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Breaking at the Texas Tribune: A state appeals court dismissed Republican megadonor Kelcy Warren’s defamation lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke, ruling Friday that statements by the 2022 Democratic nominee for governor were protected by the First Amendment. The Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals said a district court judge in San Saba County mistakenly denied O’Rourke’s motion to dismiss in July 2022.

Even as we speak: From the Guardian’s Politics Live Blog Congress cleared to get Trump tax returns after supreme court ruling The supreme court will allow a congressional committee to receive Donald Trump’s tax returns, the Associated Press reports, ending a three-year battle by the Democratic-led body to see the documents the former president has famously refused to release since his first White House bid.

I’m back in the hospital for another angioplasty ( more complicated than the last one ) but I have to be at the hospital a half-hour before tomorrow’s Abbreviated Pundit Roundup posts, so this is my APR comment masquerading as a diary.