memeorandum: Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (The White House)

3:50 PM ET, February 25, 2022

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U.S. Officials Repeatedly Urged China to Help Avert War in Ukraine — Americans presented Chinese officials with intelligence on Russia's troop buildup in hopes that President Xi Jinping would step in, but were repeatedly rebuffed. — WASHINGTON — Over three months …

New York Times:

U.S. to Impose Sanctions on Putin, Official Says — It was unclear whether Russia would engage in talks with Ukraine's leadership. The E.U. sanctioned Mr. Putin, amid growing pressure to isolate him and Russia. — With Russian troops moving on Kyiv, the Kremlin sends mixed signals on talks.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Reuters, Washington Post, Gizmodo, Breitbart, Axios, National Review, Wall Street Journal, Political Wire, Public Sphere, Boston.com, Channel Surfing, TheBlaze, KTLA, Al Jazeera, Task & Purpose and Takes & Re-Takes

Barak Ravid / Axios:

Zelensky to EU leaders: “This might be the last time you see me alive” — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told EU leaders “this might be the last time you see me alive” during a video conference on Thursday night, two European sources briefed on the call tell Axios.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Financial Times, Streams of Crunchiness, Insider, Mediaite, The Moscow Times, New York Post, Conservative Brief, Common Dreams and Power Line

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Laundered Money Could Be Putin's Achilles' Heel — The United States and its allies aren't going to intervene with their own forces against Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. I'll leave it to others with relevant expertise to speculate about whether we'll send more arms to the Ukrainian government or …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, GAB, Outside the Beltway, Reuters and Washington Post

Phil Mattingly / CNN:

US expected to impose sanctions on Putin as soon as Friday, sources tell CNN — (CNN)The US is planning to impose sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision. — The Russian leader will become the highest-profile target …

Discussion: OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter

Washington Post:
E.U. plans to freeze assets of Putin, Lavrov

Discussion: Financial Times, Townhall, Hackwhackers and CNBC

Douglas Busvine / Politico:
Putin calls on Ukraine military to overthrow government, agree peace deal

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Fox News, New York Post, Mediaite, Metro.co.uk, Daily Kos, Bloomberg, Pro Eight, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP, Talking Points Memo and Reuters

Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Putin was playing Biden all along

Discussion: ABC News, The Liberal Patriot, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, TheBlaze, National Review, Daily Mail, The Bulwark, Tales From the Homestead, HotAir and United States Institute …

John Paul Rathbone / Financial Times:
Ukraine war latest: Zelensky pledges to join Kyiv residents in defending independence

Discussion: The Drive, Politico and TheJournal.ie

Washington Post:
13 days: Inside Biden's last-ditch attempts to stop Putin in Ukraine

Discussion: Mediaite

Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Putin ‘ready’ for talks with Kyiv, Kremlin says

Discussion: Bloomberg, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera and The Times of Israel

The White House:

Supreme Court Nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Washington Post:

Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court … President Biden will nominate federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, according to people briefed on the process, a historic choice that fulfills the president's pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.

Igor Bobic / HuffPost:

GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn Objects To Timing Of Biden's Supreme Court Announcement, Citing Ukraine — The Tennessee conservative called the announcement “extremely inappropriate,” accusing Biden of attempting to distract from the crisis in Ukraine. — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) …

Discussion: Insider

Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Paul Ryan praises Biden's SCOTUS pick: ‘Incredibly happy for Ketanji’

Discussion: Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

CNN:
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court

Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Judge Would Be First Black Woman to Serve as Justice

Washington Post:
Americans divided over whether first Black female justice will make a difference, Post-ABC poll finds

Discussion: IJR and Los Angeles Times

Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Biden to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as first Black woman on Supreme Court

Washington Post:

Post-ABC poll finds bipartisan support for sanctions on Russia as it invades Ukraine … A large and bipartisan majority of Americans supports economic sanctions on Russia for its military invasion of Ukraine, as public antipathy toward Russia climbs to Cold War levels, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Discussion: ABC News, New Yorker and Fox News

RJ Reinhart / Gallup:
U.S. Public Sees Russia-Ukraine Conflict as Critical Threat

Discussion: HotAir

Allahpundit / HotAir:
Tucker: Putin started this war and deserves the blame for what follows

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post and The Moderate Voice

Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
A majority says Biden's first year was a failure, a new poll finds

Discussion: Marist Poll and PBS NewsHour

Washington Post:

On Ukraine's Snake Island, a defiant last stand against Russian forces — As the Russian military pounded targets across Ukraine with an array of bombs and missiles, a small team of Ukrainian border guards on a rocky, desolate island received an ominous message: Give up or be attacked.

Discussion: HotAir, CNN, The Political Insider, USNI News, Second Nexus, BBC, GovExec.com, IJR, BizPac Review, Task & Purpose, The Federalist, Fox News, KTLA, CBS News, KRQE-TV, The Daily Beast, The Wrap and The Guardian

YouTube:

“Русск ий кора;бль, иди нах@й" - битв а за Зміїн ий — Стал …

Discussion: The Guardian, globalnews.ca, New York Post, IJR, The Maritime Executive, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Politico

Associated Press:
Ukraine's capital under threat as Russia presses invasion

Chris Casteel / Oklahoman:

Sen. Jim Inhofe to resign from Senate, backs top aide Luke Holland to succeed him … Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe plans to resign the seat he has held since 1994, setting up what could be major changes in the state's political landscape just weeks before candidate filing.

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Roll Call, National Review, The Gateway Pundit and CNN

Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

Charlie Kirk Butchers the First Amendment in God's Name — The Devil's next finest trick, it seems, is to persuade us that the Constitution's free-speech protections don't actually exist. — t Newsweek, Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk has written one of the most foolish, self-serving …

Charlie Kirk / Newsweek:
Free Speech for Satanism?

Discussion: Raw Story

Andee Tagle / NPR:

5 ways to cope with the stressful news cycle — Russia invaded Ukraine this week, and the world seems to have shifted. — Even after weeks of bracing for an attack amid speculation, global tensions and diplomatic attempts to stave off invasion — the reality of conflict is always a shock to the system.

New York Times:

'I'll Stand on the Side of Russia': Pro-Putin Sentiment Spreads Online — After marinating in conspiracy theories and Donald J. Trump's Russia stance, some online discourse about Vladimir Putin has grown more complimentary. — Davey Alba and Stuart Thompson, tech reporters based in New York, report on online information flows.

Discussion: Raw Story, North Stars and Cowboy Bars, POLITICUSUSA and Washington Post

CNN:

House January 6 committee to subpoena Kimberly Guilfoyle after she backed out of meeting — The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill riot tells CNN it will issue a subpoena to compel testimony from Kimberly Guilfoyle after she ended a virtual interview on Friday.

Discussion: Bloomberg, CBS News, Raw Story and Mercury News

NBC News:
Kimberly Guilfoyle, partner of Donald Trump Jr., interviewed by Jan. 6 committee

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Jenelle's Newsletter

ABC News:

CDC to ease masking recommendations for 70% of country, including inside schools — The new metrics would term the majority of the country low-to-medium risk. — Some 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new guidance to be released …

Discussion: Spectrum News NY1, The Gateway Pundit, Gizmodo and NBC New York

Philip Pullella / Reuters:

Departing from protocol, pope goes to Russian embassy over Ukraine … Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy to the Holy See on Friday to relay his concern over Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Moscow's ambassador, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, WBNS-TV, WTOP News, Lawyers, Guns & Money and WSVN-TV

Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:

Stop Trying To Make Ukraine About Your Culture War — As the situation in Ukraine continues to worsen, many Americans can't stop trying to make this tragedy all about us. With the horrors of real war raging—buildings bombed, and 137 people killed so far, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy …