Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon
Plus: How to Think—and Talk—About Marriage Today
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PHILIP ROTNER: Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon.
THE JUDGE PRESIDING OVER Donald Trump’s classified documents prosecution just gave Special Counsel Jack Smith a gift that he desperately needed: a fresh opening to seek her removal from the case.
Last week, Judge Aileen Cannon ordered defense lawyers and prosecutors to propose jury instructions based on two scenarios, “each of which badly misstates the law and facts of the case,” as the Washington Post explained.
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WILL SALETAN: How to Think—and Talk—About Marriage Today.
SHOULD YOU GET MARRIED? Should you stay married? Should the government do more to promote marriage?
Most of us don’t raise these questions in polite company. We don’t want to make our friends or family uncomfortable, and politically, marriage has become part of the culture wars. When conservatives bring it up, liberals worry that single women and gay people will be targeted.
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As with every year, I watch baseball through a prism of my Fandom: Cleveland first, always, Saint Louis, and Washington in third. I will be staying up late for my fix from the great Tom Hamilton, live from Oakland.
A Yankee, an ostrich… and 22 plates of pasta (MLB)
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