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6:00 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
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 …
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 …
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
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
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 …
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.
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: USA Today and New York Times
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.
Discussion: CBS News, RedState and New York Times
New York Times:
Trump's Conviction Fuses the G.O.P. Even Closer to Him
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility
Discussion: Off Message
Peter Baker / New York Times:
At a Moment of National Trauma, Biden Feels Compelled to Stay on the Sidelines
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
Axios:
America's seething right
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Sometimes, the system works
HuffPost:
Why Democrats Are Keeping A Low Profile On Trump's Guilty Verdict
Reuters:
Trump says he will appeal historic conviction
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.
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
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
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 …
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.
NOTUS:
Henry Cuellar Aide's Pay Shot Up After His Role in the Alleged Bribery Scheme, Records Show … A top aide to Rep. Henry Cuellar saw a hefty salary boost after he began acting as a middleman for alleged Mexican bribes, a review of campaign finance and congressional spending records show.
 
 
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New York Times:
Biden Endorses Israeli Cease-Fire Proposal
Discussion: Politico and Reuters
Joshua Posaner / Politico:
Let Ukraine hit Russia with donated weapons, Finland's foreign minister says
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Trump suggests to oil donors he will fast-track their merger deals
Discussion: The Hill and Fox Business
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: AllSides Balanced and Ms. Magazine
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Manchin registering as independent in West Virginia
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Deadly End to Wild Knife Rampage Livestreamed on YouTube
Jamie Joseph / Fox News:
California progressive chides fellow Democrats before voting to make child solicitation a felony: 'I'm done'
U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce Direct File as Permanent Free Tax Filing Option, All 50 States and D.C. Invited to Join in Filing Season 2025
 

 
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