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Federal judge blocks DOJ from threatening election workers

Oct 31, 2 AM ET to Oct 31, 5 AM ET

8outlets carried it
🫏5 · 2 · 1🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
8front pages at once, at its peak

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Oct 31, 2 AM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
Oct 31, 2 AM ETpeak: on 8 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 2 AM to Oct 31, 5 AM ET (peak 8), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

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💬 Quoted

“intimidate”1

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📌 Linked by aggregators

2 Political Wire · Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

Every outlet's first headline (8), left to right by AllSides rating

Raw Story Judge shuts down Trump DOJ’s prosecution threats against election workers counting ballots Oct 30, 10 PM ET
Axios Judge blocks DOJ from threatening election workers before midterms Oct 30, 11 PM ET
CBS News Judge orders DOJ to stop trying to "intimidate" California election officials Oct 30, 11 PM ET
CNN Judge orders DOJ to halt pressure campaign on election officials The sweeping order halts aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country Oct 30, 11 PM ET
Los Angeles Times Justice Department can’t threaten election workers to stop processing ballots, judge rules Oct 31, 1 AM ET
Reuters Judge orders Trump administration to cease threats to prosecute election officials Oct 31, 2 AM ET
The Hill Judge blocks DOJ from threatening election officials over noncitizen voting ... Oct 31, 12 AM ET
Newsmax Judge Blocks DOJ Threats Against Election Workers Oct 30, 11 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Justice DepartmentCaliforniaJudgeTrump administrationElection officials

what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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