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Take a deep breath, because here we go again. The French legislative election is on Sunday. As the clock turns over to early Saturday morning, we entered Silence électoral, or the blackout period, when media coverage and campaigning stops…

Nicole and I talked about Joe BIden and John Roberts.

The value of the diamonds for which Brazil will charge Jair Bolsonaro laundering pale in comparison to the money Saudi Arabia has given to that other coup-plotter, Donald Trump.

After years of trying to find a former spook he could accuse of politicizing intelligence on the federal dime, Jim Jordan finally found one: John Ratcliffe.

By refusing all review of improper pressure on the Attorney General, John Roberts has not eliminated the risk of revenge and despotism. He has, rather, sanctioned it.

Imagine how outrageous it would be for Joe Biden to pardon Nicholas Roske, the man who armed himself and showed up at Justice Kavanaugh's home threatening to kill him. Yet that is precisely what the Republican Justices did in response to an exactly equivalent threat facing Congress, Biden voters, and democracy.

In an opinion that tries to cloak his power grab with an appeal to President Washington, John Roberts has suffocated the greatest thing Washington gave the United States, the presumption that Presidents would cede to the power of elections.

Yes, if the President sics SEAL Team Six on his opponent as an official act, he is presumptively immune from consequences.

The calls for Biden to resign the Presidency at which, by most measures, he continues to have historic success, only to leave Kamala Harris without a Vice President are as silly as calls for 71-year old Sherrod Brown to replace Biden on the presidential ticket.

Welcome to NYT's 2024 election FUD operation: “But His Debate”