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David French / TIME:
The Battle Over Ginsburg's Seat Is Set to Be All About Raw Power. But There's Still a Way to Show Principles Matter — French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time. His new book is Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.
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Politico, National Review, The Dispatch, Reason, IJR, The National Interest, Washington Post, Raw Story, Niskanen Center, PBS NewsHour, TheBlaze and Breitbart
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New York Times:
Trump Could Be Investigated for Tax Fraud, D.A. Says for First Time — The assertion by the Manhattan district attorney is the most detailed disclosure about its effort to obtain eight years of the president's tax returns. — The Manhattan district attorney's office …
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Talking Points Memo, CNBC and Raw Story
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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Fox News, TIME, The Atlantic, Chicago Sun-Times, The American Independent, The 19th, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Raw Story
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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Senator Rob Portman and Breitbart
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Supreme Court's Potency as 2020 Voter Issue Surges Among Democrats After Ginsburg's Death — 60% of Democrats say the court is ‘very important’ to their vote, up 12 points in a week — 58% percent said they had seen, read or heard “a lot” about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death.
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Associated Press, Fox News, Washington Post, Politico, One America News Network and Roll Call
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
AOC says all options ‘on the table’ to block Supreme Court nominee confirmation, including impeachment
AOC says all options ‘on the table’ to block Supreme Court nominee confirmation, including impeachment
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National Review, Associated Press, Breitbart, The American Spectator, The Hill, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post
Steve Beynon / Stars & Stripes:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate for military women, will be buried at Arlington
Data For Progress:
A Majority Of Voters Oppose President Trump Filling The Vacancy On the Supreme Court
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Trump's Supreme Court plans create major opportunity for Kamala Harris to go on offense
Trump's Supreme Court plans create major opportunity for Kamala Harris to go on offense
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The American Spectator, Breitbart and Fox News
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Trump Jump-Starts Misinformation on Ginsburg's ‘Dying Wish’
Trump Jump-Starts Misinformation on Ginsburg's ‘Dying Wish’
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Fox News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Trump Zeroes In on Coney Barrett as Likely Supreme Court Pick
Trump Zeroes In on Coney Barrett as Likely Supreme Court Pick
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Political Wire and The Week
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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WOWK-TV, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams, The Hill and Twitchy
Axios:
McConnell: Senate has “more than sufficient time” to process Supreme Court nomination
McConnell: Senate has “more than sufficient time” to process Supreme Court nomination
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Townhall, Redstate, National Review, Political Wire, The Hill, NPR, TheBlaze, American Greatness, Washington Times, IJR and Breitbart
National Review:
Replacing Ginsburg — Republicans should move now. — While we did not agree …
Replacing Ginsburg — Republicans should move now. — While we did not agree …
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New York Times and Washington Post
Christopher Scalia / Fox News:
My father's relationship with Justice Ginsburg - ‘best of friends’
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Manhattan prosecutor urges enforcement of subpoena for Trump tax returns
Manhattan prosecutor urges enforcement of subpoena for Trump tax returns
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One America News Network
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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New York Times, National Review, Breitbart and Washington Post
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important
Ginsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important
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The Week
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
A Notorious COVID Troll Actually Works for Dr. Fauci's Agency — 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 …
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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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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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Vanity Fair, POLITICUSUSA, The Root and Forbes
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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Forbes, TheBlaze, Fox News, Law & Crime, Mediaite, Raw Story, National Review and Political Wire
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Threatens to Cut Funds to New York, Seattle and Portland
Justice Department Threatens to Cut Funds to New York, Seattle and Portland
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Power Line and Associated Press
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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Common Dreams, The Verge, Bloomberg, Mediaite, Raw Story, Fox News, The Daily Caller, MyNorthwest.com, Daily Kos, Gothamist, Axios, The Week, myfox8.com, KRON4, Political Wire, WGN-TV and The Wrap
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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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Raw Story, The Hill, 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
Collins trails Gideon in Maine Senate race, according to a new Suffolk/Globe poll
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Washington Post, Bangor Daily News, The Hill and The American Independent
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
New Loeffler ad: 'She's more conservative than Attila the Hun' — Barks Attila: ‘Eliminate the liberal scribes.’ — U.S. Sen. David Perdue honed his jean-jacketed outsider image with memorable TV spots. Gov. Brian Kemp had his shotgun splash. Now U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler is trying …
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The American Independent
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Warnock rises in polls as allies urge other Democrats to quit Senate race
Warnock rises in polls as allies urge other Democrats to quit Senate race
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The Daily Caller and Redfield & Wilton Strategies
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Sen. Kelly Loeffler compares herself to Attila the Hun in campaign ad
Sen. Kelly Loeffler compares herself to Attila the Hun in campaign ad
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New York Post, The Week and The Hill
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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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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New York Times, Politico, Redstate, Twitchy, Mediaite, Axios, Vanity Fair, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and CNBC
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.
Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
How Amy Coney Barrett's People of Praise Group Inspired 'The Handmaid's Tale' — Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite to be President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is affiliated with a Christian religious group that served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale.
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Daily Kos
Tim Weiner / Washington Post:
The unanswered question of our time: Is Trump an agent of Russia? — Neither Mueller nor the FBI took it on. It's crucial someone does. This is a case for super-secret mole hunters. — The FBI faced a national security nightmare three years ago: It suspected that the new president …
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 …
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Courier-Journal:
Six Louisville cops under internal investigation for roles in fatal Breonna Taylor search — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Six Louisville Metro Police officers are under investigation by the department's Professional Standards Unit for their roles in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, the department confirmed Monday.
Associated Press:
Judge extends Wisconsin absentee cutoff 6 days post election — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin can be counted up to six days after the Nov. 3 presidential election as long as they are postmarked by Election Day.
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