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3:30 PM ET, October 24, 2022

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CNN:
Clarence Thomas freezes order for Lindsey Graham to testify before Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election  —  Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday agreed to temporarily freeze a lower court order requiring the testimony of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in front of an Atlanta-area special grand jury …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocks Sen. Graham's subpoena from Georgia grand jury  — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked a subpoena issued by a Georgia grand jury seeking testimony from South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.
New York Times:
Their America Is Vanishing.  Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.  —  The white majority is fading, the economy is changing and there's a pervasive sense of loss in districts where Republicans fought the outcome of the 2020 election.  —  When Representative Troy Nehls of Texas voted …
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Nicholas Lemann / New Yorker:   The Democrats' Midterm Challenge
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer And The Case Of The Missing Megadonors
Discussion: Common Dreams
David M. Drucker / Rolling Stone:
Republicans Are Having a Messy Breakup With Corporate America. They Feel Fine
Discussion: Roll Call, The Hill, Raw Story and Daily Kos
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Will ‘Democracy Die in Darkness’ After November?
New York Times:
Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam  —  The results, from what is known as the nation's report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic's devastating impact on students.  —  U.S. students in most states and across almost …
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Ben Chapman / Wall Street Journal:
Math Scores Dropped in Every State During Pandemic, Report Card Shows
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Liberals urge Biden to rethink Ukraine strategy  —  Democratic lawmakers' letter calls for direct U.S. talks with Russia  —  A group of 30 House liberals is urging President Biden to dramatically shift his strategy on the Ukraine war and pursue direct negotiations with Russia …
David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
NY-17 Rating Change: DCCC Chair Maloney Moves From Lean Democrat to Toss Up  —  When Republicans' top Super PAC started spending against Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-17) in mid-September, many assumed it was a gambit to troll or distract the DCCC chair.
Sonya Hamasaki / CNN:
Los Angeles officials condemn demonstrators seen in photos showing support of Kanye West's antisemitic remarks  —  Los Angeles officials are condemning the display of banners from a freeway overpass this weekend by a group of demonstrators seen in bystander photos showing support …
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Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood talent agency CAA cuts ties with Kanye West after antisemitic tirade
Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times:
More antisemitic hate seen in L.A. after Kanye West's hateful rants
Ariel Edwards-Levy / CNN:
CNN Polls show Democrats are ahead in races for governor in Michigan and Pennsylvania, with no clear leader in Wisconsin  —  The Wisconsin race for governor has no clear leader, while Democratic gubernatorial candidates hold the edge in Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to new CNN polls conducted by SSRS in the three key states.
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Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Polls on key Senate races find tight contest in Wisconsin and a narrow Democratic edge in Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Hill
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Democrats Need to Know What Time It Is  —  A lesson and a warning from the Katie Hobbs Experience.  —  The stakes in Arizona's governor race could not be higher.  —  The Republican nominee, Kari Lake, is the most zealous election denier this side of the South Florida Sigmaringen.
John A. Farrell / New York Times:
Alito Assured Ted Kennedy in 2005 of Respect for Roe v. Wade, Diary Says  —  In the senator's recollection, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the opinion overturning the abortion ruling tried to show Mr. Kennedy that he was not a threat to Roe.  —  Senator Edward M. Kennedy looked skeptically at the federal judge.
Discussion: Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
U.S.-Saudi Relations Buckle, Driven by Animosity Between Biden and Mohammed bin Salman  —  Lack of personal trust accelerates a yearslong split driven by geopolitical and economic forces  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—An unwritten pact binding the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has survived 15 presidents …
Discussion: Raw Story
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
Abrams' campaign chair collected millions in legal fees from voting rights organization  —  ATLANTA — The voting rights organization founded by Stacey Abrams spent more than $25 million over two years on legal fees, mostly on a single case, with the largest amount going to the self-described boutique law firm …
Brad Raffensperger / Georgia Secretary of State:
Georgia Voters Shatter Second Presidential Turnout Record on Saturday  —  (Atlanta) - Georgia voters continued to hit record breaking turnout on the first mandatory Saturday of Early Voting.  As of Sunday morning, approximately 740K Georgia voters have cast their ballot during in-person Early Voting …
Matthew A. Winkler / Bloomberg:
California Poised to Overtake Germany as World's No. 4 Economy  —  Gavin Newsom is as familiar as anyone with the media narrative of earthquakes, persistent wildfires, droughts, homelessness and companies fleeing California to Texas for a tax- and regulation-free lifestyle.  This is nothing new.
Discussion: Twitchy
Taylor Popielarz / Spectrum News 1 Ohio:
Ohio Senate race tied in new Spectrum News/Siena College Poll  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Ohio Senate race between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Ryan could not be much closer.  —  What You Need To Know  —  An exclusive Spectrum News/Siena College Poll released Monday shows Ryan …
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James Bickerton / Newsweek:
Ted Cruz Hid in Supply Closet During Jan. 6, New Book Reveals  —  Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress.  —  On that day in 2021 hundreds of Donald Trump supporters broke into the Capitol Building …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Will the Bob Woodward Audiobook Put Trump Back on the Ballot? … Just another night in Trumpland: At a rally over the weekend in Texas, Donald Trump was talking about the leak last spring to Politico's Josh Gerstein of Samuel Alito's draft decision in the Dobbs case, and he said that the way to find …
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CBS News:
Bob Woodward on Donald Trump: “He is a threat to democracy”
NBC News:
Florida's Hispanic voters back DeSantis over Crist, support Martha's Vineyard migrant flights  —  Florida's Hispanic voters back Gov. Ron DeSantis over Democrat Charlie Crist, and they even support the Republican's decision to fly migrants to Martha's Vineyard, according to a new Telemundo/LX News poll.
Suzanne Downing / Must Read Alaska:
Triangle: Palin joins Murkowski in Peltola love fest  —  The Murkowski-Palin-Peltola political love triangle is a curiosity in the “Only in Alaska” category: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, endorsed hardline Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola during Alaska Federation of Natives convention …
 
 
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Brooke Migdon / The Hill:
Yeshiva University launches new LGBTQ student group amid lawsuit blocking recognition of YU Pride Alliance
Discussion: The Daily Caller and New York Post
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
How Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt helped write A.I. laws in Washington without publicly disclosing investments in A.I. startups
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
How one man brought affirmative action to the Supreme Court. Again and again.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Associated Press:
2 Chinese officers charged in plot to obstruct Huawei probe
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The effort to break America's elections
Discussion: HuffPost and Mediaite
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An American Girl  —  At 10, Caitlyne Gonzales survived Uvalde's school shooting.
Trudy Busch Valentine / Springfield News-Leader:
Missouri's extreme abortion ban is un-American
The Daily Beast:
Florida Puts Raging MAGA Moms on Book-Banning Council
Discussion: Jezebel and Raw Story
Kate Davidson / Politico:
The big recession risk that no one is talking about
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