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7:30 AM ET, December 11, 2020

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Time:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are TIME's 2020 Person of the Year  —  Together, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris offered restoration and renewal in a single ticket.  And America bought what they were selling
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Politico:
Biden's Cabinet picks give Kamala an edge in 2024  —  Biden has opted for seasoned technocrats over ambitious pols for key jobs, denying potential political rivals to Harris a political springboard.  —  President-elect Joe Biden listens as Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addresses the media on November 10, 2020.
TIME:
Who Will Be TIME's Person of the Year for 2020?
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
It's Not Just Trump's War on Democracy Anymore  —  Republicans have gone far beyond merely humoring their losing leader.  —  The streets are still quiet in Washington, nine months into a pandemic that is reaching yet another deadly peak.  Most of the offices remain closed …
Discussion: Orange County Register and Reason
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The GOP Abandons Democracy  —  When Donald Trump was granted a coat of arms for his Scottish golf courses in 2012 (after a lengthy court battle, of course), he chose as its motto “Numquam concedere”: Never concede.  He has not, even as it has become clear that he lost the presidential election by a wide margin.
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Meet The 106 House Republican Traitors Who Betrayed America For Trump  —  106 House Republicans have thrown democracy out the window and filed a brief supporting the Supreme Court overturning the election.  —  The conclusion of the brief:  —  Now 106 members of Congress filed a brief …
Washington Post:
With time running out, Trump and GOP allies turn up pressure on Supreme Court in election assault  —  With his legal options dwindling and time running out before a key electoral college deadline, President Trump on Thursday ramped up pressure on the Supreme Court to help overturn Joe Biden's victory …
Associated Press:
Texas-led election lawsuit becomes conservative litmus test  —  HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden's victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, with many Republicans signing onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Republicans Are Going Down a Dangerous Road
Wall Street Journal:
Barr Worked to Keep Hunter Biden Probes from Public View During Election  —  The attorney general knew for months about investigations into Biden's business and financial dealings  —  Attorney General William Barr has known about a disparate set of investigations involving Hunter Biden's business …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Investigation of His Son Is Likely to Hang Over Biden as He Takes Office  —  Unless the Trump Justice Department clears Hunter Biden, the new president will confront the prospect of his own administration handling an inquiry that could expose his son to criminal prosecution.
New York Times:
Four State A.G.s Ask Supreme Court to Reject Texas Election Lawsuit  —  The attorneys general of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia asked the Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit from Texas seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victories.  —  WASHINGTON — In blistering …
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George Conway / Washington Post:
Trump's last-ditch effort to steal the election is the biggest farce of all
CNN:
Battleground states issue blistering rebukes to Texas' lawsuit to invalidate millions of votes
Politico:
‘Seditious abuse of the judicial process’: States reject Texas effort to overturn Biden's election
Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Trump Administration Executes Brandon Bernard After Jurors Plead For His Life  —  Bernard was an accomplice to a crime at age 18.  He is the ninth person to be executed as part of the Trump administration's end-of-office killing spree.  —  The Trump administration executed 40-year-old Brandon Bernard …
Discussion: NBC News, The Daily Beast and BET
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Emma Ockerman / VICE:
Brandon Bernard Was Just Put to Death In Trump's Unprecedented Push for Executions  —  His death marks the ninth federal execution this year.  —  EO  —  Brandon Bernard, whose death row case drew frantic pleas for mercy from activists and celebrities alike, has been executed by lethal injection.
New York Times:
Covid-19 caused the sudden death of a top state lawmaker in New Hampshire.  —  The New Hampshire State Legislature was already fiercely divided over the coronavirus when the new Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Richard Hinch, died suddenly on Wednesday.
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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Autopsy finds New Hampshire House speaker died of coronavirus
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Biden is picking a Cabinet built for comfort.  What he needs is vision.  —  The “comfort-level” Cabinet that President-elect Joe Biden is assembling has some obvious benefits, especially after four years of the petulance and backbiting that turned the White House into what one Trump chief of staff reportedly called “Crazytown.”
Terry Gross / NPR:
‘It Is Roiling Him’: Reporter Maggie Haberman Unpacks Trump's Refusal To Admit He Lost  —  With only a few weeks until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, President Trump still won't admit defeat.  White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, who has reported on Trump over the past 20 years, sheds light on his refusal to concede.
Discussion: The Hill
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Utah Sen. Mike Lee blocks votes to establish Smithsonian museums for Latinos and women  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah on Thursday blocked consideration for legislation to establish a National Museum of the American Latino and an American Women's History Museum as part …
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Mike Lee blocks legislation to create Smithsonian museums for Latinos and women
Discussion: Axios
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
McConnell is Getting Away with Murder  —  Holding up needed economic relief to protect corporations should be politically devastating, but Dem's haven't yet made Republicans pay a price  —  Mitch McConnell would rather save big corporations money than save American lives and jobs.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Raw Story
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Politico:
‘Get off our damn asses’: Stimulus debacle exposes broken Washington
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Biden's visit to Georgia next week highlights ‘sea change’ in Democratic strategy  —  President-elect Joe Biden's plan to visit Georgia next week to campaign for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock is a sharp reminder of a seismic shift in the state's Democratic politics.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Georgia on My Mind  —  Which is better for America?  Divided government or a repudiation of illiberalism?
New York Times:
F.D.A. Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine  —  The blessing of these experts means that the agency will OK the vaccine's use, paving the way for health care workers to begin getting shots next week.  —  Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone on Thursday …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Secession?  Rush Limbaugh floats a startling notion — then quickly backs off.  —  Rush Limbaugh isn't saying he wants the country to split into red and blue factions as a result of conservative fury over the election results.  As he attempted to make clear Thursday, he's just saying that other people are saying it.
John Hudson / Washington Post:
After coming under fire from Pompeo, State Department watchdog to leave, citing vacancies act  —  The State Department's acting inspector general is leaving his job Friday following an attack on his office by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's spokesperson concerning a report about official trips Pompeo took …
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Pompeo claims he's ‘fully vindicated’ for wife's travel, but watchdog finds fault with documentation
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Ronald Krotoszynski / Politico:
The Conservative Idea That Would Let Biden Seize Control of Washington  —  Despite President Donald Trump's landslide defeat at the ballot box in November, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his GOP caucus have embarked on a course to stack the federal administrative state with eleventh-hour appointees.
Newsweek:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw Linked to Smear Campaign of Female Vet Led by VA Secretary, Watchdog Says  —  An investigation from the government watchdog that oversees the Department of Veterans Affairs concluded Thursday that a Republican member of Congress was involved in an orchestrated campaign by V …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pentagon pick may need GOP rescue  —  Lloyd Austin will begin courtesy calls with Congress next week, but his nomination to be Defense secretary may not even make it out of committee unless Republicans help grant the waiver he needs to hold the job, people familiar with the matter say.
Discussion: The Western Journal
 
 
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CNN:
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Discussion: Bloomberg and Informed Comment
James Walker / Newsweek:
White House Will Be Thoroughly Disinfected in the Hours After Trump's Exit
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Advisers warn Trump against defense bill veto
Discussion: Politico
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Nearly 90 percent of Black women voters in Georgia say they're likely to vote in runoffs: survey
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
‘Numb’ and ‘Heartbroken,’ the U.S. Confronts Record Virus Deaths
Discussion: New York Post and The Hill
Reuters:
Website targeting U.S. election officials draws attention of intelligence agencies
Washington Post:
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