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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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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.
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Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday heard a historic case that could upend the presidential election, with the justices on the conservative-supermajority court appearing skeptical of the effort …
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Zach Schonfeld / The Hill:
What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court
What to know about the lawyers arguing the Trump ballot case at Supreme Court
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NBC News:
Supreme Court weighs Trump's bid to stay on Colorado ballot
Supreme Court weighs Trump's bid to stay on Colorado ballot
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ABC News:
US Supreme Court hears Trump 14th Amendment case: What to know
US Supreme Court hears Trump 14th Amendment case: What to know
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The Hill:
Trump's 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
Trump's 14th Amendment case reaches Supreme Court: What to expect
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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.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
For House Republicans, failure is the only option
For House Republicans, failure is the only option
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NBC News:
Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill
Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill
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ABC News:
Authorities investigating online threats made to potential witness related to Trump classified docs case — The threats are cited in a court filing from the special prosecutor. — Former President Donald Trump arrives at the New York State Supreme Court in New York, on Oct. 2, 2023.
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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 …
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James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Jack Smith Could Seek to Remove Aileen Cannon for Granting Trump's Request
Jack Smith Could Seek to Remove Aileen Cannon for Granting Trump's Request
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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
FCC Confirms that TCPA Applies to AI Technologies that Generate Human Voices
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Brian Fung / CNN:
FCC votes to outlaw scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
FCC votes to outlaw scam robocalls that use AI-generated voices
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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.
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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Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
Hell Yes, I Miss George Santos
Hell Yes, I Miss George Santos
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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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Politico:
Loyalty is a one-way street in Donald Trump's GOP. Just ask Ronna McDaniel — The Republican National Committee chair is expected to step down this spring. — For seven tumultuous years, Ronna McDaniel accomplished a feat that eluded almost everyone else in Donald Trump's orbit: She held on.
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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.
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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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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Biden Confuses European Leaders, Swaps Kohl and Merkel
Biden Confuses European Leaders, Swaps Kohl and 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.
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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.
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Republicans tell Biden not to take control of Texas National Guard amid standoff over border — A group of 24 House Republicans urged President Biden not to federalize the Texas National Guard in the midst of Texas wanting to crack down on the spike of illegal immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border in a letter Thursday.
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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.
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