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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Public Pans Texas Abortion Law — Most say leave Roe v. Wade as is — West Long Branch, NJ - Key aspects of the new Texas law restricting access to abortions receive a thumbs down from a broad majority of Americans, especially the so-called “bounty” payment provision.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court sets Dec. 1 for arguments in challenge to Roe v. Wade
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CNN:
Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments, his lawyer says — (CNN)Allen Weisselberg — the former Trump Organization CFO who has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors for an alleged tax evasion scheme — is expecting that more indictments will be filed in the case, his lawyer said in court Monday.
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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump Org Prosecutors Find New Evidence—in a Basement — A lawyer for Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg revealed in open court that prosecutors have found more evidence and that more indictments are expected. — Prosecutors have discovered a tranche of evidence …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Ominous new details about Trump's coup attempt require Democrats to act — In case you need more evidence of how much damage keeping the filibuster might end up doing, add this to the list: It could make a future stolen presidential election more likely. — This is thrust upon us …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee personally vetted Trump's fraud claims, new book says. They were unpersuaded. — “Peril,” by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals the lengths the two Republicans went to in examining the president's baseless claims. — Sen. Lindsey O. Graham agreed to hear Rudolph W. Giuliani out.
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CNN:
Memo shows Trump lawyer's six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election — Washington (CNN)A conservative lawyer working with then-President Donald Trump's legal team tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6 when Congress counted …
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Army Gen. Mark Milley was ‘not going rogue’ in secret calls to China, authors of new book claim
Army Gen. Mark Milley was ‘not going rogue’ in secret calls to China, authors of new book claim
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
What one photo from the border tells us about the evolving migrant crisis — This article has been updated. — Photographer Paul Ratje was standing in the Rio Grande when he captured a remarkable image: a Border Patrol agent mounted on horseback, grabbing the shirt of a migrant unlucky enough to be within reach.
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Max Chafkin / New York Magazine:
Peter Thiel's Origin Story His ideology dominates Silicon Valley. It began to form when he was an angry young man. — Sometime around the spring of 1988, several members of the Stanford University chess team traveled to a tournament in Monterey, California, in an old Volkswagen Rabbit.
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Dan Margolies / KCUR 89.3:
St. Louis Couple Who Waved Guns At BLM Protesters Face Suspension Of Their Law Licenses — Mark and Patricia McCloskey made national headlines in June 2020 when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor.
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
On the Special Counsel's Weird Prosecution of Michael Sussmann — Attorney General William Barr appointed John Durham, lo these increasingly-many years ago, to investigate a supposed scandal inside the FBI: There had been an attempted coup, President Trump alleged, and Barr himself hinted …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Sussman indictment: “Bizarre coda,” or harbinger of deep-state exposure?
Sussman indictment: “Bizarre coda,” or harbinger of deep-state exposure?
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Democratic leaders need to worry about more than just Manchin, Sinema on spending plan: Reporter's Notebook — Lots of other lawmakers who need to be on board if congressional Democrats are going to pull this off — Fox News Flash top headlines for September 20 — Let's call them “the others.”
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Kyrsten Sinema Threatens to Kill Her Own Infrastructure Bill Democrats in Congress are melting down.
Kyrsten Sinema Threatens to Kill Her Own Infrastructure Bill Democrats in Congress are melting down.
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Bill Scher / Real Clear Politics:
Why Republicans Should Vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
Why Republicans Should Vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill
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Kiran Stacey / Financial Times:
US to relax air travel restrictions for vaccinated foreign passengers — Biden administration announces new travel policy effective from November — Passengers who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to fly to the US from anywhere in the world from November …
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Associated Press:
Federal officer arrested at Capitol rally won't be charged — WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal law enforcement officer was arrested carrying a gun at Saturday's rally at the U.S. Capitol billed to support the suspects charged in January's insurrection but will not be prosecuted.
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Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Glitch Reveals Ballot Choices of N.Y.C. Voters, Including Mayor's Son — The Board of Elections inadvertently allowed the mayoral primary votes of 378 New Yorkers to become public, a report found. — When a well-known 20-something New Yorker cast his Democratic primary ballot in June …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
My Going Maskless Is Different, Says San Francisco Mayor, Because ‘I Was Feeling the Spirit’ — The Mayor of San Francisco says that she shouldn't be criticized for breaking her own COVID rules, because, and I quote, “I was feeling the spirit and I wasn't thinking about a mask.” CBS reports:
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Emmanuel Camarillo / Chicago Sun-Times:
Professor yelled racial slurs, spit on Black woman and her 7-year-old daughter outside Oak Park Jewel-Osco, prosecutors say — Alberto Friedmann also sped toward the woman in his Jaguar and almost hit her, according to prosecutors. — A health sciences professor has been charged …
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Bari Weiss / Common Sense with Bari Weiss:
Everybody Hates the Jews — A disturbing new study confirms what many Jewish Americans are feeling. — Everybody hates the Jews. That's the refrain from the brilliant satirist Tom Lehrer in “National Brotherhood Week,” a song that I had memorized by the time I was ten …
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
WATCH: Children Tell CNN They Blame Tucker Carlson For Their Father's Covid Death — Katie and Evan Lane recently lost their 45-year-old father to Covid, and have made a public plea for others to get vaccinated. Their efforts took them to CNN New Day Monday morning, an appearance …
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Ann Marimow / Washington Post:
Texas doctor who violated state's abortion ban is sued, launching potential first test of constitutionality — A lawsuit that could test the constitutionality of the nation's most restrictive abortion ban was filed in Texas Monday against a doctor who admitted to performing an abortion considered illegal under the new law.
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Gary Fineout / Politico:
Emails, text messages undercut claim Florida's election overhaul wasn't political — TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republicans this spring insisted a contentious new election law curtailing access to ballot boxes was needed to prevent electoral fraud. It was not, they said, an attempt to gain a partisan advantage.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How Trump mobilized women — including me — This essay was adapted from the book “Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump” by Jennifer Rubin. Copyright 2021 by Jennifer Rubin. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. — Donald Trump's victory in 2016 came as a shock …
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Washington Post:
One lawyer's rise shows how vaccine misinformation can fuel fundraising and far-right celebrity — Thomas Renz, once a little-known attorney in Ohio with limited litigation experience, boosted his profile with lawsuits challenging coronavirus vaccines — In one of dozens of recent media appearances …
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Bill McKibben / The Crucial Years:
We're Finally Catching a Break in the Climate Fight — As a new Oxford paper shows, the incredibly rapid fall in the cost of renewables offers hope—but only if movements can push banks and politicians hard enough — So far in the global warming era, we've caught precious few breaks.
Politico:
Inside Thompson and Cheney's Jan. 6 probe alliance — both genuine and strategic — Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney had never interacted one-on-one before a deadly insurrection thrust them onto the same political path. — But these days, the progressive raised in the segregated South …
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Washington Post:
The Washington Post announces the addition of 41 editing roles, including 2 masthead positions … Announcement from Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Managing Editor Cameron Barr, Managing Editor Tracy Grant, Managing Editor Krissah Thompson, Managing Editor Kat Downs Mulder: — Dear Colleagues,
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Threats against members of Congress are skyrocketing. It's changing the job — A few months ago Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) received an anonymous video of someone following her car. The camera pans down to a 9mm handgun on the seat as a male voice says: “I see you. I got something for you.”
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Covid Vaccine Prompts Strong Immune Response in Younger Children, Pfizer Says — Vaccinated kids aged 5 to 11 showed evidence of protection against the virus, the company said. The data must be reviewed by the F.D.A. before children can be inoculated. — The Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine …
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Tom Joyce / Washington Examiner:
Both sides should support Marjorie Taylor Greene's primary challenger — Jennifer Strahan wants to do the country a favor. — The Georgia businesswoman recently announced that she plans to primary Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia's 14th Congressional District.
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Chase Woodruff / Colorado Newsline:
At Colorado's tight-lipped air pollution agency, a ‘culture of fear’ prevails — During the Front Range's smoggiest summer in over a decade, its embattled air-quality watchdog has gone quiet. Ex-employees say they're not surprised. — Smog and wildfire smoke obscure the Rocky Mountains west of Denver on July 29, 2021.
Robert Elder / The Bulwark:
No, John C. Calhoun Didn't Invent the Filibuster — As convenient as it might be to blame the filibuster on the famous defender of slavery, the historical record is much messier. — In his classic book The Historian's Craft, the historian Marc Bloch warned his fellow historians against worshipping the …