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Oct 31, 2024 | 
salon.com | Dennis Aftergut |Laurence H. Tribe
Readers of the Washington Post flocked to read Jeff Bezos' essay this week defending his decision to stop his editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris. They wanted to see his explanation of the inexplicable, to understand why he shot the fluorescent lighting out in the editorial board room of the paper whose banner reads “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Predictably, Bezos' defense failed more miserably than the Union Army at Fort Sumter in 1861.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Dennis Aftergut |Austin Sarat
Kamala Harris delivered a compelling closing argument last night before a crowd of 75,000 on the Washington Ellipse. At the site of Donald Trump’s insurrection-inciting speech on Jan. 6, 2021, she forcefully laid out the theory of her case. The vice president artfully wove together vision and contrast, what drives her to run and what is at stake in this election.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Donald B. Ayer |Philip Lacovara |Dennis Aftergut
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. The pre-election public record is full of clues—flashing red lights, really—that Donald Trump is preparing to try to steal the vote again if he loses. The Justice Department should be investigating it now. Any legitimate, fact-based court challenges to particular vote counts are not the problem.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
nydailynews.com | Dennis Aftergut
The sidewalks of New York: Welcoming more room for walkers on Fifth Ave.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
slate.com | Dennis Aftergut |Austin Sarat
Politics On Tuesday, a Georgia court scored a victory for the rule of law and free and fair elections. Judge Robert McBurney issued an order stopping the enforcement of a Sept. 20 rule promulgated by the MAGA majority of the State Election Board. With early voting in Georgia about to begin, McBurney’s order stated that the rule was “too much, too late” in the election cycle. The rule would have required the hand counting of ballots in the Nov.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Dennis Aftergut
IT’S EASY TO GRASP WHY there was plenty of coverage of Donald Trump’s bizarre episode last night—in which he gently swayed to musicfor 39 minutes on stage in Pennsylvania, raising new questions about his mental health.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
msn.com | Dennis Aftergut |Austin Sarat
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Dennis Aftergut |Austin Sarat
Donald Trump’s 10 October attack on CBS for editing its 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris – a normal television process – is pure distraction. It is designed to draw our attention away from the fact that he was afraid to give the news magazine its traditional interview with both political candidates.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Dennis Aftergut
“IT DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU WON OR LOST THE ELECTION. You still have to fight like hell.” That is, according to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s recent evidentiary filing in his case against Donald Trump for the January 6th insurrection, what Trump said at a crucial moment in 2020. That was his plan then—and all signs indicate that it is his plan now. There’s nothing normal about Trump’s campaign this year.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
slate.com | Philip Lacovara |Dennis Aftergut
Jurisprudence Last week, after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed special counsel Jack Smith’s redacted motion laying out his evidence in the Jan. 6 prosecution of Donald Trump, the former president resorted to one of his go-to distractions: accusing Smith of interfering with the election. But Trump’s accusations are, as usual, projection—election interference has long been his own political brand.
