'This election is for all the marbles' Wisconsin Supreme Court race heats up
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- The Telegraph
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Jon Stewart sarcastically says 'what's happened to our country' after being asked about a potential Trump indictment: 'It's as though you can't even commit financial fraud anymore'
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Trump Claims Without Evidence That District Attorney ‘Already Dropped’ the Stormy Daniels Case
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Trump's own attorney says the former president's TruthSocial posts attacking Manhattan prosecutor ahead of possible indictment were 'ill-advised'
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Column: The law is on Trump's tail, and he sounds pretty worried
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Georgia prosecutors ordered to respond to Trump's effort to quash grand jury report
Georgia prosecutors have until May 1 to respond to former President Donald Trump's effort to quash a grand jury's final report into his alleged attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the U.S. state. Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, who presided over the grand jury investigation, issued the order on Monday, two months after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said decisions on whether to charge Trump were "imminent." Last week Trump filed a motion to quash the final report, excerpts of which were made public.
- Rolling Stone
Trump Says He’s ‘The Most Innocent Man in the History of Our Country’ at Lie-Filled Waco Rally
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Trump tried to mock Ron DeSantis at his Texas rally. He was met with mostly silence from the audience.
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- The Hill
Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Kansas congressional map
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Trump said he'd 'fight like hell' for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she ran for the Senate: 'People don't realize how brilliant she is'
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- The New York Times
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