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Former President Donald Trump has taken advantage of the news cycle following last week's debate with President Joe Biden, allowing the president to contend with a growing chorus of voices from the beltway media and within his own party for him to end his reelection campaign.

According to a Thursday report in CNN, Trumpworld is executing a strategy of laying low despite there being just four months remaining in the election cycle, under the belief that putting Trump out there may distract from the relentlessly negative news cycle Biden is currently contending with.

President Joe Biden told Democratic governors Wednesday that he has a brand new bed time, according to breaking new reports.

The president said in a White House meeting he'll stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. to allow more time for sleep, three sources told CNN.

On the 4th of July, the New York Times opinion section chose to publish an op-ed from a Michigan resident making his case to not vote in the 2024 election. One democracy expert slammed the national paper of record for its decision to run the essay.

The column, which is titled, "Why I Don't Vote. And Why Maybe You Shouldn't Either," is by Matthew Walther, who is a contributing editor to The American Conservative. With a noticeable tone of considerable disgust, Walther describes the term "civic duty" — which voting rights advocates often use when making the case to participate in the electoral process — as "off-putting."

During an appearance on MSNBC on July 4th afternoon, Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick expressed skepticism that Chief Justice John Roberts has any idea what he expects from the lower courts after his majority ruling on Donald Trump's presidential criminal immunity was punted back to them.

Speaking with host Richard Lui and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, the topic turned to the Supreme Court's stunning 6-3 majority opinion that seems to absolve Donald Trump of any criminality committed while he was president.

At issue was the conservative majority court's broad expansion of what constitutes "presidential duties" as opposed to "personal conduct."

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With Judge Chutkan being put on the spot to make her own determination after holding evidentiary hearings as soon as possible, only to have the Supreme Court to review her findings, Lithwick suggested Roberts himself is in the dark as to what he is looking for from the lower court judge and in the Trump Manhattan hush-money case that has been being presided over by Judge Juan Merchan who is also undertaking a review.

"But it's really not a clear test, it's an incredibly murky test, and the court wants it to get worked out in the appellate process," Lithwick offered. "So, you know, the short answer I think we can do a ton of lawyering around this and clearly, that's what [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg's team is going to try to do is lawyer this, and I think Glenn's right."

"An awful lot of this conduct by any construction of what is private unofficial acts still seems to survive, But I want to be really clear. I don't know that John Roberts knows what the test is that he's set forth in his opinion on Monday," she added.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door to some "outlandish scenarios" that would horrify the nation's founders, according to a former high-ranking Justice Department official.

The conservative majority's 6-3 decision to grant immunity to Donald Trump and jeopardize the criminal cases against him robbed some of the cheer from of this year's Fourth of July celebration, former deputy attorney general Harry Litman told MSNBC, and called to mind another holiday.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett raised eyebrows with her dissent last week in a case involving the Environmental Protection Agency and criticizing her conservative colleagues' reasoning in other cases, but an expert cautioned that she wouldn't likely become more moderate.

Barrett lined up with her fellow Donald Trump nominees in most of the major cases this term that split along the ideological divide, but she sided with liberals in the EPA case, called justice Clarence Thomas "wrong twice over" in a majority opinion she joined and split with conservatives on part of the former president's immunity claim, reported the Washington Post.

In a tongue-in-cheek column for the New Republic, a former advisor to both Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton suggested President Joe Biden test the boundaries of a recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

Noting the conservative-leaning court appears to be giving whomever is president unfettered authority to do anything they want as long as it is done under the vague imprimatur of an "official act," Sidney Blumenthal jokingly suggested Biden start by arresting members of the opposing party.

Speaking in Biden's voice he wrote, "I have read the court’s majority opinion that an official act of the president is “presumptively” immune from all prosecution during and after his term, and that the president’s motive cannot be questioned," and then added he was taking "the court’s opinion to heart. I am not one to defy the court. I am, as many have remarked, an institutionalist."

With that so stated, Blumenthal — again speaking for Biden — wrote, "I regret to inform you that Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has been arrested. A number of other members of the House Republican Conference have been taken into custody. Jim Jordan, unfortunately, attempted to resist arrest. After wrestling with an FBI agent, he met a tragic fate," for which he added, "we can all give thanks to the Supreme Court."

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The Fourth of July weekend should be crucial for president Joe Biden as he seeks to reassure panicked Democrats that he remains capable of winning re-election and serving another term.

The 81-year-old president set off alarms last week in his first debate against Donald Trump, where he appeared hesitant and frail, and some Democrats have already come forward to say publicly that he should step aside, and CNN's Sunlen Serfaty reported that party leaders convened a call to discuss the rapidly unfolding situation.

Although the US Supreme Court ruled in Donald Trump's favor Monday, deciding that the MAGA leader should be immune from federal prosecution when it comes to "official acts," one legal expert writes in a Thursday, July 3 op-ed published by CNN that the ruling is not the win many think it is for the former president.

Norman Eisen — a former White House ethics lawyer — argues, "Trump is not immune in his 34 felony convictions in Manhattan or the Georgia prosecution, and his current and coming efforts to invoke the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in both places will surely fail."

According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, there is not enough attention being paid to an ominous threat made by the Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts when he hinted at violence if Donald Trump is not reelected.

Described as the architect of the authoritarian Project 2025 document that provides a roadmap for a re-elected Trump to shut down government departments and purge civil servants deemed not loyal to the convicted felon ex-president, Roberts appeared on Steve Bannon's War Room this past week where he told fill-in host Dave Brat, "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."

Voters see a stark difference between their two choices in the 2024 presidential election.

A recent CNN poll conducted by SSRS found 91 percent of registered voters see significant differences between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the network reported, and only 20 percent of the so-called "double haters" who don't like either candidate say they're basically the same.