Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:40 PM ET, December 12, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Roy Moore should be kicked out of Senate if he wins  —  A majority of voters nationwide say Republican Roy Moore should be expelled from the Senate if he wins a seat in the chamber in Tuesday's special election in Alabama, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Discussion: Axios, Political Wire, TheBlaze and The Week
RELATED:
Evan Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Who Won the Alabama Special Election? Watch the Live Results Here
Discussion: ABC News
Eric Bradner / CNN:
5 things to watch in Alabama's Senate election
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Either outcome in Alabama is a self-inflicted wound by Senate GOP
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Pence Stays Silent on Roy Moore in Rare Break From Trump
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Kayla Moore: ‘One of our attorneys is a Jew’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and VICE News
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions doesn't say how he voted in Alabama Senate contest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump lawyers want second special counsel appointed now  —  President Trump's legal team believes Attorney General Jeff Session's Justice Department and the FBI — more than special counsel Robert Mueller himself — are to blame for what they see as a witch hunt.
RELATED:
The Guardian:
Robert Mueller is closing in on Trump.  Congress must protect his investigation  —  Mueller is coming.  —  The investigation into Trump campaign coordination with Russia appears to be closing in on the president.  The three indictments earlier this month of Trump campaign chairman …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Inside Trump's legal team: Trying to protect the president from Mueller's ‘killers’
Discussion: Roll Call
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Will the Senate Still Protect Robert Mueller From Donald Trump's Ax?
Discussion: CNN
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN's Jim Acosta cites access threat from White House's Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  President Trump's tweeting Tuesday morning set off the usual scramble among White House reporters for all manner of clarifications and amplifications.  Look at the tweet, and it's not hard to understand why:
RELATED:
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump attacks Gillibrand in tweet critics say is sexually suggestive and demeaning
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Sixth senator says Trump should resign
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
Bloomberg:
NFL Harassment Suit Alleges Groping by Top Executive, Ex-Players  —  Former employee says ex-producer sent several nude photos  —  NFL Network says employees suspended pending investigation  —  A former executive producer at the National Football League's TV network and ex-players including Marshall Faulk …
RELATED:
John Bowden / The Hill:
3 NFL Network analysts suspended amid accusations of sexual harassment
Discussion: RedState
Emma Baccellieri / Deadspin:
NFL Network Suspends Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor, Heath Evans After Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
Discussion: ProFootballTalk
Connor Sheets / al.com:
In final-hour order, court rules that Alabama can destroy digital voting records after all  —  Alabama is allowed to destroy digital voting records created at the polls during today's U.S. Senate election after all.  —  At 1:36 p.m. Monday, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge issued …
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
RELATED:
Connor Sheets / al.com:
State Supreme Court stays order directing Alabama not to destroy voting records  —  Update - 9:05 a.m. Dec. 12, 2017: Late Monday night, the Alabama Supreme Court stayed the Montgomery County Circuit Court's order earlier that day directing Alabama election officials to preserve digital ballot images during Tuesday's Senate election.
Discussion: Vox, Gizmodo and Daily Kos
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
This is the list of ‘eyewitnesses’ the White House says exonerate Trump  —  On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders promised that she would produce a list of eyewitnesses to exonerate President Trump from allegations of sexual harassment and assault.
CNN:
Exclusive: Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks  —  Trump packing courts with conservatives  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued a rare rebuke Tuesday of two of President Donald Trump's …
Discussion: Political Wire
Leonard Greene / New York Daily News:
Why Melania, Ivanka and Jared's mayoral election votes didn't count  —  Good thing last month's mayoral election wasn't close because if New Yorkers needed the Trump family to decide the outcome, they would have been out of luck.  —  President Trump and his family of New Yorkers …
Discussion: Splinter
New York Times:
Ken Friedman, Power Restaurateur, Is Accused of Sexual Harassment  —  Natalie Saibel, a longtime server at the Spotted Pig, a West Village restaurant with celebrity investors, didn't quit in 2015 after the owner, Ken Friedman, ran his hands over her buttocks and then her groin in a room crowded …
Discussion: Eater SF, Eater, Eater NY and grubstreet
San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee dead at 65  —  San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at age 65, his office said.  —  The sudden news came in an email from the office at 2:23 a.m. It read: “It is with profound sadness and terrible grief that we confirm that Mayor Edwin M. Lee passed away …
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Speaker at Moore event says he accidentally went with Moore to a brothel with child prostitutes  —  Roy Moore, who is running for U.S. Senate in Tuesday's special election, is facing multiple allegations of child sex abuse.  He has largely avoided the campaign trail since these allegations first surfaced.
Marist Poll:
12/12: Majority Views Tax Bill as Adding Financial Injury... POTUS Favors Wealthy, Say Americans  —  The tax reform bill is highly unpopular among the American people.  —  The tax reform bill is highly unpopular among the American people.  In fact, a majority of U.S. residents (52%) …
Associated Press:
Amid low morale, Tillerson says changes coming to State Dept  —  Seeking to reassure American diplomats amid low morale, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson unveiled changes Tuesday to the State Department that he said would help workers perform better and position the United States to advance its interests overseas.
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Rex Tillerson, In Meeting With U.S. Diplomats, Says Russia ‘Interfered’ in Election
Karma Allen / ABC News:
Boy behind viral anti-bullying video amazed by support, celebrity responses  —  A young Tennessee boy whose story gained national attention after his mother posted a heart-wrenching video of him addressing his bullies said he is amazed by all the support he's received on social media this week.
Fenit Nirappil / Washington Post:
After 9-point loss in Va., Gillespie says he would not encourage others to run for office because of ‘poisonous atmosphere’  —  Ed Gillespie, who has been at the forefront of GOP politics for decades, said he wouldn't encourage others to run for office in his first interview since losing the heated Virginia governor's race last month.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
‘Today’ Ratings Continue to Surge After Matt Lauer Departure  —  Rather than give up on “Today” in the wake of veteran co-anchor Matt Lauer's departure, viewers are flocking to it.  —  For the second consecutive week, the first two hours of the NBC morning program surged ahead of the show's main rival …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman's Frat House on the Hill  —  WASHINGTON — When Lauren Greene, a former communications director for Representative Blake Farenthold, sued him claiming sexual harassment, among her complaints was that he “disclosed that a female lobbyist had propositioned him for ‘a threesome.’”
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 3:40 PM ET, December 12, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
The Hill:
Watch live: Trump signs National Defense Authorization Act
Discussion: IJR and The Right Scoop
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
Need Stretchy Pants? China's Energy Squeeze May Mean Higher Prices
Discussion: SupChina
Kim Willsher / The Guardian:
France to ban mobile phones in schools from September
Discussion: The Verge, mandiner.hu and Index
Bloomberg:
Cornyn: Compromise May Come Later Tuesday (11:40 a.m.)
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Campaign Memoir That Shows Trump, at Least Partly, as He Is
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Emails: Disney annoyed by Obama push to use ‘Frozen’ brand
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Inside Steve Bannon's #War Against Twitter
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel:
Our View: Collins should drop support for tax bill
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
U.S. House Democratic women seek probe of Trump misconduct accusations
CNN:
How a Democrat could win in Alabama, in charts
Zephyr Teachout / New York Times:
I'm Not Convinced Franken Should Quit