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8:21 AM ET, February 8, 2021

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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, The Hill, 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: JONATHAN TURLEY, 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
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
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Associated Press:
Biden administration plans to reengage with UN rights council, reversing Trump  —  The decision is likely to draw criticism from conservative lawmakers and many in the pro-Israel community.  —  Time for schools to reopen safely: President Biden  —  The United States announced plans Monday …
Discussion: Politico and Insider
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 Washington Examiner
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,” …
Jacob Kornbluh / The Forward:
Andrew Yang on yeshiva education: 'We shouldn't interfere'  —  Andrew Yang said he would not take action to boost secular education in yeshivas if elected mayor of New York City, staking out a position likely to win him support in Brooklyn's Orthodox communities.
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 …
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 …
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.
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Where Democrats and Republicans agree on Trump  —  Donald Trump's second impeachment trial in as many years has Democrats and Republicans in rare agreement: Most senators want to get it over with, and they want the former president to go away.  —  Democrats see the best way to achieve …
medRxiv:
Genomic epidemiology identifies emergence and rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 in the United States  —  Nicole L. Washington, Karthik Gangavarapu, Mark Zeller, Alexandre Bolze, Elizabeth T. Cirulli, Kelly M. Schiabor Barrett Barrett, Brendan B. Larsen, Catelyn Anderson, Simon White …
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Carl Zimmer / New York Times:
Virus Variant First Found in Britain Now Spreading Rapidly in U.S.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Gothamist
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.
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 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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Andrew A. Michta / National Review:
The Fracturing of the American Ideal
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Why Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy are at odds
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Marcy Kaptur's warning
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Albert Hunt / The Hill:
‘Purple America’ will set political direction in 2022
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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
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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.
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Sheryl Sandberg Downplayed Facebook's Role In The Capitol Hill Siege—Justice Department Files Tell A Very Different Story
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
Peter Beaumont / The Guardian:
How Donald Trump's hand-holding led to panicky call home by Theresa May
Discussion: Daily Kos and Insider