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12:40 PM ET, September 1, 2022

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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas pressed Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn Biden's 2020 victory  —  The conservative activist and wife of the Supreme Court justice emailed lawmakers in two states in the weeks after the election  —  Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court …
Discussion: Raw Story and Alternet.org
Andrew P. Napolitano / Washington Times:
Why Donald Trump will soon be indicted  —  What will his defense be?  —  COMMENTARY  —  OPINION:  —  It gives me no joy to write this piece.  —  Even a cursory review of the redacted version of the affidavit submitted in support of the government's application for a search warrant …
Discussion: Raw Story, BizPac Review and Mediaite
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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
How the DOJ has built a case against Trump for obstruction  —  FOLLOW THE STORY  —  I've been a naysayer on the notion that the Justice Department is trying to make a criminal case against former President Donald Trump based on the Mar-a-Lago raid, at least with respect to the offenses most often touted …
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Trump's seized passports could be a problem for him, legal experts say  —  Donald Trump has complained that FBI agents' seizure of his passports showed that investigators ran amok as they searched his Florida resort, but new information about how and where the documents were found …
Discussion: Politico
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump tells court that classified material should have been expected in presidential records found at Mar-a-Lago
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Why Yesterday's DOJ Filing Suggests a Trump Indictment Is Coming
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Politico:
Trump team makes its 11th hour plea for independent review
New York Times:
Trump's Legal Jab Left Him Open to Justice Dept. Strike
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Arkansas Senator's Election Rigging Claim Dissolves on Contact With Sanity  —  ‘SCAM’  —  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) managed to go viral on Wednesday night with a dubious claim about the election for Alaska's U.S. House seat.  Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich lost out to Democrat Mary Peltola …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Iris Samuels / Anchorage Daily News:
Democrat Mary Peltola wins special U.S. House election, will be first Alaska Native elected to Congress
Allahpundit / HotAir:
Live results: The return of Sarah from Alaska?
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading  —  The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old school children, especially the most vulnerable.  —  National test results released on Thursday showed in stark terms …
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Donna St. George / Washington Post:
National test scores plunge during the pandemic  —  Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later.
Miguel Cardona / USA Today:
US Education secretary: COVID hurt student academic achievements, but we can recover
Discussion: The Hill and Twitchy
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
The kids are not all right: Post-pandemic 4th-grade test scores suffer worst drop in decades
John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Midterm Prospects Improve as Races Heat Up, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Independent voters, a key to victory in competitive general elections, are now tilting toward Democrats  —  Midterms 2022: Where Republicans and Democrats Stand on the Issues  —  Created with sketchtool.
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Voters View FBI Search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home as Justified, WSJ Poll Finds
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and KFOR-TV
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
What Republicans refuse to grasp about the ‘Clinton standard’
Discussion: L.A.'s Newsletter and NBC News
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Sen. Rick Scott / Washington Examiner:
Washington versus Republican voters  —  When I became the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republicans had just lost control of the Senate.  This does not merely mean Republicans lost the ability to lead committees; it means we lost the ability to control anything about what the Senate does.
Discussion: NBC News and The Hill
Washington Post:
Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden's student debt plan  —  GOP attorneys general, top lawmakers and conservative groups are discussing legal options, alleging the White House's move to cancel student debt is illegal  —  Republican state attorneys general and other leading conservatives …
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Rating Changes: Five Races Move in Democrats' Direction, Including Alaska  —  Republican strategists express optimism that the Inflation Reduction Act and President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan will help them shift the spotlight away from abortion and Donald Trump and back onto Democrats' spending measures and inflation.
Discussion: The Hill
House Committee on Oversight and Reform:
Chairwoman Maloney's Statement on Oversight Committee Securing Agreement to Obtain Former President Trump's Financial Records  —  Agreement with Trump and Accounting Firm Mazars USA Follows Committee's Subpoena and Successful Litigation  —  Washington, D.C. (Sept. 1, 2022)—Today …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump reaches settlement agreement over financial records with House committee, accounting firm
Discussion: NBC News
Lorna Gibson / Common Sense:
Will I Ever See the $36 Million Oberlin College Owes Me?  —  My family was falsely accused of racism by a powerful school in a small town.  Our business was destroyed.  We won our case.  But the school is refusing to pay.  —  OBERLIN, OHIO — On the night of November, 8, 2016 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle charged in Jan. 6 conspiracy case  —  WASHINGTON — Kellye SoRelle, the general counsel for the far-right organization the Oath Keepers, was arrested in Texas on Thursday after being indicted on four charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack, the Justice Department said.
Federico Finchelstein / Washington Post:
Biden called Trumpism ‘semi-fascism.’ The term makes sense, historically.  —  A scholar of fascism weighs in.  —  Perspective by Federico Finchelstein  —  Federico Finchelstein is professor of history at the New School and author of the new book, “A Brief History of Fascist Lies.”
Discussion: Associated Press
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Illia Ponomarenko / The Kyiv Independent:
How many tanks does Russia really have?  —  Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine is already going down in history as the biggest tank slaughter Europe has seen since World War II.  —  The Kremlin's reckless and unsuccessful blitzkrieg on Kyiv resulted in the loss of over 1,000 tanks - within just a few weeks after Feb. 24.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Brian Kemp's Running Mate Is a Fake Elector  —  Georgia's governor makes nice with MAGA by embracing the election deniers who think he cheated Trump.  —  Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp gets a lot of credit for resisting pressure from former President Donald Trump to “find the votes” …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Morning Shots
Sean Golonka / The Nevada Independent:
Cortez Masto and Sisolak hold slim leads, are losing Hispanic support, AARP poll finds  —  In Nevada's high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate, Democratic incumbents Gov. Steve Sisolak and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto hold narrow leads over their Republican challengers …
Discussion: Political Wire
Madeleine Carlisle / TIME:
‘Gender Queer’ Author ‘Relieved’ After Court Rules Book's Sale Can't Be Restricted in Virginia  —  Maia Kobabe felt a wave of relief on Tuesday morning.  Waking up on the West Coast, an early morning peek at emails revealed a Virginia court had dismissed a lawsuit seeking to label Kobabe's book Gender Queer …
ABC News:
Cipollone, Philbin expected to appear Friday before federal grand jury probing Jan. 6: Sources  —  The two former top Trump White House lawyers were subpoenaed earlier.  —  Pat Cipollone in Washington, D.C. on July 8, 2022.  —  Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
Discussion: CNN, NBC News, MSNBC and PoliticusUSA
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
'What's this about?': bodycam footage shows confusion as Florida man arrested for voter fraud  —  Byron Smith registered to vote after a key amendment, but didn't know he was ineligible - now he faces up to five years in prison  —  yron Smith was standing outside his house …
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump Megadonor Adelson's Republican Spending Spree Is Ending
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. sought records on Binance CEO for crypto money laundering probe
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Donald Trump Is Still a Lunatic
Office of the Texas Governor:
Governor Abbott Announces First Bus Of Migrants Arrives In Chicago
Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity Deposed In Dominion Defamation Suit Against Fox News
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Beast
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Democrat Michael Bennet virtually tied with GOP challenger Joe O'Dea in Colorado Senate race: Poll
Discussion: The Hill
Associated Press:
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Tyrannical old Joe's secret police state
Discussion: Breitbart
 Earlier Items: 
Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP's midterm fear: Referendum on Trump
Adam Wren / Politico:
Pete Buttigieg has a bridge to sell you. Just don't ask if it's linked to a campaign.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
IRS Sent Over $1 Billion In Stimulus Checks To Locked Up Criminals, Including Murderers
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Just The News
Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
Investigating parents of transgender youth has agency on ‘brink of collapse,’ staff warns
Washington Post:
Fetterman campaign says stroke recovery factors into fall debate plans
 

 
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Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Sources: CoinDesk owner Bullish removed an article on Tron founder Justin Sun after complaints from his team; editorial chair Matt Murray resigned on Dec. 16

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
A look at GOP attacks on local news outlets across the US, including the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners' harrassment of LNP reporter Tom Lisi

Erik Hayden / The Hollywood Reporter:
The California Production Coalition, a group of 33 businesses and organizations including the MPA, organizes to lobby for state incentives for film and TV shows

 
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