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‘Cognitively impaired’? Trump’s confused attacks on Biden start to backfire

Trump has portrayed the president as too old and too mentally fogged to occupy the Oval Office, but his tactics rebounded on Friday

The Guardian - US

Evanston should support Northwestern’s latest proposal on Ryan Field

It’s hard to understand why six additional nights of music events a year are too much of a burden. The project would create transformational change for many Evanstonians.

Chicago Sun-Times

Speaker McCarthy running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at new plan

Speaker Kevin McCarthy is running out of options as he races to come up with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down

The Independent UK

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Donald Trump claims credit for saving Ken Paxton

Paxton and Trump have long been closely aligned, with the Texas attorney general leading a lawsuit to challenge the 2020 presidential election results.

The Texas Tribune

Trump says he doesn’t worry about possibility of jail as he refuses to rule out pardoning himself

Former president said he considered self-pardon before leaving the White House

The Independent UK

DOJ to court: Trump could spark violence

Notifying Trump of a warrant "could precipitate violence" like after the FBI Mar-a-Lago search, prosecutors said

Salon

Biden unveils new nickname for Trump

‘There are only two presidents in American history with fewer jobs the day they left office than when they started,’ Biden says

The Independent UK

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Trump calls DeSantis abortion ban 'a terrible mistake,' sparking anger from some key Republicans

Donald Trump is facing political blowback from within his party for his comments about abortion

The Independent UK

Trump marks Rosh Hashanah with antisemitic post

‘Let’s hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward,’ New Year’s message from former president says

The Independent UK

Trump on trial: experts answer key legal and political questions about what could happen next

Donald Trump has notoriously become the only former US president to face a criminal indictment — much less four. Opinions on the prosecutions, predictably, break along partisan lines.

The Conversation

Lauren Boebert attacked by her own party for ‘lewd sex acts’ at Beetlejuice show

‘This is “family values”? This is why people think the GOP are all hypocrites,’ Meghan McCain wrote

The Independent UK

Here’s the scary way Trump could win without the electoral or popular vote

In a ‘contingent election’, he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US president

The Guardian - US

California voters will decide two constitutional amendments related to changing supermajority requirements for ballot measures

The California State Legislature passed two constitutional amendments on Sept. 14, 2023, that would change voter approval thresholds for certain ballot measures. Both of the constitutional amendments will appear on the ballot in Nov. 2024.

Ballotpedia

Illinois becomes first state in nation to eliminate cash bail: Here’s how it will work

It’s been two years since the Pretrial Fairness Act was passed, but questions remain about who will be jailed and who will not.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Salon

Trump keeps confessing to new crimes

Donald Trump continues to show he is completely oblivious to the legal damage he is doing to himself when he speaks

Reason

There's Plenty of Evidence of Corruption Around Biden

When talking heads say “no evidence,” they mean “no smoking-gun proof.”

Chicago Sun-Times

J.D. Vance’s plan to block confirmation of April Perry as U.S. attorney is politics at its worst

Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance plans to block the vote on Perry’s nomination to be U.S. attorney based in Chicago, as well as holds on other Justice Department appointments, because he’s angry about investigations into Donald Trump.

The Guardian - US

Ohio’s Democratic senator fights to keep one of the party’s most threatened seats

Sherrod Brown is popular among blue-collar workers and people of color, but seat is not assured in increasingly Republican state

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The Guardian - US

Trump found an election strategy that works – so he’s sticking to it

Indictments were unexpectedly useful for Trump to test theory that his criminal cases could benefit his campaign, and vice versa

The Texas Tribune

An emboldened Ken Paxton returns to a battered attorney general’s office

The impeachment proceedings, and the events that precipitated them, have left the Texas Office of the Attorney General in turmoil. Can Paxton steady the ship of an institution vital to the conservative cause?

Ballotpedia

The 2023 ballots count is set. Here’s what you need to know.

Welcome to the Monday, September 18, Brew.

WEKU

The U.S. has a 'primary problem,' say advocates who call for new election systems

There's a lot of discontent with America's political system, including with party-based primary elections. So reform advocates are urging states to move to nonpartisan primaries.

WEKU

In the tale of 5 presidential impeachments, how will the latest one stack up?

House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. But this case is different — both in substance and in process — than those of former presidents Nixon, Clinton and Trump.

The Independent UK

Judge to hold hearing on ex-DOJ official's request to move Georgia election case to federal court

A federal judge who rejected efforts by former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to move his charges in the Georgia election subversion case to federal court is set to hear arguments from former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on the same issue

The Independent UK

North Carolina Republicans seek control over state and local election boards ahead of 2024

Republicans who control the North Carolina legislature with veto-proof majorities are close to wresting supervision of elections from the governor and the governor’s party — almost always the Democrats for over a century

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