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Philip Bump/Washington Put up:
Donald Trump’s informal disparagement of prosecutors as ‘evil’ and ‘loopy’
One of many uncommon facets of the jury choice course of for Donald Trump’s prison trial in Manhattan is that he was pressured to endure the unusual expertise of being with individuals who don’t like him. Jurors who have been into consideration for service on the trial have been proven their previous social media posts and feedback disparaging Trump whereas these feedback have been learn out loud within the courtroom. For Trump, a man who travels with a staffer whose job duties embody printing out optimistic tales on a cell printer for him to learn, this was an unfamiliar expertise.
Get used to it. There are a number of weeks left on this trial alone.
Who’s Rhona Graff? Having hassle maintaining with who the witnesses are? Do this, from Simply Safety:
41 Star Witnesses and Bit Gamers in Trump’s NY Felony Trial
Rhona Graff—Graff has been Trump’s government assistant for a lot of many years. She was as soon as quoted in an interview as saying, “All people is aware of as a way to get by to him they need to undergo me.”
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Helaine Olen/MSNBC:
Biden’s FTC simply uncovered one of many GOP and companies’ greatest lies to employees
Who would need to be towards financial freedom, to not point out raises for America’s employees?
These contracts have been as soon as comparatively uncommon, used largely for high-ranking executives and others who would possibly possess company secrets and techniques they may go on to enterprise rivals. However over the previous a number of many years, as American employees misplaced energy, noncompete utilization soared. It’s thought that about 18% of staff are presently working with such a contract whereas, sooner or later, 4 in 10 of us have been topic to them.
Columbia Spectator:
Over 1,000 Barnard alums pledge to withhold donations, concern letter to Rosenbury demanding suspended college students be reinstated
The alums delivered the letter Monday morning.
The letter got here after Barnard suspended at the very least 53 college students following Thursday’s police sweep of the continuing “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”—licensed by College President Minouche Shafik—which resulted in 108 arrests. Barnard evicted the suspended college students from campus housing and restricted their entry to campus eating.“We the undersigned Barnard alumni wholeheartedly stand with the anti-war demonstrators each at Columbia’s encampment and at dispersed campus protests,” the alums wrote.
The Guardian:
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing canine – and goat – in new e-book
South Dakota governor contains bloody story in marketing campaign quantity – and admits ‘a greater politician … wouldn’t inform the story right here
In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon stirred criticism by admitting receiving a canine, Checkers, as a political reward.
In 2012, because the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a canine, Seamus, to the roof of the household automotive for a cross-country journey.
However in 2024 Kristi Noem, a powerful contender to be named operating mate to Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has managed to go one additional – by admitting killing a canine of her personal.
“Cricket was a wirehair pointer, about 14 months outdated,” the South Dakota governor writes in a brand new e-book, including that the canine, a feminine, had an “aggressive character” and wanted to be skilled for use for searching pheasant.
What unfolds over the following few pages exhibits how that effort went very flawed certainly – and, remarkably, how Cricket was not the one home animal Noem selected to kill someday in searching season.
She stays a powerful contender for the VP nod as a result of Trump hates canines.
Michael Tomasky/TNR:
Samuel Alito’s Resentment Goes Full Tilt on a Black Day for the Court docket
The affiliate justice’s logic on show on the Trump immunity listening to was past perception. He’s on the heart of one of many darkest days in Supreme Court docket historical past.
On the day Donald Trump took workplace in January 2017, pondering what he would possibly do to the nation’s democratic norms and establishments, I wrote these phrases: “Trump will destroy them, if retaining Trump on high requires it. Or attempt to. He may not succeed. And that’s the place we relaxation our hope—on conservative judges who will select our establishments over Trump. Mark my phrases: It’ll come to this.”
That hope appeared not misplaced again in 2020 and 2021, when quite a few liberal and conservative judges, a few of the latter appointed by Trump himself, handed Trump 60 or so authorized defeats as he tried to unlawfully overturn the election outcomes. However after Thursday on the Supreme Court docket? That hope is useless. The conservative judges, or at the very least most of them, on the very best court docket within the land are very clearly selecting Trump over our establishments. And none extra belligerently than Samuel Alito.
Conservative Authorized Philosophy Was All a Lie, Too
The textualists and originalists have taken off the masks.
Just a few years in the past my buddy Stuart Stevens wrote a e-book referred to as It Was All a Lie.
His thesis was that the dogma conservatives had professed for 60 years—the love of small authorities and free commerce; the need for sturdy international coverage; the assumption that character and accountability mattered—turned out to not be values however rationalizations.
In Stuart’s view, conservatives had a bunch of teams they disfavored after which labored backwards to concoct an ideological framework to assist these prejudices. No, not all conservatives. And perhaps not on each single concern. However sufficient in order that the generalization was typically honest.
When Stuart first revealed his e-book I assumed it was an attention-grabbing concept. The preponderance of proof that has emerged since 2020 has buttressed his case.
Yesterday the Supreme Court docket hinted that perhaps conservative authorized idea was at all times a lie, too.
Donald Trump, as at all times, is the nice revealer.
Trump promised massive plans to flip Black and Latino voters. Many Republicans are ready to see them
Donald Trump says he desires to carry a significant marketing campaign occasion at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard that includes Black hip-hop artists and athletes. His aides converse of creating appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of colour and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies.
However 5 months earlier than the primary basic election votes are solid, the previous president’s marketing campaign has little obvious group to indicate for its formidable plans.
The Trump marketing campaign eliminated its level particular person for coalitions and hasn’t introduced a alternative. The Republican Occasion’s minority outreach places of work throughout the nation have been shuttered and changed by companies that embody a check-cashing retailer, an ice cream store and a sex-toy retailer. And marketing campaign officers concede they’re weeks away from rolling out any focused applications.
Tony Michaels and Cliff Schecter take a look at the Lindsey Graham perplexity: