memeorandum: Judge rejected Perry's bid to shield thousands of emails from Jan. 6 investigators (Politico)

2:05 PM ET, February 25, 2023

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Hannah Dreier / New York Times:

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. — Arriving in record numbers, they're ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make some of the country's best-known products. — Hannah traveled to Alabama, Florida …

A.G. Gancarski / Florida Politics:

Lincoln Project claims Ron DeSantis' presidential hopes are ‘just hype’ … A.G. Gancarski — A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski

Discussion: Washington Examiner

NBC News:
Pence says he is nearing a decision on 2024 presidential bid

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, HuffPost, The Hill and Vanity Fair

Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Mike Pence declines invitation to CPAC as event's leader comes under fire

Discussion: Washington Times, Mediaite and Washington Examiner

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Mike Pence, possible Trump 2024 challenger, slams ‘apologists for Putin’ in the GOP

Discussion: NBC News, National Review, 19FortyFive, Washington Examiner, The Hill and ABC News

Politico:

Judge rejected Perry's bid to shield thousands of emails from Jan. 6 investigators — The chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., secretly rejected Rep. Scott Perry's bid to shield more than 2,000 messages relevant to Justice Department investigators probing efforts …

Discussion: HuffPost, Balloon Juice, CNN, Raw Story, The Hill and NBC News

Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:

Fight over Rep. Perry's phone has prevented review of 2,200 documents in Jan. 6 probe — Six months after the FBI seized Perry's phone, a U.S. appeals court is reviewing a judge's order that 90 percent of Perry's messages fall outside the congressman's immunity from criminal investigation

Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg

New York Times:

What Fox News Hosts Said Privately vs. Publicly About Voter Fraud — No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying. — Two days after the 2020 election, Tucker Carlson was furious. — Fox News viewers were abandoning the network for Newsmax and One America News, two conservative rivals …

Discussion: Jacobin and Washington Post

Oliver Darcy / CNN:
'It's a major blow': Dominion has uncovered ‘smoking gun’ evidence in case against Fox News, legal experts say

Discussion: Off the Kuff, Raw Story, Tangle and Mediaite

Wall Street Journal:

Ukraine Is the West's War Now — The initial reluctance of the U.S. and its allies to help Kyiv fight Russia has turned into a massive program of military assistance, which carries risks of its own — Two days before the Russian invasion of his country, on Feb. 22, 2022 …

Discussion: Bloomberg, The Hill and Financial Times

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
America's Interests Are Not Necessarily the Same as Ukraine's

Discussion: Bloomberg, Vladimir's News, ABC News and New York Daily News

Holly Otterbein / Politico:

Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party. It's not going well. — When Bernie Sanders' supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party two years ago, progressives across the country were thrilled. — Socialists had managed to bring down one of the most powerful establishment forces …

Discussion: Fox News, RedState, Raw Story and Las Vegas Review-Journal

Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:

We are dropping the Dilbert comic strip because of creator Scott Adams' racist rant: Letter from the Editor — Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer.

ProPublica:

A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline — Despite a history of fraud, one family has thrived in the regulatory no man's land of health care sharing ministries, where insurance commissioners can't investigate …

Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:

Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like Trump and Putin — Like all abusive men, dictators seek to control who can speak and which narratives are believed. The only difference is scale — s the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolded, I was reminded over and over again …

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Longtime Trump backers flock to DeSantis event — The group of Ron DeSantis' top donors and supporters gathering in Palm Beach, Fla., this weekend includes some longtime backers of former President Donald Trump. — The Florida governor's three-day retreat at the Four Seasons hotel …

Discussion: Washington Post and Florida Politics

Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:

The Texas judge who could take down the abortion pill … By Caroline Kitchener and Ann E. Marimow — ABILENE, Tex. — Matthew Kacsmaryk was a 22-year-old law student when he drove to a small city in west Texas to spend a day with a baby he would probably never see again.

Discussion: Home with the Armadillo and Repro Rights NOW

Steve Contorno / CNN:

DeSantis has a new book coming out next week. Here's what his first one said — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday will release his book, “The Courage to be Free,” to much anticipation ahead of his expected plunge into the 2024 presidential race. But it's not the first time DeSantis …

Discussion: Florida Politics

Steve Contorno / CNN:
Florida bill would give DeSantis more power over state universities and ban gender studies

Discussion: Washington Press, Reason, Washington Examiner, Rolling Stone, Talking Points Memo, Floricua, NBC News, WFLA-TV and Insider

Neil Genzlinger / New York Times:

Robert Hébras, Last Survivor of a 1944 Massacre in France, Dies at 97 — Dead bodies shielded him as the Nazis killed 643 people in Oradour-sur-Glane. He spent his life keeping the memory of the slaughter alive. — Robert Hébras, who, shielded under dead bodies …

Jones Hayden / Politico:

Zelenskyy open to considering some parts of Beijing's proposals to end Ukraine war — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy cautiously welcomed Beijing's efforts toward ending the war in Ukraine and said he would like to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss China's proposals.

Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg, New York Post, Associated Press, CBS News, Voice of America and The Daily Caller

Kendall Tietz / Fox News:

University of North Carolina moves to ban ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ statements in anti-woke backlash … UNC forms school of civic life and leadership to provide ‘equal opportunity’ for students: David Boliek — David Boliek, chairman of the Board of Trustees at The University …

Discussion: National Review, The Gateway Pundit, One America News Network, New York Post and The Daily Sceptic

Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal:

Burned Out, More Americans Are Turning to Part-Time Jobs — The number of people working part time rose by 1.2 million in December and January—most were people who chose it. ‘25 hours is the new 35.’ — Part-time work is exploding. — The number of Americans working part time rose …

Eric Dolan / Raw Story:

Trump brutally mocked after tabloid reveals details of his new Mar-a-Lago gig — Critics of President Donald Trump are having a field day after learning about his new hobby. — Page Six reported Friday that the former president “now has a regular gig” as a DJ at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Discussion: Insider, Bloomberg, Page Six and Forbes

Laura Bassett / Jezebel:
Donald Trump Moonlights As a DJ Now

Discussion: Balloon Juice

DEA:

DEA Announces Proposed Rules for Permanent Telemedicine Flexibilities — DEA extends many telemedicine flexibilities adopted during the COVID-19 PHE with appropriate safeguards — WASHINGTON - Today, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced proposed permanent rules for the prescribing …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Times and The Hill