memeorandum: The rot runs deeper (Don Moynihan/Can We Still Govern?)

11:05 AM ET, June 30, 2022

Top Items:

‘I Keep Waiting for the Feds to Come’: The Jan. 6 Investigations Have Trumpworld on Edge — A bombshell congressional hearing and aggressive Justice Department investigation have the former president's cronies wondering who'll be targeted next — After a jaw-dropping Jan. 6 committee hearing …

Discussion: Fox News and Daily Kos

Melanie Mason / Los Angeles Times:

Republican Party must choose between Trump and the Constitution, Liz Cheney says in California speech — Warning that America faces a “domestic threat we have never faced before,” GOP Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday accused Republicans who ignore former President Trump's efforts to overturn …

Discussion: USA Today, Insider, CNN, New York Times, NBC News, The Hill, Associated Press, ABC News, CNN, The Guardian, The Daily Caller, Bulwark+, ABC7, Washington Post, Mercury News, Fox News, Bloomberg, ABC News, Politico, USA Today and Washington Times

Mona Charen / The Bulwark:

Cassidy Hutchinson Is a Heroine — May her courage be as contagious as most Republicans' cowardice. — You have to wonder how Cassidy Hutchinson was raised. What did her parents do to instill a conscience and courage in such a young person? The House January 6th Committee reportedly decided …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Post and Washington Examiner

Esther Wickham / Washington Examiner:

Cassidy Hutchinson did not do her job — The Jan. 6 House committee held a last-minute hearing on Tuesday, again attempting to distract people from other disastrous events unfolding in the country. Unfortunately for them, their “star witness” didn't do her job in helping with that distraction — she merely exposed it.

Discussion: Fox News, Townhall, National Review, Poynter, IJR and The Federalist

Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:

Trump denies lunging at Secret Service: ‘Who would do that?’ — Former President Trump denied lunging at his Secret Service security on Jan. 6 after they refused to take him to the Capitol when he wanted to march alongside his supporters after a rally. — The revelation came from Cassidy Hutchinson …

Discussion: Ian Haworth, Raw Story, Breitbart, The Bulwark and Townhall

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:

Former Trump Admin Official Alyssa Farah Stuns CNN's New Day With Revelation About Cassidy Hutchinson — Former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah astonished her colleagues on CNN by telling them she helped Cassidy Hutchinson break away from Donald Trump's sphere of influence before her January 6 Committee testimony.

Discussion: The Hill and CNN

NBC News:
Cassidy Hutchinson's Jan. 6 testimony comes under increased scrutiny

CNN:
Former prosecutors say blockbuster January 6 testimony increases Trump's criminal exposure

Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost, New York Post, Select Committee …, Unprecedented, Just The News, Washington Examiner, The North Star with Shaun King and RAPPLER

ABC News:
Rep. Liz Cheney ‘confident’ in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony

Discussion: Insider, The Hill and The Federalist

New York Times:
Hutchinson Testimony Exposes Tensions Between Parallel Jan. 6 Inquiries

Discussion: Insider, Vicky Ward Investigates, The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Hill, CBS News, Breitbart, Althouse, CNN, Just The News and Political Junkie

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Testimony Paints Mark Meadows as Unwilling to Act as Jan. 6 Unfolded

Discussion: ArkansasTimes and Mercury News

Washington Post:
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former White House counsel Pat Cipollone

John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Are we supposed to believe the Republicans didn't know?

Discussion: Raw Story, Puck, HuffPost, Occupy Democrats and Vox

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Live Updates: Supreme Court Curbs E.P.A.'s Authority to Address Climate Change — The decision was a blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's powers under the Clean Air Act. It was the latest ruling by a court that has handed down significant decisions on abortion and guns.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Insider, HotAir, USA Today, HuffPost, Bloomberg, CNN, CBS News, Forbes, Vanity Fair, Townhall, Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, NBC10 Philadelphia, Washington Times and Gizmodo

Ja'han Jones / MSNBC: What the Supreme Court's EPA decision could mean for you

Jan Wolfe / Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court Limits Environmental Protection Agency's Authority

Washington Post:
Democrats call on Biden to declare abortion national health emergency

Discussion: Northeastern, LifeNews.com, The Daily Caller and Destabilized

Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:

McConnell: Blocking Obama's SCOTUS pick led to overturning Roe v. Wade — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that his decision to block former President Obama's Supreme Court pick to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 led to the Roe v. Wade getting overturned.

Discussion: Bloomberg and The Washington Current

Ximena Bustillo / NPR:

Ketanji Brown Jackson to be sworn in as first Black woman on the Supreme Court — Ketanji Brown Jackson will be sworn in Thursday at noon as the 116th Supreme Court justice and the first Black woman to serve on the high court. — Watch the ceremony at 12 p.m. ET here:

Discussion: ABC News, Supreme Court …, National Review, Outside the Beltway, Reuters, NBC Los Angeles and USA Today

Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Biden Reportedly Plans to Appoint Anti-Abortion Kentucky Judge to Lifetime Seat

Discussion: Law Dork, with Chris Geidner, The Hill, RADAR, Twitchy, Raw Story, HuffPost and Rolling Stone

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:

Supreme Court clears Biden to end Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy — The policy requires some asylum seekers who enter the country illegally, mainly from Central and South America, to return to Mexico while they await a hearing — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the Biden administration …

Discussion: USA Today, ABC News, The Hill, NBC News, CNN, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, National Review, New York Times, New York Post, KXAN-TV, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, The Daily Caller and ImmigrationProf Blog

Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:

Debunking AOC's absurd argument for impeaching Supreme Court justices — It was inevitable that the Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade would prompt tremendous backlash from liberals. — But Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken things a step further than most of her allies …

Discussion: ABC News, National Review, Fox News, Florida's Voice and The Spectator Australia

Meena Venkataramanan / Washington Post: Men rush to get vasectomies after Roe ruling

Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:

The rot runs deeper — What the actions of an obscure Wisconsin political appointee tell us about GOP democratic backsliding — The January 6th hearings have illustrated the deep threats to American democracy such that only the most die-hard Trumpists can deny them.

Michael Wines / New York Times:

Wisconsin Court Validates a Republican Strategy to Preserve Power — The Senate's method of keeping G.O.P. board members in office, by refusing to confirm replacements nominated by Gov. Tony Evers, was endorsed by a State Supreme Court ruling. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:

Senate Democrats see ‘major progress’ on Biden agenda bill, hope for July vote — Schumer and Manchin are close to a deal on prescription drug savings, new details obtained by NBC News show. They're also negotiating energy and tax provisions in the bill. — WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Data For Progress

Punchbowl News:
6/30/22 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM.

Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg

Politico:
What Dems can — and might — do in Congress to fight the end of Roe

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Fox News and We Are Speaking

Associated Press:

Putin: Western leaders would look ‘disgusting’ topless — MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look “disgusting” if they tried to emulate his bare-torso appearances.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico, New York Post, Breitbart, Fox News, The Guardian and Metro.co.uk

Anna Peele / Washington Post:

The Pandemic Is Waning. Anthony Fauci Has a Few More Lessons to Share. — America's most famous doctor on mitigating covid, giving your adversaries the benefit of the doubt and working way too much — You gotta f—ing suck it up," Anthony Fauci tells me from the deck of his home in Washington …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Arielle Mitropoulos / ABC News:
Fauci says he's taking 2nd course of Paxlovid after experiencing rebound with the antiviral treatment

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Times, The Hill, American Greatness, Townhall, Breitbart, Bloomberg, BizPac Review, WANE-TV, TheBlaze, New York Post, Washington Times, Substack Alexander … and Daily Mail

Wall Street Journal:

Biden Says He Supports Exception to Filibuster to Codify Roe v. Wade Into Law — Supreme Court last week overturned Roe v. Wade decision, leaving question of abortion's legality to states — President Biden said on Thursday that he supports suspending the filibuster, if necessary, to pass legislation codifying Roe v. Wade into law.

Discussion: The Hill, Fox News, Washington Post, Forbes, The Daily Caller and Rolling Stone

Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:

Democrats push for campaign reset in the most pro-abortion rights swing state — Vulnerable Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan is hitting the airwaves with a direct appeal to New Hampshire voters after the end of Roe v. Wade: Return her to office or risk a nationwide abortion ban at the hands of Mitch McConnell.

Discussion: ABC News, Washington Examiner and Talking Points Memo

Marcel Plichta / The Daily Beast:

Putin Should Be Very Worried About Ukraine's New Kamikaze Drone — These new, cheaply made drones only need to get lucky once. — The war in Ukraine is no stranger to drones, but the kamikaze drone strike on the Russian city of Rostov last week marked the beginning of a whole chapter in drone warfare.

Washington Post:

Antiabortion lawmakers want to block patients from crossing state lines — Some advocacy groups and their allies are crafting legislative language that could be adopted in Republican-led state capitals. — Several national antiabortion groups and their allies in Republican-led state legislatures …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Zandar Versus The Stupid, NPR, Jezebel and Missouri Independent