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We've Been Entertaining an Illusion About the Supreme Court. It's Finally Been Shattered. — There will be no more self-soothing after this. — For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Conservative Legal Philosophy Was All a Lie, Too — Great analysis of yesterday's oral arguments across The Bulwark: Kim Wehle was on the site and then talked with Mona and Gregg Nunziata on the livestream. Sarah and George Conway did an emergency pod. Andrew Egger had good stuff in Morning Shots.
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Samuel Alito's Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court — On the day Donald Trump took office in January 2017, pondering what he might do to the country's democratic norms and institutions, I wrote these words: “Trump will destroy them, if keeping Trump on top requires it. Or try to.
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Breitbart, New York Times, Mother Jones and Fox News
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
This Whole King Trump Thing Is Getting Awfully Literal — Donald Trump's claim that he has absolute immunity for criminal acts taken in office as president is an insult to reason, an assault on common sense and a perversion of the fundamental maxim of American democracy: that no man is above the law.
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The Nation, Outside the Beltway, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Reason, ABC News, USA Today, Mediaite and Raw Story
Dennis Aftergut / Salon:
SCOTUS majority abandons conservative principles to mount bizarre defense of Trump's immunity claim — Our justice system may leave Americans with one choice — Yesterday's message from the rightwing justices of the Supreme Court, particularly the male justices, was shocking to any believer in true …
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Robert Reich, The Hartmann Report, The Hill and FOX 7 Austin
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition — No topper to ease you in today; too much to get through. Happy Friday. — Where's SCOTUS Going? — How much should people freak out over Thursday's SCOTUS oral arguments about Trump's claims that he can't be prosecuted for election crimes due to presidential immunity?
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SCOTUSblog, Society for the Rule of Law, New York Times and Politico
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Trumpification of the Supreme Court — This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. — The notion that Donald Trump's supporters believe that he should be able to overthrow the government and get away with it sounds like hyperbole …
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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Former Capitol officer on Trump support of Jan. 6 rioters: 'He's a sick individual'
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Mediaite, Raw Story, New Jersey Online and NBC News
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Presidential Immunity — Today, we focus on Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court …
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Election Law Blog, Raw Story, New York Magazine, New York Times, Vox, The Bulwark, Washington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement and Althouse
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Trump's criminal charges and Biden's age rank as voters' top worries about the candidates
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Washington Examiner
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog - and goat - in new book — South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume - and admits 'a better politician ... wouldn't tell the story here' — In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president …
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Kristi Noem Describes Executing Puppy She ‘Hated’ in New Book
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The Hill, Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
Axios:
Scoop: Biden changes walking routine to Marine One … - Weeks ago the president told aides that he'd prefer a less formal approach, a White House official told Axios. … White House staffers and reporters alike noticed the sudden change in Biden's walk routine beginning in mid-April …
Kevin Fagan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Thieves snatch Rep. Adam Schiff's luggage in S.F. He gives dinner speech without a suit — Hello to the city, goodbye to your luggage. That was Senatorial candidate Adam Schiff's rude introduction to San Francisco's vexing reputation for car burglaries Thursday when thieves swiped the bags …
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New York Times:
Election Updates: Biden says he is ‘happy to’ debate Trump, a notable shift. — Biden, asked if he's planning to debate Trump, says ‘I am happy to.’ — President Biden said on Friday that he would participate in a general-election debate with former President Donald J. Trump …
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Drops Plan to Ban Menthol Cigarettes — White House had been weighing health benefit of ban against angering Black voters — The Biden administration is reversing course on its plan to ban menthol cigarettes, after the White House weighed the potential public-health benefits …
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The Hill, CNN, Politico, New York Times, Reuters and The Daily Caller
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Trump's isolation deepens after his coup crew is hit with Arizona criminal indictments — The January 6 co-conspirators are likely too wrapped up in their criminal cases to help Trump with another coup — Because Donald Trump himself wasn't indicted, there was a surprisingly muted response …
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Erwin Chemerinsky / The Atlantic:
No One Has a Right to Protest in My Home — The difference between a private yard and a public forum — as a constitutional scholar and the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, I strongly defend the right to speak one's mind in public forums. But the rancorous debate over the Israel-Hamas war seems …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The dishonest — and ironic — push to blame campus protests on George Soros — There is very obviously an element of opposition to the ongoing protests on college campuses that is rooted in familiar partisan rhetoric. The political right's hostility to college professors and insistences …
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Clayton Cramer
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Simone McCarthy / CNN:
Blinken tells CNN the US has seen evidence of China attempting to influence upcoming US elections — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to “influence and arguably interfere” with the upcoming US elections, despite an earlier commitment from leader Xi Jinping not to do so.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, DC News Now, The Sun, Axios, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and Associated Press
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Simon Lewis / Reuters:
Blinken to meet Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Court is Corrupt. Say It With Me. — I was watching cable news this afternoon at the gym. And I saw one of those examples of what has now become a Trump/Roberts Court-era set piece, where principled and very smart lawyers and/or legal academics have to say, I guess I was a chump.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Draw Up Plans to Blunt Fed's Independence — Some Trump advisers argue that the president should be consulted on interest-rate decisions
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