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2:30 PM ET, December 30, 2023

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Shan Wu / The Daily Beast:
Here's What SCOTUS Should Do With the Trump Ballot Cases  —  The real answer is nothing.  But if they decide to take them up, here is how they should decide them. … The U.S. Supreme Court needs to understand that the disqualification of former President Donald J. Trump under Section 3 …
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Marc Caputo / The Messenger:
Trump's GOP Delegate Hunt Doubles as Legal Strategy in Jan. 6 Case.  And Beyond.  —  In the mind of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the primary polls and history don't lie: he'll be the Republican nominee, and all his major primary rivals will likely drop out after he wins all four early states.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
New York Times:
Trump's Team Prepares to File Challenges on Ballot Decisions Soon  —  The cases in Colorado, Maine and other states are requiring former President Donald J. Trump to devote resources already spread thin across four criminal indictments.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump's advisers …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
How the Supreme Court May Rule on Trump's Presidential Run  —  The legal issues are novel and tangled, experts said, and the justices may be wary of knocking a leading presidential candidate off the ballot.  —  The Supreme Court, battered by ethics scandals, a dip in public confidence …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Suddenly, Trump Is Interested in Democracy
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
December 29, 2023  —  When asked at a town hall on Wednesday to identify the cause of the United States Civil War, presidential candidate and former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley answered that the cause “was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms …
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Matthew Hennessey / Wall Street Journal:
Nikki Haley's Civil War Battlefield
Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Muslim leaders expand campaign to abandon Biden in 2024 over Israel-Hamas war  — A coalition of Muslim leaders in the U.S. is expanding its pressure campaign to dissuade voters from reelecting President Joe Biden due to his failure to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
New York Times:
Where Was the Israeli Military?  —  A Times investigation found that troops were disorganized, out of position and relied on social media to choose targets.  Behind the failure: Israel had no battle plan for a massive Hamas invasion.  —  Far beneath the Israeli military headquarters in Tel Aviv …
Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Marjorie Taylor Greene creates multiple headaches for new Speaker  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is reviving her rabble-rousing ways, creating new headaches for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he settles into his role leading the House GOP conference's razor-thin majority.
NBC News:
Paula Abdul accuses ‘American Idol’ executive producer Nigel Lythgoe of sexual assault in new lawsuit  —  The Grammy-winning singer said the assaults happened in the early 2000s and around 2015 while she was a judge on the television competition shows.  —  Paula Abdul accused “American Idol” …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
6 states are rethinking how they run their primaries in 2024  —  Most of the states considering changing their primary election systems are looking at ways to open the process to more voters.  —  At least six states are considering changing their primary election systems in 2024 …
The Messenger:
Biden's Crime Problem: Violent Crime is Down, but Voters Don't Believe it  —  Americans perceive crime as a major problem, even as data shows crime falling in most cities nationwide  —  Violent crime is dropping in most major American cities, but voters nationwide still think crime is on the rise.
Kayla Gallagher / The Messenger:
Trump Claims Migrants Are Coming to US to ‘VOTE, VOTE, VOTE’ for Democrats  —  Trump's latest attack follows his inflammatory claims that immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood’ of the nation  —  Former President Donald Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that droves of migrants are crossing …
Associated Press:
Judge blocks most of an Iowa law banning some school library books and discussion of LGBTQ+ issues  —  A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues.
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
When Silicon Valley's AI warriors came to Washington  —  Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult.  But as the movement's billionaire adherents pour money into D.C., its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital's tech policy landscape.
 
 
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Airstrikes hit camps in central Gaza as Biden administration approves new weapons sales to Israel
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