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“Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Monday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order in the classified documents case and to find the federal prosecutors who wrote the request in contempt,” CNN reports. “Smith’s office has requested that the Florida judge overseeing the classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, place a gag order on the former president that would limit his ability to publicly talk about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.” “Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has repeatedly and misleadingly criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search – as the bureau does with every warrant it executes.”

CNN legal analyst Ryan Goodman provides insight into the potential defense strategy that may be presented during the closing arguments of former president Donald Trump's Hush money trial.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a pledge that the country would continue the work of the nation’s fallen toward a more perfect union, “for which they lived, and for which they died.” Delivering remarks at a solemn remembrance ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Biden said each generation must ensure the sacrifice of the country’s service members is not in vain. “Freedom has never been guaranteed,” Biden said under gray skies in the memorial amphitheater.

Donald Trump is so full of shit that we're going to need to attach a toilet flush on his jaw. Trump was relentlessly booed and heckled at the Libertarian Convention Saturday evening. But to hear his sycophants say it, their Trumpy bear was a smashing success, and the thunderous applause could be heard from eleventy bazillion miles away.

Rep. Madeleine Dean yesterday blasted Sam Alito for blaming his wife for displaying the upside-down flag outside his home in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Via The Hill: In an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” Dean invoked Memorial Day and stressed the importance of abiding by a code of ethics when asked to respond to the latest Alito controversy. “I think I’ll end where I started, which is: How do we honor the war dead in this country?

It’s a reminder that, despite the ostensible anti-Israel protests, it’s not Israel they’re after; it’s you.