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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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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
Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot
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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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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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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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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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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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Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:
Steve Scalise returning to Washington as another Mayorkas impeachment vote expected
Steve Scalise returning to Washington as another Mayorkas impeachment vote expected
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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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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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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
No charges for Biden after Special Counsel probe into improper handling of classified documents — Special Counsel Robert Hur has been investigating Biden's improper retention of classified records since 2023 — Special Counsel Robert Hur will not recommend criminal charges against President Biden …
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Associated Press:
Biden won't call for redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling
Biden won't call for redactions in special counsel report on classified documents handling
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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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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.
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Associated Press:
CIA terminates whistleblower who prompted flood of sexual misconduct complaints — The CIA this week terminated a woman whose whistleblower account of being assaulted in a stairwell at the spy agency's headquarters prompted a flood of colleagues to come forward with their own complaints of sexual misconduct.
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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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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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Powerful committee chair joins growing list of House GOP retirements — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Thursday she won't seek reelection in November. … - “I will not be running for re-election to the People's House.”
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Francesca D'Annunzio / The Texas Observer:
Right-Wing Bloggers Busted During Militia Border Tour — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently arrested two right-wing bloggers riding in a caravan near Eagle Pass after finding what law enforcement described as a plastic bag containing a “white powdery substance,” marijuana …
The Hill:
Nevada GOP caucuses: Live results — Former President Trump is expected to win all delegates in Thursday's GOP caucuses in Nevada. — The Silver State has sown confusion by holding both a state-run presidential preference primary, in which former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ran and came …
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
AOC declares victory in fight for Green New Deal 5 years later: ‘Social and ecological transformation’ — ‘We have made major strides in tackling the climate crisis,’ says Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., declared victory this week in the fight to push …
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Fox News:
‘Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison rips politicians over fentanyl crisis after son's death: ‘Absolutely disgusting’ — Harrison, whose son Adam died of a fentanyl overdose last month, called for drug dealers to be charged with attempted murder — Join Fox News for access to this content
CNN:
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro ordered to report to prison — Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald Trump who was convicted of contempt of Congress, has been ordered to report to prison after a judge denied Navarro's effort to stay out of prison while he appeals the conviction.
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Erin Alberty / Axios:
Utah teen athlete faces threats after state official posted photos questioning her gender — Utah state school board member Natalie Cline is under fire after posting photos of a high school basketball player, questioning her gender and prompting threats against the girl.
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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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