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Tristan Snell / CNN:
Congress has already disqualified Trump from the ballot  —  Editor's Note: Tristan Snell is author of the new book “Taking Down Trump: 12 Rules for Prosecuting Donald Trump by Someone Who Did it Successfully.”  He is a lawyer and legal commentator who has appeared on MSNBC and CNN …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Thursday as former President Trump's lawyers appear before the justices in an attempt to knock down lawsuits challenging the Republican front-runner's ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment.
Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Mark Meadows Became the Least Trusted Man in Washington
Discussion: Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
What Nikki Haley isn't saying about Trump
Discussion: CBS News and Fox News
The Hill:
Trump's 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Gaetz says McCarthy would be ‘terrific’ RNC chair after ousting him as Speaker: ‘Matt sure knows how to troll’
ABC News:
US Supreme Court hears Trump 14th Amendment case: What to know
Associated Press:
Supreme Court hears landmark election case seeking to kick Trump off ballot over Capitol attack
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Meet the lawyers arguing Trump's Supreme Court Colorado ballot case
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump's ‘Knock on the Door’  —  Confrontations over immigration and border security are moving to the center of the struggle between the two parties, both in Washington, D.C., and beyond.  And yet the most explosive immigration clash of all may still lie ahead.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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Washington Post:
GOP leaders face unrest amid chaotic, bungled votes  —  Former president Donald Trump has used his perch as the GOP frontrunner to bend Congress to his political whims  —  Moments before pandemonium broke out on the House floor on Tuesday evening, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer approached Rep. Ken Buck …
Washington Post:   Biden and Trump jockey for an edge amid the rubble of the border deal
Ryan Heath / Axios:
FCC outlaws AI voices in robocall fraud  —  The Federal Communications Commission has declared the use of AI-generated voices in scam robocalls illegal, with immediate effect. … - While using AI to perpetrate a scam or fraud was already illegal, now using AI to generate voices in such calls is itself illegal.
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Federal Communications Commission:
FCC Confirms that TCPA Applies to AI Technologies that Generate Human Voices
Brian Fung / CNN:
FCC votes to outlaw scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
New Republic:
Shocker: Republicans Admit in Private That They Killed a Good Deal … In an extraordinary spectacle, virtually all Senate Republicans joined together Wednesday to block a bipartisan bill that would have given Republicans much of what they wanted on border security.  Why?  Because Donald Trump told them to.
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NBC News:
Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill
Roll Call:
House GOP had lowest win rate on ‘party unity’ votes since 1982
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Joe Biden is currently losing the election  —  I try not to spend my days being a doomer or a catastrophist, but in both casual and formal conversations I've come to think that there is one very basic point about politics in 2024 that is being broadly underrated — Joe Biden is currently …
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Media Matters for America:
Fox News praises vigilante group for a takedown of migrant “shoplifter.”  Law enforcement say the man was neither a shoplifter nor a recent migrant.  —  Update: Fox guest Curtis Sliwa told the AP that he had believed the man was a migrant because he was “speaking Spanish”
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Jon Passantino / CNN:
An NYC vigilante group tackled what they claimed was a shoplifting ‘migrant’ live on Fox News.  They were wrong.  —  Fox News host Sean Hannity on Tuesday night was interviewing the founder of a New York City-based vigilante group known for its targeting of migrants when a disturbance suddenly broke out behind the live shot.
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Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Bounced cheques and Trump's ‘unpaid fees’: Rudy Giuliani lays bare his finances in bankruptcy hearing  —  Over three hours in the fifth-floor room of a court building, Donald Trump's one-time attorney reeled off a list of assets that revealed the strained state of his finances, from a Bronx storage unit to a $1m tax bill.
Associated Press:
Biden won't call for redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling  —  President Joe Biden will not seek any redactions in a report by the Justice Department special counsel investigating his handling of classified documents, the White House said Thursday, clearing the way for its release.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Biden classified document case ends without charges
NBC News:
In his second mix-up this week, Biden talks about meeting with dead European leaders  —  He referred to François Mitterrand, who died in 1996, instead of French President Emmanuel Macron and the late Helmut Kohl instead of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Angela Dewan / CNN:
Scientists just set a nuclear fusion record in a step toward unleashing the limitless, clean energy source  —  Scientists and engineers near the English city of Oxford have set a nuclear fusion energy record, they announced Thursday, bringing the clean, futuristic power source another step closer to reality.
Discussion: The Guardian
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
Zelensky Removes His Top General, in Major Shake-Up of Ukraine Military  —  Gen. Valery Zaluzhny led the effort that thwarted Russia's initial assault on Kyiv.  But his troops have struggled to make progress recently, and tensions have mounted with the civilian leadership.
 
 
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