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4:30 PM ET, June 6, 2024

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CNBC:
Former Trump aide Steve Bannon ordered to jail by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence … A federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a hearing Thursday ordered former Trump White House aide Steve Bannon to report to jail by July 1 to begin serving a four-month sentence for his criminal contempt of Congress conviction.
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CNN:
Steve Bannon ordered to report to prison by July 1 to serve contempt of Congress sentence  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered Steve Bannon to report to prison by July 1, giving the former Donald Trump adviser a short window to get a higher court's intervention.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Judge to consider if ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon should begin prison sentence  —  Bannon was sentenced to four months in prisfor contempt of Congress.  —  Steve Bannon, former adviser to Donald Trump, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2024.
Eli Okun / Politico:
Playbook PM: Bannon ordered to jail  —  BANNIN' BANNON — A federal judge today ruled that STEVE BANNON has to report to prison for a four-month sentence by July 1, stemming from his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee.  Though Bannon will appeal this latest ruling too …
Discussion: Raw Story
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge to decide if Bannon must go to prison while appealing contempt case
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Fritz Farrow / ABC News:
Exclusive: Biden tells Muir he wouldn't pardon son Hunter, says Trump got ‘fair trial’  —  Biden is in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day.  —  ABC News' David Muir sat down exclusively with President Joe Biden in Normandy, France, on the 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 2024.
Discussion: NBC News, Politico and Axios
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Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
Biden says he wouldn't pardon son in felony gun case in Delaware  —  The White House press secretary has said previously the president would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden.  —  President Biden said Thursday he would not pardon his son, Hunter Biden, if he is convicted in his felony gun trial in Delaware.
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Going Retrograde  —  Today was an important day to be paying attention.  In many ways, we seem to be going backward.  Only our votes can ultimately change that.  —  Senate Republicans blocked a measure that would have created a federal right to contraception access today.
Discussion: New Republic
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Republicans hide their war on contraception in plain sight
CNN:
Senate GOP blocks bill to guarantee access to contraception
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Biden Campaign Names and Shames Republicans Who Voted to Block Contraception Bill
Leo Sands / Washington Post:
Several Pa. House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6  —  Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to Pennsylvania's House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and some walked out, Democratic lawmakers said.  —  Two former law enforcement officers …
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Richard Eberwein / Heartland Signal:
Pennsylvania Republicans jeer, leave statehouse floor in protest of officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6
Discussion: The Daily Beast and WHTM-TV
New York Times:
Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor  —  Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.  —  Weeks before the embattled executive editor of The Washington Post abruptly resigned …
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Billionaires Have Captured Donald Trump  —  One of the most enduring—and ridiculous—#Resistance narratives of the Trump era was the idea that the president of the United States was a literal Manchurian Candidate, a man who had been compromised for years (perhaps even decades) by a foreign power, namely Russia.
Discussion: Raw Story
Fox News:
Trump: Critics saying he'd seek retribution are ‘wrong,’ but ‘I would have every right’ to go after opponents  —  Former President Trump told Fox News on Wednesday that critics claiming he'd seek retribution against political opponents are “wrong,” but he would have “every right” …
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Myth That Biden Had Nothing to Do with the Prosecutions of Trump … The five criminal and civil prosecutions of Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them.  —  But Joe Biden has long let it be known …
emptywheel:
Judge Noreika Risks Narrowing Hunter Biden's Right to Confront His Accuser Even Further  —  Gordon Cleveland, the man who sold Hunter Biden a gun without seeing an ID with an address on it on October 12, 2018, did not finish testifying at the Hunter Biden trial yesterday.
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NBC News:
Hunter Biden trial live updates: Hallie Biden testifies about drug addictions that rocked the Biden family
John T. Seward / NOTUS:
'It's Really Shameful': House Republicans Accuse Rep. Troy Nehls of Stolen Valor Over Military Award Pin … House Republicans are accusing Rep. Troy Nehls of “stolen valor” for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat.  —  “It matters.
Gil Duran / San Francisco Chronicle:
Words like moderate and centrist are political weasel words with no set definitions  —  In 2021, billionaire tech executive Chamath Palahapitiya briefly considered running for California governor on a moderate-sounding platform of low taxes and school reform.
NBC News:
Progressive Caucus rescinds endorsement of former Rep. Mondaire Jones  —  The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC unendorsed one of its former members after the New York Democrat backed a primary rival to another progressive lawmaker.  —  WASHINGTON — The Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC …
David McCabe / New York Times:
U.S. Clears Way for Antitrust Inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI  —  The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.  —  Federal regulators have reached a deal …
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Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
June 2024 National Poll: Trump 46%, Biden 45%  —  Home Polls June 2024 National Poll: Trump 46%, Biden 45%  —  Plurality of voters think Trump should be sentenced to prison.  —  A new Emerson College Polling national survey of U.S. voters finds 46% of voters support former President Donald Trump …
New York Times:
A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies  —  Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she's part of “the deep state cabal.”  —  Cindy Elgan, the Esmeralda County clerk for two decades, faced a recall this spring.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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