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4:05 PM ET, January 30, 2022

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Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Majority of Americans want Biden to consider ‘all possible nominees’ for Supreme Court vacancy: POLL  —  An ABC News/Ipsos poll says a plurality of the U.S. views the court as partisan.  —  A new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Americans view the Supreme Court as motivated by partisanship …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
'I can't think of a better person': Graham boosts South Carolina's Childs for SCOTUS  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday broke with several of his Republican colleagues by seemingly expressing support for President Joe Biden's pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman to the Supreme Court.
Gabriel Pietrorazio / ABC News:
Collins says Biden's handling of future Supreme Court vacancy has been ‘clumsy at best’  —  If Democrats all vote for the nominee, they would not need bipartisan support.  —  Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said while she welcomes diversity on the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden's handling …
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Lindsey Graham: A Black woman on the Supreme Court wouldn't be affirmative action  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) rejected the suggestion by some in his party that nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court would be “affirmative action,” while heaping praise on one of the likely frontrunners for the high court seat.
Discussion: CNN, Page Array, The Hill, Breitbart and CBS News
CBS News:
Transcript: Senator Lindsey Graham on “Face the Nation,” January 30, 2022
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump dangles prospect of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants  —  CONROE, Texas (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump toys with the mob — again  —  In Texas, Trump encouraged people to hold protests over his legal jeopardy and suggested he would pardon Jan. 6 rioters who took such a message to its extreme  —  What's the worst that could happen?  —  Former president Donald Trump on Saturday night sent …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
At Texas rally, Trump all but promised a racially charged civil war if he's indicted  —  For a nation that's awakened every morning for nearly two years to a Groundhog Day of pandemic and paranoia, the scenes from Donald Trump's latest comeback rally on Saturday at a fairground …
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Paul Solotaroff / Rolling Stone:
He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs  —  Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm's way dozens of times.  Now, he's telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right extremists in America
Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone:
Nils Lofgren Pulls Music From Spotify in Solidarity With Neil Young  —  “We encourage all musicians, artists and music lovers everywhere, to stand with us all, and cut ties with Spotify,” guitarist writes  —  Nils Lofgren has joined Neil Young in removing his music from Spotify to protest …
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Sam Janney / Twitchy:
AWKWARD: Lefties CHEERING Neil Young for trying to cancel Joe Rogan TRIP spectacularly over his homophobic past
Discussion: BizPac Review and Instapundit
Justin Glawe / The Guardian:
Georgia county purges Democrats from election board and cancels Sunday voting  —  The takeover in Spalding county is part of Republican efforts to dominate elections mechanisms nationwide  —  The judges met, in private, over a two-day period in May, for what might seem like a minor task …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
The moral calculations of a billionaire … BOCA RATON, Fla. — The stock market had been open for only 17 minutes when Leon Cooperman picked up the phone to check how much money he'd made.  He dialed a private line to his trading desk in New Jersey, just as he did a dozen times each day.
New York Times:
Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus  —  The country has instituted a wide range of high-tech controls on society as part of a mostly successful effort to stop the virus.  The consequences may endure.  —  The police had warned Xie Yang, a human rights lawyer …
John Nichols / The Cap Times:
Ron Johnson crashes the clown car  —  Sen. Ron Johnson, the most notorious conspiracy theorist in the U.S. Senate, finally got something right.  —  The Republican from Oshkosh interrupted a panel discussion he'd organized Monday to amplify messages from vaccine skeptics with an announcement …
Dave Drebes / April 16:
MOScout Weekender: New US Senate Poll... Greitens Keeps Lead, Hartzler Gains, Two Tiers of Candidates.  —  New US Senate Poll  —  See a new US Senate poll below.  A few thoughts...  Eric Greitens retains the lead.  Polls are snapshots, so you don't want to try to forecast without imagining the twists ahead.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Trump declared a war on the media.  Now proxy battles are being waged in American courts.  —  But none of these landmark cases are as potentially consequential as Sarah Palin's suit against the New York Times.  —  From the start of his presidential bid, Donald Trump took full advantage …
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and The Guardian
Tom Lawrence / The Daily Beast:
Trump Shouts Out Jason Ravnsborg, the State AG Who Ran Over and Killed a Man  —  “They like you in Texas,” the ex-president said after pointing out the embattled attorney general's appearance at his Saturday evening rally.  —  South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg …
Discussion: Insider, C-SPAN.org and Mediaite
Associated Press:
Thousands in Ottawa protest COVID mandates, many rebuked  —  OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Thousands of protesters gathered in Canada's capital on Saturday to protest vaccine mandates, masks and lockdowns.  —  Some parked on the grounds of the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier …
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John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Thousands opposed to COVID-19 rules converge on Parliament Hill
BBC:
North Korea missile tests: Biggest launch since 2017  —  North Korea has conducted what is thought to be its biggest missile launch since 2017.  —  South Korea reported that the launch took place at 07:52 local time on Sunday (22:52 GMT) off North Korea's east coast.
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Mel Leonor / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
'It's scaring people to death': Youngkin's tip line fuels anger from the left, fear from Black teachers
Discussion: Fox News
New York Times:
Democrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020.
Discussion: HotAir and Insider
Viet Thanh Nguyen / New York Times:
What the Battle Over Banning Books Is Really About
Discussion: Frog Trouble Times
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
Race-Based Rationing Is Real—And Dangerous
New York Times:
For Ketanji Brown Jackson, View of Criminal Justice Was Shaped by Family
Discussion: Washington Post
Tanya Gold / New York Magazine:
The Man Trying to Take Down Boris Johnson
Hans Nichols / Axios:
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Philip Klein / National Review:
Georgetown Law's Conservative and Libertarian Students Rally Around Ilya Shapiro
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Italian Lawmakers Re-Elect Sergio Mattarella as President, Preserving Status Quo
Discussion: Washington Post, UPI and Politico
Edith M. Lederer / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner and Al Jazeera
 

 
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