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Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas — In a sane world, Jane Mayer's excellent piece on Ginni Thomas in The New Yorker would set off a series of events that would lead to her husband Clarence Thomas's impeachment and removal from the Supreme Court. Ginni is involved with numerous far …
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court turns away Rep. Kevin McCarthy challenge to House proxy voting during COVID-19 — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a GOP lawsuit challenging proxy voting rules set up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in response to the pandemic.
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court will consider challenges to affirmative action in Harvard, UNC admissions — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use …
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UPI and Los Angeles Times
Mark Paoletta / The Federalist:
The New Yorker Lies Again In Hit On Clarence Thomas And Wife That Falsely Claims He Attended A DC Event
John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to affirmative action in higher education
Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to affirmative action in higher education
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Axios
Washington Post:
Race-conscious university admission policies to face Supreme Court review
Race-conscious university admission policies to face Supreme Court review
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NPR, Wall Street Journal, Fox News and Power Line
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court takes cases on future of affirmative action
Supreme Court takes cases on future of affirmative action
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Politico, CNBC, Washington Free Beacon, USA Today, HotAir and Associated Press
Fiona Hill / New York Times:
It's Not Just About Ukraine. Putin Wants to Evict the U.S. From Europe. — Ms. Hill was an intelligence officer on Russia and Eurasian affairs for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and served on the National Security Council under President Donald Trump. — We knew this was coming.
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New York Times:
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics — The president is also considering deploying warships and aircraft to NATO allies, in what would be a major shift from its restrained stance on Ukraine. — WASHINGTON — President Biden is considering deploying …
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Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
NATO sends ships, jets east as Ireland rejects Russia drills — BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO said Monday that it's putting extra forces on standby and sending more ships and fighter jets to eastern Europe, as Ireland warned that new Russian war games off its coast are not welcome given tensions …
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Washington Post, Euractiv, HotAir, WTOP News and Washington Examiner
Financial Times:
Russia plans to target Ukraine capital in ‘lightning war’, UK warns
Russia plans to target Ukraine capital in ‘lightning war’, UK warns
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
Start the Steal: New MAGA Emails Reveal Plot to Hand Arizona to Trump — Exclusive emails obtained by Rolling Stone expose an attempt to recertify the state as a victory for Donald Trump — and reveal top Trumpworld figures were complicit — The technology was complicated, but the plan was simple …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Top Jan. 6 Investigator Fired From Post at the University of Virginia — Democrats in Virginia denounced the action as a partisan move aimed at helping former President Donald J. Trump undercut the investigation of the Capitol riot. — The top staff investigator on the House committee scrutinizing …
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Politico, Insider, Washington Post and WAVY-TV
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Unvaccinated’ Sarah Palin tests positive for Covid right before New York Times defamation trial begins, judge says — Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has tested positive for Covid, and is unvaccinated, a federal judge told a courtroom Monday just as a civil defamation …
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Defamation: Will Palin score a knockout blow in her lawsuit against NYT?
Defamation: Will Palin score a knockout blow in her lawsuit against NYT?
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Palin v. New York Times pushes new boundaries on libel suits
Palin v. New York Times pushes new boundaries on libel suits
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New York Times, USA Today, Law & Crime, TheBlaze, Forbes, National Review, Vanity Fair, RedState, The Hill, Reuters and NPR
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Was Larry Summers Right All Along? … There's a story that progressives like to tell about Larry Summers. The doyen of establishment economics is dining out with a populist politician. The two have made it through the meal with minimal awkwardness — their ideological tensions eased by booze and food …
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Seven school boards sue to stop Gov. Youngkin's mask-optional order on the day it takes effect — Seven school boards — including one overseeing the largest and most prominent district in the state — are suing to stop Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) mask-optional order on the day it is supposed to take effect …
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Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
Youngkin's mask-optional order divides Virginia schools and parents, threatening chaos
Youngkin's mask-optional order divides Virginia schools and parents, threatening chaos
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Fox News, The Daily Wire, Louder With Crowder, WTOP News and NBC4 Washington
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Behind the latest GOP restrictions on race teaching: A hidden, toxic goal — Glenn Youngkin's victory in the Virginia gubernatorial election persuaded Republicans that there's political gold in attacking teachers for supposedly indoctrinating the nation's children about race.
NBC News:
Florida school district cancels professor's civil rights lecture over critical race theory concerns — MIAMI — A Florida school district canceled a professor's civil rights history seminar for teachers, citing in part concerns over “critical race theory” — even though his lecture had nothing to do with the topic.
Joshua Tait / The Bulwark:
Long Before Hungary, the Right Was Fixated on Another Country — Just as they're now doing with Viktor Orbán, conservatives once fell head over heels for Francisco Franco. — Prominent conservatives have discovered Hungary and its “twenty-first century dictator,” Viktor Orbán.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden may not find it so hard to turn the corner — For weeks, we have witnessed unremittingly negative media coverage of President Biden. … From inflation to the intransigence of Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), it was all Biden's fault, according to the headlines and the talking heads.
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Marc Santora / New York Times:
Virus Live Updates: Omicron's Spread Could End ‘Emergency Phase’ of Pandemic, Top W.H.O. Official Says — The variant offers “hope for stabilization and normalization,” according to the global agency's European director. In the U.S., Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned against overconfidence …
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
AP wonders: Is Biden losing black voters? — The question may be whether Joe Biden manages to keep any voters. The centrists have grown disgusted with Biden's bait-and-switch to a hard-left progressivism after campaigning as a centrist uniter. The progressives are angry that Biden didn't deliver.
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CNN:
Trump's team is directing allies to a January 6 legal defense fund — (CNN)Former President Donald Trump's team has been involved in discussions about a legal defense fund created to support aides targeted by the House panel investigating January 6, sources tell CNN.
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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
Tom Emmer's on a roll. He won't say where to. — Tom Emmer has the hottest political hand in the House GOP right now. And if he can win a sizable majority this fall, he'll have even more chips to cash in. — Halfway through his second cycle as House Republicans' campaign chief …
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