It’s been a great week for the late night comics: Trump’s courtroom catnaps, Kristi Noem’s one-person animal control program, and Joe Biden’s week-late contribution to the annual 4-20 marijuana celebration.

• Abortion laws continue to torment elected Republicans
  South Dakota abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measure – NBC News
• Joe Biden has an epiphany with a reclassification of weed
• Trump opens up to Time magazine about his 2nd term plans – and it’s dystopian preview
  Donald Trump on What His Second Term Would Look Like – TIME
• And the Trump stage show drops into Michigan to heap insults on state Democrats, judges and prosecutors
  ‘Everything’s bad,’ Trump tells Michigan rally, offering policy solutions – mlive.com
  Trump warns of tax hikes, EV doom in Michigan rally. Here are the facts – Bridge Michigan
  Trump backs surveillance and prosecution of women to enforce abortion bans – Judd Legum/Popular Information
• Alleged Republican leaders who loudly proclaim Donald Trump is a threat to the nation say that’s not as bad as Joe Biden
• Peter Meijer concedes the obvious: he can’t win the GOP Senate nomination
• GOP frontrunner Mike Rogers has a residency problem – his alleged Michigan home has been torn down
• Two top-level Michigan congressional candidates face challenges on their petitions. We hear from the state’s top election lawyer … that would be Mark Brewer!

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