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3:45 PM ET, March 4, 2024

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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rules Trump cannot be kicked off ballot  —  The decision swiftly ended the legal fight over whether states could bar Trump from state ballots based on the Constitution's 14th Amendment.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday handed a sweeping win to former President Donald Trump …
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's “Unanimous” Trump Ballot Ruling Is Actually a 5-4 Disaster  —  On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Colorado Supreme Court decision removing Donald Trump from the ballot because of his engagement in an insurrection on Jan. 6.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Top Democrat “working on” bill responding to Trump ballot ruling … - “Congress will have to try and act,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told Axios. … - Raskin pointed to legislation he introduced with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz …
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge  —  Decision comes a day before Super Tuesday and as justices weigh other key cases affecting Donald Trump  —  The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with Donald Trump, allowing the former president to remain …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The institutions of government aren't going to protect democracy  —  There is no real question about the intent of the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.  —  Donald Trump made clear his interest in undermining the results of the 2020 election for months beforehand, sowing misleading …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Supreme Court, 9-0, says Colorado can't kick Trump off ballot
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Maine secretary of state withdraws Trump ballot ban
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Smackdown on CO: Unanimous SCOTUS Rules States Cannot DQ Trump on 14A
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to post a decision Monday, possibly on Trump ballot access
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Last Campaign  —  Trailing Trump in polls and facing doubts about his age, the President voices defiant confidence in his prospects for reëlection.  —  “I'll show you where Trump sat and watched the revolution,” Joe Biden said, stepping out from behind his desk in the Oval Office.
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New York Times:
No Matter Race, Age or Gender, More Voters Say Trump's Policies Helped Than Biden's  —  Times/Siena polls highlight how comparatively well-regarded Donald J. Trump's policies are, even by groups that were affected by policies that Democrats hope will be motivating issues in 2024.
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Sophia Tareen / Associated Press:
Wisconsin: Settlement shows Trump lawyers made fake electors plan  —  Two attorneys for then-President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory there and in other swing states …
Discussion: New York Times
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:
Pro-Trump lawyers central to alternate-elector plot settle Wisconsin lawsuit
Discussion: Raw Story
Marianna Spring / BBC:
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images  —  Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.  —  BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
AI-generated images of Trump with Black voters being spread by supporters
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Key Figure in Trump's Business Pleads Guilty to Felony Perjury  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, the former Trump Organization finance chief, has already spent time at the Rikers Island jail complex.  The perjury plea will send him back.  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, a longtime lieutenant …
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Associated Press:
Former Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in ex-president's civil fraud trial  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he gave at the ex-president's civil fraud trial.
Kate Plummer / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's String of Gaffes Over Weekend Raises Eyebrows  —  Donald Trump has been criticized for making a string of gaffes during two weekend campaign speeches.  —  The Republican presidential candidate addressed crowds on Saturday in Richmond, Virginia, and Greensboro, North Carolina …
Discussion: New York Times, Salon, Forbes and Raw Story
Karla Adam / Washington Post:
France becomes first country to explicitly enshrine abortion rights in constitution  —  PARIS — With the endorsement of a specially convened session of lawmakers at Versailles, France on Monday became the first country in the world to explicitly enshrine abortion rights in its constitution …
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Associated Press:
Abortion is enshrined as a constitutional right in France after lawmakers approve an amendment
Discussion: NPR
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Alison Sider / Wall Street Journal:
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines Call Off Merger Deal
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Stars Flip Out When Reminded That Trump ‘Had Dinner With Nazis’  —  A Fox News anchor and a right-wing pundit freaked out on their liberal on-air guest when he merely stated a fact about Trump and Nick Fuentes dining together.  —  Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and star pundit Tammy Bruce …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
CNN:
Philly LGBT Affairs executive director yells, ‘I work for the mayor,’ as she films her and her husband's arrest  —  Philadelphia's head of LGBT affairs and her husband were arrested by a state trooper Saturday, in what the mayor is calling a “very concerning,” interaction …
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Federal appeals court to allow controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, if SCOTUS doesn't intervene  —  A federal appeals court granted a temporary stay of a lower court's decision to block the enforcement of a controversial Texas immigration law, paving the way for it to go into effect …
Associated Press:
Sinead O'Connor's estate asks Donald Trump to stop playing her music at rallies  —  The estate of Sinead O'Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies.  It says the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil.”  —  The latest shake …
Joe Pinkstone / Telegraph:
Sex is binary, say majority of scientists polled  —  Almost two thirds of academics surveyed also thought gender was fluid  —  Sex is binary, according to the majority of British scientists in a poll.  —  The difference between sex and gender has become an increasingly incendiary topic as activists …
Discussion: Townhall, Blaze Media and New York Post
Joshua Zitser / Business Insider:
Lauren Boebert was busy working out if her ex had thrown her stuff into a pond as her manager spoke at a campaign event, report says  — Lauren Boebert did not attend a campaign event at a Colorado coffee shop last month.  — Boebert traveled to her home in another district to find out if her ex had discarded her belongings.
Discussion: Wonkette
 
 
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NBC News:
House GOP still planning to call Hunter Biden to testify publicly as support for impeachment wanes
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Anna Maria Barry-Jester / ProPublica:
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Jim Tankersley / New York Times:
Trump's Tax Cut Fueled Investment but Did Not Pay for Itself, Study Finds
Austin Sarat / The Hill:
Clarence Thomas's conflict is clear — he must recuse himself from the Trump immunity case
Discussion: Raw Story
The Guardian:
Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
Discussion: Grist
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Another GOP senator announces she won't vote for Trump in 2024
Discussion: HuffPost, USA Today and The Hill
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Associated Press:
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