With a jury selected, opening arguments are set to begin on Monday in Trump's criminal hush money case.
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Throughout the process, Trump's attorneys treated nearly any sign that a potential juror has a political perspective with the assumption that that perspective must put them at odds with Trump, and as an indicator of disqualifying bias.
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A professionalized legal system, a long legal tradition, and all of the procedural formalities and structures to support, enforce and consistently apply the rule of law isn’t by itself sufficient if the body politic has abandoned the principles that undergird the entire endeavor.

Nothing's quite as succinct a distillation of the American revolutionary experience: No one is above the law. As a statement of fact, that is unassailable. But it’s more important as a civic virtue. It states an expectation and an aspiration for who we are and what we want to be.

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It's warmed my heart this week to hear multiple prospective jurors in the Trump hush-money case assert that no one is above the law.

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The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously greenlit the language of an abortion rights amendment Thursday, putting it on track to feature on the state’s November ballot.
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A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate Riga and Josh Marshall discuss the beginning of the New York hush money trial, arguments at the Supreme Court that could affect a different Trump trial and Mike Johnson’s newest woes. Head to TPM to listen now!

At an event this week, the far-right Constitutional Sheriffs group previewed which parts of the voting process they'll be fixated on this fall.
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The line to enter the courthouse today includes a man with a steampunk clock purse. He says he is here to gather body language info and sell it to professional gamblers seeking to bet on the outcome. “In the gold rush, the people who were guaranteed to get rich sold the shovels.”

Good morning from Manhattan criminal court. Day three of Trump jury selection is scheduled to start in a little over an hour

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Trump's NY hush money trial may be down two jurors and up seven contempt allegations after a bizarre and chaotic Thursday start.
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The package’s prospects are highly uncertain, but Johnson’s apparent willingness to put everything on the line to get it passed is a glimmer of hope for Ukraine, which hasn’t had much positive news coming out of DC in the months the aid bill has been stymied by Republicans.

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But it’s not clear if there’s enough support among Republican members, each of whom is empowered by the McCarthy capitulation, for it to happen.

The House GOP leadership is making noises that it might try to change the rule back and take some of the pressure off Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who is currently being held over a barrel on Ukraine aid by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Kevin McCarthy was willing to give up anything to be speaker, including changing the rules to allow any one member to bring up a discharge petition to oust the speaker. It cost him dearly, and now it’s putting his successor in a similar bind.

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Perhaps he got some feedback he didn’t like from the anti-abortion groups who have long supported his “pro-life” governing.
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Arizona Republicans fist pumped, cheered and mouthed 'we got you' to anti-abortion protesters after swatting down Democrats' attempts to repeal the 1864 abortion ban.
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