Top Items:
CNN:
Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial — (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …
RELATED:
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
McConnell Rejects Calling Mulvaney or Bolton for Impeachment Trial — Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, had sought testimony from four witnesses the White House had blocked, including Mick Mulvaney and John Bolton. — WASHINGTON — Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader …
Discussion:
Slate, Reason and The Mahablog
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Discussion:
Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Discussion:
Politico, Fox News and National Review
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
Washington Post:
Impeachment live updates: McConnell rejects Democrats' call for new witnesses in a Senate …
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
New York Times:
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated — The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet. — The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns. — Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …
Discussion:
Law & Crime, Axios, Twitchy, HuffPost, The Week, Daily Kos, IJR, Sara A. Carter and Raw Story
RELATED:
Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection — NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, The Week and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Family emergency sidelines Jerry Nadler day before expected impeachment vote — Nadler is expected to return to Washington late Tuesday or early Wednesday. — House Judiciary Jerry Nadler on Friday. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP, Pool — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler …
Discussion:
NBC News, The Hill and New York Post
RELATED:
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal — Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion. — WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …
Discussion:
National Review, Roll Call, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Post, NBC News, Politico, Talking Points Memo, VICE, Al Jazeera, The Root, The American Independent, New York Post, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Week, IJR, The Hill, Fox News, Shero, Vox, Vanity Fair, Axios, The Independent, The Daily Beast, CNN, HuffPost, Law & Crime, New Yorker and Mediaite
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive) — WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.
Discussion:
Politico, Townhall, Washington Post, The Hill, Daily Kos, Salt Lake Tribune, The Gateway Pundit and CNN
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics — Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree — Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …
Discussion:
Vanity Fair and Raw Story, more at Techmeme »
Medium:
HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP — President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president. Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …
Discussion:
The Guardian, Progress Pond, Washington Times, The Hill, IJR, Axios, New York Times, Contemptor and Raw Story
RELATED:
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever — The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what. — The level of loyalty Donald Trump commands from elected Republicans seems qualitatively different from that offered to previous Republican presidents. — For instance: Republicans told President Nixon to resign his office.
Discussion:
Raw Story and DCReport.org
RELATED:
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached
Discussion:
The Hill
CNN:
CNN Poll: The nation remains divided on impeachment as House vote approaches — (CNN)The American public is about evenly split over whether President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with the House of Representatives poised …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, QU Poll and The Resurgent
RELATED:
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term — Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY — WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …
Discussion:
Redstate, Louder With Crowder, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, The Week, Washington Times, The Hill, The Daily Wire and Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
On Tuesday, March for Impeachment — The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen. — Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised. During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate, Raw Story and CNN
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘Vile and disturbing’: Army unit marks Battle of the Bulge with picture of Nazi war criminal who massacred Americans — On the 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's final major push in World War II, a U.S. Army unit shared a tribute to the “greatest battle in American history” …
Discussion:
NBC News, VICE, Task & Purpose, Occupy Democrats and The American Independent
Washington Post:
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges — A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …
Discussion:
The Stranger, The Week, Salt Lake Tribune, Disrn, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Axios
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Russian disinformation network said to have helped spread smear of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine — The web analysis firm Graphika has linked posts to a ‘known Russian operation’ — The story that appeared on The Hill website on March 20 was startling. — Marie Yovanovitch …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Union reaches agreement, Democratic debate to proceed as scheduled — The California union at the center of a labor dispute that threatened Thursday's 2020 primary debate on Tuesday announced that a deal has been struck to allow the event to proceed as scheduled at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).
Discussion:
Associated Press, ABC News and Washington Post
RELATED:
Daria Ovide / Newsroom:
LMU Workers and Sodexo Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
LMU Workers and Sodexo Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
Discussion:
Politico, Los Angeles Times, Axios and Mother Jones
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight — About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward. — A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …
Discussion:
National Review, Associated Press, Fair Fight, BizPac Review, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs — Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects. That story led me to delve into this strange world. I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time — The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.
Discussion:
New Republic, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
China appears to add a sickening new dimension to its treatment of Uighurs — AT A news conference in Beijing recently, the head of China's Xinjiang province in the far northwest, Shohrat Zakir, said that “trainees” in a notorious archipelago of reeducation camps had all “graduated,” and …
New York Times:
Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature — There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students. — The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …
Discussion:
New Jersey Online, The Hill and DNyuz
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction — A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise. — The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.