memeorandum: Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand (Matthew Chapman/Raw Story)

3:20 PM ET, June 3, 2024

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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:

Mike Johnson says the quiet part on Fox — PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. Appreciate our independent journalism? Then please sign up to support us. — 📈 Subscribe to Public Notice 📈 — It was a given, of course …

Discussion: HuffPost, New Republic, Rolling Stone and Mediaite

Axios:

Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's secret muse … - In our column on Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion, we told you how the speaker defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence, and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years.

Discussion: Breitbart

William Kristol / The Bulwark:

‘2,000 Mules’ Retracted, Still Lodged in Grandma's Brain — Sen. Tim Scott wants you to know: 2024 is not an abortion-policy election. — “The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is a states' issue. President Trump and Speaker Johnson have both said that this will remain a states' issue …

ProPublica:

Multiple Trump Witnesses Have Received Significant Financial Benefits From His Businesses, Campaign — Nine witnesses in the criminal cases against former President Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages …

Discussion: Raw Story, New Jersey Online, Mediaite and New Republic

New York Times:

Biden Expected to Sign Executive Order Restricting Asylum — The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States. — President Biden is expected to sign an executive order …

Discussion: CBS News, Eschaton and Washington Times

Associated Press:
Biden prepares a tough executive order that would shut down asylum after 2,500 migrants arrive a day

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Fox News, Axios, ABC News, The Guardian, CBS News, lawprofessors.typepad.com, WHDH-TV and HotAir

Myah Ward / Politico:
Biden executive action on the border could come as early as Tuesday

Discussion: Fox News, Associated Press, HotAir, The Daily Caller, American Greatness and Washington Examiner

Amanda Marcotte / Salon:

Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions — Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for “consensual sexual intercourse” — A pair of Texas professors figured out that their female students have sex and, boy, they do not like it.

Discussion: USA Today

Washington Post:

Sally Buzbee steps down as Executive Editor of The Washington Post. Matt Murray and Robert Winnett take editorial leadership roles in new newsroom structure. — The Washington Post also announced today its intention to launch a new division of the newsroom dedicated to better serving audiences …

Discussion: HotAir, emptywheel, New York Times, The Moderate Voice, Associated Press, Breitbart, Fox News, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline, more at Mediagazer »

Politico:
Playbook: The Trump verdict lands on the Hill

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:
The campaign dichotomy in one newsletter :slightly_smiling_face:

Discussion: Washington Examiner

David Edwards / Raw Story:

‘Suspend!’ Marjorie Taylor Greene smacked down by GOP chair at hearing with Dr. Fauci — Democrats called for the words of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to be taken down after she refused to call former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci “doctor.”

Discussion: Business Insider, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, The Daily Beast, Mediaite and IJR

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Jamie Raskin blasts GOP at hearing: ‘Some of them blindly worship convicted felons’

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:

Trump's Most Audacious Lie Yet — The former president is claiming he never said “Lock her up.” — When someone lies as prodigiously as Donald Trump—The Washington Post stopped counting at more than 30,000, around the time he left office—handing out superlatives is challenging.

Discussion: New Republic, The Moderate Voice, The Daily Beast, Fox News, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, WFLA-TV, Althouse, Forbes and Washington Post

Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump falsely claims he didn't call to lock up Hillary Clinton

Discussion: New Republic, The Nation, Twitchy, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, HuffPost and Mediaite

Jon Michael Raasch / Daily Mail:

Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict, son Eric Trump claims — Eric Trump says $70 million has flown into campaign coffers from small donors — The Trump heir also noted how gangster Al Capone has less felonies than his dad

Discussion: Twitchy, RedState, IJR and One America News Network

Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Eric Trump Claims Black Voters Are Turning To His Dad ‘In Spades’

Discussion: IJR, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Mediaite

Joseph Cox / 404 Media:

Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents — Google has accidentally collected childrens' voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users' deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents …

Discussion: Digital Trends and My Nintendo News, more at Techmeme »

Associated Press:

Jury selection is beginning in gun case against President Joe Biden's son — WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jury selection is to begin Monday in the federal gun case against President Joe Biden's son after a deal with prosecutors fell apart that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 election.

Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Joe Biden's looming presence over Hunter's trial serves as a warning to their political enemies

Discussion: The Nation, The Gateway Pundit, USA Today and Washington Post

Politico:
Hunter Biden's gun trial starts today. Here's what to know.

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David Wildstein / New Jersey Globe:

Menendez will file independent re-election bid — The New Jersey Globe has learned that Bob Menendez will enter the race for the United States Senate today, filing nominating petitions with over 2,000 signatures in Trenton to seek re-election to a fourth term as an independent.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, NBC News, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Dispatch and Mediaite

David Smith / The Guardian:

The reich stuff - what does Trump really have in common with Hitler? — Comparisons between the ex-president and the 20th-century Nazi leader are controversial but a new book says they resemble each other as political performance artists — When Donald Trump shared a video that dreamed of a …

Discussion: Raw Story

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Aileen Cannon hands Trump weeks to argue against latest gag order demand — Judge Aileen Cannon, the jurist presiding over special counsel Jack Smith's criminal case against Trump for storing highly classified national defense information, is giving the former president two weeks to rebut Smith's request to impose a gag order.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Steve Benen / MSNBC:

8 years later, Trump haunted by rhetoric about candidates, crimes — By the reasoning Donald Trump pushed in 2016, his candidacy creates “an unprecedented constitutional crisis,” and he has “no right to be running.” — Eight years later, some find it easy to forget some of the more ridiculous elements …

Caitlin Emma / Politico:

Congress is already bracing for a 2025 fiscal pileup — It could make the past six months of shutdown heartburn look tame. — Congress is headed for a perilous spending pileup in early 2025 — with crisis points on the debt ceiling, federal spending, tax cuts and budget caps all hitting in rapid succession.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

Robert Reich / The Guardian:

Why is a group of billionaires working to re-elect Trump? — Oligarchs like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel aren't just hostile to progressivism. They're hostile to American democracy itself — Elon Musk and the entrepreneur and investor David Sacks reportedly held a secret dinner party …