memeorandum: The Right's Latest Target: Unmarried Women (Jeet Heer/The Nation)

4:25 PM ET, October 17, 2023

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Spencer Kimball / CNBC:

Jim Jordan loses first House speaker vote, prepares for second ballot — Rep. Jim Jordan failed to win the 217 votes he needed to be elected House Speaker on the first vote of the day. — The House has been leaderless for two weeks after eight GOP lawmakers ousted former speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Semafor, NewsNation, New York Times and Fox News

Mychael Schnell / The Hill:

Jordan fails to win Speakership on first ballot — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) failed to win the Speakership in the first round of voting on Tuesday after 20 Republicans withheld support from his bid, denying him the votes needed to secure the gavel.

Bryan Metzger / Insider:

Here's what we know about Jim Jordan and the Ohio State University wrestling scandal — Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio could be the next speaker of the House following McCarthy's ouster. — Questions are resurfacing about his role in the sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State University.

Discussion: HuffPost, Mediaite, Raw Story, Boing Boing, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and National Review

Politico:

Playbook: Jim Jordan's day of reckoning — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — STILL TAKING APPLICATIONS — “How House Speaker Became Washington's Most Miserable Job,” by Ian Ward: “'You basically have a tied House with no operational majority,' said [political scientist MATTHEW] GREEN.

Discussion: The Hill, Axios, Washington Post, The Messenger, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, Twitchy, ABC News, Tampa Free Press, CNBC, Punchbowl News, Washington Examiner and Florida Politics

Charlie Sykes / The Bulwark:

Normie GOP, R.I.P. — “Moderates always cave. A tale as old as time.” —GOP member of Congress — Happy Tuesday. — Let's start today with three stories: — Eight years ago, former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called then-candidate Donald Trump an “egomaniacal madman”; an …

Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite

Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:

The Apotheosis of Jim Jordan Is a Sight to Behold — No problem in the American system at this moment is as acute and disruptive as the one posed by the Republican Party. — Yes, of course, there are any number of structural problems facing American politics.

Discussion: Fox News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Yahoo News and Washington Post

Brian Beutler / Off Message:

Jim Jordan Won't Make A Scandal Of Himself — Democrats can make him one, but brace yourself for the Jim Jordan beat sweeteners — After Steve Saclise turned out not to be the hero they wanted, House Republicans will decide whether Joker Jim Jordan is the hero they need …

Discussion: The Atlantic, New Republic, Washington Times, Vox, The Daily Caller, Axios, Breitbart, Daily Kos, ABC News, UPI, The Daily Beast, CNN, Puck, National Review, Washington Examiner and Political Wire

Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats craft strategy to make GOP pay at the ballot box if Jim Jordan is elected speaker

Discussion: Fox News, inews.co.uk, Washington Examiner and Raw Story

Ian Ward / Politico:
‘Everything Is Just Stuck.’ No Matter What Happens to Jim Jordan, the Next Speaker Is In For a World of Trouble.

Discussion: TIME

Punchbowl News:
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Discussion: The Hill, Washington Post, Raw Story, Semafor, New York Post, Daily Kos and NBC News

Politico:
Democrats prepare to chain GOP to ‘far-right’ Jordan in 2024

Discussion: The Messenger, Fox News, Roll Call, Twitchy, Raw Story, Political Wire, NPR and NBC News

Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's day of reckoning

Discussion: The Bulwark, Fox News, HuffPost, New York Post, One America News Network, Axios, Raw Story, Mediaite, American Prospect, Washington Examiner and The Hill

Washington Post:
House likely to vote today on Jim Jordan for speaker

Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:
Rep Jasmine Crockett Says Dems are ‘the Adults’ Amid GOP Speaker Battle: ‘They Always Expect Us To Fix Their Mess’

Discussion: Roll Call and IJR

Andre Tartar / Bloomberg: Jim Jordan Is Out of Step With a GOP Party He Wants to Lead

Associated Press:

Israel-Hamas war: Israel bombs Gaza where civilians sought refuge — The Gaza Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike Tuesday hit a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds. If confirmed, the attack would be by far the deadliest Israeli airstrike in five wars fought since 2008.

Phil Stewart / Reuters:
Exclusive: Senior US general flies into Israel as its war with Hamas deepens

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Fox News, The Sun, City Journal, The Hill, Washington Examiner and New York Times

Jeet Heer / The Nation:

The Right's Latest Target: Unmarried Women — Archconservatives find single women threatening, and they're trying to browbeat them into submission. — Pocket — This article appears in the October 30/November 6, 2023 issue, with the headline “Scolds and the Single Girl.”

Derrick Bryson Taylor / New York Times:

Man, Wrongfully Imprisoned for 16 Years, Is Fatally Shot During Traffic Stop — Leonard Allan Cure, who was exonerated in 2020 after being convicted of armed robbery, was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia after being pulled over for speeding.

Discussion: NBC News, New York Post, Georgia Bureau …, Law & Crime, Breaking911, The Guardian, Metro.co.uk, Raw Story, The Messenger, Sun-Sentinel and WSAV-TV

Politico:

Ukraine uses secretly shipped U.S. missiles to launch surprise strike — The delivery and use on the battlefield marks a major ramp up of the administration's defense of Ukraine. — The Ukrainian military on Tuesday used U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles to strike nine Russian helicopters …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Fox News, BBC, Bloomberg, Breitbart, Al Jazeera, The Hill, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Reuters, Semafor, New York Post, Associated Press, CBS News, Washington Post, The Messenger, ThePrint, New York Times, The Daily Caller, TASS and CNN

NBC News:

Former GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley sentenced to prison on Jan. 6 charges — The former candidate for Michigan governor was arrested during the Republican primary last year. — WASHINGTON — A former Republican candidate for Michigan governor was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days …

Discussion: Associated Press, Reason, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and Washington Post

Associated Press:

Lawyers, Trump and money: Ex-president spends millions in donor cash on attorneys as legal woes grow — Donald Trump's political fundraising machine is raking in donations at a prodigious pace, but he's spending tens of millions of dollars he's bringing in to pay attorneys to deal …

Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost, CBS News, The Messenger, WUSA, Raw Story, New York Post, Breitbart, Washington Examiner and Mother Jones

Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Minions Are Already Trying to Poison the Jury Pool

Discussion: Associated Press, Raw Story, Florida Phoenix, CNN and The Messenger

Nina Totenberg / NPR:

Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday once again stepped in to leave in place the federal government's ban on so-called “ghost guns.” These are unassembled and unmarked guns that can be bought online and then assembled into fully operative guns.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill, Associated Press, SCOTUSblog, NBC News, Bloomberg and CNN

Dan Williams / Reuters:

Whatever unfolds in Gaza war, judgment day looms for Netanyahu — One Israeli cabinet minister was barred from a hospital visitors' entrance. Another's bodyguards were drenched with coffee thrown by a bereaved man. A third had “traitor” and “imbecile” shouted at her as she came to comfort families evacuated during the horror.

Politico:

'There's just no excitement': Retail politics takes a nosedive in a Trump-dominated campaign — Operatives and activists can't recall a recent cycle with so little grassroots campaigning. The numbers back them up. — If the Republican presidential primary this year is putting you half to sleep, you're not alone.

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, The American Spectator, The Hill and USA Today

Katelyn Polantz / CNN:

Trump's statements pose ‘grave threats’ to court proceedings, Judge Chutkan says in written gag order — US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has put into writing her limited gag order that bars Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses who might testify against him in the federal …

Discussion: Politico, CNBC, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, VICE, New Republic, Washington Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, Roll Call, Financial Times, RedState, The Daily Beast, abc7NY, New York Times, UPI, The Messenger and USA Today

Caitlin Owens / Axios:

America's highest gun death rates are in the South — The cities with the highest firearm homicide rates are clustered in the South, generally in red states with less restrictive gun laws, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund provided exclusively to Axios.

Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy