JILL BIDEN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING - What does JILL BIDEN want her legacy to be? That question was at the center of a summit of scholars the first lady convened roughly a year into her time in the White House - one that turned out to be “a free-for-all from a group of historians whose feedback suggested that her interests were not expansive enough,” Katie Rogers writes in a buzzy Vanity Fair excerpt from “American Woman,” her much-anticipated new book on the evolution of the role of first lady.
THAT’S … QUITE THE COMPARISON - Federalist Society cofounder STEVEN CALABRESI, writing for Reason’s Volokh Conspiracy blog: “The civil fraud judgment against DONALD TRUMP is a travesty and an unjust political act rivaled only in American politics by the killing of former Treasury Secretary ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Vice President AARON BURR.” (Calabresi has previously argued that Trump is ineligible to appear on 2024 ballots, then later changed his mind.) With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine
