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11:15 AM ET, September 12, 2023

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Punchbowl News:
9/12/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  THE TOP … McCarthy and the House Republican leadership scheduled a closed-door session for Thursday morning so that members could get an update on the investigations led by House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chair Jamie Comer (R-Ky.).
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Politico:
Playbook: The clash that will set the tone for September  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  JUST POSTED — WaPo's Ben Terris takes a deep dive into Sen. TIM SCOTT's love life, a subject that has become something of a thing for the 57-year-old bachelor …
Washington Post:
House lawmakers return to looming budget and impeachment decisions
CNN:
House GOP's government shutdown threat set to collide with demands for Biden impeachment
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. Dem.  House candidate performed sex online with husband for tips  —  Susanna Gibson is running in a competitive district with control of the House at stake.  —  RICHMOND — A Democrat running for a crucial seat in Virginia's House of Delegates performed sex acts with her husband …
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Associated Press:
Virginia election candidate responds after leak of tapes showing her performing sex acts with husband: “It won't silence me”  —  A candidate in a high-stakes legislative contest in Virginia had sex with her husband in live videos posted on a pornographic website and asked viewers to pay …
Andrew Miller / Fox News:
Virginia Democrat candidate posted sex acts with husband online while soliciting tips: report
Discussion: Twitchy
Associated Press:
Trump lawyers seek recusal of judge in DC presiding over federal election subversion case  —  Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself, saying her past public statements about the former president …
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Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Trump files motions to dismiss charges against him in Georgia election case
Discussion: New York Times and Above the Law
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Trump Seeks Recusal of Judge in Federal Elections Case
Discussion: HuffPost and Bloomberg
CBS News:
Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
The US moves to advance a prisoner swap deal with Iran and release $6 billion in frozen funds  —  The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money …
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump faces another 14th Amendment candidacy challenge, this time in Minnesota  —  A liberal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks that hopes to invoke the 14th Amendment's arcane “insurrectionist ban.”
Tami Luhby / CNN:
Poverty rate jumps in 2022 after end of enhanced child tax credit  —  The share of Americans, particularly children, in poverty rose significantly last year, in large part because Congress did not renew a Covid-19 pandemic enhancement to the child tax credit, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday.
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground  —  Home Polls Iowa 2024: Biden and Trump Remain Frontrunners In Caucuses, But Both Losing Ground  —  Neither Party with Clear Alternatives to Frontrunners  —  A new Emerson College Polling survey …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
‘I just had another one’: How McConnell scrambled to protect his job after two freeze-ups  —  The GOP leader emerged from a tumultuous 10 days with his internal strength intact, according to interviews with more than a dozen senators.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's apparent health problems …
Liz Dye / Public Notice:
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Wisconsin Republicans' nuclear option  —  In April, Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court with more than one million votes, defeating her conservative opponent by a wide margin.  Her victory tipped the balance of the court, and the new liberal majority will soon review a case …
Dan McLaughlin / New York Post:
Senile Joe Biden rambles about pony soldiers, Vietnam and lies about 9/11  —  In April 1968, after he had run through five draft deferments, a medical board determined Joe Biden was unfit to go to Vietnam.  —  Unfortunately, nobody stopped him this time.  —  The president …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Ross Douthat's Theories of Persuasion  —  At a time of distrust and polarization, the conservative Times columnist seeks to bridge the worlds of the Christian right and the secular left.  —  This summer, Ross Douthat, liberal America's favorite conservative commentator …
Discussion: Althouse
Brakkton Booker / Politico:
Andrew Yang says he's had ‘conversations’ with No Labels  —  The former Democratic candidate railed against a potential Trump-Biden rematch in an interview in POLITICO's office.  —  Andrew Yang, the former Democratic presidential candidate and one-time New York City mayoral hopeful …
Stuart Lau / Politico:
‘Spying’ scandal shocks Westminster's China circle  —  Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing.  —  with PHELIM KINE  —  WELCOME TO CHINA WATCHER.  This is Stuart Lau, reporting from Westminster, where a major China spy scandal has erupted over the past 48 hours or so …
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Political ad spending for 2024 expected to shatter $10 billion, breaking record  —  The new projected high comes as ad spending in the GOP race has already hit a torrid pace.  —  Political ad spending is projected to reach new heights by the end of the 2024 election cycle …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
Tim Scott's girlfriend … In June, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) began to get a little momentum in the presidential primary, a person working on behalf of one of Scott's Republican opponents messaged me, asking to chat.  —  “Have you seen the video,” he asked over the phone, conspiratorially, “where he says he has a girlfriend?”
Discussion: Insider, HuffPost and The Bulwark
Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post:
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise  —  Public health experts denounced the platform's moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information  —  LOS ANGELES — Instagram's text-based social platform Threads last week rolled …
 
 
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Republicans mount ‘Fulton Defense Fund’ for GOP electors
Discussion: Raw Story
Anthony Salvanto / CBS News:
CBS News poll finds less concern about new COVID variants now than with Omicron
Discussion: The Hill
Rachel Schilke / Washington Examiner:
WATCH LIVE: House Homeland Security subcommittee holds NYC field hearing on post-9/11 world
Discussion: The Hill
Susannah Luthi / Washington Free Beacon:
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Bruce Einhorn / Bloomberg:
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