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Meanwhile, in New York, jurors will continue to deliberate on whether Donald Trump is guilty for falsifying business records to conceal silence-cash payments before the 2016 election to the Custodian Hugo Lowell reports that prosecutors have presented a mass of evidence pointing to his guilt — but whether jurors will agree, as always, is an open question:

When the jury began deliberations on Wednesday, Donald Trump there seemed to be little room to escape from the mass of evidence presented in the weeks-long case.

A recording of Trump ordering the money to be paid in cash. Handwritten notes from Trump’s former chief financial officer on how to reimburse Cohen. A parade of witnesses testifying as Trump’s campaign desperately tried to suppress the story of his affair with the adult movie star Stormy Daniels.

That evidence is part of the Manhattan district attorney’s case that Trump caused false entries in the Trump Organization’s business records and that the falsifications were carried out as part of a conspiracy to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business documents. And now the jury will have to decide whether prosecutors proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt or whether Trump’s defenders poked enough holes in the prosecution’s case.

Clarence Thomas‘c the wife called to cancel the 2020 elections. Samuel Alito there were right-wing flags in two of his properties. Yet both conservative justices will rule Donald Trumpseeking immunity from prosecution for his election meddling, despite calls from Democrats to withdraw from that and other cases because they conflict.

in opinion essay published in the New York Times, a Democratic congressman Jamie Raskina prominent Trump antagonist in the House of Representatives suggested a new way to force the two judges to recuse themselves from the case:

The U.S. Department of Justice—including the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Special U.S. Attorney Designate, and the Solicitor General, all of whom participated in various ways in the prosecution underlying these cases and oppose the constitutional and statutory claims of Mr. Trump – may petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves, not voluntarily, but by law.

The Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland can cite two powerful textual authorities for this proposition: the United States Constitution, specifically the Due Process Clause, and the federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality, 28 USC Section 455. The Constitution has come into play in several recent Supreme Court decisions, overturning decisions by stubborn lower court judges whose political impartiality was reasonably questioned but who threw caution to the wind to hear a case anyway. That statute requires potentially biased judges in the federal system to recuse themselves early in the process to avoid judicial unfairness and inconvenient controversies and reversals.

We’ll have to see if the DOJ buys it for that strategy. Meanwhile, Trump’s immunity case could be among those released at 10 a.m. ET when the high court issues rulings.

Good morning, readers of an American political blog. As soon as this morning, at 10 a.m. ET, the high court will issue opinions, potentially in some of the closely watched cases on which the justices have not yet ruled. It is among them Donald Trump‘c petition for immunity from federal charges brought against him for trying to overturn the 2020 election, as well as two cases related to access to abortion. One concerns whether the Biden administration may require hospitals in states with strict bans on performing the procedure in emergencies, and the other is engaged in a conservative effort to return stock of mifepristone abortion pills. With six conservative justices and three liberal justices, the court has a marked right-wing slant, but much uncertainty remains and, as always, we do not know in advance which cases they will rule on or how many opinions they will issue.

A decision in the Trump case would present an interesting split-screen with the scene in New York, where jurors begin their second day of deliberations in his business fraud case. It is not known when they will come out with a verdict, but nevertheless they find that the former president will undoubtedly cause a shock in the 2024 election campaign.

Here’s what else is happening today:

• A group of Senate Democrats urge the Justice Department to investigate oil companies and executives after the Federal Trade Commission charged a former oil executive with conspiring to raise gas prices.

• Joe Biden is spending the day in his home state of Delaware after yesterday making a push to unite black voters by holding a rare joint rally with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia.

• Jamie Raskincongressman democrat claimed in the New York Times that there is a way to coerce conservative chief justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas recuse themselves from cases related to the 2020 elections, among reports for their ties to right-wing causes.