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Axios:
Biden's new strategy: Go for Trump's jugular … Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — “go haywire in public,” as one adviser put it.  — Other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threats  —  President Biden's brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our constitutional system.  By November, the election's “focus will become overwhelmingly on democracy …
New York Times:
Do Americans Have a ‘Collective Amnesia’ About Donald Trump?
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Trump-allied election groups burned through millions with no evidence of widespread fraud
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The Supreme Court's ballot ruling is absurd.  They don't care.  —  There are more important things than logic and legal principles. … Last week, the Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a big assist by agreeing to hear his presidential immunity claim, dragging their feet long enough to ensure …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court did Trump no favors.  He'll be facing a fall trial.  —  While leaving him on the ballot in the 14th Amendment case (but refusing to rule out that Jan. 6, 2021, was an “insurrection"), the Supreme Court has taken every opportunity to delay four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump's Jan. 6 trial.
Discussion: Raw Story and Slate
CNN:
Amy Coney Barrett disagreed with the majority over Trump, but admonished the liberals instead
Nick Robertson / The Hill:
Boebert, Colorado Republicans push recall effort against state official after Supreme Court's Trump ruling
Fox News:
Ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann calls for SCOTUS to be ‘dissolved’ for overturning Trump Colorado ballot ban
David French / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump Remains on Ballots After Supreme Court Rejects Colorado's Challenge
NBC News:
Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will not run for re-election in Arizona  —  The Democrat-turned-independent is retiring from the Senate after one term.  —  Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced Tuesday that she will not run for re-election this year, leaving the Senate after one term …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
U.S. caps credit card late charges in new Biden crackdown on junk fees  —  The administration also plans to announce a ‘strike team’ targeting predatory pricing, and other proposed rules meant to increase competition and lower costs  —  The U.S. government on Tuesday announced it would sharply limit …
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Madeline Fry Schultz / Washington Examiner:
VA rejects memo requesting removal of iconic V-J Day in Times Square photo  —  It's time to cancel V-J Day in Times Square, the iconic photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a woman to celebrate the end of World War II, at least according to one employee at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Pew Research Center:
Online opt-in polls can produce misleading results, especially for young people and Hispanic adults  —  As polling takes center stage again this election year, understanding its strengths and weaknesses is critical.  At Pew Research Center, we've looked hard at the advantages and limitations of our methods.
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
New Filing in Fani Willis Case: Witness Tampering?  —  Just when we all thought this case couldn't get any nuttier.  A late filing yesterday in the disqualification hearing might force Judge Scott McAfee to reopen the evidentiary portion of the hearing.  Or it might send him running for the hills, and who would blame him?
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why a Fox News pundit may not have heard bad news about Trump  —  Fox News's Harris Faulkner hosted a panel on Monday afternoon to discuss a “Saturday Night Live” sketch mocking President Biden.  In short order, though, things went in a different direction.
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Brandi Buchman / Law & Crime:
‘Trump offers no alternative means’: Carroll lawyer hits back at move to delay paying $83M to writer  —  In response to Donald Trump's continued promises to a judge in New York that he will pay the $83.3 million he owes to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her — without posting security …
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
France protects abortion rights, preventing U.S.-like rollback  —  On protecting abortion rights, policymakers in France saw the United States, not as a model, but as a cautionary tale.  —  For reproductive rights advocates, this week's breakthrough in France was one of the most striking international victories in recent memory.
Katelyn Caralle / Daily Mail:
Biden administration ADMITS flying 320,000 migrants secretly into the U.S. to reduce the number of crossings at the border has national security ‘vulnerabilities’  — A lawsuit reveals Biden's CBP is refusing to disclose airports where it is flying undocumented aliens from other countries
Associated Press:
California man is first in the U.S. to be charged with smuggling greenhouse gases, prosecutors say  —  It's the first prosecution in the U.S. to include charges related to a 2020 law that prohibits the importation of hydrofluorocarbons.  —  SAN DIEGO — A Southern California man was arrested Monday …
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Michelle Obama's office says the former first lady ‘will not be running for president’ in 2024  —  Democrats and Republicans have mused about a Michelle Obama candidacy, albeit for different reasons.  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama has said he's “all in” for President Joe Biden's re-election effort.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters”: How Republicans bamboozle rural whites  —  In “White Rural Rage,” Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller reject the narrative that treats Trump voters like children  —  It's become a tedious trope, the Beltway journalist who goes …
Discussion: Raw Story
David K. Li / NBC News:
Taylor Swift urges her 282 million Instagram followers to vote on Super Tuesday  —  “I waned to remind you guys to vote the people who most represent YOU into power,” the world's most famous musician wrote on Instagram.  —  Taylor Swift urged fans in her adopted home state of Tennessee …
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Governor canceling $2B in medical debt for up to 1M Arizonans  —  Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) announced a program on Monday that will cancel $2 billion in medical debt for Arizonans.  —  “Today, I am so proud to announce that we are taking steps to retire medical debt for up to an estimated …
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
The problem with Poolesville  —  Blue America needs to want to grow  —  Poolesville, Maryland is a small town of about 6,000 people that lies 33 miles northwest of Washington, DC, just east of the Potomac River.  Leesburg, Virginia is a larger town of 45,000 people located 39 miles northwest of Washington …
Jazz Shaw / HotAir:
AOC Loses It When Protesters Accuse Her of Being Insufficiently Antisemitic  —  The pro-Hamas protests are getting ugly, and we're not just talking about the ones taking place on America's university campuses.  Small groups of protesters are spilling out into the streets and hunting …
 
 
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Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Supreme Court wants $19.4 million in new funds to protect the justices and their homes
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Victoria Nuland, Veteran Russia Hawk, to Leave the State Department
Olivia Rubin / ABC News:
Andrew Cuomo subpoenaed by congressional subcommittee investigating COVID-era handling of nursing homes
Associated Press:
Second parent to stand trial in Michigan school shooting
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Thomas Claburn / The Register:
US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism
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NBC News:
Scanners that spot smuggled fentanyl at the border sit unused because Congress hasn't provided the cash to install them
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Scott narrowly leads Mucarsel-Powell in Florida Senate race: Poll
Amos Barshad / The Lever:
The Plutocrats' Plot To Control America
Juliana Kim / NPR:
Racial disparities in voter turnout have grown since Supreme Court ruling, study says
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US Department of Justice:
Air Force Employee Indicted for Unlawful Disclosure of Classified National Defense Information