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In the hours after the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, X became an even more chaotic space than usual, incandescent with posts from Americans of all political persuasions trying to make sense of what happened—and what it portends for the upcoming presidential election.

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday dismissed Donald Trump’s classified documents indictment, ruling that special counsel Jack Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed. If Cannon’s stunning decision withstands appeal, it would end what had long been considered the strongest and most “airtight” case against the former president. It involved Trump’s willful retention of top-secret documents after he left the White House and his repeated refusals to return the classified records. As my colleague Pema Levy wrote, Cannon has spent much of the past two years issuing unprecedented decisions that have shocked legal scholars, each of which has helped Trump dodge accountability. The ex-president was lucky that Cannon got assigned this case—but he also helped make his own luck by putting her on the bench.

It was at the end of a nearly 40-minute televised speech that President Lyndon Johnson shocked the nation with his words: “With American sons in the field far away, I do not believe that I should devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes or to any duties other than the awesome duties of this office….

A growing number of cities and counties in Colorado have opted out of a recently enacted state law that forbids people from bringing firearms into “sensitive spaces,” like government buildings and courthouses. The decisions are motivated by the view that the people who live in those communities are best equipped to manage the safety of their public facilities. Douglas County was the state’s first locality to push aside the law, approved by the legislature earlier this year as Senate Bill 131.

A seasoned campaign operative decribes what the Secret Service was and should have been doing.

Those of us who are still reeling from what might have been are learning just how venal the Trump-hating left actually is.