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Justice Merchan’s signed order to show cause compelling Trump to attend a hearing on his latest alleged gag order violations has been released.

kleinman.bsky.social Joe Biden: The Hellgate interview

NYT calls Politico report “untrue.” Will be interested to see if Politico stands by Eli Stokols reporting.

Unbelievable that Supreme Court justices who see forgiving student loans, mandating vaccines, and regulating climate change as a slippery slope toward tyranny were not clear-eyed on questions of whether a president could execute citizens or stage a coup without being prosecuted.

This is actually an extraordinary story. Trump is using a political accounting firm to pay lawyers.

Doing it this way, he doesn’t have to disclose which law firms and lawyers he’s paying.

That is, it should be said, not how our disclosure laws work.

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Frontiers of “campus safety”: the chairwoman of the Emory philosophy department being dragged away in cuffs by an Atlanta cop in a balaclava

Something that drives me a little insane, I'll admit, is that Trump's OWN LAWYERS at his impeachment told the Senators to vote not to convict him BECAUSE he could be prosucuted if it came to that. Now they're arguing that the only way he could be prosecuted is if they convicted.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — USC won't hold main commencement ceremony amid Gaza war protests on campus and criticism over canceled student speaker.

Me, revealing myself as the secret 10th Justice:
Mr Sauer, if you lose this case, your client faces some prison time. But if you win it, Joe Biden could kill your client and—provided the Senate doesn’t remove him—never face a legal penalty for doing so. Which do you prefer?

That question is simply whether a former President of the United States may be prosecuted for attempting to remain in power notwithstanding the election of his successor by the American People.

Umm. David Pecker testifies that he had a joint call with Hope Hicks and Sarah Huckabee Sanders — taxpayer funded WH officials, at the time — about whether Karen McDougal’s contract should be extended. 'Both of them said that they thought it was a good idea,' Pecker said.

Senate committee opens investigation into Ozempic, Wegovy prices wxyz.com/Politics/healt…

This argument is risible on its own terms but it is gobsmacking in a case where a president illegally tried to stay in office.

Correct.

Breaking

Trump LOSES his bid for a new trial or a judgment overturning the more than $80 million verdict for E. Jean Carroll in the second trial.

Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…