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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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
CREW:
CREW files criminal complaint against Trump over Georgia call  —  President Trump appears to have violated multiple laws by pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of Georgia's presidential election, according to a criminal complaint sent by CREW …
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 …
Associated Press:
Analysis: With call, Trump shows no limit to his power grab
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
This Is the Cost of a Failed Impeachment
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:   Lou Dobbs Asks Why It Has Been So Hard ‘Finding Actual Proof’ of Trump's Baseless Election Claims
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
NBC News:
Democrats ask FBI Director Wray to open criminal probe into Trump after leaked phone call
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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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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 …
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Proud Boys leader arrested, accused of burning church banner  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the nation's capital on Monday arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, who is accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington last month.
Will Carless / USA Today:
Proud Boys leader arrested for destruction of property ahead of DC protests against election results
Discussion: Law & Crime, DNyuz and Washingtonian
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 …
New York Times:
Pharmacist Accused of Tampering With Vaccine Was Conspiracy Theorist, Police Say  —  The police say a Wisconsin pharmacist believed the Moderna vaccine would harm people and tried to sabotage the effort to vaccinate frontline workers.  —  A pharmacist who was arrested on charges …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and abc7NY
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Wisconsin pharmacist thought vaccine was unsafe  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's DNA, according to court documents released Monday.
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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Jody Harrison / HeraldScotland:   Could Donald Trump be planning to snub Joe Biden with trip to Scotland?
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.”
Discussion: CNBC, POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
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Katy Feinberg / Partnership for New York City:
Business Leaders Call on Congress to Accept the Electoral College Results
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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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 …
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 …
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.
 
 
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Google Staff Launch Union, Escalating Tension With Leaders
Rachel M. Cohen / The Appeal:
Newly Elected Michigan Prosecutor Will Stop Seeking Cash Bail
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George Will / Washington Post:
Hawley, Cruz and their Senate cohort are the Constitution's most dangerous domestic enemies
Discussion: COURIER, WRIC-TV, The Guardian and DNyuz
Mike Dickerson / KNOCK:
Vons, Pavilions to Fire “Essential Workers,” Replace Drivers with Independent Contractors
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Gun rights groups happy as Gov. Mike DeWine signs ‘stand your ground’ legislation into law
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart and NPR
New York Times:
America Can't Even Produce the Things It Invented
Discussion: Noahpinion
 Earlier Items: 
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Howard Stern rips Trump over Georgia call: 'This is criminal. It's gangster'
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Urging calm, DC mayor calls in National Guard for protests
The Intercept:
FBI Questioned a Michigan Senate Staffer After Zoom Call About Banning Tear Gas
Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Moderna increases minimum 2021 Covid vaccine production by 20% to 600 million doses
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
An interview with Telegraph Director of Technology Dylan Jacques on the goal of launching 12 significant uses of AI in the newsroom over 12 months

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Apple removes RFE/RL's Svoboda app from the Russian App Store at the demand of Roskomnadzor; Apple also removed recent podcasts by Ekho Moskvy and others

Reuters:
Prince Harry's lawsuit against News Group Newspapers moves towards trial; all but one other litigant in the roughly 40 lawsuits against NGN have settled
 
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