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1:20 PM ET, December 12, 2020

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New York Times:
‘An Indelible Stain’: How the G.O.P. Tried to Topple a Pillar of Democracy  —  The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump was also a blunt rebuke to Republican leaders who had put their interests ahead of the country's.  —  The Supreme Court repudiation of President Trump's desperate bid …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's spin on his big Supreme Court failure is as bad as his legal case  —  The Supreme Court on Friday night delivered its widely expected-but-still-significant rebuke of President Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.  In a brief statement, the court dismissed the case Trump had called “the Big One.”
Discussion: Bloomberg
Republican Party of Texas:
Chairman Allen West's Response to SCOTUS Decision  —  Austin, TX, Release: December 11, 2020.  For Immediate Release  —  Below is Chairman Allen West's statement regarding the decision by the Supreme Court to dismiss Texas' constitutionally legitimate and critical lawsuit.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election  —  The suit, filed directly in the Supreme Court, sought to bar Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from casting their electoral votes for Joseph R. Biden Jr.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected …
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: The election is over; Trump's attacks will linger  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2020 presidential election is over.  But President Donald Trump's baseless efforts to undermine it, and the consequences of those undemocratic actions, will linger in America for far longer.
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Twitter briefly limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about ‘stolen’ election  —  Twitter on Saturday prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets from President Trump in which he repeated false claims that he won the election and that the race was “stolen” from him, though the company later reversed the move.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo Special Edition: Time for Trump to stop  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  TIME FOR TRUMP TO STOP.  President Trump's defenders have pointed out many times, correctly …
Discussion: Raw Story, CBS News and Deadline
New York Times:
Republicans Faced Trump's Loss by Embracing Nihilism
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Who Backed TX Lawsuit Goes Off the Rails When Chris Cuomo Confronts Him on Voter Fraud Claims: 'I Don't Have Proof That Men Landed on the Moon'
CNN:
Supreme Court rejects Texas' and Trump's bid to overturn election
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court dismisses bid led by Texas attorney general to overturn the presidential election results, blocking Trump's legal path to a reversal of his loss
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Shuts Door On Texas Suit Seeking To Overturn Election
Joseph Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Is There a Doctor in the White House?  Not if You Need an M.D.  —  Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.  —  Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter.
Tom Winter / NBC News:
Email to Hunter Biden raises fresh questions about his tax dealings  —  Hunter Biden's former business partner sent him an email in 2017 saying he did not disclose on his tax returns $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian natural gas company where he sat on the board, according to a copy of the email obtained by NBC News.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump absent while Congress works around the clock
New York Times:
F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away  —  An initial shipment of about 2.9 million doses of the vaccine will be sent around the United States over the next week.  —  The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday …
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Washington Post:
Sidney Powell's secret witness ‘Spyder’ is an IT consultant.  He told The Post he never worked in military intelligence.  —  The witness is code-named “Spyder.”  Or sometimes “Spider.”  His identity is so closely guarded that lawyer Sidney Powell has sought to keep it even from opposing counsel.
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC:
Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas  — Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate out of California.  — The coronavirus pandemic has given a number of tech companies an excuse to exit Silicon Valley.  — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month.
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Ben Kesling / Wall Street Journal:
Veterans Groups Call for VA Secretary's Dismissal  —  Top veterans advocacy groups and some Democratic lawmakers call for Robert Wilkie's removal after investigation found he mishandled sexual-assault investigation  —  A majority of the nation's top veterans advocacy groups called …
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Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Major veterans groups call for VA secretary's ouster following damning report
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Politico:
Biden starts countering Trump's messaging on vaccine  —  President-elect Joe Biden's team is feverishly working to get a messaging plan in place to sell a skeptical public on the first FDA-backed coronavirus vaccine, believing the Trump administration has set the effort back significantly.
Washington Post:
Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, documents show  —  Facing international outcry over its testing of a “Uighur alarm” system, Huawei said it is committed to human rights “at the highest level.”  But the tech giant has worked with others …
Manu Raju / CNN:
Ron Johnson to bring Ken Starr to testify at controversial hearing on 2020 elections  —  Washington (CNN)Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has invited former independent counsel Ken Starr and attorneys in key battleground states …
Conrad Black / The Hill:
Trump's political future depends on whether he can change  —  Barring a miracle from the Supreme Court, the Trump era appears to be ending, at least for now.  And at this point it seems — again, depending on the high court — to be ending in about as undignified a manner as President Trump's millions of critics would have predicted.
Discussion: globalnews.ca
 
 
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The Guardian:
‘The virus is moving in’: why California is losing the fight against Covid
David Gilbert / VICE:
Even QAnon Is Abandoning Parler, the Far-Right's Answer to Twitter
Discussion: Raw Story
David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal:
An Assertive Turkey Muscles Into Russia's Backyard
David Corn / Mother Jones:
A Pro-Trump Voting “Expert” Was Questioned About His Data. It Did Not Go Well for Him.
CNN:
Pentagon official who spread conspiracies, disparaged immigrants and refugees gets spot on influential West Point advisory board
New York Times:
Biden's Iowa Bus Tour Is Headed for a D.C. Reunion
 Earlier Items: 
Liz Peek / The Hill:
Red flag: Paul Krugman is optimistic about the economy
Amanda Bennett / Washington Post:
I was Voice of America's director. Trump's latest pick to run the organization is dangerous.
Discussion: Daily Kos and NPR
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire
William Saletan / Slate:
Trump Is Finishing Russia's Smear Campaign Against America
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times
 

 
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