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Good morning. I'm Playbook co-author Rachel Bade. It's Friday, September 6th. Just over a year ago,

with Donald Trump and Hunter Biden's legal woes mounting, we wrote in Playbook about how courtroom

coverage would dominate the 2024 campaign. In fact, one of the headlines of Playbook was Welcome to the

courtroom campaign. So much for that, despite the predictions of the political class, us included,

that high-profile political trials would take center stage and basically suck up all the limelight

amid this race for the White House, yesterday was actually a good reminder of

just how wrong we all were. Consider what happened in the past 24 hours and what's going to

potentially happen today. In California, President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, basically

shocked the political world when he pled guilty to tax charges that many of us, frankly,

thought he was girding to fight until the bitter

end. Not only did that move short-circuit a possible high-profile trial involving the president's son,

but Republicans who've been sort of obsessed with Hunter Biden basically responded with, well,

a collective shrug if they actually responded at all. Why? Because Hunter Biden is now basically

old news. Now that Joe Biden himself is no longer atop the ticket, Hill Republicans, Donald

Trump himself, and other Republicans with big megaphones have turned all their attention now to

Kamala Harris. In Washington, D.C., the judge overseeing Trump's election

subversion case, all but guaranteed that any trial on this issue is not going to start

until next year sometime. The district judge laid out a new schedule as she weighs whether

the indictment must be thrown out because of the Supreme Court's ruling that Trump has

presidential immunity for actions he took as president. Special counsel Jack Smith's team now has until September 26th to file an opening briefing

about why the case should stand, while the defense has until October 17th to reply.

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