“This is probably one of the major reasons why it’s a bad idea to be trying a presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign, because it gets you into this massive constitutional quagmire. What do you do in a situation like this?” tinyurl.com/5xucxnfz

“This is really the first time in American history where the Constitution and laws are front and center at the same time that the politics are front and center in the nation.” tinyurl.com/4ksumm2h

Todd Blanche: “There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence the election. It’s called democracy.” tinyurl.com/4sytyejz

“Come to think of it, it’s amazing I’m up here after Donald. I didn’t think he’d be okay with a peaceful transition of power.” tinyurl.com/mtz7aup4

“I don’t think President Biden needs my help to lose to Donald Trump,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr tells Scott Waldman. “All the polls show him losing without me in the race.”

“Americans had enough of that during Covid, of people using the crisis — that many people believe now was manufactured — in order to clamp down totalitarian controls and shift wealth upward. And they see a mirror of that in climate.” tinyurl.com/2rhp8bew

“It is an election interference gateway drug,” Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) tells Josh Gerstein. tinyurl.com/2s394dzj

'That's sort of like our relationship with dogs, right?' says Tommy Tomlinson. 'There's some moments that are really sad, and some moments are really funny, and a lot of stuff in between.' tinyurl.com/yc5rbzuh

One of Shawn McCreesh's picks: Jessica Bateman for POLITICO Magazine.

This week's The Sunday Long Read guest editor: Shawn McCreesh. tinyurl.com/j337uhpx

Writes Michael Grunwald: I happen to believe, and I’m not alone, that Al Gore could have won Florida and changed history in 2000 if he had chosen Graham as his running mate. tinyurl.com/4s56thcj

Writes Maggie Haberman: ... the shared sense among many of his advisers is that the process may damage him as much as a guilty verdict. The process, they believe, is its own punishment. tinyurl.com/35u7bz62

“For the last couple of years, there’s been all this chatter and a few books out about whether the U.S. is on the brink of a new civil war, and you have to keep telling people, ‘Well no, not in the way you may think about it.’” tinyurl.com/en44e6bj

“Age is only the determining factor if you make the wrong choices.” tinyurl.com/4dhktwra

Will need to wash down this tweet later with a glass of bourbon.

Back in North Carolina for this evening’s Trump rally.

“I don’t think any of it matters. He totally rewrote the rules,” a longtime Republican operative tells Matt Dixon. tinyurl.com/24akrjw9

“... once it became clear that there just is no Republican Party that is not led by Donald Trump, I think that forced the decision-making that you’re seeing now,” says Nicole Hemmer. tinyurl.com/mrycb48e

Quentin Fulks: “We don’t think that the American people are sitting around their kitchen table thinking about if Donald Trump is sleeping in court.” tinyurl.com/mt5ea9tm

“He is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process ...” tinyurl.com/3dm34ecx