Kentucky bill strips governor of power to appoint senator  —  The Kentucky Senate sent a bill to Gov. Andy Beshear (D) Thursday that would strip him of his power to appoint people to the U.S. Senate.  —  The bill seeks to hold special elections for Senate vacancies in Kentucky, according to The Associated Press.

GOP official who claimed 2020 was stolen voted illegally nine times, judge rules  —  A Georgia Republican official who pushed false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” was found to have voted illegally nine times, a judge ruled this week.  —  Brian Pritchard, first vice chairman …

Scoop: Trump and Emmer bury the hatchet with Mar-a-Lago fundraiser … - Trump showed up and spoke at the event, multiple sources told Axios, which raised over $300,000 for Emmer's fundraising committee. … - Trump urged Republicans not to vote for Emmer for speaker in October, calling him “RINO Tom Emmer.”

RNC weighs limiting NBC's access at this summer's convention  —  It is the latest fallout from Ronna McDaniel's ouster from the network.  —  The Republican National Committee is weighing whether to restrict NBC's access to this summer's convention, following the network's decision …

U.S. updates how it classifies people by race, ethnicity for first time in decades  —  The changes, announced Thursday by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, aim to better capture an increasingly diverse country and give policymakers a fuller view of Americans

Trump attends NYPD officer's wake as he highlights crime on the campaign trail  —  President Biden will also be in the state for a fundraiser with Obama, Clinton.  —  Former President Donald Trump arrives for the wake for New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, Long Island, N.Y., March 28, 2024.

Racists called Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott a ‘DEI mayor.’ Here's how he responded  —  Mayor Brandon Scott has come to expect overt and not-so-overt racism.  —  The latest example came in the aftermath of Tuesday night's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional  —  The Supreme Court heard arguments on the redistricting case in October but has yet to rule, essentially running out the clock for this year's election  —  A federal court ruled Thursday that time had run out to draw …

GOP Michigan state rep mistakenly claims Gonzaga team buses are for ‘illegal invaders’  —  A Republican state legislator in Michigan railed against buses of “illegal invaders” landing at his local airport Wednesday, but garnered criticism after it was discovered the buses carried a college basketball team.

A ship crashed into a Baltimore bridge and demolished the lies about immigration  —  From the day in the mid-2000s when a then-20-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval crossed the border into America, he never stopped working.  The youngest of eight children, Suazo was fleeing numbing poverty …

Statement from President Joe Biden on the Stabbing Attack in Rockford, Illinois  —  Jill and I were horrified to learn of the brutal attack carried out in Rockford last night, which took the lives of four people, including one fifteen-year-old.  Seven others were tragically wounded as a result of this senseless violence.

NBC Proves the Media Can't Save Democracy  —  The decision to hi former RNC chair is a symptom of a larger problem  —  Sometimes, a piece of news pops up that is so up my alley that I have so much to say/write/Tweet/Thread about it that I become paralyzed.

Biden restores some, but not all, ESA protections  —  Energy & Environment  —  The Big Story  —  The Biden administration finalized a rule on Thursday that reverses some Trump-era rollbacks of protections for endangered species — but left others in place.  —  © Charlie Neibergall, Associated Press file

Jan. 6 Architect John Eastman Roasted By Judge In Disbarment Case  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  —  Thanks for reading Morning Memo!  Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.  —  The Closest We Get To A Jan. 6 Verdict Before November?

The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse  —  Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news.  The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.  —  Line up a few years' worth of tragedies and disasters …

Trump's Unbearable Temptation to Dump His Truth Social Stock  —  Remember in Godfather II when the mobster Hyman Roth tells Michael Corleone, his co-investor in President Fulgencio Batista's Cuba, “Michael, we're bigger than U.S. Steel”?  U.S. Steel is no longer the colossus it was in 1958, when that scene takes place.

Pro-Trump fake electors in Arizona have pleaded the Fifth before grand jury  —  Requiring the targets of the probe to invoke their rights in front of grand jurors is an unusual tactic that raises a risk of bias, legal experts say.  —  Arizona Republicans who falsely posed as electors …

House GOP misses “Fire Pelosi” on 2024 campaign trail … - “He's not shown that type of lightning rod negativity,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) told Axios.  — “I think some of these members, and maybe this is Nancy's issue, they get to a certain age and they just get very caustic.”

James Comer sums up his ‘evidence’ of Biden crimes.  It's scant.  —  The Fact Checker  —  In an interview Monday with conservative talk radio host Jimmy Failla, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, provided an unusually succinct description of his case against President Biden.

Hostage families told Netanyahu they get better treatment from the White House … - Senior members of Netanyahu's government, including ultranationalist finance minister Betzalel Smotrich, have said the hostages should not be Israel's top priority and it is more important to destroy Hamas.

States moving to require schools to show inaccurate fetus video  —  At least four states are considering legislation to follow North Dakota in mandating the showing of an animated fetal development video in elementary school classrooms.  —  The particular video suggested, Meet Baby Olivia …

Boeing union wants a board seat and a say on plane safety … - The International Association of Machinists is taking the opportunity to negotiate beyond standard line items like pay and retirement benefits — they want a real say in quality and safety standards.

RFK Jr.'s vice presidential pick calls IVF 'one of the biggest lies being told about women's health'  —  She has weighed in on in-vitro fertilization many times through her nonprofit work.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate has been a harsh critic of in-vitro fertilization …

Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.  —  Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders, attacking President Biden and offering a glimpse at what U.S. foreign policy could be like in a second Trump term  —  After an anti-corruption crusader …

With 3rd Democratic senator opposed, Biden judicial nominee in jeopardy  —  White House, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J) continue to back lawyer Adeel A. Mangi's nomination to 3rd Circuit appeals court  —  President Biden's pick to be the first Muslim American appeals court judge appears …

The Foreign-Born Share and Number at Record Highs in February 2024  —  A look at the size and growth of the immigrant population in the United States  —  Analysis of the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) shows that the total foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) …

These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021  —  Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.  —  Then, according to the report of the bipartisan January 6 Commission, Trump engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 Presidential election.”