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12:45 PM ET, December 20, 2023

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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Will the U.S.Supreme Court Keep Donald Trump Off the Ballot ?  Some Initial Thoughts  —  I am traveling and so I offer only some brief and initial thoughts here about what the United States Supreme Court may and should do in light of the Colorado Supreme Court's determination that Donald Trump …
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Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Donald Trump banned from Colorado ballot in historic ruling by state's Supreme Court  —  A divided Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday declared former President Donald Trump ineligible for the White House under the U.S. Constitution's insurrection clause and removed him from the state's …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
The Colorado Decision: Heads Trump Wins.  Tails America Loses.  —  Donald Trump must be allowed every possible legal maneuver in his quest to subvert American democracy.  But the law must never apply to Trump, because doing so might make him stronger.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. The Sunshine State
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Disqualifying Trump from the Ballot is a Step Too Far  —  The political case against Colorado's legal ruling  —  Colorado's Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump can be disqualified from the presidential ballot on the basis of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which bars people …
Savannah Kuchar / USA Today:
Sen. Thom Tillis moves to block other states from disqualifying Trump after Colorado decision  —  Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is moving to give the U.S. Supreme Court sole power to review presidential candidate qualifications after a controversial Colorado Supreme Court's decision …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
How Christie became a ‘monumental problem’ for Haley — and a potential boon to Trump  —  The former New Jersey governor could complicate Nikki Haley's math in New Hampshire, some prominent Republicans say.  —  Chris Christie has singularly devoted his presidential campaign to tearing down Donald Trump.
Discussion: NBC News, The Hill, Raw Story, HuffPost and CNN
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
4 takeaways from the Colorado Supreme Court's disqualifying Trump  —  Tuesday will go down as a momentous date in American political history, with the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that a former president engaged in insurrection and is therefore disqualified from the presidency.
Axios:
Landmark Trump ruling gives Supreme Court an unexpected New Year's agenda  —  A little over two decades after the landmark Bush v. Gore ruling decided one messy presidential election, the Supreme Court will have a chance to rescue former President Trump's political ambitions — or leave him out in the cold.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Ramaswamy to Colorado: If Trump's Off the Ballot, I Don't Wanna Be On
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Takeaways from Colorado's historic ruling that Trump is ineligible for office based on 14th Amendment's ‘insurrectionist ban’
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is barred from Colorado's 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Trump Maintains Support in Iowa, Haley Catches DeSantis For Second Place
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump's GOP presidential rivals join in criticism of Colorado ruling
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
There Is No Nonpolitical Case for Trying Trump before Election Day
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
A broad anti-Trump coalition plots a campaign to stop a No Labels third-party bid
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Olivia Alafriz / Politico:
GOP rallies around Trump after Colorado ballot ruling
Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill and RedState
NBC News:
Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off the state's 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution
New York Times:
Giuliani's Money Woes Were a Focus of Ukraine Inquiry, Records Reveal  —  F.B.I. agents scrutinizing Rudolph W. Giuliani's efforts to oust the American ambassador to Ukraine thought financial problems might be motivating his actions.  —  Before Rudolph W. Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Associated Press:
Feds raided Rudy Giuliani's home and office in 2021 over Ukraine suspicions, unsealed papers show
Discussion: The Messenger
Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
How Ron DeSantis' $100 Million ‘Death Star’ Collapsed  —  The super PAC Never Back Down was supposed to win DeSantis the GOP nomination.  Instead, it became a political cautionary tale.  —  Long before Ron DeSantis' presidential ambitions began to falter, it was clear to anyone paying close attention …
Associated Press:
Judge reverses earlier decision and allows removal of Confederate memorial at Arlington Cemetery  —  The allegations that the removal efforts amounted to grave desecration “were, at best, ill-informed and, at worst, inaccurate,” the judge wrote.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge …
NBC News:
Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China  —  The Chinese leader's message in San Francisco got the attention of U.S. officials because it was delivered at a meeting that was intended to reduce tensions.  —  WASHINGTON — Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly …
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Trump, Attacked for Echoing Hitler, Says He Never Read ‘Mein Kampf’  —  The former president's comments on migrants have been widely criticized as racist and xenophobic.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday doubled down on his widely condemned comment that undocumented immigrants are …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP rep: Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric wasn't anti-immigrant
Tara Copp / Associated Press:
US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier defending Israel  —  U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin flew out to the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier Wednesday to meet with the sailors he has ordered to remain at sea to prevent the Israel-Hamas war …
Mattathias Schwartz / Business Insider:
America has a McGonigal problem  —  A retired FBI boss got 4 years in prison.  But Charles McGonigal is not the only US official taking money from sketchy foreign oligarchs.  —  2023-12-20T12:00:01Z  —  An curved arrow pointing right.  —  A bookmark Save
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge again turns over Rep. Perry's phone records to DOJ Jan. 6 probe  —  A federal judge turned over 75 percent instead of 90 percent of records the FBI seized from Perry's phone, after a U.S. appeals court set a new precedent defining limits on Congress's immunity from criminal investigation
 
 
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