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Justice Department will ‘go for incarceration’ if Trump is convicted in classified papers case, lawyer says

Trump has ‘national security secrets bouncing around his brain, such that if someone holds a shiv to his neck, he’ll reveal the location of our missile bases,’ national security attorney says

The Independent UK

Trump's campaign for the presidency now also a fight for his freedom

Whoever wins the presidency could be in position to influence Trump's criminal case.

Axios

Jonathan Turley tells Fox News the Trump indictment is ‘extremely damning’ and a ‘hit below the waterline’

Lawyer says Trump legal team ‘have to take out every single count, or you’ve got a 76-year-old man looking at a potentially terminal sentence’

The Independent UK

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Kuwaiti newsreader is just one facet of AI penetration of media

A very convincing AI-generated newsreader has debuted in Kuwait, but there are more sinister forms of AI that threaten the media.

The New Daily

Washington Post on ChatGPT Making Up Defamatory Accusations

The article (Pranshu Verma & Will Oremus) (paywalled), which was prompted by Jonathan Turley's USA Today piece, just went up. The general analysis should be familiar to our readers (see the Large Libel Models thread), but here is a comment from an OpenAI spokesperson: When users sign up for ChatGPT,…

Reason

How did TV cover Trump's arraignment? It depends on whom you watched

NEW YORK — The arraignment of former President Trump in a Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday created one of those increasingly rare collective TV viewing experiences with every cable news channel and broadcast network focused on the proceedings.

Los Angeles Times

Details in 2021 case with Colorado shooter suggest missteps

Documents released in the 2021 dropped prosecution of the Colorado gay nightclub shooter paint a picture of potential missteps by prosecutors

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Warnings on gay club shooter stir questions about old case

A California woman who warned a judge last year about the danger posed by the Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter says the deaths could have been prevented if earlier charges against the suspect weren’t dismissed

The Independent UK

North Dakota high court: Judge should revisit abortion order

A North Dakota judge who refused to allow the state’s abortion ban to take effect while a clinic’s legal challenge is pending has been ordered to take another look at that decision

The Independent UK

To charge or not to charge Trump? Garland has nothing but hard choices

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland is rapidly approaching a choice likely to shape American politics and the boundaries of law enforcement for decades: whether Donald Trump will be the first former U.S. president charged with a crime.

Tribune News Service

Trump Reportedly Retained Hundreds of Documents That Were Marked As Classified

We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.

Reason

Fake electors may provide easiest path for DOJ to charge Trump

As Congressional hearings into Jan. 6 pause for an August break, the focus turns to the U.S. Justice Department, which must decide whether to prosecute former President Donald Trump.

Tribune News Service

Texas sues health secretary over emergency abortion guidance

The state of Texas is suing the federal government after the Biden administration said earlier this week that federal rules require hospitals to provide abortions if the procedure is necessary to save a mother’s life

The Independent UK

‘Breathtaking’: Fox News analyst says latest Jan 6 hearing ‘should shock everyone’

‘It’s almost like this is Dr Strangelove and the president is saying there is no fighting in the war room. It was just a bizarre moment’

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'Seditious Conspiracy' Charges for Proud Boys Taint January 6 Prosecutions

Normal criminal law covers the alleged acts without politicizing proceedings.

The Guardian - US

Prepare for McCarthy-era crackdowns on pro-choice protesters

Conservatives and corporate media pundits want to use a Red Scare statute to arrest people demonstrating against the looming anti-abortion victory

Salon

Kelly pushes back on Barr's SCOTUS take

“That’s a stretch, though, no?”

Reason

Officials Seizing Russian Yachts Now May Steal Americans' Property in the Future

Going after oligarchs breathes new life into sketchy asset forfeiture powers.

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Prof. Jonathan Turley on Blacklisting Artists for Their Political Positions

A very good post, I think, here; a brief excerpt: "It is a great artistic loss for the Met and for opera." Those words from the Metropolitan Opera Manager Peter Gelb makes it sound like soprano Anna Netrebko has died or lost her voice in some accident. In reality, Netrebko…

Reason

Prof. Jonathan Turley (GW) on the Trump Civil Incitement Opinion

From today's item in The Hill: When Trump's lawyers said his language was largely indistinguishable from that of many Democrats like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Mehta chided them for playing "a game of what-aboutism." That "what-aboutism," however, is precisely the point. The selective imposition of liability for speech is the…

The Independent UK

AOC mocks Fox analyst for comparing Canadian trucker convoy to Martin Luther King

The comparison between the late civil rights activist and the ‘freedom convoy’ backfired on social media

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