Top Items:
New York Times:
Trump Calls for Recusal of Judge as His Lawyer Denies Pence's 2020 Claims — Former President Donald J. Trump spent the weekend on the attack on Truth Social while his lawyer, John F. Lauro, ran through a gantlet of interviews Sunday morning. — Appearing on five television networks Sunday morning …
Discussion:
CNN, Axios, Raw Story, The Hill, The Guardian, CNBC, Reuters, USA Today, New York Post, CBS News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, NBC News, ABC News and Political Wire
RELATED:
CBS News:
CBS News poll finds after latest Trump indictment, many Americans see implications for democracy. For some, it's personal — America's response to this week's indictment of Donald Trump is providing a window into more than just how Americans view his alleged actions per se …
Discussion:
New York Daily News, Washington Post, The Messenger, The Hill, Bloomberg and ABC News
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
If Trump committed ‘a technical violation of the Constitution,’ it's not a crime, his lawyer says — Later on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, who sat on the House panel that investigated the Capitol riot, said Lauro's argument was “deranged.” — Chuck Todd pushes …
Discussion:
Semafor, CNN, CBS News, Vanity Fair, New York Daily News, Washington Examiner, Financial Times, Raw Story, Washington Times, Politico and Breitbart
Amanda Terkel / NBC News:
‘Of course he lost’: Ron DeSantis rejects Trump's 2020 election claims — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday rejected Donald Trump's claim that he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election in his most forceful comments to date on the matter. — “Whoever puts their hand …
Discussion:
HuffPost, The Hill and The Messenger
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Trump says he'll seek a new judge in election case — Trump on Sunday called for recusal of the judge presiding over the federal case that alleges he illegally conspired to overturn his election loss in 2020. — He claimed there is “NO WAY HE CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL,” in a post on his social media site.
Discussion:
Politico, Bloomberg, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Hill and The National Pulse+
Politico:
Playbook: Welcome to the courtroom campaign — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — DeSANTIS SPEAKS ... TO NBC! — RON DeSANTIS's campaign boycott of NBC News is over. The governor sat down with Dasha Burns for an interview that was just posted and will air …
Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine:
The Pelosi Factor … If you were going to draw up a list of the people most responsible for the latest indictment of Donald Trump, the former president himself would be at the top, followed by the prosecutors who have brought the case. Republicans in Congress perversely deserve a great deal of credit …
Discussion:
BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire
NBC News:
Full Trump lawyer: Election fraud case will be ‘most important’ civil rights case in decades
Discussion:
HuffPost, Raw Story, The Hill, The Daily Beast, The Messenger, PoliticusUSA, CBS News and Digby's Hullabaloo
Tim Reid / Reuters:
Mike Pence does not rule out being witness for Trump's prosecution
Discussion:
The Hill, CNN, Fox News and CBS News, more at Mediagazer »
ABC News:
Russian and Chinese ships patrolled ‘near Alaska’ but were not ‘a threat’: US officials — Four destroyers and P-8 aircraft were deployed to shadow the formation. — A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal
RELATED:
emptywheel:
On January 19, 2022, SCOTUS Upheld Judge Tanya Chutkan's Decision Rejecting Trump's Executive Privilege Claims — On November 9, 2021, Judge Tanya Chutkan — the judge who randomly got assigned to Trump's January 6 prosecution — rejected Trump's request to enjoin the Archives from turning over documents to the January 6 Committee.
Discussion:
The Mahablog
Nina Lakhani / The Guardian:
Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns — Racism is at the heart of the American government's failure to tackle the growing threat of deadly heatwaves, according to the author of an authoritative new book on the heating planet.
Discussion:
New Republic
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republican Attacks on ‘Woke’ Ideology Falling Flat With G.O.P. Voters — New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations. — When it comes to the Republican primaries, attacks on “wokeness” may be losing their punch.
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, CNN, Insider, Vanity Fair and Mother Jones
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Kamala Harris Takes on a Forceful New Role in the 2024 Campaign — The vice president is trying to reclaim the momentum that propelled her to Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s side as a candidate and into the White House in 2020. — Reporting from Washington — In recent weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris …
Discussion:
National Review, CNN and USA Today
CNN:
Black mayor of tiny Alabama town says he was ousted by his White predecessor — Patrick Braxton accomplished something no Black man in his Alabama town had done in its 166-year history: he became mayor. — He told CNN he ran for office in 2020 to serve the fewer than 300 residents of Newbern …
Discussion:
Raw Story
New York Times:
Yellow, the Freight-Trucking Company, Declares Bankruptcy — A pandemic-era lifeline that the Trump administration predicted would turn a profit for the federal government failed to keep Yellow afloat. — Alan Rappeport, who covers the Treasury Department, and Madeleine Ngo …
Discussion:
The Messenger, CNN, Washington Examiner and Reuters
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
