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2:45 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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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and ZeroHedge News
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 …
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 …
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.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Breaking: Supreme Court, 9-0, says Colorado can't kick Trump off ballot  —  Donald Trump will remain on the ballot in Colorado's Republican primary on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday, reversing the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to the contrary.
Ella Lee / The Hill:
Maine secretary of state withdraws Trump ballot ban
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to post a decision Monday, possibly on Trump ballot access
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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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.
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 …
New York Times:   Joe Biden's Superfans Think the Rest of America Has Lost Its Mind
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.
Associated Press:
Settlement in Wisconsin fake elector case offers new details on the strategy by Trump lawyers  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 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 …
Discussion: New York Times
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Washington Post:   Pro-Trump lawyers central to alternate-elector plot settle Wisconsin lawsuit
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
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
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Statements on JetBlue Terminating Acquisition of Spirit Airlines  —  For Immediate Release  —  JetBlue Airways Corporation (JetBlue) announced today that it has abandoned its $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines Inc. (Spirit).  In January, the U.S. District Court …
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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’  —  Fox pundit Tammy Bruce complained that a Democratic guest was labeling most Republicans as Nazis and racist Harris Faulkner scolded him before going to commercial break.  —  Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner …
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
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: NBC News, UPI, KTOO and CBS News
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Nicole Fallert / USA Today:
America's first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available soon
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 …
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: Raw Story and Twitchy
 
 
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Kate Plummer / Newsweek:
Donald Trump's String of Gaffes Over Weekend Raises Eyebrows
Joe Pinkstone / Telegraph:
Sex is binary, say majority of scientists polled
Anna Maria Barry-Jester / ProPublica:
Syphilis Is Killing Babies. The U.S. Government Is Failing to Stop the Disease From Spreading.
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
Discussion: Wonkette
 Earlier Items: 
Daniel Greenfield / Frontpage Mag:
Abortion is Running Out of Babies
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
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court dodges dispute over ‘speech police’ on college campuses
Discussion: USA Today, The Hill and Reason
The Guardian:
Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
Discussion: Grist
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
How the media failed Nex Benedict
Associated Press:
Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia's Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Mitch McConnell is the arsonist who set America on fire and ran away
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
 

 
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Comcast plans to announce Wednesday that it will be spinning off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks including MSNBC and CNBC, with Mark Lazarus as CEO

Kanis Leung / Associated Press:
Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai testifies for the first time in his years-long national security trial; he is already serving a jail term for a fraud conviction

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