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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Majority of Americans say Trump should be convicted, barred from holding federal office in impeachment trial: POLL  —  The Senate is set to begin Trump's second impeachment trial on Tuesday.  —  2nd Impeachment Trial: What this could mean for Trump  —  Donald Trump will be the first president …
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Dante Chinni / NBC News:
GOP registration drop after Capitol attack is part of larger trend … WASHINGTON — In the weeks since the January riot at the Capitol, there has been a raft of stories about voters across the country leaving the Republican Party.  Some of the numbers are eye-catching and suggest that the GOP …
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Trump left behind a monstrous predicament. Here's how to tackle it
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: McCarthy told Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach Trump  —  Kevin McCarthy tried to get Liz Cheney to apologize for voting to impeach former President Trump before last week's highly anticipated House GOP conference meeting — a request she refused, two people with direct knowledge told Axios.
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Fox News:
Rep. Liz Cheney says she refuses to step down following state GOP censure
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Breaking With G.O.P., Top Conservative Lawyer Says Trump Can Stand Trial  —  Charles J. Cooper, a stalwart of the conservative legal establishment, said that Republicans were wrong to assert that it is unconstitutional for a former president to be tried for impeachable offenses.
Discussion: InsideSources and Political Wire
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Chuck Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
The Constitution Doesn't Bar Trump's Impeachment Trial  —  Removal from office is best understood as akin to a ‘mandatory minimum’ sentence for a crime.  —  During the impeachment of Bill Clinton, his defenders argued that his misconduct was ultimately private and didn't rise to the level of an impeachable offense.
Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.  —  A new study bolsters the prediction by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the so-called B.1.1.7 variant will dominate Covid-19 cases by March.  —  A more contagious variant of the coronavirus first found …
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Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May  —  A remarkable BBC documentary reveals the startling reality of meeting the president  —  For the former prime minister Theresa May, one of the most pressing matters she confronted during her encounter with Donald Trump …
Discussion: Insider
Jackie Salo / New York Post:
Trump ‘happier’ now that he's off social media: former aide  —  Former President Trump “feels happier” since leaving the White House — partly because he's off social media, his former campaign aide says.  —  “The president has said he feels happier now than he's been in some time,” …
Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100  —  George P. Shultz, one of only two people to serve the United States in four Cabinet-level posts and a major force in economic and foreign policy in two Republican administrations, died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.
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Hoover Institution:
Distinguished American Statesman, 60th US Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Dies at 100
PEN America:
PEN America Responds to Resignation of New York Times Reporter McNeil  —  The word McNeil uttered has uniquely cruel, painful, and dangerous associations; still, Times' reversal in this instance sends worrying signal  —  (New York, NY) — New York Times science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. resigned Friday …
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John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:   The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
New York Times ties itself in woke knots
Harry Enten / CNN:
Less than 10% of Americans like QAnon  —  (CNN)QAnon has been in the news a lot in recent weeks.  Polling shows that many people at least partially blame it for the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, and it's a scary and dangerous conspiracy theory.  —  But we should be clear that it truly is a fringe movement.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Brittany Shammas / Washington Post:   Majority of Americans approve of Biden's coronavirus response, poll finds
Glenn Greenwald:
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows  —  The NYT's Taylor Lorenz falsely accuses a tech investor of using a slur after spending months trying to infiltrate and monitor a new app that allows free conversation.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Big Publishing Pushes Out Trump's Last Fan  —  Top editors at Hachette have told employees that they've learned the lessons of the Capitol siege of Jan. 6: no hate speech, no incitement to violence, no false narratives.  —  If you were a certain kind of distinctly Trumpy public figure …
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook's Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story  —  Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and the criminal conspiracy case of U.S. v. Donald Trump  —  Roger Stone has been here before.  Exactly two decades earlier, when a Florida recount threatened to undo Republican George W. Bush's less-than-1,000-vote lead in the Sunshine State and hand …
Washington Post:
‘An easy choice’: Inside Biden's decision to go it alone with Democrats on coronavirus relief … Partway through a two-hour Oval Office meeting with President Biden about his coronavirus relief package, several Republican senators thought they might have finally reached a breakthrough.
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Ronald G. Shafer / Washington Post:
He became the nation's ninth vice president.  She was his enslaved wife.  —  Her name was Julia Chinn  —  She was born enslaved and remained that way her entire life, even after she became Richard Mentor Johnson's “bride.”  —  Johnson, a Kentucky congressman who eventually became …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Marcy Kaptur's warning  —  Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the current Congress.  —  She has also been in the U.S. House of Representatives longer than any woman has served there, in all of U.S. history.  —  She came to the Congress in 1983.  —  She is 74 and has been a Democrat her entire voting life.
Discussion: Instapundit
Michael J. Stern / USA Today:
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump.  Can we count on the courts?  —  The Justice Department may decide to prosecute Trump, but it's a tough call.  Whatever the evidence, one Trump fan on a jury could prevent a conviction.  —  Ask any die-hard Democrat …
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and HotAir
Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Trump's DC hotel is hiking prices for March 4 - the day QAnon followers think the former president will be sworn in … - QAnon followers believe that Trump will be sworn in on March 4, 2021.  — This belief is rooted in a conspiracy theory that all presidents post-1871 are illegitimate.
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
Rod Dreher:
The Snowplow Test  —  Normal people: ‘Yay, the neighbors are here to plow our driveway!’  Liberal columnist: ‘What do they want from me?  And ick, they like Trump!’  (Patty_C/GettyImages  —  Los Angeles Times columnist Virginia Heffernan, who lives in Brooklyn Heights but who lives somewhere rurally …
EEAS:
My visit to Moscow and the future of EU-Russia relations  —  07/02/2021 - HR/VP Blog - I went to Moscow this week to test, through principled diplomacy, whether the Russian government was interested in addressing differences and reversing the negative trend in our relations.
Washington Post:
New Biden rules for ICE point to fewer arrests and deportations, and a more restrained agency  —  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to issue new guidelines to agents this week that could sharply curb arrests and deportations, as the Biden administration attempts to assert …
Discussion: Fox News
 
 
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