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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity — Former President Trump's legal team suggested Tuesday that even a president directing SEAL Team Six to kill a political opponent would be an action barred from prosecution given a former executive's broad immunity to criminal prosecution.
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Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ declines to rule out violence after court hearing — The former president spoke after his lawyers argued he should be immune from prosecution for trying to overturn the 2020 election — Republican polling leader Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened unrest …
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
How Trump's Unhinged Immunity Demand Could Unleash a Second-Term Crime Spree — Donald Trump and his lawyers are making an extraordinary demand in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: They want Trump granted immunity from criminal charges related to his subversion of the 2020 election …
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New York Times:
Trump's Claim of Immunity Reaches Appeals Court — Judges Seem Skeptical of Trump's Claim of Immunity — Judges heard from a lawyer for Donald J. Trump who argued that a president could face criminal charges only if impeached and convicted first, even if the case involved the assassination of a political rival.
John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Georgia court weighs voting machines at heart of Trump election fraud claims — A Georgia trial will cast a spotlight on the security of the state's voting machines, which have long come under attack by the former president and his allies. — A federal court will begin hearing arguments Tuesday …
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NBC News:
Iowa voters voice support for Trump as he claims total immunity from election interference
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
'He doesn't give a damn about people:' Biden campaign hits Trump comments on economy crashing
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
5 ways the Supreme Court may try to defuse its newest Trump bomb
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Chris Stein / The Guardian:
Trump doubles down after DC hearing: 'Most people agree that we're entitled to immunity' - as it happened
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Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Poll: Haley trims Trump's lead to single digits in New Hampshire — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has trimmed former President Donald Trump's lead in the Republican primary race in New Hampshire to single digits, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire.
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Ramaswamy's campaign shows signs of unraveling
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult Pro:
Trump's Iowa Support Grows Ahead of Next Week's Caucuses
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
RFK Jr. won't attend birthday party fundraiser after celebrity blowback — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. won't attend a birthday party fundraiser, his campaign said, after multiple celebrities who had been announced as attendees denied that they ever planned to attend.
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Cristina Corujo / CBS News:
RFK Jr. backs out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after Martin Sheen, Mike Tyson said they're not attending — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing out of his own birthday fundraiser gala after celebrity guests Martin Sheen, Dionne Warwick, Mike Tyson and Andrea Bocelli, who were reported to be attending …
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Associated Press:
US Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana, former VP Mike Pence's older brother, won't seek reelection — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Pence of Indiana said Tuesday he will not seek reelection this year to a fourth term, becoming the latest House member to announce that they won't run for reelection.
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Mike Pence's brother is latest Republican retiring from Congress
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NBC News:
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin diagnosed with prostate cancer — Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December and underwent a minimally invasive procedure, officials from Walter Reed said in a statement Tuesday. — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was diagnosed …
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
5th Circuit announces takeover of Department of Energy — Here we go again: — As silly as the finding of standing is, the 5th Circuit's position on the merits that any regulation issued by a Democratic administration is “arbitrary and capricious” is even worse!
Jonathan Turley / The Daily Beast:
Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas' Failures Are Not Impeachable — He's bad at his job and is enforcing wrongheaded Biden administration border policies, but there is no current evidence he is corrupt or committed an impeachable offense. … Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas …
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Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Rep. Steny Hoyer To Seek 23rd Term In Congress, Ending Retirement Speculation
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Chris Perez / Denver Westword:
Lauren Boebert's Ex-Husband Gives His Side of Restaurant Fight Story: “I Was Telling Her I Want Her Back” — Jayson Boebert says that he regrets calling the police Saturday following his public spat with Colorado's most infamous lawmaker. … “I wish this all hadn't happened.”
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Catherine Kim / Politico:
Pizzagate, QAnon and the ‘Epstein List’: Why the Far Right Is Obsessed with Sex Trafficking — An expert on conspiracy theories explains why MAGA figures are embracing the latest twist in the Jeffrey Epstein saga. — A day before the so-called Epstein list was supposed to drop …
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Bloomberg:
Xi Elevates China's Ties With Record Number of Nations to Counter US — China hails ‘all weather’ partnership with Venezuela, Belarus — Beijing is positioning itself as champion of the Global South — Chinese President Xi Jinping upgraded diplomatic ties with a record number …
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Phil Williams / WTVF-TV:
REVEALED: Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles faces ethics complaint, comparison to George Santos — Non-partisan Campaign Legal Center ask federal ethics agency to investigate irregularities uncovered by NewsChannel 5 — NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A nonpartisan watchdog group has asked …
Daniel Marans / HuffPost:
Dave McCormick-Led Hedge Fund Shed Hundreds Of Jobs After Pocketing State Money — The Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania has run as an expert in job creation. — LOADING — Dave McCormick, an extremely wealthy hedge fund manager running as a Republican for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania …
Tori Otten / New Republic:
Roger Stone Plotted Assassinating Democrats, Bombshell Report Says — Explosive new audio of Roger Stone reveals the longtime Trump ally was trying to plot the assassinations of two outspoken Democratic congressmen. — A few weeks before the 2020 election, Stone told a member …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Biden highlights the connection between rejecting democracy and race — President Biden's visit to South Carolina on Monday and the speech he gave at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston have been connected, including by the president, to his speech at Valley Forge, Pa., last week …
United States House Committee on Oversight …:
Wenstrup Releases Statement Following Day 1 of Dr. Fauci's Testimony — WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after day one of Dr. Anthony Fauci's two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview:
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New York Times:
Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024 — A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and a pullback in social media protections. — Billions of people will vote in major elections this year …
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