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The Hill:
Trump says federal abortion ban isn’t wanted ‘as a result of we broke Roe v. Wade’
“As a result of we don’t want it any longer. As a result of we broke Roe v. Wade, and we did one thing that no one thought was potential,” Trump mentioned. “We gave it again to the states. And the states are very working very brilliantly, in some circumstances conservative, in some circumstances not conservative. However they’re working and it’s working the way in which it’s speculated to.”
“You’re having some very, very lovely concord to be trustworthy with you,” Trump mentioned.
When he’s incoherent, and a liar as well, statements like this don’t take the difficulty off the desk for Donald Trump, regardless of how exhausting he pushes the concept that it does. This isn’t a narrative he can management, and that’s driving him nuts. However that doesn’t imply our political media is coping with it thoughtfully.
Wesley Morris/The New York Instances:
O.J. Was an Earthquake. We’re Nonetheless Dwelling With His Aftershocks.
He tried to shed his Blackness, however his all-consuming homicide trial put the traditionally lurid American psyche on full show.
Are we nonetheless in Nice American territory? I feel so. In any case, people knew what he meant. It may be an actual burden, standing for, standing in for. Of us additionally knew that O.J. preferred to run. That was him in 1977, galloping in Africa alongside LeVar Burton on night time considered one of “Roots.” The person was not an mental — not in any typical sense. He did exist as an thought, although, as a curious, compelling, maybe superb “what if?” What if a Black man had been free to reside as himself and by no means face a consequence for merely being? What if white individuals really simply noticed him as he wished they’d — as O.J.? He gave the impression to be residing simply that dream. In a spot some name “La La Land,” no much less. But it surely was extra like a program the La Las as soon as produced: “Fantasy Island.”
There are loads of lenses one can use to have a look at the O.J. Simpson story—and that is one of many extra fascinating ones.
Bolts covers voting matters at a ‘large image however native’ degree that others simply don’t.
POLITICO Journal:
How Donald Trump Will get Particular Therapy within the Authorized System The previous president rails in opposition to a “two-tiered system of justice.” However he’s the one benefiting from it.
Right now, Trump routinely spouts invective much more inflammatory than something Hill mentioned. He denigrates prosecutors. He lies about his circumstances. He vilifies the judges overseeing them — after which vilifies their wives and daughters, too. But Trump has by no means confronted the swift repercussions that had been imposed on Hill — and are routinely imposed on different defendants in America.
As a substitute, Trump will get particular remedy.
“I can’t think about another defendant posting on social media a couple of decide’s household and never being in a short time incarcerated,” mentioned Russell Gold, a regulation professor on the College of Alabama.
Simon Rosenberg/”Hopium Chronicles” on Substack:
Why I am Optimistic About Successful This November
My Newest Tackle The place Issues Are (Video, 4/12/24) – That is my newest overview of the place we’re within the 2024 election and why I’m so basically optimistic. The put up additionally has a deep dive on latest, encouraging polling knowledge. Whereas it stays a detailed, aggressive election, issues have gotten bluer in latest weeks, and Trump not leads.
My Interview With the NYT – This lengthy interview with me ran final week. Do learn. Plenty of nice stuff in right here.
Deep State Radio Podcast with David Rothkopf and Tara McGowan – each week few weeks I get along with my good pals David and Tara for a assessment of the most recent within the 2024 election. Do hear, that is all the time an incredible podcast with two of the neatest individuals I do know.
Philip Rotner/The Bulwark:
Decide Cannon Alerts a New Plan
Understanding her sudden swerve within the context of every thing that got here earlier than within the the labeled paperwork case in opposition to Trump.
IF CANNON IS DETERMINED to acquit Trump, the good transfer can be for her to maintain deciding each pre-trial movement in favor of Smith, not Trump, thus guaranteeing that she stays on the case, simply the place she must be to difficulty an order of acquittal on the shut of Smith’s case.
The one means Smith can stop that’s to go to the Eleventh Circuit now. It comes right down to a matter of assessing patterns and weighing dangers. There isn’t any approach to know for sure that Cannon is executing a brand new plan to acquit Trump, and there’s a threat that if Smith goes to the courtroom of appeals too quickly, it should deny his request to take away Cannon from the case.
However the threat of being rebuffed by the Eleventh Circuit is outweighed by the danger of permitting Cannon to have interaction in judicial rope-a-dope that will exhaust Smith’s case for Cannon’s removing till it’s too late.
Smith might not be capable to know precisely what Cannon will do. However he does know what she can do. And primarily based on what she has performed, that needs to be sufficient for him to behave now.
Walter Olson/The UnPopulist:
The Proper’s Bogus Claims about Noncitizen Voting Fraud
Trump, Musk, and Vance’s baseless accusations undermine public confidence in American elections and are harmful
For 4 years, the Division of Justice reported to Donald Trump, who had inveighed in opposition to voter fraud. As far as I’ve been capable of inform from information experiences, its greatest ensuing prosecution of noncitizen voting got here in 2020 in North Carolina, the place a federal grand jury, following a DHS investigation, indicted 19 individuals of various nationalities for voting within the state’s federal election. That’s 19 individuals too many to have voted, assuming the fees panned out, however it’s unlikely that it modified any outcomes on condition that greater than 3.6 million individuals forged their poll in North Carolina’s 2018 election.
Noah Berlatsky/”Public Discover” on Substack:
Republicans stay horrible at selecting Senate candidates
Tim Sheehy and Kari Lake are the brand new Blake Masters and Herschel Walker.
Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy spent final week confirming that he’s a liar, which isn’t precisely the way you wish to spend your week as a Senate candidate.
Sheehy additionally demonstrated, for anybody who doubted it, that the GOP continues to have severe issues recruiting first rate candidates for top workplace. Recruitment issues are why they don’t management the Senate proper now. And it’s why, regardless of each benefit and a map that couldn’t be higher for them, they nonetheless, with a very good little bit of luck, could possibly pull defeat from the jaws of victory this November.
Cliff Schecter on Bob Cesca’s present focus on Trump’s attraction: