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Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump — Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding. The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump. — As federal prosecutors increasingly use …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up — The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?
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Truthout, Digby's Hullabaloo, BizPac Review and WSVN-TV
New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection? — Mr. Tribe taught constitutional law at Harvard for 50 years. Merrick Garland was one of his students. Mr. Ayer oversaw criminal prosecutions and investigations as Ronald Reagan's U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.
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Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
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Raw Story
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine' — Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
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William Grimes / New York Times:
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87 — She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing. But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Politico:
Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates — The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House. — Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …
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Washington Post:
Trump asks Supreme Court to keep records from House Jan. 6 committee — Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block release of his White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
The problem with performative centrism
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought? — The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern. — WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
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Zachary Cohen / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China — Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …
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Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
Could bipartisan democracy-protection have worked? Could it still? — There has been skepticism voiced by some about my suggestion that, after January 6, Democrats in Congress should have pursued a strategy of finding at least ten GOP Senators to support the kind of structural electoral reform …
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
America's Christmas Present Is All the Democrats' Dreams Dying
America's Christmas Present Is All the Democrats' Dreams Dying
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The Hill:
GOP steps up flirtation with Manchin
GOP steps up flirtation with Manchin
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden backs exception to filibuster for voting rights bills — President Biden says he supports creating an exception to the legislative filibuster in the Senate in order to pass voting rights legislation over Republican opposition. — Biden told ABC News' David Muir in a portion …
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POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
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Kyle Blaine / CNN:
Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights
Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights
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Joe.My.God.
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk — Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
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Monique Beals / The Hill:
Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat — Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said. — Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …
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Jasonhatchell / Delaware State Police:
5 Suspects in Custody After Congresswoman's Stolen Vehicle Located- Newark
5 Suspects in Custody After Congresswoman's Stolen Vehicle Located- Newark
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day — As 2021 ends, the forces of democracy remain beleaguered and the forces of sanity on the defensive. — Where do we stand, as year 2021 of the common era and year one of the Biden presidency comes to an end? — We're much better off than we might have been.
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Brownstone Institute and Instapundit
NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview — Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said. — The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
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Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth — U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding — CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING — Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and his wife, Cristina Cawthorn, are divorcing after less than a year of marriage. The North Carolina lawmaker cited his time in Congress …
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Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law — After an Independence police officer was killed in a shootout in September, Missouri state law enforcement initially refused routine federal assistance in tracing the murder weapon. The same month, a Missouri State Highway …
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New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week — After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor. — The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’ — It's been nearly a year since the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on constitutional democracy. — When a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the goal was to overturn the results …
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Raw Story
American Greatness:
Please—Stop the Coup Porn — Military officers should quit all their coup porn talk—either to remove a president they don't like, or to project their own reckless, insurrectionary behavior onto their political opponents. — In a recent Washington Post op-ed, three retired generals …
Roger Scruton / The New Criterion:
The right targets — Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.” — Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims. Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, sceptical. — A large part of this issue of The New Criterion is devoted …
Wall Street Journal:
Covid-19 Marches Toward Endemic Status in U.S. as Omicron Spreads — With a new wave rising, people and institutions are making decisions that reflect changing attitudes toward the threat that Covid-19 represents — The Omicron variant's aggressive advance is the latest twist in the course …
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