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Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state's ballot under Constitution's insurrection clause — DENVER (AP) — The 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 …
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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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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is barred from Colorado's 2024 primary ballot, the state Supreme Court rules — In a historic decision Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court barred Donald Trump from running in the state's presidential primary after determining that he had engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021.
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.
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Politico:
Playbook: SCOTUS steps into the 2024 spotlight — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — DEAN PHILLIPS' presidential campaign is launching a new minutelong ad in New Hampshire starting today, titled “The New Hampshire Way,” …
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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 …
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NBC News:
Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off the state's 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution — The ruling marks the first time a 14th Amendment challenge to Trump's candidacy has been successful. — In a bombshell decision, Colorado's Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled …
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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 …
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
A broad anti-Trump coalition plots a campaign to stop a No Labels third-party bid
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Olivia Alafriz / Politico:
GOP rallies around Trump after Colorado ballot ruling
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Colorado Supreme Court disqualifies Trump from 2024 ballot, pauses ruling to allow appeal
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump is disqualified from presidency for Jan. 6 riot
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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 …
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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.
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Trump Maintains Support in Iowa, Haley Catches DeSantis For Second Place
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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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Calder McHugh / Politico:
'Trump Knows What He's Doing': The Creator of Godwin's Law Says the Hitler Comparison Is Apt
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP rep: Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric wasn't anti-immigrant
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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 …
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
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 …
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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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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 …
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Politico:
GOP hardliners learn to love the Biden-McCarthy debt deal — as a weapon against Dems — Conservatives who fought the summertime bipartisan agreement now see it as a boost. And they're getting coaching from Donald Trump's former budget chief. — House conservatives hated the summer debt deal …
Ben Kochman / New York Post:
It's me, Don! Post reporter falsely tagged as Judge Engoron's ‘son’ at Trump's fraud trial — Donald Trump keeps sharing a photo on social media featuring a bright-red arrow pointing at the head of a bearded man at his civil fraud trial — claiming he is the son of the judge.
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Federal Trade Commission:
Rite Aid Banned from Using AI Facial Recognition After FTC Says Retailer Deployed Technology without Reasonable Safeguards — FTC says Rite Aid technology falsely tagged consumers, particularly women and people of color, as shoplifters; Ban will last five years
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Rite Aid banned from using AI facial recognition to curb shoplifting
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
There Is No Nonpolitical Case for Trying Trump before Election Day — The arguments for trying the former president before the election belie the claim that these prosecutions aren't political. — There are five main schools of thought on the criminal cases against Donald Trump:
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