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Politico:
It's Ron Klain's turn in the barrel — As Joe Biden limps into his second year in office, a common criticism has emerged among fellow party members: his top advisers are too insular, rigid and self-assured. — At the center of it all is Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain.
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Wall Street Journal, Bangor Daily News and The Guardian
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Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Joe Biden's gaffe may have inadvertently revealed the truth about his Ukraine policy
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The Federalist, CBS News, The Guardian, Althouse and justoneminute.typepad.com
Daily Mail:
Biden won't fire his all-powerful, Master of Disaster, Chief of Staff Ron Klain, who is behind the White House's biggest failures.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Is Ginni Thomas a Threat to the Supreme Court? — Behind closed doors, Justice Clarence Thomas's wife is working with many groups directly involved in controversial cases before the Court. — In December, Chief Justice John Roberts released his year-end report on the federal judiciary.
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HillReporter.com and Raw Story
George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
Courts hand Donald Trump loss after loss after loss — Donald Trump is often his own worst enemy. But sometimes, he gets competition from his lawyers. — Perhaps no better example of that can be found than in Wednesday's order from the Supreme Court, which summarily rejected the former president's …
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Vanity Fair and CNN
CNN:
Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw fake electors plot in 7 states — Washington (CNN)Trump campaign officials, led by Rudy Giuliani, oversaw efforts in December 2020 to put forward illegitimate electors from seven states that Trump lost, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the scheme.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Suspicious Trump weighs dual endorsements — DRIVING THE DAY — THE REBOOT — With his agenda stalled in Congress, President JOE BIDEN is switching strategies, “a stark admission that his approach to governing so far has fallen short,” NYT's Michael Shear, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Katie Rogers report.
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Washington Post, Insider, Opinion Today, The Guardian, The Daily Wire and Washington Times
Politico:
‘Dangerous precedent’: Jan. 6 committee trains its sights on false pro-Trump electors — As Capitol attack investigators dig into efforts by state-level Republicans to send Congress “alternative” slates of 2020 presidential electors, they're zeroing in on the involvement of Donald Trump's White House and campaign operations.
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Raw Story, UPI, Alternet.org, Morning Shots, Seeing Things and Election Law Blog
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan GOP co-chair said Trump campaign asked for GOP elector push: CNN
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Cartas de una estadounidense, Letters from an American and CNN
The Daily Beast:
NPR ‘Founding Mother’ Unloads on Public Editor Over SCOTUS Story: 'She's Not Clarifying Anything!' — “She can say any goddam thing she wants,” Nina Totenberg said of NPR's Public Editor before letting out a deep laugh. — The widening controversy over an NPR story on masks …
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Townhall, Newsbusters, Instapundit, HuffPost, HotAir and The Dispatch
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Kelly McBride / NPR:
NPR reporting on Supreme Court mask controversy merits clarification — An inaccurate verb choice made the reporting unclear — On Tuesday morning, NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reported that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch had declined to wear a mask in court …
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HotAir, Poynter, Reason, Slate, Twitchy, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Townhall, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Ghosts Trumpland as Investigators Turn Up the Heat — Ivanka Trump has largely avoided the national spotlight for the last year. Now, investigators in two separate probes think she could be key to her father's undoing. — Whether it's the lawmakers on Capitol Hill plumbing …
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Raw Story and Mercury News
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What Democrats Need From Mitch McConnell to Make an Election Reform Deal Worth It — The debate over whether Democrats should pursue their large voting rights package or a narrower law aimed against election subversion became moot on Wednesday when Democrats could not muster up enough votes …
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Bloomberg, Fox News, Washington Post, National Review and The Coop Scoop
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Politico:
Democrats slim down ambitions after back-to-back failures — After two strikeouts, don't expect Senate Democrats to immediately swing for the fences again. — There's little appetite in the Democratic majority to publicly fall short on high-profile priorities so soon after the party's failures …
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Fox News, HotAir, Grist, Townhall, The Nation, Wide World of News and IJR
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Texas man charged with threatening election, government officials in Georgia — The Justice Department on Friday arrested a Texas man and charged him with threatening election and other government officials in Georgia, in the first case brought by a task force formed over the summer to combat such threats …
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Insider, CNN and The Atlantic
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Andrew Jeong / Washington Post:
DeSantis suggests vaccines hurt fertility. A study indicates otherwise — but says catching coronavirus might. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a foe of vaccine mandates, on Thursday appeared to suggest that getting a shot to protect against the coronavirus could cause infertility.
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Patterico's Pontifications and Mercury News
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Joe Cunningham / RedState:
The Washington Post Invents a Vaccine Claim Ron DeSantis Didn't Make
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WKMG and National Review
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Where do Americans stand on abortion and on potentially overturning Roe v. Wade? — Friday is the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade ruling on abortion — Actor Kirk Cameron talks March for Life and his support for the pro-life movement: 'We're at a tipping point'
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The Federalist and NPR
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Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
New poll shows Marjorie Taylor Greene is vulnerable in primary matchup — Strahan, a healthcare executive, entered the race in September — CAROLINE BREHMAN/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES, COURTESY — A new poll obtained by Jewish Insider suggests that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene …
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Weighs Pulling Diplomats' Family Members Out of Ukraine — The U.S. is weighing whether to evacuate family members of diplomats stationed in Ukraine as Russia masses more than 100,000 troops on its borders, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Forbes, ABC7, Raw Story and Associated Press
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Biden as a New F.D.R.? Try L.B.J. — The president's agenda — big progressive change — has placed Democratic priorities over the voters' desire for practical help on the pandemic and inflation. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. was supposed to be another Franklin D. Roosevelt …
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Twitchy
Mike Levine / ABC News:
FBI raid on House Democrat's home related to Azerbaijan probe, source says — An FBI spokesperson said any law enforcement activity was “court-authorized.” — The FBI on Wednesday raided Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar's home and campaign office in Texas as part of a wide-ranging …
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New York Post, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Insider, Raw Story, Namak, HuffPost, The Daily Wire, Simone's Newsletter, The Hill, Alternet.org and Fox News
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Rittenhouse asks for rifle used in Wisconsin killings back, says he will destroy it — Kyle Rittenhouse asked a court to return the rifle he used to fatally shoot two protestors in Kenosha, Wisc., in 2020 — so he can destroy the firearm, according to his attorney.
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CNN and POLITICUSUSA
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Ben Ryder Howe / New York Magazine:
13,000 Pounds at 118 Miles Per Hour — It was the deadliest wreck in years. And the man behind it was one of the FBI's most notorious informants. — Photo-Illustration: Mark Harris. Photo courtesy of of the National Transportation Safety Board — On September 4, 2018, Nauman Hussain …
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Michael Flynn allies allegedly plotted to lean on Republicans to back vote audits — Ex-whistleblower says group enlisted his help to seek potentially damaging information on two members of Congress to prod them to back audits in key states Trump lost — FBI agents and the House panel investigating …
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The Daily Beast, Alternet.org, Raw Story and Political Wire
Saki Knafo / New York Times:
The ‘Shouting Back’ Theater Abruptly Closes, and Brooklyn Mourns — A rowdy movie house suddenly goes dark, inspiring an outpouring of dismay and reminiscences. — On a recent morning, the Regal UA Court Street in Brooklyn was uncharacteristically quiet.
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