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4:40 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.”
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.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Trump absent while Congress works around the clock  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THIS PRESIDENCY has been filled with hard-to-believe split screens, but we're seeing perhaps the starkest display of dissonance yet.  CONGRESS has been working around the clock to cut a series …
Washington Post:
‘The last wall’: How dozens of judges across the political spectrum rejected Trump's efforts to overturn the election
CNN:
The Supreme Court's clear message to President Trump: Stop
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'
Republican Party of Texas:
Chairman Allen West's Response to SCOTUS Decision
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Texas Suit Seeking to Subvert Election
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Pursues Appointing Special Counsel to Probe Election, Hunter Biden
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.
Discussion: The Hill, The Wrap and TMZ.com
Washington Post:
Biden's attorney general search narrows  —  President-elect Joe Biden's search for the next attorney general is increasingly focused on Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) and former deputy attorney general Sally Q. Yates, according to people familiar with the discussions, who said that appeals court …
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Veterans groups call for VA secretary's dismissal after watchdog audit  —  Four of the largest U.S. veterans groups on Friday called for the immediate dismissal of Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie after a watchdog audit concluded he mishandled an investigation …
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Pelosi calls on Wilkie to resign from VA after watchdog report findings
Discussion: Washington Post and Task & Purpose
Jared S. Hopkins / Wall Street Journal:
How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record Time: Crazy Deadlines, a Pushy CEO  —  Albert Bourla and his team overcame unproven science and manufacturing bottlenecks; 'you're asking for too much'  —  Pfizer Inc. was months from proving its Covid-19 vaccine would even work …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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New York Times:
F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine, and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away
Axios:
In photos: Maskless Trump supporters descend on D.C. to protest election results  —  Thousands of protesters, including many not wearing face masks despite a citywide mandate, rallied in Washington, D.C., Saturday, refusing to accept President Trump lost the 2020 election.
Discussion: NPR, The Hill, UPI, ABC7 and Political Wire
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Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
DeSantis refused to disclose White House coronavirus report that contradicts him  —  State officials should take urgent action to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the report said.  DeSantis has declined to so.  —  TALLAHASSEE — A White House Coronavirus Task Force report about the state …
Discussion: Orlando Sentinel
The Guardian:
‘The virus is moving in’: why California is losing the fight against Covid … Sam Levin in Los Angeles, Maanvi Singh in Oakland, and Vivian Ho and Gabrielle Canon in San Francisco  —  Early in the coronavirus pandemic, California was celebrated as a beacon of common sense in a country on the brink.
Tyler Pager / Politico:
Iowa autopsy report: DNC meddling led to caucus debacle  —  Democratic National Committee meddling, combined with missteps by the state Democratic Party, were the primary drivers of the chaos that torpedoed the Iowa caucuses earlier this year, according to a new audit commissioned by the state party.
Discussion: Des Moines Register and The Hill
David Gilbert / VICE:
Even QAnon Is Abandoning Parler, the Far-Right's Answer to Twitter  —  For five days at the beginning of November, Parler was the most downloaded app in the U.S. But now, users are over it.  —  DG  —  For five days at the beginning of November, Parler was the most downloaded app in the U.S.
Discussion: Raw Story
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo throwing virtual birthday party to raise campaign cash  —  Pretty steep for a Zoom call.  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to fatten his campaign coffers with an online birthday shindig that will cost supporters up to $10,000 to — virtually — rub shoulders with him and a few of his favorite celebs.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
House Democrat Calls To Exclude 126 Republicans From Next Congress For Supporting Texas Lawsuit  —  Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) on Friday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refuse to seat any of the 126 Republican House members who signed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit aimed at overturning …
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New York Times:
Republicans Faced Trump's Loss by Embracing Nihilism
Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump made big in-roads in Hispanic areas across the nation  —  (CNN)One of the most notable early results on Election Night came from Florida's heavily Hispanic Miami-Dade county.  President Donald Trump lost it to President-elect Joe Biden by just 7 points, after losing it by 29 points in 2016.
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
 
 
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Iran executes exiled journalist who encouraged 2017 protests
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity, documents show
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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
Manu Raju / CNN:
Ron Johnson to bring Ken Starr to testify at controversial hearing on 2020 elections
New York Times:
Biden's Iowa Bus Tour Is Headed for a D.C. Reunion
Conrad Black / The Hill:
Trump's political future depends on whether he can change
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