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3:55 PM ET, May 31, 2024

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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Johnson urges Supreme Court to “step in” on Trump verdict … - Trump's legal team has said they plan to appeal, though they would first have to go through New York appellate courts before reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. … - “I think that the Justices on the court - I know many of them personally …
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Visibly Distressed Putin Pals Shaken Up by Trump Verdict  —  ‘THEY WRONGED OUR DONALD’  —  Kremlin state TV propagandists couldn't hide dismay over Trump's conviction but they confirmed that Russia is still desperate for him to win back the White House.  —  Russian state-controlled media …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump Bungled the Trial  —  A conviction wasn't inevitable.  —  It may not have been the trial that the country deserves, but it's the trial that we got.  —  On Thursday, Donald Trump became the first president in U.S. history to become a convicted felon thanks to a jury of 12 New Yorkers.
Elie Honig / New York Magazine:
Prosecutors Got Trump — But They Contorted the Law  —  The first time I ever took a jury verdict, I almost passed out.  I was a brand-new prosecutor, 29 years old, and had just given my first closing argument a few days earlier.  Since then, the trial team and I had been whiling away our time …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘I Want To See Lists of Which Democrats Are Going to Prison’  —  It's a different world than the one we woke up in yesterday: Donald Trump has been convicted on all charges in his New York hush money/business records trial.  The rest of the cases against him might not be wrapped up before the November election—or ever, if he wins.
Jacob Kaye / Queens Daily Eagle:
Queens man convicted  —  Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A possibility many Republicans won't consider: Trump did something wrong  —  What if the indictments and the investigations were not, as Trump insists, political attacks but, instead, a valid response to Trump's actions?  —  When Alvin Bragg first announced his candidacy to serve …
Reuters:
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict  —  Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Trump will likely be allowed to vote, despite felony convictions  —  The former president is expected to remain eligible because he was convicted in New York, where felon voting laws are more lenient than in Republican-dominated Florida.  —  Thousands of Florida residents lose their right …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility  —  One of the most bizarre things about the Donald Trump era has been the persistence of his aura of invincibility.  Trump, who never reads books but somehow harbors deep knowledge of what history tells us about how autocrats succeed, cultivates this aura relentlessly.
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Rob Crilly / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump gets a SIX-POINT bump in approval after being found guilty on 34 counts according to snap Daily Mail poll: ‘I think it was a waste of taxpayer money’  — JL Partners used a panel of 403 likely voters to asses the impact of guilty verdict  — The results showed an improvement in Trump's favorability ratings
Peter Baker / New York Times:
At a Moment of National Trauma, Biden Feels Compelled to Stay on the Sidelines
John F. Harris / Politico:
Guilt Complex: Trump's Felony Convictions Are a Big Political Problem
Matthew Xiao / Washington Free Beacon:
Vulnerable Red State Dem Senators Mum on Trump Verdict
Discussion: Washington Examiner, KULR-TV and NRSC
New York Times:
Donald Trump, Felon
Axios:
America's seething right
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Sometimes, the system works
Bloomberg:
Wall Street Billionaires Are Rushing to Back Trump, Verdict Be Damned
Discussion: Business Insider
Reuters:
Trump says he will appeal historic conviction
Wall Street Journal:
Biden and the Trump Trial Verdict
Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump Should Drop Out
emptywheel:
Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party, files as independent  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) officially left the Democratic Party on Friday and registered as an independent.  —  Why it matters: Manchin, who flirted with an independent presidential bid earlier this year, has said he's not running for Senate re-election.
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion laws  —  The court ruled against 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions, saying the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough.  —  The Texas Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the most significant challenge …
Politico:
Manchin registering as independent in West Virginia  —  A longtime Democrat, Manchin's decision comes ahead of a deadline for filing as an independent in West Virginia.
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Let Ukraine hit Russia with donated weapons, Finland's foreign minister says  —  Helsinki wants allies to agree to drop restrictions on Kyiv, while raising military aid.  —  PRAGUE — Countries should not block Ukraine from using donated weapons to hit Russian territory, Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told POLITICO.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Dan De Luce / NBC News:
Guilty verdict will likely not affect plans for intel briefings for Trump
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Texas Supreme Court rejects lawsuit over abortion ban exceptions
Discussion: Ms. Magazine
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Jamie Joseph / Fox News:
California progressive chides fellow Democrats before voting to make child solicitation a felony: 'I'm done'
Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Karl Rove Warns That a Guilty Verdict Could Cost Trump Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
Discussion: New York Post and Breitbart
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