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The Associated Press reports: Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot. Filings late Thursday afternoon seek an “immediate and expedited consideration” for appeal and an “emergency application” to bypass the state …

“If you look at the real size of that crowd, it was never reported correctly. There were — it’s the biggest crowd I’ve ever spoken in front of by far. By far. I was going to and then Secret Service said you can’t, and then by the time— I would have, and then when I get back, I saw— I …

CNN reports: A New York appeals court judge on Thursday temporarily lifted the gag order placed on Donald Trump and his attorneys in his civil fraud trial following an emergency hearing. Associate Justice David Friedman of the First Judicial Department ruled from the bench. Trump’s lawyers had asked for the emergency relief earlier this week, arguing the gag order is …

The Insider reports: When it comes to Donald Trump’s estimates of his net worth, “questionable,” and “inconsistencies” are words you’d expect to hear only from his accuser, the state of New York. But on Wednesday, an expert accountant took the stand in Trump’s defense for a second day at the former president’s Manhattan fraud trial, and used these very words …

The Messenger reports: An attorney for one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election-racketeering case said at an emergency hearing Wednesday that he provided confidential video evidence to the media. “In being transparent with the court, and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened, and so I can go to sleep well tonight, judge, I …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Failed ABC Fake News reporter Jonathan Karl just wrote another bad book. He works sooo hard, but has sooo little talent – Some people have it, and some people don’t. In the “book” he has the World’s most overrated celebrity, Kim Kardashian, supposedly telling me that she “would leverage her celebrity to get …

“It’s much like what he did on Jan. 6. It continues to be off the rails in terms of the extent to which his invective infects these proceedings and is the potential to intimidate witnesses. I believe that, you know, at some point, comments like this will result in Trump not only being sanctioned. But at some point, these types …

“In just the last few days, Trump has said if he returns office he’s gonna go after all those who oppose him and wipe out what he called the vermin in America, quote ‘the vermin’ in America — a specific phrase because it’s just a specific meaning. That’s anguage you heard Nazi Germany in the 30s. That is not even …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the family of special counsel Jack Smith and his repeated invective against likely witnesses in his Washington, D.C. criminal case warrant the urgent restoration of a gag order against him, prosecutors argued Tuesday. Smith’s team urged a federal appeals court in Washington to reinstate the gag order — which a three-judge …

The Detroit News reports: A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump’s name can appear on primary ballots, saying it would be inappropriate to intervene and deem Trump ineligible. Michigan Court of Claims Judge James Robert Redford ultimately declined on Tuesday to bar Trump from getting a spot on the Feb. 27 primary ballot and refused to order …

Posted just now to Trump’s Truth Social account: My great sister, Maryanne, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge, in charge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, just below the U.S. Supreme …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Racist A.G. Letitia James is smirking all day long from her seat in Court, as New York continues to set records in murder and other violent crimes, and businesses flee to other States. “This is a law that’s rather bazar, this is a law that doesn’t require any victims (there are none, except me!), …

The Hill reports: Michael Cohen, previously a personal attorney of former President Trump, argued it could be “dangerous” to put his former boss behind bars, advocating instead for a prison-like house arrest. “He needs to be held accountable,” Cohen said in an interview on CNN Monday, when asked if the former president deserved jail time in any of his mounting …

CNN reports: The special counsel’s office is pushing back against Donald Trump using his Washington, DC, federal criminal trial as a spectacle, after Trump’s lawyers told the court this weekend he’d support cameras in the courtroom. Trump’s bid to open his DC federal criminal trial to cameras is “a transparent effort to demand special treatment, try his case in the …

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: Deranged Jack Smith, Andrew Weissmann, Lisa Monaco, the “team of losers and misfits” from CREW, and all the rest of the Radical Left Zealots and Thugs who have been working illegally for years to “take me down,” will end up, because of their suffering from a horrible disease, TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME (TDS!), in …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump denigrated his domestic opponents and critics during a Veterans Day speech Saturday, calling those on the other side of the aisle “vermin” and suggesting that they pose a greater threat to the United States than countries such as Russia, China or North Korea. That language is drawing rebuke from historians, who compared …

The New York Times reports: Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge who was an older sister of Donald J. Trump and served as both his protector and critic throughout their lives, has died. She was 86. Ms. Barry died at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump Jr. is back on the witness stand on Monday in the civil fraud trial that could boot him, his father and family from doing business in New York. He’s the lead witness for the defense, which is set to begin presenting its case to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron. Trump Jr. walked up the …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s attorney Alina Habba on Sunday said she will be filing for a mistrial in the former president’s fraud cause in New York “soon,” while raising concerns that it will be the same trial judge deciding on the motion. Trump has repeatedly expressed concerns on both social media and in court about the judge presiding …

Politico reports: Jack Smith’s public image, shaped by his near invisibility since taking over the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, has been that of a sullen, brooding and hard-charging prosecutor. His steely glare, on display in two arraignments of the former president and in a handful of public photos and videos, has contributed to a sort of mythology around …