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1:50 PM ET, February 14, 2021

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David Frum / The Atlantic:
It'll Do  —  In 1955, a junior United States senator named John F. Kennedy published Profiles in Courage, a collection of short essays about eight of his predecessors who had risked their careers for their ideals over the previous 150 years.  —  In one single day in 2021 …
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Post-Impeachment Live Updates: Fallout Begins for Republicans Who Voted to Convict Trump  —  By acquitting the former president, the G.O.P. ensured that his influence will continue to dominate the party.  The federal criminal investigations related to the Capitol riot will keep the issue of Trump's culpability alive for months.
The White House:
Statement by President Joe Biden on the Senate Vote in the Trial of Donald Trump … It was nearly two weeks ago that Jill and I paid our respects to Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who laid in honor in the Rotunda after losing his life protecting the Capitol from a riotous, violent mob on January 6, 2021.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There are only seven honorable Republican senators  —  In a masterly job of lawyering, public education and civic performance, House impeachment managers got every available Republican vote to convict former president Donald Trump on Saturday.  Alas, there were only seven available …
Discussion: MarketWatch, Insider, TheBlaze and CBS News
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Raskin: Trump found guilty in ‘the court of public opinion and the court of history’ … WASHINGTON — The lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., criticized Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for “trying to have it both ways” by voting …
Glen Johnson / Axios:
McConnell's two-step portends challenge for Biden and Schumer  —  With his words and deeds, Mitch McConnell has shown how to retain power when you no longer hold it.  —  Why it matters: Perhaps the most powerful Senate leader since LBJ, McConnell sets the chamber's agenda whether in the majority or, as he is now, the minority.
New York Times:
McConnell, Denouncing Trump After Voting to Acquit, Says His Hands Were Tied
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Trump's Republicans, Brought to Their Knees
Discussion: Bloomberg, Vox and NBC News
Tim Wigginton / North Carolina Republican Party:
NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley's Statement On Senator Burr's Contradictory Impeachment Vote
John Nichols / The Nation:
The Senate Has Failed America
New York Times:
First They Guarded Roger Stone.  Then They Joined the Capitol Attack.  —  Oath Keepers guarding Roger Stone on Jan. 5 ...  Roger  —  Stone  —  ... and participating in the  —  Oath Keeper  —  Oath Keeper  —  Oath  —  Keeper  —  Oath  —  Keeper
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The fallout from Donald Trump's acquittal  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  DONALD TRUMP teased his political comeback.  Democrats did a victory lap in defeat, pointing to the seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict.  And Republicans face a future haunted by a damaged ex-president who won't go away.
Discussion: Insider, Bloomberg, NPR and Townhall
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Politico:
McConnell's next chapter: Guiding the post-Trump GOP  —  Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Donald Trump, then publicly torched him — encapsulating the dilemma of the man who now must guide a GOP riven by infighting over whether it's the party of Trump or the center-right party he wants them to be.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:   ‘A moment of truth’? After years of Trump's lies, amplified by MAGA media, that proved impossible for most Republicans
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Tom Perez on Democrats' Mistakes and Why Iowa Shouldn't Go First  —  In an interview, the former D.N.C. chairman discussed a possible bid for Maryland governor and said Iowa and New Hampshire starting the presidential nominating process was “unacceptable.”  —  For the past four years …
Discussion: Axios and Washington Examiner
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Trump left them to die. 43 Senate Republicans still licked his boots.  —  In the end, the darkest truth of Donald Trump's crime came to light.  —  As his marauders sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 in their bloody attempt to overturn the election, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy called …
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Scott Alexander / Astral Codex Ten:
Statement on New York Times Article  —  There was recently a negative article about me and my blog in the New York Times.  Most of you already know the history behind this, but for anyone referred here by NYT, this is where I give my side and defend myself.
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Kate Santich / MSN:
As COVID variants spread, Florida refuses to release data  —  For weeks as a more contagious mutation of COVID-19 has spread across Florida, top state health officials have kept secret the location of those cases.  —  Since Jan. 7 — one week after a COVID variant first found in the United Kingdom …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
First known patient reinfected with South Africa coronavirus variant is in critical condition
Discussion: CBS News
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Ben Sasse's Conviction: Trump's Lies Caused This  —  In a series of interviews leading up to Saturday's impeachment vote, the GOP senator described the stakes as he sees them: nothing less than the integrity of the Constitution.  —  What happened on January 6 of this year …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham: 'I don't see how Kamala Harris doesn't get impeached'  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday said that he expects Republicans to impeach Vice President Kamala Harris if the party takes control of the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  During an appearance on Fox News Sunday …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The massive GOP betrayal of our democracy requires a forceful Democratic response  —  Now that the vast majority of Senate Republicans voted to acquit former president Donald Trump of inciting violent insurrection, as we all knew they would, Democrats should immediately respond as follows:
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
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The White House:
Executive Order on the Establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to better serve people in need through partnerships with civil society …
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: President Biden Reestablishes the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
Discussion: The Hill, Bloomberg and Deseret News
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
After impeachment, bipartisanship is dead — and so is the immoral Republican Party  —  The Republican Party was born on March 20, 1854, the green shoots of a political spring.  Unlike America's other parties that were often shotgun weddings of convenience, the Republicans burst forth around moral ideas …
The Daily Beast:
FBI Informant Panic Is Ruining Friendships All Over the Far Right  —  TRUST NO ONE  —  From Proud Boys panicked about the revelation that their leader was a snitch to the racist America First crowd, old pals are now enemies.  —  As federal authorities crack down on the far right …
Discussion: Raw Story
CNN:
This is Trump's heaping list of legal problems post-impeachment  —  (CNN)After averting a conviction in his second impeachment trial, former President Donald Trump faces significant new legal threats as prosecutors in Georgia have joined those in New York to conduct criminal investigations into his actions.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and WSB-TV
 
 
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Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
Breaking the Rule of One  —  After upending a racial norm in the rural South …
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How the Senate map shift helped Trump win acquittal
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Matt Stieb / New York Magazine:
What Happens to Trump's Wall Now?
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Krista Summerville / Associated Press:
Newsom recall organizers collect more than 1.5 million signatures
Discussion: HotAir
Meg Cunningham / ABC News:
9/11-style commission should investigate Capitol attack: Sen. Coons, Rep. Dean
Discussion: The Hill and UPI
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
CDC head: ‘I think we need a lot more resources in order to get the schools safe’
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