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11:35 PM ET, March 15, 2024

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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Mike Pence Says He Won't Endorse Donald Trump For President  —  This should come as “no surprise,” Trump's former vice president said.  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence confirmed Friday that he will not be endorsing Donald Trump for president.  —  “It should come as no surprise …
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Pence says he ‘cannot in good conscience’ endorse Trump  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday said he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, arguing that Trump is pursuing an agenda that is “at odds with the conservative agenda.”
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, UPI and NBC News
Fox News:
Pence declines to endorse Trump, won't back Biden  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse his onetime running mate, former President Trump, in a bombshell announcement Friday.  —  Pence, whose relationship soured with Trump after the January 6 riots wherein the president faulted …
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Post and RedState
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Trump aide Peter Navarro asks Supreme Court to keep him out of prison  —  A senior aide to former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to keep him out of prison while he appeals his conviction for refusing to testify before Congress about his involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Associated Press:
Judge delays Trump's hush-money criminal trial 30 days, citing last-minute evidence dump  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge on Friday delayed former President Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial until at least mid-April after his lawyers said they needed more time to sift through a profusion …
Washington Post:
Trump hush money trial: 15,000 more pages of potential evidence coming
emptywheel:
Eight Possible Explanations — Many Bad, Some Good — for SDNY's Delay in Turning Over Cohen Files
Mother Jones:
Justice Ginsburg's Family Decries Bestowing RBG Award on Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch  —  The awards are being handed out by a foundation chaired by a Trump donor.  —  On Wednesday, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.
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Samantha Chery / Washington Post:
Ginsburg family blasts plan to give RBG Award to Musk, Murdoch, others  —  The family of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and some of the Supreme Court justice's former colleagues have denounced this year's slate of honorees for an award that a philanthropic foundation bestows in the name of the liberal icon.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Mike Johnson Suddenly Seems Ready to Stick a Shiv in MAGA  —  Poor Mike Johnson is in quite a bind.  The House speaker simply doesn't have a governing majority: It is borderline impossible to pass anything with only Republican votes, because the hard-right MAGA bloc wants to thwart governing at all costs.
WSB-TV:
Nathan Wade resigns from Trump Georgia case following judge's ruling  —  ATLANTA — Either Fani Willis goes or Nathan Wade does - that was the ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Scott McAfee on Friday in the Georgia election interference case.  —  Channel 2 Action News confirms …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Judge Says Fani Willis Can Stay on Trump Case If Ex-Boyfriend Withdraws
Washington Post:
Fani Willis can stay on Trump Georgia case, but only if Wade steps aside, judge says
Associated Press:
Fulton County DA Fani Willis must step aside or remove special prosecutor in Trump case, judge says
CBS News:
Secret Service, Justice Dept locate person of interest in swatting attacks on DHS Secretary Mayorkas and other officials  —  Federal agents have located a person of interest in over 100 swatting calls, which included calls targeting Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas …
Discussion: Newsmax, RedState and Raw Story
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
2 Orange school board conservatives ousted by recalls with LGBTQ+ policies at the center  —  Voters in the city of Orange appear to have ousted two conservative school board members who had spearheaded policies widely opposed by advocates for LGBTQ+ youth in a recall election viewed …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
How CrowdTangle predicted the future  —  Eight years after buying the data analysis tool CrowdTangle, and four years after it began exasperating the executives responsible for it, Meta said Thursday that it would shut down the tool on August 14.  —  CrowdTangle, a data analysis tool …
Discussion: Ars Technica and Nieman Lab
New York Times:
Kushner Developing Deals Overseas Even as His Father-in-Law Runs for President  —  Donald Trump's son-in-law, who was also a senior White House official, said he was close to finalizing real estate projects in Albania and Serbia.  —  Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump …
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets Landmark Reduced Sentencing Law  —  The justices sided with the government in a case focused on who is eligible for shorter prison sentences under the bipartisan First Step Act passed in 2018.  —  The Supreme Court sided with the government on Friday …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court denies ‘thousands’ of inmates a chance at shorter sentences
Discussion: Associated Press
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
White House counsel urges House speaker to end GOP impeachment inquiry  —  The letter comes as the Republican investigation has stretched more than a year without producing clear evidence of wrongdoing  —  White House counsel Ed Siskel sent a letter Friday morning to House Speaker Mike Johnson …
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Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
‘We are losing our kids to a satanic cult,’ Sen. Tommy Tuberville warns during Utah campaign stop  —  The Alabama Republican has endorsed Republican U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs in the race to replace Utah Sen. Mitt Romney in Congress.  —  Alabama Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville …
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch:
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved  —  ‘An act of dishonesty against the company’ is among the violations cited  —  SpaceX requires employees to agree to some unusual terms related to their stock awards, which have a chilling effect on staff …
Justin Horowitz / Media Matters for America:
Lara Trump says she wants to hire QAnon conspiracy theorist Scott Presler to work for the RNC  —  Lara Trump, who was recently elected as co-chair to the Republican National Committee, said on March 14 that she is interested in hiring right-wing influencer, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and …
Associated Press:
Brazil's military leaders told police Bolsonaro was involved in plan to reverse 2022 election result  —  Top Brazilian military leaders declared to police that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented them a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 election he lost, but they refused and warned …
 
 
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Craig Simpson / Telegraph:
British countryside can evoke ‘dark nationalist’ feelings in paintings, warns museum
Discussion: Power Line and The Daily Caller
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Security footage of Boeing repair before door-plug blowout was overwritten
Discussion: New York Times
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
A Watershed Moment for the Politics of Israel, Courtesy of Chuck Schumer
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
DeSantis details alarming find aboard Haitian migrant boat seized off Florida coast
Washington Post:
GOP backtracks on closing community centers and sidetracking early-vote program
Discussion: Raw Story
Iryna Voichuk / Euromaidan Press:
France, Germany, and Poland pledge more weapons for Ukraine in show of unity
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Pew Research Center:
8 in 10 Americans Say Religion Is Losing Influence in Public Life
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Mainstream G.O.P. Group to Target Bob Good As It Shifts Mission and Members
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Reuters:
‘Squid Game’ actor O Yeong-su convicted of sexual harassment and given a suspended sentence
Douglas Soule / USA Today:
Moms for Liberty to advise librarians on book removals in Florida
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
It's not just our democracy at stake, it's our freedom
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: TikTok CEO Shou Chew, who has known Elon Musk for several years, has sought Musk's counsel in recent weeks on the incoming Trump administration

 
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