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2:35 PM ET, February 8, 2024

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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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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
Washington Post:
Live updates Supreme Court skeptical of challenge to Trump's eligibility  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday seemed prepared to keep Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot, expressing deep concerns about the ability of a single state to disqualify a candidate from seeking national office.
Robert Draper / New York Times:
How Mark Meadows Became the Least Trusted Man in Washington
Discussion: Raw Story and Mock Paper Scissors
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot
Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
What Nikki Haley isn't saying about Trump
Discussion: CBS News and Fox News
Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court
The Hill:
Trump's 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
ABC News:
US Supreme Court hears Trump 14th Amendment case: What to know
NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs Trump's bid to stay on Colorado ballot
Discussion: RedState, The Root and New York Times
Associated Press:
Supreme Court hears landmark election case seeking to kick Trump off ballot over Capitol attack
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  —  It's still unclear if the aid package can pass Congress.  The Senate will need to take additional votes and House Republicans have not committed to voting on it themselves.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate advances Ukraine funding without border security reforms  —  The Senate voted Thursday to advance a $95 billion emergency security spending bill with $60 billion to support the war in Ukraine — but without a bipartisan border security bill that ran into stiff opposition from Republicans.
Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
Hell Yes, I Miss George Santos
Discussion: The Hill and Fox News
Punchbowl News:
2/8/24 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
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Igor Derysh / Salon:
“Awful and unethical”: Legal experts say Judge Cannon could face removal for “disturbing” order  —  “Compromising national security is a bridge too far,” says longtime Harvard legal scholar Laurence Tribe  —  Legal experts sounded the alarm after the judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified …
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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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.
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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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.
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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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Tucker Carlson's Fatal Attraction  —  The right-wing conspiracy monger shares Putin's worldview.  —  THE TITLE OF MY 2003 BOOK, Useful Idiots, was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union.
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
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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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Gaetz says McCarthy would be ‘terrific’ RNC chair after ousting him as Speaker: ‘Matt sure knows how to troll’
Josephine Lee / The Texas Observer:
Jim Crow Still Lingers in Bonham, Civil Rights Lawyers Say
Wall Street Journal:
How the Rockefellers and Billionaire Donors Pressured Biden on LNG Exports
Discussion: BizPac Review and New Republic
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman Featured Black Revolutionary Convicted Of Murder On Middle School's ‘Wall Of Honor’
Mia Cathell / Townhall:
America's Favorite Cookie Takes a Hard Left Turn
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Top Republican, flush with corporate cash, embraces racist conspiracy theory
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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