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Note:
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few
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How
Appealing
blog,
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devoted
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“Jeffrey
Epstein’s
Possible
Suicide
Note
Hidden
From
Public
View;
An
inmate
said
he
discovered
the
note
after
Mr.
Epstein
was
found
injured
in
his
jail
cell,
weeks
before
his
death;
It’s
now
locked
in
a
courthouse”: Benjamin
Weiser,
Steve
Eder,
and
Jan
Ransom
of
The
New
York
Times
have this
report.
“The
Comey
indictment
could
be
upended
by
this
2015
Supreme
Court
precedent;
The
high
court
a
decade
ago
explicitly
overturned
the
legal
standard
that
prosecutors
are
now
citing
to
charge
Comey
with
threatening
President
Trump”: Perry
Stein
of
The
Washington
Post
has this
news
analysis.
“Judge
Asks
Justice
Department:
Will
You
Oppose
Trump?
A
federal
judge
has
ordered
the
Justice
Department
to
explain
whether
it
intends
to
contest
President
Trump’s
$10
billion
lawsuit
against
the
I.R.S.
over
the
disclosure
of
his
tax
returns.” Andrew
Duehren
of
The
New
York
Times
has this
news
analysis.
“Inside
the
courtroom
for
the
Voting
Rights
Act’s
final
bow;
Before
the
Supreme
Court
began
broadcasting
live
audio
from
inside
the
courtroom,
Justices
Alito
and
Kagan
gave
dueling
views
over
the
intersection
of
race
and
politics
in
a
representative
democracy”: Kelsey
Reichmann
of
Courthouse
News
Service
has this
report.
“Trump
Judicial
Pick
ABA
Rated
Unqualified
Advances
in
Senate”: Olivia
Alafriz
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.
And
Benjamin
S.
Weiss
of
Courthouse
News
Service
reports
that
“Top
Democrat
decries
‘slow-mo
self-destruction’
of
Senate
Judiciary
Committee;
In
an
extraordinary
statement,
Rhode
Island
Senator
Sheldon
Whitehouse
slammed
his
colleagues
on
the
Senate’s
powerful
judicial
affairs
panel
for
handing
their
authority
over
nominees
to
the
executive
branch.”
“Big
Law
Firms
Asked
to
Weigh
in
on
Trump
IRS
Case
Jurisdiction”: Erin
Slowey
of
Bloomberg
Law
has this
report.