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During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival. Justice Sotomayor was not amused. Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity? Sauer: It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act. Sotomayor: It could.

One of my lawyer friends has been predicting for months we would see Amy Coney Barrett gradually moving toward a partial alliance with the liberal justices on the court, and yesterday, we saw her back up Justice Sotomayor's argument in the Iowa abortion case before the court. "The U. S. Supreme Court sounded divided yesterday during oral arguments in a case concerning access to emergency abortions.

Two new high-quality polls suggest an electoral dagger could be coming for Donald Trump—if their findings persist. Both polls, from Marist College and NBC News, show third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. siphoning more support away from Trump than President Joe Biden. The potential emerging trend was first spotted by The Washington Post's Aaron Blake. In the NBC poll, Biden trailed Trump by 2 points in the head-to-head matchup, 44% to 46%.

This morning, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case brought by the state of Idaho, which wants the nation’s highest court to rule that its abortion ban preempts federal law when it comes to emergency abortion care. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA, requires that hospitals receiving Medicare funding provide stabilizing care for all ER patients—including abortion care, even if it conflicts with a state’s own stricter abortion rules. Enter Idaho.

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Jimmy Kimmel had a, um, blast last night with the stories about Smelly Trump. Via HuffPost: Kimmel showed how the reports caused “ODOR IN THE COURT” and #TrumpStinks to trend on X. The late-night host had a little fun of his own, altering the courtroom sketches to show the jury with gas masks and creating videos in which Trump’s speeches are interrupted by flatulence. Kimmel also begged people not to share them online since the reports are unconfirmed. “There’s no way to prove Donald Trump was the one who dealt it, so please don’t repost this video with a dumb caption like ‘Julius Squeezer’ or ‘The Shart Of The Deal’ or ‘You Have The Right To Remain Silent But Deadly’ because we don’t know if any of this is true,” he said. read more

Donald Trump is insane. Yeah, you know that, but he's the creeping dementia is reaching, well, reaching this level: Over the seas, then over the land. And then they want us to have clean I say I want us to have clean, but it's all flying, just remember that. Does that make sense? Anyone wanna try to tell us what that poetic line of genius means?

Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., Harvard University What I teach Harvard Law School students about opening arguments Though Hollywood movies about courtroom dramas often glamorize the closing arguments given by lawyers, in reality the opening statement is likely the most important single event of a trial. Lawyers in the hush money case involving former President Donald Trump and alleged payments to porn star Stormy Daniels presented their opening statements on April 22, 2024, in New York.

A Play-Offs Edition More like Bouff's Substack/Patreon Round-Up, but here we go: CROW reports on Xian nationalism. Another (& a long one): The Reframe on "Americans Who Want To Kill Americans" Spoiler: Many of the would-be murderers are Xians as well. the earlyworm society ("Saving democracy with @LOLGOP and Nick.") knows just what scares the Southern aristocracy. Today's Grand Prize in Aggregation goes to Off the Kuff, which has all the baseball obits & anything else you may have missed. M.

A couple of weeks ago, GOP mail order candidate and California banker went on a Wisconsin right wing squawk radio show and said that people in nursing homes only have a few months to live and that they are at the point where they shouldn't be voting. After he made those inane comments, he got rightfully pilloried for them. So Hovde decided that it was time to do some damage control.

The Republicans in the Southern state have worked long and hard to make their states as union unfriendly as they could. They thought they had their states locked up tight. Then the UAW, led by President Shawn Fain, came to Tennessee. They locked arms with the men and women at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and showed them what solidarity looks like: Hourly workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, a major breakthrough in the union’s effort to organize workers at plants nationwide. Shortly after 11 pm ET on Friday the National Labor Relations Board, the federal body that oversees such votes, announced that 73% of the 3,600 workers at the plant who cast ballots had voted in favor of joining the union.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Sunday for "creating chaos" in the U. S. House of Representatives. During an interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Bartiromo noted that Greene was criticized for threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) with a motion to vacate the chair. "You're getting criticized on the left, on the right, in the media, you know, everybody, a lot of people are criticizing you," Bartiromo told Greene.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), a possible vice presidential candidate, called rape and incest exceptions for abortion a "tragedy." While speaking to Dana Bash on CNN Sunday, Noem was asked if she supported her state's law, which does not provide exceptions for rape, much like Arizona's Civil War-era anti-abortion law. "Our law today allows an exception to save the life of the mother, but the people in South Dakota will decide what their laws look like," Noem explained. "What do you think it should look like?" Bash pressed, but Noem dodged the question, saying she would enforce her state's laws. The CNN host pushed again for an answer. "Do you think there should be exceptions for rape and incest, for example?" Bash asked. "That's what's different, Dana, is that I've constantly looked, and we rely in South Dakota on the fact that I'm pro-life and we have a law that says that there is an exception for the life of the mother," Noem opined.

If anybody knows why it's so important to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, it’s Hillary Clinton, his 2016 presidential opponent. You may recall that one of the features of that campaign was Trump and his supporters chanting “lock her up!” Yet none of Trump’s two attorney generals or two acting attorney generals ever found a crime to charge her with.

Pres. Joe Biden yesterday threw his support behind House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) bill to re-arm Ukraine, signaling to House Democrats to pass it, and probably causing a few House Republicans to oppose it now that they know Satan loves it. Johnson (R-LA) yesterday said he’s going to allow a vote on re-arming and re-supplying Ukraine because it’s the right thing to do, even if it costs him the speakership.

Violence is a key part of the Republican Party under Donald Trump's leadership. Threatening people who seek to hold Trump accountable is normal. If you are a Republican voter, it is time to realize the party isn't your dad's GOP. The latest Trump trial is in its first week, and two potential jurors have dropped out.