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New York Times:
Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests  —  The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. says Trump team may have hidden, moved classified papers  —  Prosecutors' filing suggests Trump advisers misled officials trying to recover sensitive papers; photo shows papers marked “Top Secret” spread out on the floor.  —  Former president Donald Trump and his advisers repeatedly failed …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Steve Doocy Flatly Asks Why Classified Documents Were in Trump's Desk: ‘These Are the Biggest Secrets in the World!’  —  Steve Doocy asked the question that most reasonable people have following a midnight DOJ filing that revealed stunning details surrounding the search and seizure at Mar-a-Lago …
Discussion: Alternet.org and PoliticusUSA
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's perilous path to prosecuting Trump  —  Attorney General Merrick Garland has a mantra when it comes to politically charged investigations: “We will follow the facts and the law, wherever they lead.”  —  But Garland's mantra won't get him the answers he wants in the gargantuan decision …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Justice Department Opposes Any Special Master and Alleges That “Obstructive Conduct Occurred” at Mar-a-Lago  —  Last night, Department of Justice Tuesday filed in opposition to the appointment of a Special Master in Florida.  It used the filing to add new facts and allegations to the public record …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Days before Mar-a-Lago subpoena, Trump lawyer claimed she scoured Trump's office, closets and drawers  —  Just six days before the Justice Department subpoenaed to recover highly sensitive documents housed at Mar-a-Lago, one of Former President Donald Trump's attorneys scoured the estate searching …
Discussion: Washington Post
Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:   Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing
Associated Press:
Trump team may have hidden or moved classified material, DoJ says
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump likely obstructed classified records probe, DOJ says
CNN:
Justice Department says classified documents at Mar-a-Lago were likely ‘concealed and removed’ to block investigation
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …
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The Cougar Chronicle:
Exclusive: Racist Comments at BYU Volleyball Game Never Happened, Sources Suggest  —  An alleged racist incident occurred during a BYU Women's Volleyball game on Friday, August 26, 2022.  In a public statement given on Sunday, African-American Duke Volleyball player Rachel Richardson claimed …
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate Rating Changes: Arizona, Pennsylvania to Leans Democratic  —  Dear Readers: This is our only planned issue of the Crystal Ball this week.  We'll be back following Labor Day.  But before the holiday weekend, we have 2 notable rating changes to make in the Senate.
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Save Our Political System: Impeach and Convict Joe Biden  —  In this country, Congress makes the laws - and it must reassert this authority.  —  If we keep doing what we're doing, we'll keep getting what we get.  To avoid getting what we're increasingly likely to get, Congress should impeach and convict President Biden.
Discussion: American Greatness
Romy Ellenbogen / Tampa Bay Times:
Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as campaign for governor heats up  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Crist has been representing Pinellas County in Congress since 2016.  —  U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, is resigning early from Congress …
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
Performing Punditry  —  My Shadi Hamid Problem—And Yours.  —  I took a poll on Twitter asking whether I should write about the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev or my beef with Atlantic writer and Brookings fellow Shadi Hamid.  My followers indicated they'd rather read about Gorbachev than hear me gripe …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Wisdom of Crowds
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Alaska to tabulate ranked-choice ballots as Palin attempts political comeback  —  Alaska elections officials will tabulate the state's ranked-choice ballots for the first time on Wednesday, determining whether former Gov. Sarah Palin will make a political comeback by winning a special election for the state's lone House seat.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Madison Fernandez / Politico:   Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid
Hurubie Meko / New York Times:
West Point Has K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall  —  A special congressional commission that recommends the removal of Confederate symbols at U.S. military sites flagged the bronze plaque in a new report.  —  For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point …
Discussion: NBC News, The Root and The Hill
CNN:
A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets  —  The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals …
Discussion: Breitbart
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
DeSantis blasts Hochul over ‘get out of town’ remarks  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis fired back at New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for calling on top Republicans in her state to flee to Florida.  —  DeSantis blasted Hochul's stance that conservatives “are not New Yorkers,” arguing people …
Discussion: Politico and New York Post
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Trust linked to Gavin Newsom's in-laws made contribution to DeSantis PAC
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Democrats emphasize Herschel Walker's threats against ex-wife in new Georgia ad  —  Democrats are escalating their attacks on Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker with a new television ad that calls attention to the violent episodes in Walker's past.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Gorbachev Never Realized What He Set in Motion  —  The one time I saw Mikhail Gorbachev in public was on November 9, 2014.  I can pin the day down because it was the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  We were in a very large, very crowded Berlin reception room …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Oberlin's Revenge Mania: College Finally Runs Out of Appeals in Campaign Against Family-Owned Bakery  —  The long and vengeful campaign of Oberlin College against a small family-owned grocery has come to an end at the cost of a breathtaking $36 million for defamation.
Discussion: RedState and The College Fix
ProPublica:
Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram …
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
What if Trump's pile of papers is nothing more than a prop?  —  Some tall tales have been raised by former president Donald Trump and his apologists to explain the presence of classified government documents among Trump's things at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.
Nate Hochman / National Review:
MLB's Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions  —  At least 20 teams have promoted or funded groups that advocate or are directly involved in child gender transitions, an NR analysis finds.  —  Like most of the nation's major sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has embraced a number of left-wing causes in recent years.
Discussion: Big League Politics
 
 
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