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2:50 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.
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
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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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.
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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.
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
The New York Times Company:
A Statement From The New York Times on Presidential News Coverage  —  A spokesperson for The New York Times responds to recent reporting about a free press and reporting on the president.  —  For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling …
Jack Ewing / New York Times:
Daimler Truck Workers in North Carolina Are Poised to Strike  —  A walkout by employees who make Freightliner trucks and Thomas Built buses would expand the U.A.W.'s campaigns in the South.  —  Workers who make trucks and buses for Daimler Truck in North Carolina appeared poised to strike …
Discussion: UAW, Peoples Dispatch and al.com
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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Fake electors find out in Arizona  —  These are not very bright people, and things got out of hand.  —  ∙ Paid … On Wednesday, the denizens of Trumpworld who were foolish enough to go along with Trump's hamfisted and illegal fake elector scheme in Arizona had a nine-count indictment dropped on their heads.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Inside the failed White House coup to oust Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre  —  WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Biden secretly hatched a plan this past fall to replace White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre by recruiting outside allies to nudge her out the door, The Post has learned.
 
 
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Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests
Discussion: Breitbart and RedState
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
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Court is Corrupt.  Say It With Me.  —  I was watching cable news this afternoon at the gym.
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’
 Earlier Items: 
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:
Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say
Los Angeles Times:
USC cancels ‘main stage’ commencement ceremony
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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