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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Michigan Legislators Face Calls For Possible Criminal Charges After Meeting With President Trump On Certification — We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges.
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Michigan attorney general ponders criminal probes of state and local officials who bend to Trump's will on overturning election results — Michigan's attorney general is exploring whether officials there risk committing crimes if they bend to President Trump's wishes in seeking to block …
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New York Times, VICE, Voter Protection Program, Japan Times, WTOP, Business Insider, CNN, Forbes, BuzzFeed News, NPR, Bloomberg, Mediaite and ABC News
Washington Post:
Trump suffers twin defeats in his effort to overturn Biden's victory in key states
Trump suffers twin defeats in his effort to overturn Biden's victory in key states
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New York Times, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, WayneDupree.com, Detroit News, The Week, Mediaite, Michigan Advance, The Hill, Chicago Sun-Times, Fox News, Washington Examiner, TheBlaze, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Political Wire, Detroit Free Press, Reuters, Althouse, Rising Up with Sonali, NBC Los Angeles, American Interregnum and The Intercept
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame
Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame
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Breitbart, Al Jazeera and CBS News
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won't play his games — President Donald Trump has driven senators into retirement and tweeted wayward Republicans into primary defeat during four years leading the GOP. Now, as a lame duck, he's launched a new campaign against GOP election officials who won't bend to his will.
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CNN, Raw Story, Twin Cities and Political Wire
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Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results — Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp certified the state's election results Friday, saying that now that the results are certified, the Trump campaign can pursue other legal options to call for a recount.
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National Review, Townhall, Slate and The Western Journal
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson Dared Question a Trump Lawyer. The Backlash Was Quick. — The president's allies quickly closed ranks behind Sidney Powell and her pro-Trump conspiracy theory, accusing the Fox host of betrayal. — For more than a week, a plain-spoken former federal prosecutor named Sidney Powell …
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CNN, Washington Post, RedState, The Root, The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, Forbes, Daily Kos and National Review, more at Mediagazer »
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Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
This Was Always the Plan — President Trump telegraphed that he would try to steal the election if he didn't win.
This Was Always the Plan — President Trump telegraphed that he would try to steal the election if he didn't win.
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Washington Examiner, Washington Monthly and National Review
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Leaders, Including Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, Have No Faith in Rudy
Team Trump Leaders, Including Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, Have No Faith in Rudy
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Staff of U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn says she misspoke by calling Biden ‘president-elect’ — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump, on Friday referred to Joe Biden as the country's “president-elect,” a comment her staff later said was a mistake.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Danger (and Ineptitude) of Trump's Failed Coup — In his address to the Democratic National Convention in August, Barack Obama warned that the Trump administration “has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win.” Kamala Harris began her first speech …
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CNN, New York Daily News, The Hill, Associated Press, HotAir, David Harris Jr., Slate, Los Angeles Times, Simple Justice, NPR, The Week, IJR, Florida Politics, Blue Virginia, the way of improvement … and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Certifies: Donald Trump Lost — A recount changed little, as the evidence of ballot fraud fails to appear. — By The Editorial Board — The recount in Georgia is finished, after workers examined five million ballots by hand, but President Trump still lags Joe Biden by 12,000 votes.
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The Western Journal, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Washington Examiner
Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
Inside a Gun-Smuggling Neo-Nazi Cabal Tied to Marines — The evidence includes a sickening video of live-fire weapons training that ended with the masked participants giving “Heil Hitler” salutes. — An active-duty Marine assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has been charged …
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Raw Story
Dustin Jones / NPR:
Ben Carson Says He Was ‘Desperately Ill’ With The Coronavirus — Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson took to Facebook Friday to report he has been “extremely sick” with the coronavirus. But Carson, one of several individuals in the Trump administration …
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Axios, Raw Story, The Savage Nation, Townhall and Conservative News Today
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Ben Carson was ‘desperately sick’ with COVID, is now ‘out of the woods’
Ben Carson was ‘desperately sick’ with COVID, is now ‘out of the woods’
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CBS News, National Review and Axios
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Think Mnuchin Accidentally Said Trump Admin's Most Honest Thing About COVID-19 — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, “We're working on mass distribution of the virus,” and Twitter users unanimously agreed. — People think Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's slip of the tongue …
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Business Insider, CNBC, Boing Boing and Crooks and Liars
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Bypassing McConnell: Democrats push Biden to aggressively use executive power — WASHINGTON — Democratic senators are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to use executive power to advance goals such as tackling climate change, relieving student debt and creating a more progressive immigration system.
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Raw Story and Boing Boing
Steven Ahle / David Harris Jr.:
Sidney Powell Says They Have many Smoking Guns, Some of Whom May Need Witness Protection — Attorney Sidney Powell was on the Howie Carr Show and she claimed that their team is in possession of many smoking guns. — Some of them may require witness protection.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams' group finances grassroots efforts to win Senate runoffs — The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams is pumping $2.7 million to boost the work of a network of grassroots organizations ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs - not to finance more TV ads but to strengthen their get-out-the-vote apparatus.
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Political Wire
Shannon McMahon / Washington Post:
A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers. — The study details an outbreak linked to one passenger on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to New Zealand in September. — Health officials in New Zealand, a country that has a strict 14 …
Sean McMinn / NPR:
1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are ‘Critically’ Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon — More than 1,000 hospitals across the United States are “critically” short on staff, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Blue Virginia
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
The 3 Norms Trump Could Still Break — America has seen little of Donald Trump since the election. Speaking to the nation largely through Twitter, he's barely strayed outside the White House as he absorbs a defeat that shattered the myth he created of his own invincibility.
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Washington Post and The Guardian
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Culture wars fuel Trump's blue-collar Latino gains — Donald Trump lost the presidency, but showed Republicans a way to win the culture wars with working-class Hispanics. — Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies …
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New York Times and Dissent
Kevin M. Kruse / MSNBC:
Trump's accusations of fraud in Georgia echo decades of racial violence — As the 2020 election season draws to a merciful close, all eyes remain on Georgia. The state voted Democratic in the presidential election — for the first time since 1992 — with Georgia Secretary …
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CNN
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. meets Trump, Giuliani vote-fraud claims with silent skepticism — The Justice Department has met President Trump's fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence, not taking any overt moves to investigate what Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
Associated Press:
Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency — WASHINGTON (AP) — One spent the week at his home in Delaware carefully trying to build a government and preparing to take on a pandemic. — The other largely kept to himself behind closed doors at a mostly empty White House …
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New York Times, Politico, Raw Story, Twin Cities, National Review and Alternet.org
Washington Post:
Anger builds in Black community over Trump's claims of voter fraud in big cities — When Wisconsin Republicans opened an office earlier this year in the historical Bronzeville neighborhood, it was meant to be a physical symbol of President Trump's commitment to urban voters.
New York Times:
Business and World Leaders Move On as Trump Fights to Reverse Election — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is seizing the moment, not to aggressively confront the president he defeated, but to act presidential in his stead. — WASHINGTON — Inside the wrought-iron fences that surround …
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CNN, Raw Story, The Guardian, NBC News, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, American Thinker and CBS News, more at Techmeme »
The Guardian:
Donald Trump Jr says he will pass time in Covid isolation by cleaning his guns … Play Video — Donald Trump Jr, the president's son who has tested positive for the coronavirus, has said he will pass the time in isolation battling with the virus by cleaning his collection of guns.
HudsonValley360:
Hinchey claims victory in 46th Senate District — Democrat Michelle Hinchey declared victory Friday afternoon in the 46th Senate District race more than two weeks after Election Day while absentee ballots continue to be finalized for retiring state Sen. George Amedore's position.
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
The Desperate Final Gasps of Team Trump's Flailing ‘Mini-Coup’ — Experts agree: Trump's legal effort is dead, and rigor mortis is setting in. — The past week saw Team Trump piling up losses and running out of road. — The campaign dropped its lawsuit to stop the certification …
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Alternet.org
New York Times:
Mnuchin's Inglorious Endgame — The Trump administration's abrupt decision to curtail the Federal Reserve's emergency lending programs is a gamble with no upside. — The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.
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Washington Post, IJR, Slate and Daily Kos
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Brindisi-Tenney House race shrouded in secrecy, confusion as campaigns battle over ballots — Central New Yorkers who voted in one of the most competitive House races in the nation still don't know the results 18 days after the election, whether their vote counted, or exactly what's happening …