memeorandum: Arizona Republican lawmakers want to scrap early voting, question could be on November ballot (Mary Jo Pitzl/USA Today)

6:40 AM ET, March 30, 2024

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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:

Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law — Federal D.C. Judge Reggie B. Walton warned Trump's attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence. Reagan, Bush-appointed judges decry Jan. 6 revisionism, threats. — A Republican-appointed judge …

Discussion: The Dispatch, Raw Story, Ultimate Newswire, Washington Examiner and Mediaite

CNN:

Federal judge warns of Trump's attacks in extraordinary rebuke — A sitting federal judge on Thursday harshly criticized Donald Trump's attacks on the judge overseeing the former president's criminal case tied to alleged hush money payments, telling CNN that such statements threaten the viability of the American legal system.

Discussion: New Republic, Forbes, NBC News, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Balloon Juice, The Hill, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite, Law & Crime, Salon and Raw Story

Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:

The Trump Docket: A forgotten legal battle is about to rear its ugly head — Ghosts from Donald Trump's presidential past are coming back to haunt him personally and in just a few short weeks, a case that could soon involve allegations of assault and battery and intentional infliction …

Discussion: Raw Story

Sara Boboltz / HuffPost:
Ex-Federal Judge Blasts Judiciary And Entire Nation For Not Calling Out Trump More

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and The Hill

J.D. Wolf / MeidasTouch:

Trump Posts Image of Joe Biden Kidnapped And Bound With Rope — Trump signals approval of violent imagery targeting his political opponents — On Truth Social, Trump posted a video of Trump themed vehicles driving in New York. One of the trucks has an image of Joe Biden on the back bound with rope,.

Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite, Civil Discourse …, Vox, Ultimate Newswire, New York Times, Diane Ravitch's blog, The Hill and Political Wire

Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:

Donald Trump shares image of Joe Biden with hands and feet tied — Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied, the latest example of the Republican candidate's use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.

Discussion: NBC News, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, New York Times and Public Notice

New York Daily News:

Family of Brian Sicknick, D.C. officer who died after Jan. 6 riot, slam Trump attending wake for NYPD cop Jonathan Diller — The father and brother of Brian Sicknick, the police officer who died during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol, blasted Donald Trump's appearance at a wake Thursday …

Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story, MeidasTouch and Ultimate Newswire

Bailee Hill / Fox News:
Trump sends message to Biden, Obama for missing NYPD officer's wake: Have to go ‘whether they like it or not’

Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story, The Western Journal, Twitchy, The Daily Caller, IJR, Breitbart, NBC New York, Blaze Media, New York Times, Metro.co.uk, Associated Press and ABC News

Mary Jo Pitzl / USA Today:

Arizona Republican lawmakers want to scrap early voting, question could be on November ballot — The Arizona state Legislature is considering asking Arizonans if they want to vote like it's 1990. — A measure before the state Senate would invite voters to abolish early voting and add …

Discussion: Spotlight PA

Isaac Arnsdorf / Washington Post:

Trump stays silent on detained U.S. reporter as he avoids criticizing Putin — Trump has consistently gone out of his way to avoid criticizing the Russian president and routinely demonizes reporters — Former president Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Wall Street Journal

NBC News:

Best Buy offers to screen LGBTQ nonprofit donations after conservative pressure, filing shows — In an email exchange with a conservative think tank, tucked into an SEC filing, the electronics retailer offered to screen its employee groups' donations to LGBTQ causes.

Lucy Dean Stockton / The Lever:

Hogan Pressed For Bigger Ships, Despite Safety Warnings — Days after a massive cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Larry Hogan called for the federal government to foot the bill for the bridge's reconstruction.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, CT Mirror and PBS NewsHour

Joey Fox / New Jersey Globe:

Federal judge strikes down county lines for this year's election — Quraishi agrees with Kim that county lines represent irreparable harm to candidates — In a monumental decision released today, U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi struck down the county organizational line …

Discussion: Politico, New Jersey Online, NBC News, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Roll Call, New York Times, Daily Kos and Mother Jones

Daniel Han / Politico:
Andy Kim defeats NJ's ‘county line’ boss system in court

Discussion: New Jersey Online, Washington Post, New Jersey Globe, New York Magazine, KDFX-TV, Associated Press, HuffPost, New Republic, Gothamist, The Nation, New York Daily News, UPI, ballot-access.org and The Hill

New York Post:

Gov. Hochul asked to leave wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller — Gov. Kathy Hochul was asked to leave the wake for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller on Friday afternoon. — Hochul arrived at the Massapequa Funeral Home on Long Island for the second day of viewings around 1:45 p.m.

Discussion: Fox News, One America News Network, RedState, New York Daily News, The Gateway Pundit, PIX11, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, abc7NY, HCRN and National Review

Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:

RFK Jr.'s campaign is celebrating Cesar Chavez Day. The labor icon's family is not having it — During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as they worked on the presidential campaign of his uncle Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News, Democrats and MeidasTouch

CBS News:
Cesar Chavez's family to endorse Biden after RFK Jr. claims civil rights leader would've voted for him

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, UPI and The Hill

Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:

‘In office forever’: Trump's Project 2025 partner calls for ending presidential term limit — Conservatives are advocating to repeal the U.S. Amendment that limits presidential terms, prompting President Joe Biden's campaign to warn an election year victory for former President Donald Trump …

Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:

Rudy Giuliani begs bankruptcy court to let him keep his Florida condo so he can keep podcasting to pay creditors — When Rudy Giuliani defamed two poll workers with bunk allegations of election fraud in 2020, it triggered a wave of threats so acute, one of the workers was forced to flee her longtime home in Georgia.

Discussion: Raw Story and New York Post

Adriel Bettelheim / Axios:

Exclusive poll: Americans strongly back abortion pill access, FDA drug powers … - But the public is split almost evenly on obtaining pills through the mail, which is among the FDA permissions that anti-abortion doctors are challenging at high court. — 6 in 10 strongly or somewhat agree …

Discussion: New York Daily News, MeidasTouch, Washington Examiner and The American Conservative

George Chidi / The Guardian:

Georgia lawmakers make it easier to challenge a voter's registration — Legislators change state laws including increasing documentation officials need to certify elections — The fight for democracy is supported by — Georgia legislators changed state election laws in the midnight hours of Friday …

Discussion: New Republic, UPI, NBC News, Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and HotAir

Paula Froelich / NewsNation:

Lizzo accusers' attorney: DNC ‘shameful’ for hiring Lizzo for fundraiser — Thank you for signing up! — The Scoop Entertainment Newsletter — Submit … (NewsNation) — An attorney for Lizzo's former backu p dancers, Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez …

Discussion: New York Daily News, Breitbart, Page Six, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, The Daily Beast, PJ Media, Twitchy and The Hill

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Inflation, Immigration Rank Among Top U.S. Issue Concerns — Worry about illegal immigration and terrorism has increased most over past year among 14 issues rated — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the heightened numbers of migrants entering the United States at the Southern border and discord …

Discussion: The Hill, UPI, Ultimate Newswire and Semafor

The White House:

Remarks by President Biden, President Obama, and President Clinton in a Moderated Conversation with Stephen Colbert at a Campaign Reception | New York, NY — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hey! (Applause.) — PRESIDENT BIDEN: I think I should go home. — AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!

Discussion: HuffPost, KDFX-TV, Axios, Washington Examiner and ABC News