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This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss how Trump’s trip to the Middle East is wildly off the scale of any past corruption and offensive to American tradition, the Supreme Court hearing arguments in the first case in Trump’s attempts to limit birthright citizenship, and the buzz about a new book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Leonardo Nicoletti, Anthony Cormier, and David Kocieniewski for Bloomberg: Top Trump Crypto Buyers Vying for Dinner Seats Are Likely Foreign, Data Shows
Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Susannah George, Emily Davies, and Todd C. Frankel for The Washington Post: Trump’s Middle East trip marked by potential private business conflicts
Abdallah Fayyad for Vox: How corrupt is Trump’s plan to accept a Qatari plane?
Judd Legum for Popular Information (Substack): Why Qatar is bribing Trump
The Editorial Board for The Wall Street Journal (Opinion): The Trump Family Crypto Business
Jeffrey Blehar for National Review: Trump Never Wanted to Drain the Swamp, He Wanted to Rule It
Alex Shephard for The New Republic: Trump Truly Is the Greatest President of All Time (at Being Corrupt)
Megan Cerullo for CBS News: Most Americans don’t earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds
Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Questions about Thursday’s oral argument in the birthright citizenship dispute? We have (some) answers.
Steven Lubet for The Hill (Opinion): Supreme failure: Trump’s lawyers will flop in arguments against birthright citizenship
Jacob Sullum for Reason: Defenders of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Offer an Implausible Take on a 127-Year-Old Precedent
Steve Vladek for One First (Substack): The One First “Long Read”: Hostility to Universal Relief as a Way to Defend an Unconstitutional Policy
Andrew C. McCarthy for National Review: Injunction Dysfunction Is a Threat to Our System
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson for The New Yorker: How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump
Philip Klein for National Review: Biden’s Decline Was So Shocking That Most Americans Long Knew About It
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Pushkin.fm: Deep Cover, a podcast by Jake Halpern; new season: “The Truth About Sarah”. Maya C. Miller and Devlin Barrett for the Washington Post: Trump Installs Top Justice Dept. Official at Library of Congress, Prompting a Standoff; Nikki McCann Ramirez, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Andrew Perez for Rolling Stone: Trump is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library.
John: Neda Ulaby for NPR (All Things Considered): Oaklee, Oakley, Oakleigh: Parents branch out to oak-based names, especially in red states
David: Moss and Fog newsletter. Moss and Fog: The Tallest Building in Maine to Stand Like a Lighthouse. Gabbi Shaw for Business Insider: The tallest building in every state, ranked.
Listener chatter from John Cahill in Skokie, Illinois: Peoples Gas removes 164-year-old pipe under Chicago’s Wabash Avenue
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David discuss the Trump administration admitting White South Africans as expedited refugees from a nonexistent “genocide” while removing deportation protections from Afghan refugees.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, John talks with author Maggie Smith about her new book, Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life.
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