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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.
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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.
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and The Week
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Impeachment Case Aims to Marshal Outrage of Capitol Attack Against Trump  —  Armed with lessons from the last impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, prosecutors plan a shorter, video-heavy presentation to confront Republicans with the fury they felt around the Capitol riot.
Michael J. Stern / USA Today:
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump. Can we count on the courts?
Discussion: Raw Story and HotAir
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Why Chuck Schumer Is Cozying Up to the A.O.C. Wing of His Party
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CNN
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
Chris Stirewalt / The Dispatch:
The Dangers of the Derp State  —  How we became a nation of so many dupes and fools is a matter at least as complicated as the causes of Donald Trump's presidency.  —  1 hr ago  —  One of the aphorisms of our populist era goes that Donald Trump is more of a symptom than a cause.  Fair enough.
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
Discussion: CNN and ABC News
Robert Reich / The Guardian:
Trump left behind a monstrous predicament. Here's how to tackle it
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,” …
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is set to announce this week that it will reengage with the much-maligned U.N. Human Rights Council that former President Donald Trump withdrew from almost three years ago, U.S. officials said Sunday.
Discussion: Politico, Reuters and Insider
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 …
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
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
How Bruce Springsteen Agreed To Do a Super Bowl Commercial for Jeep … After driving “Thunder Road” for decades, Bruce Springsteen is taking a detour on Madison Avenue.  —  The musician known as “The Boss” will command two minutes of commercial time in Super Bowl LV Sunday night …
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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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 …
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.
Jason Slotkin / NPR:
Tens Of Thousands Rally In Myanmar Protesting Military Coup  —  Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Myanmar on Sunday demanding an end to the military coup and release of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained alongside other elected officials in last week's military takeover.
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.”
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
 
 
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Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Why Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are at odds
Discussion: Washington Post
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
‘Intimidation measure’: Louisiana AG criticized for suing reporter over records request
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Marcy Kaptur's warning
Discussion: Instapundit
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
‘Purple America’ will set political direction in 2022
Discussion: DemCast
Washington Post:
New Biden rules for ICE point to fewer arrests and deportations, and a more restrained agency
Discussion: Breitbart, The Sun and Fox News
Ofer Aderet / Haaretz:
Polish Journalist Quizzed by Police for Writing That Poles Were Involved in the Holocaust
Ronald G. Shafer / Washington Post:
He became the nation's ninth vice president. She was his enslaved wife.
 Earlier Items: 
Amy Julia Harris / New York Times:
‘Nobody Tells Daddy No’: A Housing Boss's Many Abuse Cases
Discussion: WABC
Lindsey Appiah / The Bulwark:
Where Is the Love?  —  Reflections from the forgotten flock of non-white Evangelicals.
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
Discussion: Raw Story and Forbes
The Guardian:
Revealed: Queen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealth
Discussion: The Daily Beast, BBC and Politico
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
GOP registration drop after Capitol attack is part of larger trend
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May
Discussion: Daily Kos and Insider