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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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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 …
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
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
Nicholas Grossman / The Bulwark:
Trump's Conviction Clarifies Things  —  In November, voters will know exactly what's at stake.  —  IT IS NOW A LEGAL FACT that Donald Trump criminally falsified business records 34 times to cover up his attempt to hide an extramarital sexual affair.  He is a convicted felon.
Discussion: New York Times and USA Today
New York Times:
Trump's Conviction Fuses the G.O.P. Even Closer to Him  —  Prominent Republicans, including congressional leaders, ex-rivals and potential running mates, basked in the energy, and fund-raising, of an outraged base.  —  A day after Donald J. Trump's conviction, it quickly became clear …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan Nicholson / HuffPost:
8 GOP Senators Say They'll Slow Senate Even Further Because Of Trump Verdict  —  The threat could have an impact on the fall spending showdown and White House nominations ahead.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump's “guilty” verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Reason and Robert Reich
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘I Want To See Lists of Which Democrats Are Going to Prison’
Peter Baker / New York Times:
At a Moment of National Trauma, Biden Feels Compelled to Stay on the Sidelines
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility
Discussion: Off Message
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Democrats ding GOP's “blind loyalty” to Trump in new attacks
Discussion: Breitbart and New York Post
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Trump will likely be allowed to vote, despite felony convictions
New York Times:
Donald Trump, Felon
John F. Harris / Politico:
Guilt Complex: Trump's Felony Convictions Are a Big Political Problem
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Sometimes, the system works
Axios:
America's seething right
HuffPost:
Why Democrats Are Keeping A Low Profile On Trump's Guilty Verdict
David Jackson / USA Today:
Despite conviction, Donald Trump vows to fight on
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Trump supporters try to doxx jurors and post violent threats after his conviction  —  On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.  —  WASHINGTON — The 34 felony guilty verdicts returned Thursday …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Andrew Gumbel / The Guardian:
Neighbors say Alitos used security detail car to intimidate them after sign dispute  —  Emily Baden says after a disagreement over political lawn signs with the US supreme court justice's wife, a black car began parking at her mother's home  —  Neighbors of Samuel Alito and his wife described …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Owen Lavine / The Daily Beast:
Neighbor Claims Alito's Security Detail Was Used to Threaten Her  —  A MESSAGE  —  Emily Baden, who used to live in the same suburban D.C. cul-de-sac as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has claimed in an interview with the Guardian that the justice's security detail was used to intimidate Baden and her family on multiple occasions.
NBC News:
Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, dies at 86  —  Robinson became a fixture of the White House when she moved from her hometown of Chicago to help take care of her granddaughters during the Obama administration.  —  WASHINGTON — Former First Lady Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson …
Discussion: ABC News
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Barack Obama:
Statement on the Passing of Mrs. Marian Robinson from Barack and Michelle Obama, Craig and Kelly Robinson, and their children  —  Marian Lois Shields Robinson — our mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother — had a way of summing up the truths about life in a word or two …
Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller
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 …
Associated Press:
Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war  —  President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly 8-month-old Mideast war.
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CNN:
Biden says it's ‘time for this war to end’ as he lays out Israeli ceasefire proposal
Lisa Rathke / Associated Press:
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change  —  Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather.
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Lisa Rathke / ABC News:   Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change
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.
 
 
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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
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