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POLITICO Playbook: Democratic impeachment managers feeling muzzled — DRIVING THE DAY — Democrats who've struggled for years to hold DONALD TRUMP accountable are at a crossroads again: Do they go all out to convict Trump by calling a parade of witnesses to testify to his misdeeds?
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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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Insider, Deadline, InsideSources, Progressive Eruptions, New York Post and Political Wire
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.
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Washington Post, The Hill, Fox News, Raw Story, The Week and Political Wire
Michael J. Stern / USA Today:
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump. Can we count on the courts?
Impeachment trial: The Senate is unlikely to convict Trump. Can we count on the courts?
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Washington Times, Raw Story and HotAir
Gallup:
Americans' Views of Impeachment, Trump's Record on Issues — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As former President Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment trial is about to begin, a new Gallup poll finds a slim majority of Americans (52%) saying they would like their senators to vote to convict him.
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The Hill, The Nation and Fox News
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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 …
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USA Today, CNN, Washington Post, The Guardian, NOQ Report, New Republic, FiveThirtyEight, The Week, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump impeachment conviction? ‘Zero chance,’ Republicans say, as Dems move forward with case
Trump impeachment conviction? ‘Zero chance,’ Republicans say, as Dems move forward with case
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National Review, Raw Story and New Republic
Politico:
Inside Bidenworld's plan to punish the GOP for opposing Covid relief — Democrats are plowing forward with plans to pass a massive Covid-19 relief package. And if Republicans don't join them, they won't forget it. — Already, there's talk about midterm attack ads portraying Republicans …
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Crooks and Liars, Raw Story, Pennsylvania Capital-Star and NBC News
Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Few in US say democracy is working very well — WASHINGTON (AP) — Only a fragment of Americans believe democracy is thriving in the U.S., even as broad majorities agree that representative government is one of the country's bedrock principles, according to a new poll …
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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, ABC News, CNN, Political Wire, Slate and Washington Post
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.
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Raw Story
David Marcus / The Federalist:
This Impeachment Is A Disgraceful Sham — Your betters want to decide who you can and cannot vote for. You should be angry. — So the petty little fascists in the Democratic Party have decided that their first order of business is telling you who you are allowed to vote for in the future.
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New York Post, Florida Politics and Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Forces That Stopped Obama's Recovery Will Not Stop Biden's — Joe Biden assumed the presidency confronting an economic crisis reminiscent of the one that faced him when he and Barack Obama took office 12 years earlier. But it is already apparent that the political atmosphere surrounding Biden is unrecognizable.
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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 …
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Politico and Florida Politics
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew
US moves to rejoin UN rights council, reversing Trump anew
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Reuters, New York Times, Townhall and Insider
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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Washington Post, Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog, HuffPost, Mediaite, Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit, LGBTQ Nation, The Hill, Raw Story, NPR and New York Times
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David Smith / The Guardian:
Never Trumpers' Republican revolt failed but they could still play key role
Never Trumpers' Republican revolt failed but they could still play key role
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Towleroad Gay News, NBC News, Vox, Boston Herald, Forbes and National Journal
Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, once foes, talk Trump — NEW YORK (AP) — When he was Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money payment to the porn actress that landed him in federal prison.
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The Hill, Insider, Towleroad Gay News and JONATHAN TURLEY
Dean Russell / THE CITY:
NYC Nursing Home Gave Dozens of Veterans Experimental COVID-19 Treatments. Some Families Had No Idea — This story was produced in collaboration with THE CITY, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Type Investigations as part of “MISSING THEM,” THE CITY's ongoing collaborative project to remember every New Yorker killed by COVID-19.
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
In America's ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are The Aggressors — In his inaugural address, President Biden described America as in the midst of an “uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.” His invocation of a civil war and the American Civil War was provocative.
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 …
Associated Press:
Water fired at crowd as anti-coup protests swell in Myanmar — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police fired a water cannon Monday at hundreds of protesters in Myanmar's capital who are demanding the military hand power back to elected officials, as demonstrations against last week's coup intensified and spread to more parts of the country.
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The Hill, Bloomberg, The Irrawaddy, BBC, Reuters, The Guardian, Associated Press, Al Jazeera and Axios
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Jason Slotkin / NPR:
Tens Of Thousands Rally In Myanmar Protesting Military Coup
Tens Of Thousands Rally In Myanmar Protesting Military Coup
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Bloomberg, Common Dreams, MyNorthwest.com, Kyodo News+, Al Jazeera, The Irrawaddy, Reuters and Associated Press
Kate Bachelder Odell / Wall Street Journal:
‘Kill Switch’ Review: When 51 Votes Aren't Enough — Harry Reid made frequent use of the filibuster when he led the Senate. A former Reid staffer is shocked that GOP leaders have done the same. — One thing Americans can probably agree on right now is that Americans don't agree on much of anything.
Chris Hayes / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy — The GOP is moderating on policy questions, even as it grows more dangerous on core questions of democracy and the rule of law. — Host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC — The republican party is radicalizing against democracy.
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Los Angeles Times
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.
James Arkin / Politico:
Democrats seek a reset button in Ohio — Virtually winless over the past decade, Ohio Democrats know they need something different. But actually finding that formula has eluded the party — at least, for everyone not named Sherrod Brown. — Democrats are still searching for it as they try …
Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
False claims hang over a Trump-loving county's plans to buy Dominion voting machines — Late last year, amid rampant conspiracy theories of a stolen presidential election, officials in a Trump-loving county in Ohio took a stand: They voted 4 to 0 to buy Dominion voting machines.
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Raw Story
Kevin Daley / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Justice Department Pick Opposed Enforcing Civil Rights Laws Against Blacks — The incoming Justice Department civil rights chief has a history of opposing civil rights prosecutions of black defendants, opposing a complaint against an African-American Democratic leader who discriminated against white voters.
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
The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds
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Althouse