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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge rules Georgia Republican Party vice chairman voted illegally — Brian K. Pritchard voted nine times while serving probation for felony forgery charges — A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party's first vice chairman, Brian K. Pritchard, violated state election laws …
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Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
GOP official who claimed 2020 was stolen voted illegally nine times, judge rules — A Georgia Republican official who pushed false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” was found to have voted illegally nine times, a judge ruled this week. — Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman …
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Crooks and Liars
Popular Information:
These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021 — Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. — Then, according to the report of the bipartisan January 6 Commission, Trump engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 Presidential election.”
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case — A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. — Thanks for reading Morning Memo! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. — The Closest We Get To A Jan. 6 Verdict Before November?
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman, architect of Trump's 2020 election plot, should be disbarred, judge rules
John Eastman, architect of Trump's 2020 election plot, should be disbarred, judge rules
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Digby's Hullabaloo, CNN, The Federalist, New York Magazine, Election Law Blog, New York Times, Associated Press, Just Security, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Frontpage Mag, Los Angeles Times, UPI, New Republic, States United Democracy Center, Denver Post, Axios, The Daily Beast, Right Wing Watch, USA Today, BizPac Review and New York Post
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Judge recommends disbarment for architect of Trump's election plot
Judge recommends disbarment for architect of Trump's election plot
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, Raw Story, New Republic, NPR, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller, PoliticusUSA, USA Today, NBC News, Daily News and MeidasTouch
Washington Post:
Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office. — Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders, attacking President Biden and offering a glimpse at what U.S. foreign policy could be like in a second Trump term — After an anti-corruption crusader …
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Politico, Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court delay prompts federal judges to act over South Carolina redistricting dispute — A lower court that ruled the district held by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., was racially gerrymandered has now said it can be used in this year's election following a months-long delay in the Supreme Court deciding the issue.
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Talking Points Memo, CBS News, The Detroit News, New York Post, Orlando Sentinel and Bridge Michigan
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional
South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional
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Politico, The Hill, Roll Call and The Guardian
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
Trump's Unbearable Temptation to Dump His Truth Social Stock — Remember in Godfather II when the mobster Hyman Roth tells Michael Corleone, his co-investor in President Fulgencio Batista's Cuba, “Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel”? U.S. Steel is no longer the colossus it was in 1958, when that scene takes place.
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Backbencher, The Guardian, KDFX-TV, Wall Street Journal and Fortune
A.W. Ohlheiser / Vox:
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse — Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone. — Line up a few years' worth of tragedies and disasters …
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RedState, The Nation, The Hill, PolitiFact and New York Daily News
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
RFK Jr.'s vice presidential pick calls IVF 'one of the biggest lies being told about women's health' — She has weighed in on in-vitro fertilization many times through her nonprofit work. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate has been a harsh critic of in-vitro fertilization …
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Rolling Stone, Kansas Reflector, Raw Story and Twitchy
Washington Post:
GOP scrambles to organize early and mail voting despite Trump's attacks — Republicans are playing catch-up to Democrats on voting before Election Day in battleground states, but Trump disparages those methods — In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections.
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Reading Eagle, Election Law Blog and Raw Story
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Joe Fisher / UPI:
States moving to require schools to show inaccurate fetus video — At least four states are considering legislation to follow North Dakota in mandating the showing of an animated fetal development video in elementary school classrooms. — The particular video suggested, Meet Baby Olivia …
Politico:
DOD in early talks to fund a peacekeeping force in Gaza — U.S. officials have been clear the plan would not include American boots on the ground. — Biden administration officials are in preliminary “conversations” about options for stabilizing post-war Gaza, including a proposal …
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The Daily Caller and Twitchy
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Judge Forges Ahead With Pretrial Motions In Trump Georgia Election Interference Case — Lawyers for Trump argued that the charges in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize speech that is protected by the First Amendment. — LOADING — The charges against former …
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The Hill, WAGA-TV, Associated Press, UPI, Washington Times and WXIA-TV
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Suzy Weiss / The Free Press:
Tale of a Tampon — Scenes from a sit-in at Vanderbilt. — Let me tell you about some Vanderbilt girl's tampon. — It all started yesterday morning, when a wave of undergrad students rushed Kirkland Hall, where Vanderbilt's chancellor's office is located.
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Breitbart, Joanne Jacobs, BizPac Review, Patterico's Pontifications, JNS.org, The Vanderbilt Hustler and Blaze Media
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Elon Musk gets SLAPPed — He got his ass handed to him in federal court for — irony alert! — trying to stifle speech. — Read → — Top First — CCDH: X provides ads appearing next to neo-Nazi content on the site. — MEDIA MATTERS: X provides ads appearing next to neo-Nazi content on the site.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up — Faith without morality or theology, much less that “soyboy” Jesus? Sign MAGA Republicans up! — Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles.
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The Nation, ABC News, Axios, Plain Dealer, RedState, Blaze Media, NPR, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Philip Rotner / The Bulwark:
Here's What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon — THE JUDGE PRESIDING OVER Donald Trump's classified documents prosecution just gave Special Counsel Jack Smith a gift that he desperately needed: a fresh opening to seek her removal from the case. — Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon …
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Raw Story
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
NBC Proves the Media Can't Save Democracy — The decision to hi former RNC chair is a symptom of a larger problem — Sometimes, a piece of news pops up that is so up my alley that I have so much to say/write/Tweet/Thread about it that I become paralyzed.
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Puck, Raw Story, CNN, New York Post, New York Times and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
Cy Neff / USA Today:
Wyoming Republicans fractured as the GOP-led state is set for a summer showdown — As local and state politics increasingly match politics on the national level, Wyoming's Republican Party begins to split among national lines — Wyoming is a supermajority state, with Republicans making up 86 of the state's 93 legislators.
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Political Wire
Biong M. Biong / USA Today:
Liz Cheney warns U.S. can't ‘survive’ another Donald Trump presidency — Rep. Liz Cheney, a one-time Wyoming lawmaker turned fierce critic of former President Donald Trump, said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift during …
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Mediaite, Raw Story and New Jersey Online
Politico:
How Greene's bid to topple Johnson could blow up the House — or in her own face — One House Republican summed up the fear: Her move could “deliver aid to Ukraine” by giving Johnson no choice but to seek common cause with Democrats. — Marjorie Taylor Greene's bid to vote …
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The Hill, Raw Story, USA Today and Washington Post
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Legal experts worry about presidential abuse of the Insurrection Act. Here's why — A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election season. — They're pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws known as the Insurrection Act and limit …
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RedState
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Does the Left Think Young Left-Wing Protesters Matter or Not? … This week, The Atlantic published an account of how the war between Israel and Hamas has convulsed a campus (in this case, that of the author, Stanford sophomore Theo Baker). The most explosive details in the story showed …
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HotAir
Jesse Bedayn / Associated Press:
Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign — A panel of Colorado Republicans will select a candidate Thursday who will likely serve out the final months of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck 's term — and could pose a challenge to Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress.
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Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Associated Press
Axios:
Kellyanne Conway considers return to Trumpworld … - Senior Trump advisers tell Axios no offer is on the table, however. — What is clear is that Conway has been inserting herself into several hot policy debates in what many Republicans — with mixed feelings — see as an effort …
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New Republic and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter After Gag Order in Hush-Money Case — Donald Trump said a photo of him behind bars on Loren Merchan's X account meant he could not get a fair trial, but a court official said someone had appropriated the account. — It was an explosive claim from Donald J. Trump …
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, HuffPost, MeidasTouch, Seymour Butz's Stuff, Raw Story, Axios, Business Insider, American Greatness and Breitbart
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Launches Fresh Attack on Judge's Daughter After Gag Order — Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump got hit with a gag order in his hush-money trial, he launched a fresh attack on the judge and his family. — In posts on Truth Social Wednesday morning, Trump blasted Judge Juan Merchan and his family …
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The Hill, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, Associated Press, HuffPost, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, CNBC and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Republican-passed bill removes role of Democratic governor if Senate vacancy occurs in Kentucky — FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat …
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Politico
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Republican: ‘Outrageous’ for Biden to promise feds will pay for Baltimore bridge — Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) criticized President Biden on Thursday for pledging that the federal government will pay for the replacement of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which collapsed earlier …