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Donald Trump's motion to dismiss his federal elections case may not have been directed at the judge overseeing the case, according to a former prosecutor.

Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman said on Thursday that Trump's motion, in which the former president sought to dismiss the case based on blanket presidential immunity, seems to be aimed at the Supreme Court. Specifically, according to Litman, the conservative jurists on that court.

Litman noted that, "in contrast to the standard slapdash quality, and the obvious appeal to the political followers, the brief is relatively polished and larded up with fancy authorities," including a Scalia book....

Meredith Attwell Baker, one of the two Republican Commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, is planning to resign and become a lobbyist for the cable giant Comcast-NBC Universal.