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Lili Loofbourow / Slate:
It's Not Hypocrisy — I was watching the president of the United States suggest to a mostly maskless crowd that a Democratic congresswoman had married her brother when the news broke that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. The shock of her death sledgehammered a country teetering on an ugly and desperate edge.
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Steve Beynon / Stars & Stripes:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate for military women, will be buried at Arlington — WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had advocated for military women during her career, will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, according to the Supreme Court.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
AOC says all options ‘on the table’ to block Supreme Court nominee confirmation, including impeachment — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't rule out using impeachment as tool to block Trump's Supreme Court pick — Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the House “must consider” …
Jonathan V. Last / Bulwark+:
This Isn't “Hypocrisy” — Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. This isn't it. — 2 hr — Hypocrisy is good. — Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. It is one of the guardrails against nihilism. — Example: Senator Hornswaggle says, “I believe in family values.
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Chris Truax / USA Today:
Filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat would be a disastrous Republican move
Filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat would be a disastrous Republican move
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POLITICUSUSA, TheBlaze and Fox News
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Exclusive: Conservative group launches $2M Supreme Court ad
Exclusive: Conservative group launches $2M Supreme Court ad
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CNBC, Washington Times, Washington Post and Big League Politics
Christopher Scalia / Fox News:
My father's relationship with Justice Ginsburg - ‘best of friends’
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important
Mary Ziegler / The Atlantic:
A Dangerous Moment for the Court
A Dangerous Moment for the Court
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How the G.O.P. Might Get to Yes on Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg
How the G.O.P. Might Get to Yes on Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Fox News, The Hill, The Week, American Prospect, ABC News, MyNorthwest.com, Foreign Policy, Associated Press, PRESS RUN, The Unz Review and Washington Examiner
Jamison Foser / Crooked Media:
How Court Packing Can Protect the Election—and Democracy
How Court Packing Can Protect the Election—and Democracy
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Supreme Court fight highlights the new political reality: America under minority rule
Supreme Court fight highlights the new political reality: America under minority rule
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Townhall, Media Matters for America, The American Spectator, Roll Call, Fox News, The Hill, Right Wing Watch, Common Dreams, myfox8.com and Twitchy
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says Supreme Court list is down to 5 people, announcement coming Friday or Saturday
Trump says Supreme Court list is down to 5 people, announcement coming Friday or Saturday
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
How the GOP is trying to justify its Supreme Court reversal
How the GOP is trying to justify its Supreme Court reversal
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IJR, The National Interest, Axios and Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci — Bill Crews is a PR official at the National Institutes of Health. But he also has another job: an anonymous RedState editor who rails against the agency for which he works. — The managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Department Of Justice Identifies New York City, Portland And Seattle As Jurisdictions Permitting Violence And Destruction Of Property — Identification is Response to Presidential Memorandum Reviewing Federal Funding to State and Local Governments that are Permitting Anarchy, Violence, and Destruction in American Cities
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Justice Dept. brands NYC an ‘anarchist jurisdiction,’ targets federal funds — New York City was among three cities labeled “anarchist jurisdictions” by the Justice Department on Sunday and targeted to lose federal money for failing to control protesters and defunding cops, The Post has learned.
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NBC New York:
DOJ Designates New York City as an ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’ — What to Know — The Justice Department designated NYC, Portland and Seattle as “anarchist jurisdictions” under guidelines issued by President Trump earlier this month — Trump's Sept. 2 memo directs federal agencies to minimize funding for designated cities
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New York Post, The Root and POLITICUSUSA
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. targets Portland, New York and Seattle over protests
George Packer / The Atlantic:
The Inside Story of the Mueller Probe's Mistakes — ndrew Weissmann was one of Robert Mueller's top deputies in the special counsel's investigation of the 2016 election, and he's about to publish the first insider account, called Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation.
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Rating Changes: Maine Senate Moves to Leans Democratic — Dear Readers: On Thursday at 2 p.m. eastern, we'll be devoting our new episode of our Sabato's Crystal Ball: America Votes webinar series to previewing the debates, which start next week. If you've got questions about the debates …
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The Hill, Raw Story, Washington Times and Forbes
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Victoria McGrane Globe / The Boston Globe:
Collins trails Gideon in Maine Senate race, according to a new Suffolk/Globe poll — Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine is narrowly trailing her Democratic challenger, Sara Gideon, the incumbent's re-election bid hindered by diminished popularity among moderate Democrats …
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The American Independent, Bangor Daily News, The Hill and Political Wire
David Siders / Politico:
'It's a big, big swing': Trump loses ground with white voters — Donald Trump is making modest inroads with Latinos. Polls suggest he's pulling slightly more Black support than in 2016. — But Trump is tilting at the margins with those groups. His bigger problem is the demographic …
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Associated Press:
Trump's Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north
Trump's Ohio suburb slide signals peril in industrial north
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
With cash windfall, Biden adds GOP states to campaign map
With cash windfall, Biden adds GOP states to campaign map
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Breitbart, ABC News, National Review, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Washington Post and New York Post
Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
The CDC says coronavirus is airborne and spread by aerosols, warns of poorly ventilated spaces — For months, scientists and public health experts have warned of mounting evidence that the novel coronavirus is airborne, transmitted through tiny droplets called aerosols that linger in the air …
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BuzzFeed News, Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos, IJR, Political Wire, Politico, The Daily Caller, Axios, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Week, Fox News, myfox8.com and MyNorthwest.com
Ashwin Rodrigues / VICE:
Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But for Evicting People — A company called Civvl says evicting people is the “FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19.” — Ashwin Rodrigues — “SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS,” reads the website copy.
Anneken Tappe / CNN:
Dow tumbles 800 points as coronavirus fears mount — New York (CNN Business)In a painful start to the week for the Dow and the broader market, stocks tumbled Monday as investors worry when Washington will agree another stimulus bill. — Rising Covid-19 infections around the world …
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Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach — The protests are moving into white residential neighborhoods, where activists demand that people choose a side. — PORTLAND, Ore. — Terrance Moses was watching protesters against police brutality march …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden Has $466 Million in Bank, and a Huge Financial Edge on Trump — The former vice president and the Democrats were $187 million behind President Trump and the Republicans this spring. Now they are entering the final stretch of the campaign with a $141 million advantage.
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Says He Could Close Biden's Money Lead in One Day on Phone
Trump Says He Could Close Biden's Money Lead in One Day on Phone
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Politico, Fox News, New York Post, Just Security, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times and The Hill
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock rises in polls as allies urge other Democrats to quit Senate race — Lieberman and Tarver say they're staying in — A few weeks ago, the Rev. Raphael Warnock was struggling to separate himself from other Democrats in the crowded race to challenge U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler.
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Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
Larry Kudlow Claims US Has ‘Regained Control of the Virus’ — White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters Monday that the United States has “regained control of the virus,” blaming the United Kingdom and Europe on any stock market concerns. — “I do think however there's some worries that Britain might shut down.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Mitch McConnell, ‘Apex Predator’! — Writing in the Washington Post, Howard Fineman declares, “Mitch McConnell is the apex predator of U.S. politics.” He does not mean it as a compliment, writing that “no one since the Southern segregationists of the 1940s and 1950s did more to cripple …
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Howard Fineman / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell is the apex predator of U.S. politics
Mitch McConnell is the apex predator of U.S. politics
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Washington Free Beacon, Twitchy and Vox
The Guardian:
Revealed: evidence shows huge mail slowdowns after Trump ally took over … The United States Postal Service (USPS) saw a severe decline in the rate of on-time delivery of first-class mail after Louis DeJoy took over as postmaster general, according to new data obtained by the Guardian …