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Politico:
Supreme Court refuses Trump effort to block tax return subpoena — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for prosecutors in New York City to receive eight years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns and other financial records as part of an ongoing investigation into possible tax …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court again rejects Trump's bid to shield tax returns, other financial records from Manhattan prosecutor — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected former president Donald Trump's last-chance effort to keep his private financial records from the Manhattan district attorney, ending a long and drawn-out legal battle.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Final Bid to Block Release of Financial Records — The former president's accountants will give the records he has spent years trying to shield to New York prosecutors. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-ditch attempt …
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Cases Over Conduct of Election in Pennsylvania, With Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas Dissenting …
Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Cases Over Conduct of Election in Pennsylvania, With Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas Dissenting …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't take up challenge to Pennsylvania presidential election results
Supreme Court won't take up challenge to Pennsylvania presidential election results
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court won't stop grand jury from getting Trump's tax returns
Supreme Court won't stop grand jury from getting Trump's tax returns
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY prosecutor
Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax returns to NY prosecutor
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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Dominion Sues MyPillow, CEO Mike Lindell Over Election Claims — The voting-machine maker's lawsuit alleges defamation, seeks more than $1.3 billion in damages — WASHINGTON—One of the largest makers of voting machines in the U.S. on Monday sued a prominent supporter of former President Donald Trump …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Has Biden poisoned the well with GOP moderates? — FIRST THINGS FIRST: Take a moment to read this calming piece from NYT's Katie Rogers on the return of a bit of schedule normalcy under President JOE BIDEN: “Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend?”
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Did Washington Just Have an Actual Weekend? — President Biden is uninterested in generating headlines, which only emphasizes how the Trump-size hole in Washington has created a sense of free time in the capital — psychically, if not literally. — WASHINGTON — President Biden did not do anything this weekend.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump to claim total control of GOP — In his first post-presidential appearance, Donald Trump plans to send the message next weekend that he is Republicans' “presumptive 2024 nominee” with a vise grip on the party's base, top Trump allies tell Axios.
Politico:
Neera Tanden in deeper jeopardy as two Republicans oppose her nomination — Neera Tanden's nomination to be President Joe Biden's budget chief is in even more trouble. — Sens. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney said on Monday they will oppose Tanden to lead the White House Budget Office …
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POLITICO Playbook: Collins comes out against Tanden
POLITICO Playbook: Collins comes out against Tanden
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Republicans pressure 2022 Democrats over Becerra nomination
Republicans pressure 2022 Democrats over Becerra nomination
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Alexandra DeSanctis / National Review:
Exclusive: Republicans Demand Biden Withdraw Becerra's Nomination to Head HHS
Exclusive: Republicans Demand Biden Withdraw Becerra's Nomination to Head HHS
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Featured CPAC speaker said Judaism is a “complete lie” and referred to Jewish people as “thieving fake Jews” — Leading Republican officials are set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week along with a virulently anti-Semitic speaker named Young Pharaoh.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Garland confirmation is a stage for 4 of GOP's 2024 hopefuls — Merrick Garland appears on track for an easy confirmation hearing this week. But the attorney general nominee's moment in the spotlight will once again be affected by presidential politics — as four 2024 GOP contenders get a stage to catapult their national brands.
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Uprising Grows Over Cuomo's Bullying and ‘Brutalist Political Theater’ — The scrutiny of Covid-19 deaths in New York nursing homes has also put the governor's aggressive behavior in the spotlight. — ALBANY, N.Y. — During Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's first term, two former administration officials …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Cuomo's Approval Rating Erodes in Wake of New York Nursing Home Scandal
Cuomo's Approval Rating Erodes in Wake of New York Nursing Home Scandal
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New York Post, Sean Hannity and Fox News
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
NYS Democrats take steps to censure Gov. Cuomo over nursing home scandal
NYS Democrats take steps to censure Gov. Cuomo over nursing home scandal
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Your Side / WFLA-TV:
Nikki Fried says she won't lower flags to honor Rush Limbaugh despite DeSantis' order — TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried says she will disregard Gov. Ron DeSantis' order to lower Florida flags at half-staff in honor of conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh who died last week.
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The Intercept:
FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack … Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions.
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Elise Schmelzer / Denver Post:
Elijah McClain death: Aurora police didn't have legal basis to stop, frisk or choke 23-year-old, investigation finds — Aurora police officers did not have a legal basis to force Elijah McClain to stop walking, to frisk him or to use a chokehold on him, an independent investigation commissioned by the city found.
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Amanda Makki / Washington Examiner:
How the GOP can win back Congress — While pundits talk about a post-impeachment civil war within the Republican Party, the truth is that the GOP is more unified than ever in taking back control of Congress in 2022. — History is also on the Right's side, with Democrats in charge …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
The GOP is a party without ideas
The GOP is a party without ideas
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Meghan McCain: Replace Dr. Fauci With Someone Who ‘Understands Science’ — “The fact that I, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View, don't know when or how I will be able to get a vaccine...” she ranted. — Meghan McCain, who may have been reading too many Ben Shapiro tweets Monday morning …
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Leia Idliby / Mediaite:
'I'm Over Dr. Fauci': Meghan McCain Calls For Top Coronavirus Expert to Be Fired
'I'm Over Dr. Fauci': Meghan McCain Calls For Top Coronavirus Expert to Be Fired
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The New York Times Company:
Maggie Haberman's Next Beat — Elisabeth Bumiller, Dick Stevenson and Patrick Healy share Maggie's new role, which will span investigative/enterprise in Washington and Politics. — After a phenomenal run covering Donald Trump from his escalator ride in Trump Tower through his second impeachment …
Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
House Democrats Press Cable Providers on Election Fraud Claims — Before a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked cable companies what they did to combat “the spread of misinformation.” — Three months ago, federal lawmakers …
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
House Democrats demand answers on TV ‘misinformation rumor mills’
House Democrats demand answers on TV ‘misinformation rumor mills’
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Politico, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Dallas Morning News:
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton traveled to Utah during last week's power outages — A spokesman for Paxton, a Republican, said the Utah trip was planned before the winter storm and included meetings with his counterpart in that state. — AUSTIN — Attorney General Ken Paxton left Texas …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Nine Lessons I Learned About Political Reporting While Covering Trump — In the fall of 2015, I was having drinks in Washington with a colleague at the time, now-MSNBC host Joy Reid. (I was working at NBC News.) Donald Trump was leading in the polls of the 2016 Republican presidential primary.
Dylan Byers / NBC News:
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen launch podcast on Spotify — Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are making a podcast. — Spotify on Monday announced the launch of “Renegades: Born in the USA,” featuring the former president and the legendary rock star in conversation on issues ranging …
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War — SAN ANTONIO—The power gave out last Monday night. When we woke up on Tuesday morning, the temperature in the house was dipping below 50 degrees. We bundled our toddler in her warm jammies and tiny bubble coat.
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Good Morning America:
‘They were terrorists’: Capitol Police officer recounts Jan. 6 attack — “Is this America? They beat police officers with Blue Lives Matter flags.” Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn exclusively told ABC News.
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Rachel E. Greenspan / Insider:
TikTokers are trying to prove that snow in Texas is ‘fake,’ pushing a false conspiracy theory — Conspiracy theories about the snow in Texas keep spreading online. — TikTok videos show people claiming that snow should melt when heated. But it actually turns to gas.
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David Siders / Politico:
Anti-Trumpers are done with the GOP. Where do they go now? — When Jim Hendren, a longtime Arkansas state legislator, announced on Thursday that he was leaving the GOP, it marked the latest in a flurry of recent defections from the party. — Tens of thousands of Republicans across …
Spencer Hsu / Washington Post:
Pensacola Navy base mass shooter had accomplices, help from Saudi Arabia, victims claim in terror lawsuit — Families of three slain U.S. service members and 13 others wounded in a mass shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019 alleged Monday that the government of Saudi Arabia facilitated …