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Dan Primack / Axios:
Dominion plans to sue Sidney Powell, doesn't rule out Trump — Dominion Voting Systems plans to sue attorney Sidney Powell “imminently” for defamation, and is continuing to explore similar suits against President Trump and others, company founder and CEO John Poulos told the Axios Re:Cap podcast on Monday.
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Milwaukee law firm ‘concerned’ by attorney's role in Trump call trying to upend Georgia election results — A Milwaukee-based law firm is distancing itself from one of the attorneys involved in President Donald Trump's disturbing call trying to overturn the results of the Georgia election.
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta-Based U.S. Attorney Abruptly Departs Office Sooner Than Expected — The U.S. attorney in Atlanta departed his post Monday, TPM has learned, after previously indicating that he would not leave until Inauguration Day. — The reason for U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak's change of plans are not clear.
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Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Martha MacCallum Grills Brad Raffensperger on Leaking Trump Call: ‘It Feels Like This is Very Much About a Grudge’ — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) sparred with Fox News' Martha MacCallum over the details of who recorded his phone call with President Donald Trump …
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Law & Crime
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Should Be Prosecuted for His Shakedown of Georgia's Brad Raffensperger — President Donald Trump likely broke both federal and state law in a Saturday phone call during which he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Georgia Official Blasts Trump for Repeating Falsehoods on Eve of Two Critical Senate Runoffs — It was like “Groundhog Day,” the top election official said of once again having to debunk President Trump's baseless claims of election fraud. Georgia's two runoff races on Tuesday …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office — President Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending. — WASHINGTON — President Trump's relentless effort to overturn …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Loeffler to object to certification of presidential election results — Source says she will likely object to certification of Georgia's presidential election results — Sen. Loeffler: Warnock's values are ‘out of step with Georgia’ — EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call — DRIVING THE DAY — Good morning from Atlanta, Gateway to the South and the pulsing center of Tuesday's two U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine partisan control of the upper chamber and the success of Joe Biden's first term as president.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
New Republican poll shows statistical tie in Georgia — The Democratic and Republican Senate candidates in Georgia are in a statistical tie heading into Tuesday's pair of runoff elections, according to a new poll conducted for a Republican super PAC. — Why it matters: In both elections …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
This Is the Cost of a Failed Impeachment — When the Senate failed to remove Trump last year, it all but guaranteed his future attempts to overturn the election. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — If your memory can reach back to the time before COVID-19—no shame if it can't …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
MAGA Nihilism Is on the Ballot in Georgia — We believe in nothing . . . except God-King Trump. — We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your Johnson. — This evening, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will put the final seditious exclamation point …
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
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NBC News:
Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call
Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call
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Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
‘Disgusting’: Perdue hammers Georgia secretary of state for recording Trump call
‘Disgusting’: Perdue hammers Georgia secretary of state for recording Trump call
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos talks elections, death threats and lawsuits
Dominion Voting Systems CEO John Poulos talks elections, death threats and lawsuits
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Raffensperger: Trump could face investigation over election call
Raffensperger: Trump could face investigation over election call
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning
A leading historian of U.S. democracy issues an urgent warning
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Rep. Jamie Raskin / Medium:
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin — TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: — “On January 30, 1995 …
Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for North Georgia resigns, effective immediately — U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.In October 2017, Pak was sworn into office after being appointed …
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TMZ.com:
Tanya Roberts Is Still Alive, Despite Her Rep Having Said She Was Dead — 4:25 PM PT — We just spoke with Lance, Tanya's long-term partner. He tells us he went to the hospital Sunday after getting a call from doctors saying Tanya was fading fast, and it was going end in her death.
Peter Swindon / The Sunday Post:
Donald Trump could be planning Turnberry trip as Scots airport told to expect a high-flyer the day before Joe Biden's inauguration … © Robert Perry/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock — US President Donald Trump could be planning a trip to Scotland to avoid attending his successor Joe Biden's inauguration, according to aviation sources.
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Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader arrested in the burning of Black Lives Matter banner, D.C. police say — The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested by D.C. police late Monday afternoon on a warrant charging him with burning a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church during …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Trump Era Could Only End in a Final Attack on Democracy — On November 7, former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined, “If He Loses, Trump Will Concede Gracefully.” The very question, Mulvaney insisted, insulted the president and his supporters.
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Nicholas Wu / USA Today:
Liz Cheney, a top House Republican, says Trump Georgia call is ‘deeply troubling,’ says everyone should listen to full audiotape
Liz Cheney, a top House Republican, says Trump Georgia call is ‘deeply troubling,’ says everyone should listen to full audiotape
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Top House Appropriations Republican tests COVID-19 positive
Top House Appropriations Republican tests COVID-19 positive
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
D.C. Police to contact GOP Rep. Boebert about plans to bring Glock to work — “That Congresswoman will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else that's caught on the D.C. streets carrying a firearm,” said police chief Robert Contee III. — GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert smiles …
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Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
In ad, lawmaker vows to carry her Glock around D.C. and on Hill
In ad, lawmaker vows to carry her Glock around D.C. and on Hill
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Worse Than Treason — “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump seethes at GOP ‘surrender caucus’ that won't back his coup attempt
Trump seethes at GOP ‘surrender caucus’ that won't back his coup attempt
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NBC News
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win — Almost 200 of the country's top business leaders urged Congress to certify the electoral results for President-elect Joe Biden in a letter Monday, arguing that “attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy.”
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Nicholson Baker / New York Magazine:
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one. But what if ...? … What happened was fairly simple, I've come to believe. It was an accident. A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out.
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Yuval Levin / National Review:
Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age — For many years now, an important segment of the Republican electorate has been increasingly frustrated with the elites who lead our core institutions. The political outlook of these voters has come to be defined by that frustration …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Wall Street Journal Epitomizes the Failure of Elite Conservatism — Once the paper of record for conservative opinion-makers, the Journal's editorial page has betrayed its readers. — The Wall Street Journal editorial page is probably the most influential elite conservative outlet in the country.
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Wall Street Journal and The Hill
Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Gun rights groups happy as Gov. Mike DeWine signs ‘stand your ground’ legislation into law — While voicing disappointment that the state's Republican-controlled legislature did not move other gun reform he sought, Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law “stand your ground” legislation …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Biden will try to fix our vaccine rollout mess — Mounting signs that the vaccine rollout is beset by snags are a reminder of what a daunting task the Biden administration will face in overseeing successful vaccination of the public against coronavirus.
The Intercept:
FBI Questioned a Michigan Senate Staffer After Zoom Call About Banning Tear Gas … Two officers with an FBI task force showed up at the home of a Michigan state senator's chief of staff and aggressively questioned her about a draft bill she had discussed on a private legislative Zoom call.
Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Moderna increases minimum 2021 Covid vaccine production by 20% to 600 million doses — Moderna is upping the minimum number of doses it expects to make to 600 million, the company said Monday. — The company said it's working to produce up to 1 billion doses of its Covid-19 vaccine this year.
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