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Trump’s indictment and the return of his biggest concern: ‘the women’

The former president made hush-money payments to a porn star and a Playboy model and faces looming trials over a rape allegation

The Guardian - US

Is Donald Trump going to jail?

The ex-president appeared for a historic arraingment in New York on 4 April

The Independent UK

The team prosecuting Donald Trump in the historic ‘hush money’ case

NEW YORK — The Manhattan district attorney’s office made history last week by bringing the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.

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Here’s the advice Obama just gave Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson

The advice the former president had for the city’s new mayor-elect wasn’t about politics or policy.

Chicago Sun-Times

House GOP dysfunction fuels Democrats' hardball budget tactics

Democrats stick to strategy of not negotiating until GOP has a budget plan.

Axios

Justice Clarence Thomas’s megadonor friend collects Hitler memorabilia – report

Harlan Crow, closely linked to judge, has a signed copy of Mein Kampf and dictator’s paintings

The Guardian - US

Matthew Kacsmaryk: Who is the Trump-appointed judge trying to ban abortion pills?

Texas judge presiding over several cases with far-reaching national implications

The Independent UK

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Chicago man who recorded himself inside Nancy Pelosi’s office convicted in Jan. 6 riot

Kevin James Lyons, of Gladstone Park, was convicted of six federal charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. He could face more than 20 years in prison.

Chicago Sun-Times

Abortion pill order latest contentious ruling by Texas judge

A Texas judge who sparked a legal firestorm with an unprecedented ruling halting approval of the nation’s most common method of abortion is a former attorney for a religious liberty legal group with a long history pushing conservative causes

The Independent UK

McCarthy faces GOP blowback after N.Y. Times leak

“The members I've spoken with are just stunned," one Republican told Axios.

Axios

Three trans girls playing sports is an emergency for Kansas Republicans

When it comes to trans people playing sports, the people pushing anti-trans legislation dress up their bigotry in the language of women’s rights

The Guardian - US

Biden took jobless rate to 3.5%, but for how much longer?

President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings

The Independent UK

Progressives tout string of wins across US as template for Democrats

Victories in Chicago and St Louis, plus a key judicial race in Wisconsin, argue against tacking to center, leftwingers say

The Guardian - US

Same world, different planet: Trump’s arrest lays bare US polarization

Reactions to the former president’s court appearance on hush money charges were diametrically opposite depending on political persuasion

The Guardian - US

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Salon

Watchdog: Leo profits from non-profit

Campaign for Accountability complaint calls for IRS investigation into tax-exempt groups linked to Leonard Leo

WEKU

Trump wasn't put under a gag order, but he was told to watch his words

Gag orders ride a fine line between balancing the right to free speech and to a fair trial. They restrict what trial participants can and cannot say outside of court.

The Guardian - US

Vow of silence: why Biden is saying nothing about Trump’s indictment

Trump made history by becoming the first former US president to be criminally charged but his successor has studiously avoided the subject

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Don’t be fooled. NC Republicans aren’t solving anything with trans sports ban

Diving headfirst into the anti-LGBTQ+ culture war, North Carolina Republicans have filed legislation intended to prevent transgender female athletes from playing on women’s high school sports teams.

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Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Lawmakers with no pride in their immigrant heritage help DeSantis crush our communities

Immigrant-hate-stoking Florida Gov. DeSantis should be persona non grata in South Florida. But gullible voters eagerly follow charlatans.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election should never have happened

On Tuesday, Janet Protasiewicz defeated Dan Kelly for a seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. At $42 million, it was the most expensive state Supreme Court race in our nation’s history. The outcome swings the Wisconsin court’s majority away from a textualism and originalist orientation and toward more purpose-driven or evolving…

The Guardian - US

The case(s) against Trump: New York charges only beginning of legal woes

Experts suggest the quantity and gravity of upcoming investigations could ultimately bury his electoral chances

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Public proceedings, private profit: The Donald Trump court transcripts must be freely available to all

Voila: Tuesday night, posted on the website of ABC News, there was the full 32-page transcript from Donald Trump’s arraignment, allowing the world to read precisely what transpired in the most closely watched hearing of the decade. And then, poof, it disappeared the next day, the casualty of an asinine…

The Independent UK

Biden's ancestral hometowns prepare warm Irish welcome

Excitement is building in Ballina, a small Irish town that was home to some of President Joe Biden's ancestors

Chicago Tribune

Chicago man who stormed Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 found guilty as new details emerge

CHICAGO — One of the first Chicagoans charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was found guilty Friday on all six counts he faced related to the mob breach.

Chicago Tribune

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker casts doubt on part of Brandon Johnson’s tax plan after first meeting with Chicago mayor-elect

CHICAGO — Brandon Johnson will be looking to Springfield for help with parts of his estimated $450 million package of tax proposals, but Gov. J.B. Pritzker made clear after meeting Friday with Chicago’s mayor-elect that he doesn’t support a major component of the plan: a tax on financial transactions.

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