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12:55 AM ET, March 26, 2022

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomas's “Stop the Steal” Texts  —  Several experts say that Thomas's husband, the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, must recuse himself from any case related to the 2020 election.  —  Several of the country's most respected legal scholars …
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Scott Wong / NBC News:
Ginni Thomas pressed for GOP lawmakers to protest 2020 election results  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after the 2020 election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying …
Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
Ginni and Clarence Thomas Have Done Enough Damage  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  What did Justice Clarence Thomas know, and when did he know it?  —  The question usually gets directed at politicians, not judges, but it's a fair one in light of the revelation on Thursday …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't stop Biden administration from deployment decisions involving unvaccinated Navy SEALs  —  The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Biden administration to take into account whether members of the military, including elite Navy SEALs, are vaccinated against the coronavirus when making deployment decisions.
Spencer Ackerman / Forever Wars:
Maybe Take It Seriously When Coup Advocates Talk About Throwing People in Guantanamo?
Discussion: Mother Jones, HuffPost and IJR
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Forget advise and consent.  This is smear and degrade.  —  The pretense is gone — the pretense that Supreme Court confirmation hearings are about determining nominees' fitness for office, gleaning a sense of their legal acumen and approach to judging, and gathering the information necessary to exercise a solemn senatorial power.
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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Wesley Hawkins, talk of the Jackson hearings, describes life after pornography sentence  —  Wesley Hawkins heard a few weeks ago that a Black woman had been nominated to the Supreme Court and wondered why her name, Ketanji Brown Jackson, sounded so familiar.  Then, he saw her picture and knew.
Ronald J. Hansen / Arizona Republic:   Sandra Day O'Connor turns 92 as public turns to Supreme Court, abortion again
Lisa Mascaro / ABC News:
Supreme Court nominee's ‘empathy’ is flashpoint for Senate
Associated Press:
Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP lawmakers in Utah pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams Friday, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war.
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Eduardo Medina / New York Times:
Utah Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Transgender Athlete Bill  —  The measure bars transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports.  Lawmakers expect it to be challenged in courts.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The Utah State Legislature voted on Friday …
Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal, raising more questions about the disgraced son of then vice president  — The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Issa lays groundwork for House GOP probe into Hunter Biden laptop story
Discussion: Vox, TheBlaze and The Western Journal
BBC:
Ukraine war: JK Rowling hits back at Putin's ‘cancel culture’ comment  —  JK Rowling has hit back at Vladimir Putin, after the Russian president cited her in a wide-ranging speech that saw him criticise “cancel culture”.  —  At a televised meeting on Friday, Mr Putin compared recent criticism …
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Washington Post:
Putin lifts conservative media talking points to bemoan ‘cancel culture’ … Vladimir Putin had a very pointed way of summing up the international efforts to sanction his country for its invasion of Ukraine.  It's all an attempt, he said Friday, to “cancel” Russia.
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and Twitchy
Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
Trump and his 2 eldest sons are scheduled to be deposed for a lawsuit accusing them of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme  — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to sit for another deposition.  — It's for a case where he's accused of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
Discussion: CNN, NBC News, Law & Crime and Bloomberg
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John Fritze / USA Today:
Supreme Court sides with Navy in challenge to COVID-19 vaccine requirements by SEALs … WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday sided with the Biden administration in a battle over COVID-19 vaccine requirements for a group of Navy SEALs and other special forces who sought a religious exemption.
Discussion: National Review and New York Times
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Jessica Gresko / Associated Press:
High court gives Biden win for now in Navy vaccine case
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump accidentally proves that the Clinton campaign wasn't the driving force of the Russia probe  —  What stopped me in my tracks in the new lawsuit filed on behalf of former president Donald Trump was a reference to internal discussions at the Democratic National Committee that, the suit alleges …
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up  —  After fraught discussions, officials decided that another shot might save thousands of lives if a new coronavirus wave hit before the fall.  The F.D.A. could authorize the boosters next week.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
New York Times:
Adams Says Encampments of Homeless People Will Be Cleared  —  Mayor Eric Adams said his administration was pursuing a citywide effort to remove hundreds of makeshift campsites from streets and parks.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Mayor Eric Adams said on Friday …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Has Goldman Sachs's Dina Powell Finally Gone Too Far?  —  The Republican Party these days is full of plutocrats turned populists who think the only way to make it is to fake it as MAGA true believer.  But sometimes ... you might wish they had a little more dignity.
Associated Press:
War Crimes Watch: Russia's onslaught on Ukrainian hospitals  —  LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — For a month now, Russian forces have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian medical facilities, striking at hospitals, ambulances, medics, patients and even newborns — with at least 34 assaults independently documented by The Associated Press.
Discussion: Associated Press and Insider
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Russian forces are reportedly holding Ukrainian journalists hostage  —  Russian soldiers are kidnapping Ukrainian journalists in contested territories and holding them hostage, according to international groups and survivor accounts.  —  The Paris-based global nonprofit Reporters Without Borders …
 
 
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the U.S. far right
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Ivy League Republicans' phony rebellion against the ‘elites’
Discussion: ArkansasTimes
Associated Press:
New Orleans school board reverses little known ban on jazz
Discussion: CBS News
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
CDC Unilaterally Altered Florida's Covid Death-Count Data, State's Department of Health Alleges
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Spencer Brown / Townhall:
Hot Mic Catches School Board Member Asking to ‘Set Marsha Blackburn on Fire’
Discussion: Washington Post and RedState
Justin Rohrlich / The Daily Beast:
Three ISIS Fanboys Plotted Spring Break Attack on Shia Mosque, Feds Say
Discussion: New York Post
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Sanction Companies Providing Technology for Russian Military, Intelligence Services
Washington Post:
U.S. military spent nearly $150,000 at Trump properties, documents show
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Russia's Neighbors Are Worried They'll Be Next
Reuters:
Exclusive: US cancels talks with Taliban over U-turn on girls' education
Discussion: Metro.co.uk and Al Jazeera
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Ice shelf collapses in previously stable East Antarctica
Discussion: ScienceAlert
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
Judge throws out Maryland congressional map over ‘extreme’ gerrymandering
Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times:
She Was a Candidate to Lead Levi's. Then She Started Tweeting.
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Riot Games says it spent $250M on an unusual deal to finance two seasons of League of Legends show Arcane on Netflix; sources: there was no plan to recoup costs
 
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