The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office  —  John Eastman was a little-known but respected conservative lawyer.  Then he became influential with Donald Trump — and counseled him on how to retain power after losing the election.  — Read in app

Sinema slams delay of infrastructure vote: ‘Inexcusable’  —  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) on Saturday slammed the decision to delay a vote this week on the bipartisan infrastructure deal that she helped negotiate, calling it “inexcusable.”  —  Good-faith negotiations, the Arizona centrist argued, “require trust.”

POLITICO Playbook: 'The strangest thing I've ever seen'  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  “The fact that the president came to the Hill and whipped against his own bill is the strangest thing I've ever seen.”  —  That late-night observation was just one of many we heard from frustrated lawmakers …

Sinema Stars in Her Own Film  — Read in app  —  WASHINGTON — Just like the original Sphinx, the Phoenix Sphinx is blocking the way until those who would move ahead solve her riddle:  —  What does Kyrsten Sinema want?  And why doesn't she stick around to explain it?

EXCLUSIVE: Married Trump donor tells police she feared for her safety when Corey Lewandowski told her ‘he stabbed a man in the back of the head and killed him’ as her husband slams the political operative's ‘violent and harassing’ behavior  — Super PAC donor Trashelle Odom has made a statement …

Bullshit, Branding and CRT  —  The Nine Incredible Tricks to Get Your Moral Panic Trending!  —  As a professor who teaches policy students how to write about public policy, I spend a lot of time talking about argumentation, which is partly about how to write concisely and clearly …

The nihilism of Neil Gorsuch  —  Trump's first Supreme Court appointee's radical vision to remake America, explained.  —  Neil Gorsuch was ready to blow up the US housing market over a minor legal violation.  —  The case in front of the Supreme Court was Collins v. Yellen (2021) …

U.S. prosecutors ask judge to sentence men accused of plotting ‘race war’ ahead of Va. gun rally as domestic terrorists  —  Federal prosecutors have requested that two members of The Base, a white-supremacist group, be sentenced as domestic terrorists after investigators accused them of planning …

Pelosi on verge of cementing legacy as one of the most powerful members of Congress ever — or ending her career on a sour note  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) raised eyebrows this past week with a specific a phrase she uttered during a leadership team meeting.

Unvaccinated employees ‘will not be able to work at American Airlines’ due to federal mandate  —  The CEO and president of Fort Worth-based American Airlines said that employees won't be able to opt out for testing.  —  American Airlines leaders told employees Friday that they will need …

Bannon fires up ‘shock troops’ for next GOP White House  —  WASHINGTON — Scores of former Trump political appointees gathered at a GOP social club Wednesday night to hear Steve Bannon detail how they could help the next Republican president reconfigure government.

Trump asks court to force Twitter to reinstate his account  —  Former President Donald Trump has asked a court to mandate that Twitter restore his social media account, in a Florida court filing made late Friday.  —  In the court document, Trump asked a District Court judge for the Southern District …

Rudy Giuliani admits under oath that he got some of his ‘evidence’ of alleged election fraud from social media  — Rudy Giuliani has been sued by former Dominion employee Eric Coomer for promoting election fraud conspiracy theories.  — Giuliani admitted under oath that he did not verify …

Arrest made in arson incident at Travis County Democratic Party office  —  Law enforcement authorities say they have made an arrest in Wednesday's arson incident at theTravis County Democratic Party office in East Austin.  A “Molotov cocktail” was thrown inside the office and ignited during the early morning hours.