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11:45 PM ET, June 4, 2024

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Axios:
Scoop: Trump's protectors push Johnson for House vote … - Conservatives want a floor vote on a bill that would allow current or former presidents to move any state case brought against them — such as the one in New York that resulted in Trump's conviction — to federal court, according to multiple House Republican sources.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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Washington Post:
GOP plans aggressive ‘weaponization’ investigations in wake of Trump conviction  —  House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed to use House oversight powers and other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of the former president.  —  Congressional Republicans returned to Washington …
Discussion: The Maine Wire
Taylor Orth / YouGov:   After the Trump verdict, most Republicans say they're OK with having a criminal as president
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Don't let MAGA theatrics fool you: Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions are not helping him
Discussion: Mediaite
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Biden Twists the ‘Convicted Felon’ Knife
Discussion: Breitbart, CNN and Daily Kos
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
Sen. John Kennedy Sums Up Biden's Border Executive Order As Only He Can  —  President Joe Biden is expected to sign a narrow executive order on immigration Tuesday afternoon, despite previously claiming he had no authority to do anything about the crisis he created, but the transparently political attempt …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces New Actions to Secure the Border
Associated Press:
Biden rolls out migration order that aims to shut down asylum requests, after months of anticipation
The White House:
A Proclamation on Securing the Border
New York Times:
In Shift, Biden Issues Order Allowing Temporary Border Closure to Migrants
Semafor:
“It's really disappointing”: Congress' progressives despair over Biden's border order
TIME:
Read the Full Transcript of President Joe Biden's Interview With TIME  —  President Joe Biden sat down for an interview with TIME at the White House on May 28.  —  Over the course of the interview, Biden spoke at length about his foreign policy agenda, including his views on China, Taiwan …
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Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
‘We Are the World Power.’ How Joe Biden Leads … Joe Biden makes his way through the West Wing telling stories.  In the Cabinet Room, with sun pouring through French doors from the Rose Garden outside, he remembers the first time he sat around the long mahogany table, its high-backed leather chairs ordered by seniority.
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
Colorado Republican Party issues call to burn all Pride flags  —  The party's shift toward extremism continued with a nod to an infamous anti-gay slur and an invitation to burn Pride flags.  —  COLORADO, USA — The Colorado Republican Party marked the start of Pride Month with a mass email attacking …
Politico:
Ethics panel probes Rep. Spartz over staff abuse claims  —  The Indiana Republican has drastically cut staff pay and communicated ‘with complete and total rage,’ according to complaints.  —  The House Ethics Committee has made preliminary inquiries into Rep. Victoria Spartz's treatment …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
‘You Nazi piece of s—’: Hunter Biden's wife confronts Trump ally in hallway outside gun trial  —  Garrett Ziegler was involved with the efforts to make public Hunter Biden's laptop to embarrass his father in the final days of the 2020 election.  —  WILMINGTON, Del. …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin attorney general files felony charges against attorneys, aide who worked for Trump in 2020  —  Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020.
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Wall Street Journal:
Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping  —  Participants in meetings said the 81-year-old president performed poorly at times.  The White House said Biden is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics.  —  WASHINGTON—When President Biden met with congressional leaders …
Bloomberg:
Hunter Biden Didn't ‘Knowingly’ Lie to Buy Gun, Lawyer Says  — Opening arguments start in criminal trial of president's son  — ‘No one is above the law,’ prosecutor tells jury in Delaware  —  Hunter Biden didn't knowingly lie when he filled out a form to buy a gun in 2018 and checked …
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NBC News:
Hunter Biden trial live updates: First witness is called to stand after dramatic courthouse scene
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump asks judge to terminate gag order in hush money case  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing his criminal hush money case to terminate the gag order against the former president, saying it's no longer justified since the trial is over.  —  “Now that the trial is concluded …
Justin Glawe / Rolling Stone:
Trump Allies Sue to Allow Election Officials to Refuse to Certify Results  —  The America First Policy Institute is representing an election-denying election official who wants the discretion to refuse to certify results … A Republican election official in Georgia's largest county …
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
CREW:
Bankrolling the Big Lie  —  Since the earliest months after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, CREW's “This sedition is brought to you by...” tracker has been bringing accountability to the corporate PACs and industry groups that funnel money into the Sedition Caucus—those 147 members of Congress …
Jay Kuo / The Status Kuo:
Married to the Mob  —  To understand Trump, we need to understand how a mob boss operates.  A key point is this: He keeps people with direct knowledge of his criminality close, and he often buys their silence with all that illegally gotten money.  —  A mob boss like Trump is head …
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Scoop: GOP campaign arm's birth control message … - The Senate on Wednesday will vote on the Right to Contraception Act, part of a push Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has timed ahead of the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
Politico:
‘Horrible mistake’: GOP senators urge RNC to back off Hogan  —  Republicans are moving to head off a long-term war between Larry Hogan and former President Donald Trump's allies, including the RNC, as Hogan faces one of the toughest ticket-splitting efforts in modern politics.
BBC:
Mexican mayor killed hours after first woman elected president  —  Gunmen have killed the female mayor of a town in Mexico just hours after the country celebrated the election of Claudia Sheinbaum as the nation's first woman president.  —  Yolanda Sánchez was shot in the town of Cotija …
Camaron Stevenson / Copper Courier:
Rent monopoly crackdown continues as FBI raids corporate landlord for 18 Arizona properties  —  Federal agents raided a property management company operating in Arizona as part of an investigation into price-fixing rent, marking a distinct escalation in the renewed push to enforce consumer protection laws.
 
 
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Associated Press:
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MSNBC:
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Ginger Gibson / NBC News:
Former Trump lawyer says it's ‘ridiculous’ to say Biden was involved in hush money prosecution
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