Giuliani and Jenna Ellis in December 2020. (Rey Del Rio/Getty) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. Subscribe now On Wednesday, the denizens of Trumpworld who were foolish enough to go along with Trump’s hamfisted and illegal fake elector scheme in Arizona had a nine-count indictment dropped on their heads. All 11 Arizona residents who signed the hilariously fake-looking electoral certificate were charged, as were seven Trump cronies who coordinated fake elector efforts in mul ..read more

Screengrab via MSNBC PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ? Subscribe to Public Notice ? Donald Trump can’t stay awake in court. He’s currently on trial in New York for the Stormy Daniels hush money case — the actual election interference — and if convicted, he could face prison time. The proceedings should demand his complete attention, but he’s nodding off like he’s listening to a friend’s tedious poetry reading. Maggie Haberman at the New York Times reported last Monday, on ..read more

Screengrab via Fox News (see footage below) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ? Subscribe to Public Notice ? Fox News personality Jesse Watters spent the early days of former president Donald Trump’s New York trial attacking and trying to discredit the jury. That’s not surprising — Watters is an unscrupulous MAGA sycophant. What’s less inevitable, however, is that mainstream media outlets helped Watters to do his worst. Credible reporters have published personal details abo ..read more

(Via IJF) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ?? Subscribe to Public Notice ?? I spent Sunday making the long trek back to Minnesota from Rome, so for today’s newsletter I wanted to share the reason I journeyed to Italy in the first place: my panel discussion at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia about Twitter’s decline and fall under Elon Musk’s erratic right-wing stewardship. The talk was titled, “X and journalists: should I stay or should I go?” It was modera ..read more

Trump, pictured here on April 27, 2020, was obsessed with reopening the economy during a worsening pandemic. (Win McNamee/Getty) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ? Subscribe to Public Notice ? As we approach the four-year anniversary of Donald Trump suggesting from the White House podium that bleach injections could be a miracle covid cure, it’s worth underscoring that despite Republicans would have you believe, Trump’s presidency did not end in 2019. In fact, despite all ..read more

A Likud party billboard from 2019 touts Netanyahu’s closeness with Trump. (Amir Levy/Getty) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ?️ Subscribe to Public Notice ?️ The US two-party system is a perennial punching bag. “Can the US ever break the two-party binary?” Al Jazeera asked earlier this year. “How to fix democracy: Move beyond the two-party system, experts say,” the Washington Post declared in 2021. “Why America’s 2-party system is on a collision course with our consti ..read more

Trump at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta last week. (Megan Varner/Getty) ?? Subscribe to Public Notice ?? I’m in Italy this week to speak on a panel about twitter at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia and bum around Rome for a few days before then. As I pondered newsletter topics that would hold up well while I’m taking a week off from the grind, I figured that with recent polling showing positive movement for Biden, it’s a good occasion to check in with Simon Rosenberg about the state of the presidential race and why he thinks things will only get worse for Trump from here. Rosenberg ..read more

Trump during a pretrial hearing in his hush money case. (Curtis Means/Getty) PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ⚖️ Subscribe to Public Notice ⚖️ Despite a comically high number of attempts to stave it off, Donald Trump is set to face his first criminal trial later today. It remains to be seen whether he’ll be able to control his behavior any better than he did in his civil trials for defamation and fraud. But given his inability — or willful refusal — to adhere to gag orders ..read more

Sheehy during a recent appearance on Newsmax. PN is a reader-supported publication made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one, please click the button to support our independent journalism. ? Subscribe to Public Notice ? Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy spent last week confirming that he’s a liar, which is not exactly how you want to spend your week as a Senate candidate. Sheehy also demonstrated, for anyone who doubted it, that the GOP continues to have serious problems recruiting decent candidates for high office. Recruitment problems are why they don’t control the ..read more

McConnell, Cornyn, and Tom Tillis are encouraging right-wing judges to simply disregard a new policy aimed at curbing judge shopping. (Drew Angerer/Getty) This free edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. If you aren’t one already, please click the button below to support our independent journalism. ?‍⚖️ Subscribe to Public Notice ?‍⚖️ Besides the fact that Trump was able to stuff the federal courts with Federalist Society hard-line judges, conservatives have another tool at their disposal: rampant judge shopping. Litigants wanting their most outrageous claims to be rubber-stampe ..read more