Supreme Court Lets Virginia Proceed with Flawed Purge of Voter Rolls
Plus: Trump World and RFK Peeved by Transition Co-Chair’s CNN Interview
Here’s What We’re Doing Between Now and Election Day (in addition to the usual content)
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KIM WEHLE: Supreme Court Lets Virginia Proceed with Flawed Purge of Voter Rolls
DEPENDING ON HOW THINGS GO NEXT TUESDAY, we may soon see a wave of election-related lawsuits that will dwarf even the flood that followed the 2020 election. And some litigation is already underway—with two cases so far having reached the Supreme Court. A case from Pennsylvania is still pending, but on Wednesday, the Court handed down an order in a case from Virginia. The majority sided with the state’s Republican governor, permitting a purge from the registration rolls of possibly ineligible voters even though that purge definitely also removed some eligible citizens.
CATHY YOUNG: Trump Fantasized About Liz Cheney’s Violent Death. The Rest Is Trivial.
SO HERE WE ARE, IN THE HOME STRETCH of the 2024 presidential campaign, debating whether one of the two principal candidates was publicly fantasizing about a prominent political opponent being executed by firing squad, or merely shot in the face in combat.
And the answer is complicated—but also simple.
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MARC CAPUTO: Trump World and RFK Peeved by Transition Co-Chair’s CNN Interview
THE CO-CHAIR OF DONALD TRUMP’S TRANSITION TEAM turned heads this week when he questioned vaccines and discussed the controversy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s role in a future administration.
Inside Trump world, that appearance by Howard Lutnick on CNN set off fireworks as well.
WILL SELBER: President Bush, Do the Right Thing: Endorse Harris
I SERVED FOR NEARLY 1,500 DAYS in Iraq and Afghanistan under Presidents Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. However, I spent the most time deployed—and, more importantly, in the field—under former President Bush’s administration.
A.B. STODDARD: Trump Thinks America Wants His Perversions
MEASLES, MISINFORMATION, a “vigorous spanking” of misogyny—whether women like it or not—a violent nine-gun fantasy for political enemies, crudeness, petty insults, and cronyism.
Pick your perversion, America. His final hours of campaigning show Donald Trump is betting enough of us want this.
🚨OVERTIME🚨
Happy Saturday… And greetings from a Polvo’s in rainy Austin where you get this special Saturday Double-Overtime. Be sure to tune into Saturday Night Live tonight for a potential surprise Kamala Harris appearance.
Tim Miller… makes a final plea to Haley voters. If you have one in your life, send it along.
In a similar vein, here are open letters from alumni of each of the last few Republican presidents or presidential campaigns. Please share widely if one speaks to you and you might think it would speak to a friend. (Here was mine.)
Did you miss Tim Miller… On Bill Maher? (Catch the whole episode here.)
The United States Cannot Descend… Into Authoritarianism, argues Garry Kasparov at The Dispatch.
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