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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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Associated Press:
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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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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Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The National Pulse+
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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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.
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.
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Savannah Kuchar / USA Today:
Sen. Thom Tillis moves to block other states from disqualifying Trump after Colorado decision
NBC News:
Colorado Supreme Court kicks Trump off the state's 2024 ballot for violating the U.S. Constitution
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Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
There Is No Nonpolitical Case for Trying Trump before Election Day
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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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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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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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The Messenger and The Daily Caller
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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Washington Examiner, acecomments.mu.nu, NDTV and The Hill
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
A broad anti-Trump coalition plots a campaign to stop a No Labels third-party bid — The Scoop — A coalition of Democratic and Republican anti-Trump groups are organizing an aggressive, multi-front campaign to stop the independent group No Labels from injecting a third major candidate in the upcoming 2024 election.
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Washington Examiner and Political Wire
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Trump Maintains Support in Iowa, Haley Catches DeSantis For Second Place
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Florida Politics and New York Times
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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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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Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Raw Story, Associated Press and Mediaite
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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Digby's Hullabaloo, Plain Dealer, Raw Story and Mediaite
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP rep: Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric wasn't anti-immigrant
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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
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 …
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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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 …
Census.gov:
U.S. Population Trends Return to Pre-Pandemic Norms as More States Gain Population — Population trends are returning to pre-pandemic norms as the number of annual deaths decreased last year and migration reverted to patterns not seen since before 2020, according to the new Vintage 2023 …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Medicare for All’ bill becomes part of Dean Phillips' presidential pitch — The member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus comes around to a progressive health care bill — even if he disagrees with key parts of it. — Dean Phillips, the Democratic congressmember challenging Joe Biden …
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European Commission:
General date of applicability of the DSA — With the exception of small and microenterprises, all online platforms and search engines will need to comply with the general DSA obligations by 17 February 2024. Among other provisions, they will need to: — Provide user-friendly mechanisms …
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