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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Diminished Trump Meets a Damning Narrative  —  Former President Donald Trump's current woes extend beyond the report by the House Jan. 6 committee, but the case the panel laid out against him further complicates his future.  —  As the summer and the House Jan. 6 committee's hearings began …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Jan. 6 committee just lowered the boom on Trump.  Now the ball is in DOJ's court.  —  Donald Trump cannot pass off the House Jan. 6 select committee's final report as mere partisan opinion.  His criminal liability is based on a mound of evidence, as the committee meticulously detailed.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
DOJ cares about the evidence, not the criminal referrals  —  The historic criminal referral the House Jan. 6 committee issued urging the Justice Department to pursue charges against President Donald Trump is unlikely to sway many minds among prosecutors already pursuing multiple investigations, former DOJ officials said.
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What's next for the talented Mr. Santos?  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  JUST POSTED —A major scoop from Heidi Przybyla, POLITICO's national investigative correspondent: “Longtime judicial activist LEONARD LEO appears to have helped facilitate …
Wall Street Journal:
The Jan. 6 Inquiry's Not-So-Grand Finale  —  Criminal referrals of Trump add nothing but political complication.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  The House Jan. 6 committee decided Monday that the best way to cap its 18 months of work would be a political gesture.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Jan. 6 committee summary: Ivanka Trump not ‘forthcoming’; Giuliani changed tone on stolen election during deposition  —  The panel says none of its witnesses provided evidence to suggest the election result was tainted, concluding that the claim was “a big scam.”  It also alleges a plot to obstruct its work.
Stephen Kruiser / pjmedia.com:   The Morning Briefing: J6 Commies Opt for Weaponizing Trump With Political Martyrdom
New York Times:
George Santos Dodges Questions as Democrats Label Him ‘Unfit to Serve’
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
George Santos responds to report that accused him of misrepresenting credentials on campaign trail
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Many Senate Republicans aren't protecting Trump after Jan. 6 panel's nod to criminal charges
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Jan. 6 report will draw blood even if Trump faces no charges
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Justice Is Coming for Donald Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
How Jan. 6th Committee's Revelations of Interference in Their Investigation Can Enable the Special Counsel
J.D. Capelouto / Semafor:
Secret Service seized 269 knives from Trump supporters hours before Jan. 6 attack
Wall Street Journal:
The Stanford Guide to Acceptable Words  —  Behold the school's Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  WSJ Opinion: Free Speech and the Push to Shut You Up  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  Parodists have it rough these days …
Discussion: Twitchy
Wall Street Journal:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Lawyers Hash Out His Transfer to U.S. After Confusion in Court  —  The FTX founder has agreed to be extradited, with lawyers drafting documents, according to a person familiar with the matter  —  Watch: Sam Bankman-Fried Closer to Extradition After Bahamas Hearing
Washington Post:
Chief justice temporarily keeps pandemic-era Title 42 border policy in place  —  GOP governors have asked Supreme Court to stop Biden administration from allowing all border crossers to seek asylum  —  Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday temporarily left in place a pandemic-era policy …
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Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Title 42 to remain in place for now as Chief Justice John Roberts temporarily freezes order meant to end it
Associated Press:
Suspense builds at border over future of US asylum rules
Roll Call:
Omnibus text delayed over FBI headquarters issue  —  Release of a massive $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package with all manner of unrelated add-ons was taking longer than expected, with text still being finalized Monday evening.  —  The chief holdup appeared to be language Democrats …
Discussion: Breitbart and DNyuz
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John Solomon / Just The News:
DOJ snooped on House Intelligence Committee investigators during Russia probe, subpoenas show  —  In an extraordinary intrusion on congressional oversight, the Justice Department used grand jury subpoenas to secretly obtain the personal email and phone data of at least two top House Intelligence …
Discussion: DNyuz
Karoline Leavitt / Fox News:
I am a Gen Z Republican and my time in the trenches taught me this about 2024  —  Republicans failed during midterms on issues that Gen Z cares about.  —  New Hampshire congressional candidate Karoline Leavitt: American dream ‘never been more unattainable’
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars  —  Several new studies document the current court's distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices' willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.  —  WASHINGTON — The conventional critique of the Supreme Court …
Washington Post:
Post Politics Now: Another headache for Trump as House panel weighs release of tax returns  —  Today, the House Ways and Means Committee is meeting to decide whether to publicly release six years of former president Donald Trump's federal tax returns that it obtained after a lengthy court battle.
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Bloomberg:
Explosion Reported at Russian Pipeline Bringing Gas to Europe  —  An explosion was reported at a Russian gas pipeline that goes to Ukraine for further supplies to Europe.  —  The blast occurred at the section of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod link, according to Russian media reports on Tuesday …
Jake Pearson / New York Magazine:
For 11 years, Karl Ashanti defended the NYPD in civil-rights cases.  Then he was arrested for a crime he didn't commit.  —  By the time Karl Ashanti neared his office in the New York City Law Department's headquarters in March 2018, the police were shutting down Park Place.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Feds Are ‘Begging’ Congress to Stop Trump Donation Scam  —  A notoriously do-nothing organization, the Federal Election Commission, is leaning on another do-nothing organization to do something: Congress.  —  While federal campaign finance regulators aren't known for their aggression …
Discussion: Raw Story
Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo  —  Longtime judicial activist Leonard Leo appears to have helped facilitate the sale of former White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway's polling company in 2017 …
 
 
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