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New York Times:
Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims  —  The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr …
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Washington Post:
Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to challenge election results  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans on Monday backed President Trump's efforts to contest his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, despite the lack of evidence of significant fraud and sharp rebukes …
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite little evidence of fraud.
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
DOJ's election crimes chief resigns after Barr directs prosecutors to probe voter fraud claims  —  The head of the branch of the Justice Department that prosecutes election crimes resigned Monday hours after Attorney General William Barr issued a memo to federal prosecutors to investigate …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Barr clears Justice Dept. to investigate alleged voting irregularities as Trump makes unfounded fraud claims
New York Times:
Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits  —  Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system.  —  Like many big law firms, Jones Day, whose roots …
Washington Post:
White House, escalating tensions, orders agencies to rebuff Biden transition team  —  The Trump White House on Monday instructed its senior government leaders to block cooperation with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team, escalating a standoff that threatens to impede his takeover of the federal government in January.
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden transition starts congressional outreach
Discussion: Political Wire
Eliana Johnson / Washington Free Beacon:   Top USAID Official Tells Agency Leadership: ‘There Is No Transition In Place’
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New York Times:
Helping to Shape the Words of the President-Elect: A Presidential Historian  —  Jon Meacham, best known for writing about past presidents like Andrew Jackson and George Bush, has helped shape some of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s most significant speeches.  —  WASHINGTON — Jon Meacham …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Plans PAC in Hopes of Keeping Hold on G.O.P.  —  The PAC could accept donations from an unlimited number of people and spend to benefit other candidates, allowing the president to retain influence in a party remade largely in his image.  —  President Trump is planning to form …
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Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Top Mississippi Republicans Fail to Acknowledge Biden Victory as Fitch Joins Trump Lawsuit  —  Two days after all major national networks called the 2020 presidential election for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, none of Mississippi's top Republican leaders has acknowledged the Democrats' victory.
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Politico:
GOP-led states back Trump's legal drive to challenge election
Daniel Estrin / NPR:
Longtime Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat Dies Of Complications From COVID-19  —  Audio will be available later today.  —  Enlarge this image  —  Saeb Erekat, a tenacious negotiator who helped forge some of the few political gains for Palestinians over more than two decades of on-again …
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Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Saeb Erekat, Top Palestinian Peace Negotiator, Dies at 65 After Contracting COVID
Discussion: CBS News and The Week
Religion News Service:
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Trump evangelical adviser, has died  —  Bishop Harry Jackson of Maryland speaks at the unveiling of the “Justice Declaration,” a statement by Christian leaders on criminal justice, in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2017.  RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks  —  Flip
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change  —  Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment.  The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
As an ex-president, Trump could disclose the secrets he learned while in office, current and former officials fear  —  As president, Donald Trump selectively revealed highly classified information to attack his adversaries, gain political advantage and to impress or intimidate foreign governments …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Nate Cohn Explains What the Polls Got Wrong  —  Last week, Joe Biden was elected the forty-sixth President of the United States, defeating Donald Trump by what is likely to be several percentage points nationwide.  The margins in crucial swing states, however, were closer than polling averages suggested that they would be.
Politico:
'We're not some demonic cult': Democrats fume over faulty messaging  —  House Democrats have the majority and are ripping each other to shreds.  Senate Democrats fell short for the third cycle in a row, but are only grousing about getting out-messaged by Republicans.
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
No Evidence of Systematic Fraud in U.S. Elections, International Observer Mission Reports  —  A team of international observers invited by the Trump administration has issued a preliminary report giving high marks to the conduct of last week's elections—and it criticizes President …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Be Alarmed  —  I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us.  —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27, 1838 I know, I know.  Donald Trump is a petulant child, and congressional Republicans are just humoring him.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
White House official and former GOP political operative Michael Ellis named as NSA general counsel  —  The Pentagon general counsel has named a White House official and former GOP political operative to be the top lawyer at the National Security Agency, the U.S. government's largest …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Valerie Biden Owens previews brother's governing style  —  Valerie Biden Owens, her brother's closest political adviser for 49 years, told me in an interview for “Axios on HBO” that President-elect Joe Biden plans to ignore the distractions of President Trump while building and launching a government.
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Exclusive: Esper, on his way out, says he was no yes man  —  As had long been expected, President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, cutting short what would have otherwise been his final months at the Pentagon, in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden's transition in January.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Final Hissy Fit Is Petty, Illegal and Stupid  —  Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States.  We're done.  It's all over but the weeping and rending of MAGA garments.  —  BEAST INSIDE … The Trump regime is in full and robust collapse.  It's not just his loss at the polls.
Discussion: Raw Story
Albert Hunt / The Hill:
This election wasn't a zero-sum game, and it's going to be messy  —  Politics, like most interests with competing claims, is a zero-sum game: One side's gains are the other's losses.  This year's national elections may defy that theory, with troubling news for both sides.
New York Times:
No, Software Glitches Are Not Affecting Vote Counts  —  President Trump and many of his supporters complained over the weekend that “software glitches” undermined the vote counts in Michigan and Georgia and argued that the problems portended wider issues in other counties and states that used the same software.
 
 
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