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Politico:
Special master to Trump's lawyers: 'You can't have your cake and eat it too'  —  NEW YORK — The senior federal judge tasked with reviewing the materials seized by the FBI from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate sharply questioned the former president's attorneys Tuesday during their first hearing before his courtroom.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
'As Far as I'm Concerned, That's the End of It': Skeptical Special Master Presses Trump's Lawyers on Declassification Evasions at Hearing  —  After the FBI found highly classified documents inside his Mar-a-Lago home, former President Donald Trump sought review of the materials by a special master.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
How Judge Cannon broke with conservatives in Trump documents case  —  When Donald Trump flooded the federal bench with judicial appointments, a leading critique was that they were Federalist Society clones who favored muscular executive power and rejected what some perceive as meddling by the courts in executive branch affairs.
Discussion: New Republic and Hackwhackers
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Special Master Has a Simple Test That May Be Disaster for Trump  —  Special Master Raymond Dearie indicated Tuesday that this case could be very simple, and that Trump may be in trouble.  —  Former President Donald Trump's battle with the FBI over its search of Mar-a-Lago has moved …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump has more legal problems of his own making  —  Donald Trump and Federal Judge Aileen M. Cannon might end up regretting their selection of former judge Raymond Dearie as the special master to undertake the review of classified papers retrieved from the former president's Mar-a-Lago club.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC poll gives Republicans the edge in most races  —  The latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll paints a bleak picture for Georgia Democrats in November, with every statewide candidate aside from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock facing a sizable deficit less than two months before the election.
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Marist Poll:
Warnock Edges Walker in U.S. Senate Race, Kemp Leads Abrams for Governor
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
Washington Post:
Video appears to undercut Trump elector's account of alleged voting-data breach in Georgia  —  On Jan. 7, 2021, a group of forensics experts working for lawyers allied with President Donald Trump spent eight hours at a county elections office in southern Georgia, copying sensitive software and data from its voting machines.
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Eli Okun / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Is it Republicans who are facing an enthusiasm gap?
CNN:
New footage confirms fake Trump elector spent hours inside Georgia elections office day it was breached
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Associated Press
Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Cheney: On Jan. 6, fellow House member objecting to election called Trump ‘the orange Jesus’  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday that a fellow House member called former President Donald Trump “the orange Jesus” on Jan. 6, 2021, as Republicans gathered objections to 2020 election results.
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
The Cheney 2024 conundrum  —  Liberals who lavish praise on Liz Cheney for her defiance …
Discussion: National Review
Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
‘One of the worst presidential campaigns’: Navarro reflects on why Trump lost
Discussion: Mediaite and The Guardian
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Doctors say Graham abortion ban would force women to have transvaginal ultrasounds  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham's national 15-week abortion ban would likely force many women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before terminating pregnancies, according to doctors.
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Jessica Piper / Politico:
What the numbers really say about abortion and Democrats in the midterms
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Examiner
David A. Fahrenthold / New York Times:
Indictments Accuse 44 in Minnesota of Brazen Pandemic Aid Fraud  —  The Justice Department said the defendants had stolen $240 million intended to feed children, in what appears to be the largest theft so far from a pandemic-era program.  —  MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department said on Tuesday …
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Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Conspiracy Theorists Want to Run America's Elections.  These Are the Candidates Standing in Their Way  —  Nobody recognizes Adrian Fontes when he walks into a Phoenix lunch spot near his office.  The former recorder of Maricopa County looks like any other Arizona dad: a neat beard …
Emma James / Daily Mail:
Special delivery for Joe?  Plane used by Florida Gov. DeSantis to send 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard is now heading to Delaware airport near Biden's two homes!  — Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to be sending another plane from Florida - this time to President Biden's home state of Delaware
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Renee Nygren / KVLY:
Man admits to killing teen after political dispute in Foster Co., court docs allege  —  MCHENRY, N.D. (Valley News Live) - A community is mourning the loss of an 18-year-old man from Grace City, North Dakota, as investigators look into what led up to a deadly crash.
Discussion: Breitbart
Suzy Weiss / Common Sense:
‘Crime Is a Construct’: My Morning With the Park Slope Panthers  —  In the last couple of months in Park Slope—the baby bjorn-wearing capital of bourgeois-bohemian New York—a thief absconded with $200,000 worth of jewelry in a smash and grab, three boys stole a bunch of iPhones off of subway riders …
Discussion: HotAir and National Review
Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Bret Baier wanted to rescind Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Biden in 2020 and wrote in an email, ‘The Trump campaign was really pissed,’ book says  — Fox News anchor Bret Baier “was ready to give into” pressure from Trump after the network said he lost Arizona, new book says.
United States Space Force:
Space Force reveals official song: “Semper Supra”  —  ARLINGTON, Va — ARLINGTON, Va. - Every branch of the armed forces has an official song, from “The Army Goes Rolling Along” to “The Marines' Hymn.”  Each song is part of the services' foundation and represents its values, traditions and culture.
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: McConnell-aligned super PAC pulls out of Arizona  —  The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund is canceling $9.6 million in television ads for the Arizona Senate race, confident that other outside conservative groups will make up much of the difference for Republican nominee Blake Masters.
Washington Post:
Trump's ‘big lie’ fueled a new generation of social media influencers  —  Accounts that rose to prominence spreading disinformation about the 2020 election now drive other polarizing debates, a Washington Post data analysis found  —  Three days after the 2020 election, Kyle Becker …
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Russian-occupied Donbas region to hold referenda on annexation  —  Russian-occupied territories in eastern Ukraine announced referenda on whether to join the Russian Federation.  —  Russian separatists have fought in the Donbas region, which consists of the self-identified Luhansk People's Republic …
Nick Allen / Telegraph:
Donald Trump mocks Joe Biden over seating position at Queen's funeral  —  Former president claims if he was still in the White House he would have been sat nearer the front  —  Donald Trump has mocked Joe Biden over his seating position at the late Queen's state funeral.
Mailchimp:
New York Mag's Hunter Biden laptop cover story puts proper focus on story that matters  —  I don't want to assume the political affiliations of New York Magazine readers, but I'd have to guess most who received their copy of the print issue this week voted for Joe Biden in 2020.
Discussion: Newsbusters
Ron Elving / NPR:
New Trump tome ‘The Divider’ offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date  —  The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time.  —  Even after several Cabinet-level advisers …
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
The White House:
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Administration's Plan for Student Debt Relief Could Benefit Tens of Millions of Borrowers in All Fifty States
Discussion: The Hill, Insider and KTVX-TV
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CNN:
These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time
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