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12:40 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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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 …
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to post a decision Monday, possibly on Trump ballot access  —  The outcome of Donald Trump's challenge to a Colorado ruling barring him from the ballot is highly anticipated ahead of Super Tuesday  —  The Supreme Court is set to announce at least one opinion Monday morning …
Associated Press:
The Supreme Court could decide Monday whether Trump can be barred from the 2024 ballot
Fox News:
Supreme Court rules unanimously for Trump in Colorado ballot disqualification dispute
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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emptywheel:
What the Information Operation about Joe Biden's Age Looks Like  —  One reason Joe Biden is behind in the polls, I'm fairly convinced, is because Democrats relentlessly participate in an organized campaign to use Biden's age to dehumanize him.  —  Whether it involves making reasonable critiques …
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Across the Board, Voters Give Better Marks to Trump's Policies 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.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Biden says Trump wouldn't concede next time: “Losers are never graceful”
Discussion: Fox News and New Yorker
Gustaf Kilander / The Independent:
Trump crowd goes silent as he confuses Biden and Obama again
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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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 …
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
AI-generated images of Trump with Black voters being spread by supporters  —  No evidence to tie fake images, including one created by Florida radio host, to Trump campaign, BBC Panorama investigation finds  —  Dozens of fake, artificial intelligence-generated photos showing Donald Trump …
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:   Pro-Trump lawyers central to alternate-elector plot settle Wisconsin lawsuit
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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CNN:
Ex-Trump Org. CFO to plead guilty to perjury charges
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Another GOP senator announces she won't vote for Trump in 2024  —  And then there were two: Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney are incumbent Republican senators who've publicly said they won't vote for Donald Trump in 2024.  —  After launching her Republican presidential campaign in February 2023 …
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Associated Press:
Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia's Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory
Michael Lee / Fox News:
Haley ends Trump's undefeated run with victory in DC primary
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Opill, first over-the-counter birth control pill, will go on sale later this month  —  The pill was cleared by the FDA for use without a prescription last July.  —  Opill a daily oral contraceptive.  —  Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription …
Discussion: NPR and CBS News
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Nicole Fallert / USA Today:
America's first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available soon
Rolling Stone:
Trump's White House Was ‘Awash in Speed’ — and Xanax  —  Under Trump, the White House Medical Unit was “like the Wild West,” and staffers had easy access to powerful stimulants and sedatives, sources tell Rolling Stone  —  IF YOU EVER looked at the actions of the Trump White House and wondered, ‘Are they on drugs?’
Discussion: Twitchy and Raw Story
David Gritten / BBC:
Iran elections: Record low turnout in polls as hardliners win  —  Hardliners have won a majority of the seats in the parliamentary elections in Iran, which saw a record low turnout of 41% after calls for a boycott.  —  Most moderate and reformist figures were disqualified from standing in Friday's polls …
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 and Raw Story
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Mitch McConnell is the arsonist who set America on fire and ran away  —  The lyrics to Kenny Rogers' “The Gambler” are branded onto my brain.  In the summer of 1979, I was a 20-year-old so eager to break into journalism I took a job at a tiny paper in Peoria, Ill., and lived there with my grandparents.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 
 
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Austin Sarat / The Hill:
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
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The Guardian:
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Scott Pelley / CBS News:
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John Bowden / The Independent:
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The apocalypse we choose  —  In four months as Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson has given Russia …
Discussion: nationalinterest.org
David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘Five-alarm fire’: Trump's latest public schools threat causes experts to panic
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
New York Times:
Trump's Allies Ramp Up Campaign Targeting Voter Rolls