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12:50 PM ET, October 17, 2023

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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.
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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: NPR, Yahoo News and Washington Post
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats craft strategy to make GOP pay at the ballot box if Jim Jordan is elected speaker  —  A memo first shared with NBC News advises Democrats about how to cast Republicans as beholden to Donald Trump and “extremism” should Jordan become speaker.  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats …
Punchbowl News:
10/17/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  Jim Jordan has problems.  —  The Ohio Republican plans to head to the floor today for a speaker election with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers saying they'll vote against him or are undecided about his candidacy.
Ian Ward / Politico:
‘Everything Is Just Stuck.’ No Matter What Happens to Jim Jordan, the Next Speaker Is In For a World of Trouble.  —  An expert on House speakers explains how changes in campaign finance, media, and the type of people who get elected created the current debacle.
Zachary Leeman / The Messenger:
Rep Jasmine Crockett Says Dems are ‘the Adults’ Amid GOP Speaker Battle: ‘They Always Expect Us To Fix Their Mess’  —  The Texas lawmaker claimed there's a ‘double standard’ for the two major parties as Jim Jordan attempts to replace Kevin McCarthy … Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas …
Discussion: Roll Call and IJR
Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's day of reckoning  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  We appreciate that Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) has apologized for making puns on Twitter (sorry, X) but fear he might not be entirely sincere.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Was this forwarded to you?  Sign up here.  Thanks for waking up with us.
Washington Post:
House likely to vote today on Jim Jordan for speaker  —  The House is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon on whether to make Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) its next speaker.  Jordan, a conservative firebrand who is allied with former president Donald Trump, was chosen by fellow Republicans on Friday …
Andre Tartar / Bloomberg:   Jim Jordan Is Out of Step With a GOP Party He Wants to Lead
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Jordan Inches Closer to Speakership, but Republican Holdouts Remain
Discussion: Fox News and NBC News
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Jim Jordan's remarkably thin legislative track record
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Jim Jordan Could Bully His Way to Being Speaker of the House
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Minions Are Already Trying to Poison the Jury Pool  —  The lawyers who tried to keep Donald Trump in the White House after he lost are about to go on trial, and they're trying to warp an already tricky jury selection.  —  Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, the two indicted Donald Trump coup lawyers …
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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 …
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Politico:
'We can't wait for the House'  —  Chuck Schumer is instructing three top Democratic committee leaders to hammer out a deal with Republicans on an aid package for Israel that could pass in the coming weeks.  The leading Democratic negotiators: Appropriations Chair Patty Murray …
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.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
America's zombie “crime wave”  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby  —  The outset of the pandemic in 2020 coincided with a surge in violent crime in the United States, with murder rates rising particularly dramatically.  According to a lot of people with large megaphones, this crime wave continues today.
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Alix Martichoux / The Hill:
Is crime going up in America? Some types are, new FBI data shows
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Pentagon Orders 2,000 More U.S. Troops to Be Ready to Deploy to the Middle East  —  If deployed, they would likely not serve in combat roles but would provide advice and medical support to Israeli forces, the official added.  —  Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered about 2,000 …
Discussion: Al-Monitor, TASS and Political Wire
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Nancy A. Youssef / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Picks Troops to Prepare for Potential Deployment to Middle East
Roger Parloff / Default:
Why a Conflicts Hearing For Trump Co-Defendant Waltine Nauta Imploded  —  The government sprung a new Garcia argument on Judge Cannon.  She wasn't pleased.  —  Meet The Authors … Last Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida had scheduled …
Discussion: Raw Story and CounterPunch
Politico:
Judge imposes gag order on Donald Trump in D.C. trial  —  Judge Tanya Chutkan said Trump's “presidential candidacy does not give him carte blanche to vilify ... public servants who are simply doing their job.”  —  A federal judge has barred Donald Trump from attacking witnesses …
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Washington Post:
Trump placed under limited gag order in federal election case in D.C.
CNN:
President Joe Biden will visit Israel in high-stakes trip  —  US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in the early hours of Tuesday from Tel Aviv.  —  Biden had been deliberating whether to make a wartime visit to Israel …
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ABC News:
President Biden to visit Israel on Wednesday: Sec. Blinken
 
 
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Meryl Kornfield / Washington Post:
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett says ethics rules for the Supreme Court would be a ‘good idea’
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Blinken urges Bibi to allow aid into Gaza to maintain wider support for invasion
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Race isn't real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that.
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NBC News:
Suspect in death of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy was obsessed with Israel-Hamas war, prosecutors say
 

 
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