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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Romney backs vote on Supreme Court nominee, clearing way for Trump — Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday he would support a floor vote to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, essentially clinching consideration of President Donald Trump's nominee this year despite the impending election.
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The Daily Beast:
Dems Balk at Using Their Biggest Weapon in SCOTUS Fight — The party is divided on tactics. But so far, the main play is to make it all about health care. — Facing what they acknowledge to be a nearly impossible task of blocking President Donald Trump from filling a Supreme Court vacancy …
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Why Biden is stiff-arming the left on court-packing and the filibuster — A year-and-a-half ago, when Pete Buttigieg made expansion of the Supreme Court a key plank of his presidential campaign, the issue was treated as an intellectual curiosity that fascinated reform-minded liberals and op-ed writers.
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New York Times:
How Ginsburg's Death Has Reshaped the Money Race for Senate Democrats — From Alaska to Maine to the Carolinas, Democratic strategists working on Senate campaigns described a spontaneous outpouring of donations the likes of which they had never seen. A Republican surge is expected as well.
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Adam Jentleson / New York Times:
Democrats Need a Plan. Fast. — Here's how they can apply maximum pressure, brand the process as the illegitimate farce it is and lay the groundwork for desperately needed reform. — Mr. Jentleson was a deputy chief of staff for Senator Harry Reid of Nevada.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaires Haim and Cheryl Saban ramp up support for Biden and Democrats in Senate races — The Sabans were relatively quiet with their contributions during the Democratic primaries. They decided they would not get involved with the race for president until after Super Tuesday, as Haim Saban publicly opposed Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Down With Judicial Supremacy! — The Supreme Court was never meant to be the only arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution. — Beyond the obvious — that liberals need some way to respond to President Trump as he moves to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg …
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
Shove It, Democrats. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Seat Is Ours...And There's Nothing You Can Do About It — Welcome to Thunderdome, b**ches. This is the fight that distinguishes the men from the boys; who can deliver a strike to the jugular and who can't; and between who's weak and who wants to win.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Here's what's in Boehner's new book — DRIVING THE DAY — WELCOME TO FALL. — NEW ... JOHN BOEHNER'S new book has a name, a cover and a release date — and it's all as delicious as you would've hoped. — “ON THE HOUSE: A Washington Memoir” will be released April 13, 2021.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Graham Is Weak With GOP Voters. Strategists Think Another Supreme Court Fight Will Help
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Sun-Sentinel:
Stand by your word, Sen. Rubio, and against the mad dash for a Supreme Court appointment
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Sumantra Maitra / The Federalist:
There's No Downside To Trump Nominating Amy Coney Barrett
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Erwin Chemerinsky / American Prospect:
The Court: How Did We Get Here and What Will It Mean? — If Trump's nominee is confirmed …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Election live updates: Romney backs voting this year on Trump nominee to replace Ginsburg
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The GOP traded democracy for a Supreme Court seat and tax cuts. It wasn't worth it.
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Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump and Joe Biden are locked in a dead heat six weeks to Election Day — It's a dead heat in Iowa as a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden locked in a tie just six weeks to Election Day.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll: Race for president, Senate contests in Georgia ‘too close to call’ — Pollster: ‘All three races are in play’ — A new poll conducted for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows the presidential race in Georgia could not be closer, with President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden tied …
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NBC News:
The Senate was designed to cool our politics down. No more
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Nina Totenberg was close friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Was that a conflict for NPR?
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Washington Post:
Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor — Shortly after Congress passed the Cares Act, the Pentagon began directing pandemic-related money to defense contractors — A $1 billion fund Congress gave the Pentagon in March to build …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Biden — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his top aides are “probably directing” a Russian foreign influence operation to interfere in the 2020 presidential election against former vice president Joe Biden …
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Mike Bloomberg raises $16 million to allow former felons to vote in Florida — Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Bloomberg raises $16.1M to help Florida felons regain voting rights
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Politico:
Rank-and-file union members snub Biden for Trump — Joe Biden has pitched himself to voters as a “union man,” a son of Scranton, Pa., who respects the dignity of work and will defend organized labor if he wins the White House. — To rank-and-file members in some unions, especially the building trades, it doesn't matter.
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Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Sounds Alarm on a Trump ‘Nightmare Scenario’ — Warning that this election is an “extremely dangerous moment” for the country, he said in an interview that he would aggressively push to try to stop President Trump from delegitimizing the vote.
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Voters to Trump and Biden camps: Don't come knocking on our doors
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Debates Could Seal Biden's Fate — Last weekend, Philippe Reines walked over to Ron Klain's house in Washington, D.C., to hand off his Donald Trump outfit: the suit, the shoes with the lifts, the shirt, the long red tie, the cufflinks. Just in case. When the former Hillary Clinton aide stored …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump: U.N. ‘must hold China accountable’ for pandemic — President Donald Trump on Tuesday admonished China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic in his address to the United Nations General Assembly, demanding that the intergovernmental organization hold Beijing's ruling Communist government “accountable for their actions.”
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Mike Allen / Axios:
13 Nobel Prize-winning economists back Biden — Joe Biden's campaign released on Tuesday a letter signed by 13 winners of the Nobel Prize in economics who say that while their views are different, they all think his policies “will result in economic growth that is faster, more robust, and more equitable.”
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Matt Gaetz discusses post-Trump GOP in new book, “Firebrand”
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Detroit Free Press:
In secret recording, trainer for Unlock Michigan advises on unlawful tactics — LANSING - A company collecting signatures to strip Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of her emergency powers coached paid petition circulators on giving voters false information, illegally collecting signatures without witnessing them …
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
The 1619 Project is a fraud — New York Times Magazine staffer Nikole Hannah-Jones accused me once of rank jealousy. She said my criticism for her flawed 1619 Project stems from the fact that, unlike her, I do not “have good ideas and the talent to execute them.”
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
'He's not actually looking out for you': Ex-Pence aide Olivia Troye assails Trump's coronavirus response — WASHINGTON — Olivia Troye, who played a key role in the Trump administration's coronavirus response as an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, says that President Donald Trump is …
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times:
Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos — Social media platform's head of global affairs Nick Clegg says it could take exceptional measures to restrict content circulation — Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to …
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