The People's Enemy

Below are many links to stories in a wide variety of outlooks with varied points of view about The Verdict.

Ultimately, it will be up to the voters as to what this all means politically.

Now that the jury has rendered its verdict, it is up to the judge to determine the sentence. There are many factors that go into such a decision but some of them go to the character of the felon.

So it is fair to ask: Does he express remorse for his crimes? Will he apologize to his victims? Does he even admit to his guilt? Will he promise not to recommit his crimes? Does he show respect to the jury, the judge, the court? Does he represent a threat to the community?

I think we already know the answers to all those questions, so the overriding issue facing the judge is:

What do you do with the most dangerous felon in the land?

HEADLINES:

• New poll shows voters approve of Trump’s hush money conviction (Today)

• Looming over Trump’s conviction: Reversal by the ‘13th juror’ (Politico)

• Half of Americans think Trump's guilty verdict was correct, should end campaign: POLL (ABC)

• What Trump's conviction means for the election (BBC)

• Trump's guilty verdict: A stress test for democracy (CBS)

• Trump Has Few Ways to Overturn His Conviction as a New York Felon (NYT)

• The Memo: Don’t assume New York verdict will bounce back to Trump’s benefit (The Hill)

• Trump guilty verdict vindicates N.Y. prosecutor who quietly pursued a risky path (WP)

• Trump verdict makes significant number of Republicans less likely to support him: poll (Fox)

• Trump Was Convicted by a Jury, Not by His Political Enemies (WSJ)

• Claudia Sheinbaum projected to be Mexico's first woman president (CNN)

• America braces as supreme court to hand down rulings on raft of key issues (Guardian)

• How is climate change affecting heat waves in California and the West? (LAT)

• Work friendships fade in remote era (Axios)

• Biden team hails ‘lightning speed’ call on strikes in Russia. Meanwhile, Kharkiv burned. (WP)

• Netanyahu tries to avoid coalition implosion over Gaza ceasefire plan (Guardian)

• Google’s AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why (Ars Technica)

• The AI Revolution Is Already Losing Steam (WSJ)

• The term ‘Artificial Intelligence” is only half right (NJ)

• OpenAI is restarting its robotics research group (RobotResearch)

• Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling (NYT)

• Historians Confirm Lewis And Clark Set Out On Expedition To Justify Purchase Of Expensive Camping Equipment (The Onion)