Arguments aren’t always predictive of outcome but —

Overall, it sounds highly likely that the conservative justices will carve out an exemption from criminal prosecution for “official acts.”

Sotomayor clearly unimpressed that the principle “no man is above the law either in his official or private acts” has “been somewhat put into suspicion here.”

Supreme Court arguments on big cases are always interesting for reasons beyond the specific outcome.

Alito asks if FDR could have been
prosecuted for conspiracy against civil rights for interning Japanese-Americans.

“Today, yes,” says Dreeben, lawyer for the govt.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson drilling into the Trump team’s contention that a president is immune from criminal prosecution for official acts.

“Why is it that the president would not be required to follow the law when he is performing his official acts?”

Uh…

To CBS’s credit, some basic fairness and even-handedness here — allowing young Palestinians in Gaza to be heard as a counterpoint to Netanyahu’s voice.

What a photo.

Not sure precisely what NSA Jake Sullivan is alluding to here, but interesting phrasing.

“Despite substantial efforts by a lot of parties — including the Russians — to figure out a way to not have this bill passed, it has passed.”

Bernie Sanders' uncle was shot in the back of the head by the Nazis for refusing to turn over resisters in Poland.

So, I think we can be pretty sure he is aware of the dangers of antisemitism.

Decision Desk HQ projects Summer Lee wins the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District.

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I asked the State Dept. today about the U.S. response to the discovery of apparent mass graves at a Gaza hospital — which has been to ask the Israeli govt. for more information.

— “And do you believe the govt. of Israel is a credible source in enlightening you?”

— “We do.”

Another day, another couple of AI-generated images of veterans and more fake birthdays posted by this account, which is part of a larger scam network of accounts pretending to be female sketch artists selling their artwork.

“In the ruins of what had been Nasser hospital, the biggest in southern Gaza, Reuters saw emergency workers in white hazmat suits digging corpses out of the ground with hand tools and a digger truck.”

More than 300 bodies reported at this one gravesite.
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Nancy Pelosi calls for Netanyahu’s resignation in Irish TV interview:

“We recognize Israel’s right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu.

“Terrible. What could be worse than what he has done?”

Spent the first night of Passover at the student seder in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia.

The Jewish flank of the Palestine solidarity movement is growing and it is so beautiful to behold.

Judge for yourself how unsafe these Jewish students look.

My takeaways from a day of opening arguments in the Trump trial.

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Joining Natasha Zouves again tonight on @newsnation in a few minutes, and in the following hour too.

On the agenda: Trump trial, congressional drama, VP Harris’s trip to battleground Wisconsin and more.

Standard amounts of, uh, high tech wizardry for the hotel room Zoom interview.