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Mon Mar 6 2023

Hi there, OnPolitics readers!

This year's Conservative Political Action Conference, which took place over the weekend and featured some high-profile Republicans, was quite memorable.

In case you missed the news out of CPAC, we're sharing a few top moments:

Former President Donald Trump made it clear that he has no plans of dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, vowing to continue his bid for office even if he's indicted.

•	"I won't even think about leaving," Trump told reporters before his speech at CPAC. The former president could face charges from prosecutors on both state and federal levels for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – the only big-name Republican to challenge Trump with a 2024 presidential bid so far – also spoke at CPAC, spending most of her speech criticizing the "wokeness" of the left and reiterating her call for a new generation of lawmakers. Haley is 51.

White supremacist kicked out: CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp announced Friday that white nationalist Nick Fuentes was removed from the conference , stating that Fuentes' "hateful racist rhetoric and actions are not consistent with mission of CPAC."

🔎 Keep reading: 'I won't even think about leaving': Trump at CPAC says indictment wouldn't push him out of 2024 race

💼 CPAC recap: Who wasn't at CPAC?; Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks trans rights

🥾 Fuentes booted from CPAC: Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes booted from CPAC for promoting 'hateful racist rhetoric'

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Religion: Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to city prayer vigil

FILE - The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court on Friday, Jan. 13, agreed to consider what employers must do to accommodate religious employees, among eight new cases it added. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) ORG XMIT: WX105

The case may test the implications of a Supreme Court decision last year in favor of a high school football coach who prayed on the field after games.

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President Trump's one-time campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court on June 27, 2019 for his arraignment on mortgage fraud charges. The longtime Republican political consultant, 71, was sentenced last year to seven and a half years in jail for tax crimes, bank fraud and conspiracy charges, mostly relating to his business dealings in Ukraine with Russia-allied politicians and tycoons. Manafort was released to home confinement in May due to the risk posed by the spread of the coronavirus in federal prison.

Ex-Trump campaign chair Manafort agrees to $3.1M settlement with DOJ

Paul Manafort, the embattled former Trump campaign chairman, agreed to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the Justice Department last year.

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In this Jan. 4, 2013, photo, a man fires a hand gun at Sandy Springs Gun Club and Range, in Sandy Springs, Ga. In Connecticut and Colorado, scenes of the most deadly U.S. mass shootings in 2012, people were less enthusiastic about buying new guns at the end of the year than in most other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data. The biggest surges in background checks for people who want to carry or buy guns occurred in states in the South and West. (AP Photo/Robert Ray) ORG XMIT: WX103

FBI gun seizure orders hit historic pace during COVID run on firearms

The numbers underscore a tension in the system in which gun dealers can sell weapons if a background check isn't completed within three business days.

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