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Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it too' — NEW YORK — The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president's attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing before his courtroom.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
'As Far as I'm Concerned, That's the End of It': Skeptical Special Master Presses Trump's Lawyers on Declassification Evasions at Hearing — After the FBI found highly classified documents inside his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump sought review of the materials by a special master.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Special Master Has a Simple Test That May Be Disaster for Trump — Special Master Raymond Dearie indicated Tuesday that this case could be very simple, and that Trump may be in trouble. — Former President Donald Trump's battle with the FBI over its search of Mar-a-Lago has moved …
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Reuters and Los Angeles Times
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump team tells 11th Circuit Mar-a-Lago probe is a ‘document storage dispute’ that ‘spiraled out of control’ — Trump's legal team filed a response to the DOJ's motion for a partial stay in the 11th Circuit — Trump attorney on why the DOJ does not want a special master
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Roll Call, CBS News, CNBC, CNN, Washington Examiner, Washington Times and Axios
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How Judge Cannon broke with conservatives in Trump documents case — When Donald Trump flooded the federal bench with judicial appointments, a leading critique was that they were Federalist Society clones who favored muscular executive power and rejected what some perceive as meddling by the courts in executive branch affairs.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump has more legal problems of his own making — Donald Trump and Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon might end up regretting their selection of former judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to undertake the review of classified papers retrieved from the former president's Mar-a-Lago club.
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Mediaite, HuffPost, USA Today, Associated Press and Raw Story
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races — The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
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Barbara Rodriguez / The 19th:
Stacey Abrams: It is ‘wrong’ to compare her refusal to concede with Trump's stolen election rhetoric — ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams on Monday cautioned against conflating her refusal to concede in the 2018 Georgia governor's race with former President Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election …
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Washington Examiner, Townhall, RedState, The Hill and The Bulwark
Washington Post:
Video appears to undercut Trump elector's account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia — On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines.
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Daily Kos, Washington Examiner and Mediaite
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Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Trump/DeSantis War May Start Sooner Than You Think — The best defense is a good offense. — Donald Trump is not a patient man. Patience is a virtue, after all, and Trump has never had much regard for virtue. But he's been surprisingly patient with his one serious rival …
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The Message Box, Florida Politics, Morning Shots, NBC News, The Daily Beast and Eyes on the Right
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Emma James / Daily Mail:
Special delivery for Joe? Plane used by Florida Gov. DeSantis to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard is now heading to Delaware airport near Biden's two homes!
Linda Chavez / The Bulwark:
The Cruelty and Dishonesty of the DeSantis Immigration Stunt
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Slate, Daily Kos and The Guardian
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections. These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way — Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office. The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:
Indictments Accuse 44 in Minnesota of Brazen Pandemic Aid Fraud — The Justice Department said the defendants had stolen $240 million intended to feed children, in what appears to be the largest theft so far from a pandemic-era program. — MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department said on Tuesday …
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Washington Post and HotAir
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms — Democrats have been on a voter registration tear since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. There's just one problem for them — they are digging out from under major Republican gains in the previous 18 months.
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Townhall and Washington Examiner
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Doctors say Graham abortion ban would force women to have transvaginal ultrasounds
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Insider, Daily Kos, Boston.com, American Greatness and FiveThirtyEight
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Chaotic Politics of Lindsey Graham's Abortion Bill
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, HuffPost and Blue Virginia
Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Cheney: On Jan. 6, fellow House member objecting to election called Trump ‘the orange Jesus’ — WASHINGTON - Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday that a fellow House member called former President Donald Trump “the orange Jesus” on Jan. 6, 2021, as Republicans gathered objections to 2020 election results.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum — Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance …
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National Review
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost
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Mediaite and The Guardian
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, ‘The Trump campaign was really pissed,’ book says — Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.
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HuffPost, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA, more at Mediagazer »
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Renee Nygren / KVLY:
Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege — MCHENRY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what led up to a deadly crash.
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Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’: My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers — In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York—a thief absconded with $200,000 worth of jewelry in a smash and grab, three boys stole a bunch of iPhones off of subway riders …
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HotAir and National Review
United States Space Force:
Space Force reveals official song: “Semper Supra” — ARLINGTON, Va — ARLINGTON, Va. - Every branch of the armed forces has an official song, from “The Army Goes Rolling Along” to “The Marines' Hymn.” Each song is part of the services' foundation and represents its values, traditions and culture.
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DVIDS, CNN, The Hill, Military.com, The Daily Wire, Politico, Task & Purpose, Air & Space Forces Magazine, Defense One and WHTM-TV
Mailchimp:
New York Mag's Hunter Biden laptop cover story puts proper focus on story that matters — I don't want to assume the political affiliations of New York Magazine readers, but I'd have to guess most who received their copy of the print issue this week voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
With Economy in Crisis, Biden to Host Elton John for White House Concert — The U.S. economy is in a recession, inflation remains near 40-year highs, food prices are spiking faster than they have since 1979, the Pentagon is sending billions of dollars to Ukraine while Biden muddies the waters …
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Washington Examiner, Fox News, Raw Story, Washington Times and NPR
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Kate Bennett / CNN:
Elton John will perform at White House on Friday
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New York Magazine, Bloomberg, Associated Press, The Hill, Politico and New York Daily News
Ron Elving / NPR:
New Trump tome ‘The Divider’ offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date — The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time. — Even after several Cabinet-level advisers …
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