harvard president Claudine Gay has problems. Touted as the first black woman to run the nation's most prestigious university, she assumed leadership with high expectations …
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HotAir, Breitbart, Twitchy, The Messenger, New York Post and RedState