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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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Mark Paoletta / The Federalist:
The New Yorker Lies Again In Hit On Clarence Thomas And Wife That Falsely Claims He Attended A DC Event — Jane Mayer's article is full of falsehoods, consistent with the malicious book she co-authored about Clarence Thomas in 1994. — Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine and her fellow lefties …
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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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.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C.
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C.
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
House lawmakers urge Pelosi to bring stock trading ban to the floor
House lawmakers urge Pelosi to bring stock trading ban to the floor
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Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court to Review Race-Conscious Admissions Policies at Harvard, UNC
Supreme Court to Review Race-Conscious Admissions Policies at Harvard, UNC
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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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Financial Times:
Russia plans to target Ukraine capital in ‘lightning war’, UK warns — Alarm raised as Nato members put forces on standby while Russian ally Belarus responds with its own deployments — Boris Johnson warned that Russia had massed enough troops close to Ukraine for a “lightning war” …
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NATO:
NATO Allies send more ships, jets to enhance deterrence and defence in eastern Europe — NATO Allies are putting forces on standby and sending additional ships and fighter jets to NATO deployments in eastern Europe, reinforcing Allied deterrence and defence as Russia continues its military build-up in and around Ukraine.
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Lorne Cook / Associated Press:
NATO sends ships, jets east as Ireland rejects Russia drills
NATO sends ships, jets east as Ireland rejects Russia drills
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New York Times:
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Unvaccinated’ Sarah Palin tests positive for Covid, delays New York Times defamation trial — Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin tested positive for Covid, and is unvaccinated, a federal judge told a courtroom. — The positive coronavirus test by the one-time Alaska governor led …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Sarah Palin Tests Positive, Delaying Libel Case Against The Times
Sarah Palin Tests Positive, Delaying Libel Case Against The Times
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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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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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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Arizona Republicans propose major changes to elections after GOP review finds no fraud
Arizona Republicans propose major changes to elections after GOP review finds no fraud
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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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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.
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 …
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.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
RFK Jr's anti-vaxx rant: Hey, at least Anne Frank could hide from the Nazis — Insane, and perhaps not even the most insane Robert F. Kennedy Jr said at an anti-vaccine mandate rally yesterday at the National Mall. It's clearly the most offensive thing RFKJ said, but there's a lot of competition in this clip for the insanity award:
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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 …
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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.
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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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:
J.D. Vance Defends Bombastic Rhetoric: ‘Our Country is Kind of a Joke’ — Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance gave a surprising answer to a local Ohio reporter last week when asked how he justifies some of his more bombastic rhetoric, saying that “our country is kind of a joke.”
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Associated Press:
4 wounded in Germany university shooting; gunman dead — BERLIN (AP) — A lone gunman opened fire during a lecture at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Monday and wounded four people, some of them seriously, police said. — Police said that the perpetrator was dead, but didn't give details of how that happened.
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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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