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3:30 PM ET, April 26, 2024

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Slate:
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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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.
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.
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.
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?
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 …
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 …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Trump's criminal charges and Biden's age rank as voters' top worries about the candidates
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Getting What He Wants
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 …
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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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Noem Reportedly Describes Executing Her Pet in New Book: ‘I Hated That Dog’
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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Lawrence Richard / Fox News:   Rep. Schiff reportedly robbed in San Francisco, forced to attend ritzy campaign dinner with no suit to wear
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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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 …
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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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 …
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Simon Lewis / Reuters:
Blinken to meet Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing
Liz Hoffman / Semafor:
Top Democrats pressed for Rahm Emanuel to lead Biden campaign  —  The Scoop  —  At the low point of President Joe Biden's polling this winter, top New York Democratic donors pushed to bring the legendary Democratic politico Rahm Emanuel back from his posting in Japan to run the re-election campaign.
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.
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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Washington Post:   Republican Jewish Coalition takes on GOP who voted against Israel aid
Los Angeles Times:
USC cancels ‘main stage’ commencement ceremony  —  USC announced Thursday that it is canceling its main May commencement ceremony, capping a dramatic series of moves that began last week after it informed valedictorian Asna Tabassum, who had been opposed by pro-Israel groups, that she would not be delivering the traditional speech.
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Donald Trump Jr. appreciates but rejects offer to run NRA
Discussion: The Reload
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Perry, a Far-Right Incumbent, Faces Shifting Political Ground in Pennsylvania
Discussion: Ballotpedia News and Raw Story
Kassy Akiva / The Daily Wire:
'Zionists Don't Deserve To Live': Meet The Leader Of Columbia University's Anti-Israel Encampment
Eboni Boykin-Patterson / The Daily Beast:
Aaron Sorkin Is Working on a Jan. 6 Movie: ‘I Blame Facebook’
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Jake Lahut / The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Fine With Pissing Off MAGA to Compete With Biden
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan defends oil and gas investments
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and Axios
Reuters:
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Few think Trump is being treated the same as other defendants
Discussion: HotAir and The Hill
 

 
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Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg:
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