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1:15 PM ET, July 2, 2024

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New York Times:
Manhattan Prosecutors Agree to Delay Trump's Sentencing  —  Donald J. Trump's lawyers want to argue that a Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity for official acts should void his felony conviction for covering up hush money paid to a porn star.  —  Manhattan prosecutors …
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's disastrous Trump immunity decision, explained  —  The Court's six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House.
Brian Beutler / Off Message:
A Better Way To Respond To The Supreme Court's Intolerable Immunity Decision  —  Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.  —  ∙ Paid  —  If you're about my age or older, and a subscriber to this newsletter, you're familiar with this uncanny sensation of living through a moment when history turns.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A five-alarm fire for democracy  —  On Monday, six members of the Supreme Court granted Donald Trump — and every future president — broad criminal immunity.  The court found that, as president, Trump was free to use his “official” powers to commit crimes.
Ross A. Lincoln / Yahoo News:
Rachel Maddow Warns That SCOTUS Trump Immunity Decision Is ‘a Death Squad Ruling’ |  Video  —  Rachel Maddow had a bleak warning for Americans Monday night about the astonishing Supreme Court decision granting U.S. presidents dictatorial power.  The opinion presidents have broad legal immunity for …
Discussion: Newsweek, HuffPost and DNyuz
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling poses risk for democracy, experts say  —  The court's decision raised fears that a future president will be able to act with impunity because official acts of the president have been deemed off limits from prosecution.  —  In its immunity decision Monday …
New York Times:
Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decision
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
Manhattan Prosecutors Agree to Postpone Trump's Sentencing
Discussion: CBS News and DNyuz
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
The Supreme Court rules that Donald Trump can be a dictator
Associated Press:
Trump seeks to set aside his New York hush money guilty verdict after Supreme Court immunity ruling
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Ruling Further Slows Trump Election Case but Opens Door to Airing of Evidence
Elie Mystal / The Nation:
The President Can Now Assassinate You, Officially
Politico:
'We've all enabled the situation': Dems turn on Biden's inner sanctum post debate  —  The senior team's management of Biden has grown more strictly controlled as his term has gone on.  —  Over the course of his presidency, Joe Biden's small clutch of advisers have built …
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Politico:
Playbook: Dems' SCOTUS split-screen
Discussion: NBC News
CBS News:
Biden to meet with Democratic governors as White House works to shore up support
Reagan Reese / The Daily Caller:
Biden Reads Teleprompter For 5 Minutes, Takes No Questions In First Major Post-Debate Appearance
USA Today:
How much did debate hurt Biden's re-election bid?  New poll offers insight.  —  Trump's new, narrow advantage signals a close contest, not a decisive lead.  But other exclusive poll findings raise red flags for the president.  —  Susan Page Rachel BarberUSA TODAY
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Apocalypse Not  —  The great operational question before us is not “Is Joe Biden too old?”
Discussion: Alternet.org
Tom Boggioni / Alternet.org:
Justice Roberts buried for smug ‘sit down, little ladies’ smear of liberal colleagues  —  Lost in the shuffle of the outrage over the conservative majority Supreme Court's 6-3 decision to hand Donald Trump a get-out-of-jail-free card with their expansive presidential immunity ruling on Monday …
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
SCOTUS: Actually, Presidents Are Kings  —  “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”  With these words, Justice Sonya Sotomayor concluded her dissent from the majority opinion in Trump v. U.S. She was joined by Justices Jackson and Kagan.  She is right.  —  In today's decision …
Joe Hagan / Vanity Fair:
RFK Jr.'s Family Doesn't Want Him to Run.  Even They May Not Know His Darkest Secrets.  —  A shocking photograph.  Blowback from a Trump meeting.  Alleged sexual assault.  The Kennedys have voiced support for Joe Biden, but certain aspects of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s character are only just now coming to light.
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: The imperial presidency in waiting … - A re-elected Trump would quickly set up vast camps and deport millions of people in the U.S. illegally. … - In Washington, Trump would move to fire potentially tens of thousands of civil servants using a controversial interpretation of law and procedure.
Chris Cameron / New York Times:
Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals  —  A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump over the weekend escalated …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:   Trump amplifies radical retaliatory message targeting Liz Cheney
Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
‘Elites will not save you’: Rallying cry issued for mass action against ‘Dictator Trump’  —  America faces an immediate future of military occupations, political executions and concentration camps unless millions of its citizens unite against “dictator” Donald Trump, a furious and frightened political analyst wrote Tuesday.
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:   Day two of Donald Trump's dictatorship
Ryan Shucard / Cygnal:
Pennsylvania Poll: First Fielded Straddling the Debate - Trump with Strong Lead and McCormick within Striking Distance of Casey  —  Cygnal, one of the nation's fastest growing and most accurate private polling firms, released the following Pennsylvania statewide poll (conducted June 27-28 …
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Examiner
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani disbarred over ‘false and misleading’ statements on 2020 election  —  The former New York City mayor has lost his law license.  —  Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, attends a ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York, Sept. 11, 2022.
Marlene Lenthang / NBC News:
Recall issued for mushroom-infused chocolates and gummies after dozens of illnesses, hospitalizations reported  —  So far 39 illnesses from the candies have been reported across 20 states.  —  A brand of mushroom-infused chocolates and sweets has been recalled after dozens of consumers across …
 
 
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
How RFK Jr. Falsely Denied His Connection to a Deadly Measles Outbreak in Samoa
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump would return to the White House unfettered and unassailable
Discussion: CBS News
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court leaves Illinois assault weapons ban in place as it sidesteps new cases on the right to bear arms
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
Progressive advocacy group plans $10M offensive targeting Supreme Court
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Kevin M. Kruse / Campaign Trails:
The Radical Roberts Court
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
SCOTUS gives Trumpian autocrats a map for abusing power
Josh Meyer / USA Today:
Trump raked in big money from foreign nations. Experts fear he'd do it more if re-elected
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
We're Going to Have to Talk About President Joe Biden, Candidate
 

 
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