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9:45 PM ET, January 4, 2021

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Dan Primack / Axios:
Dominion plans to sue Sidney Powell, doesn't rule out Trump  —  Dominion Voting Systems plans to sue attorney Sidney Powell “imminently” for defamation, and is continuing to explore similar suits against President Trump and others, company founder and CEO John Poulos told the Axios Re:Cap podcast on Monday.
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Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Milwaukee law firm ‘concerned’ by attorney's role in Trump call trying to upend Georgia election results  —  A Milwaukee-based law firm is distancing itself from one of the attorneys involved in President Donald Trump's disturbing call trying to overturn the results of the Georgia election.
Rudy Takala / Mediaite:
Martha MacCallum Grills Brad Raffensperger on Leaking Trump Call: ‘It Feels Like This is Very Much About a Grudge’  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) sparred with Fox News' Martha MacCallum over the details of who recorded his phone call with President Donald Trump …
Discussion: RedState, Breitbart and Law & Crime
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs Asks Why It Has Been So Hard ‘Finding Actual Proof’ of Trump's Baseless Election Claims  —  Fox Business' Lou Dobbs is continuing to side with President Donald Trump's baseless claims about the election being “stolen” from him.  —  On Monday, Dobbs said the following:
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Atlanta-Based U.S. Attorney Abruptly Departs Office Sooner Than Expected  —  The U.S. attorney in Atlanta departed his post Monday, TPM has learned, after previously indicating that he would not leave until Inauguration Day.  —  The reason for U.S. Attorney Byung “BJay” Pak's change of plans are not clear.
Washington Post:
Cleta Mitchell, a key figure in president's phone call, was an early backer of Trump's election fraud claims  —  On Nov. 7, the day that major media organizations projected Joe Biden had won the presidency, Republican attorney Cleta Mitchell appeared on Fox News with her own projection: The election was far from over.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Loeffler to object to certification of presidential election results  —  Source says she will likely object to certification of Georgia's presidential election results  —  Sen. Loeffler: Warnock's values are ‘out of step with Georgia’  —  EXCLUSIVE: Georgia Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Should Be Prosecuted for His Shakedown of Georgia's Brad Raffensperger  —  President Donald Trump likely broke both federal and state law in a Saturday phone call during which he encouraged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the state's election results.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office  —  President Trump's effort to overturn the election he lost has gone beyond mere venting of grievances at the risk of damaging the very American democracy he is charged with defending.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's relentless effort to overturn …
Washington Post:
Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election  —  President Trump is effectively sabotaging the Republican Party on his way out of office, obsessed with overturning his election loss and nursing pangs of betrayal from allies whom he had expected to bend the instruments of democracy to his will.
Associated Press:
Analysis: With call, Trump shows no limit to his power grab
NBC News:
Trump pushed QAnon and 4chan-created conspiracy theories in Georgia call
Discussion: Washington Post, Slate and CNN
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
NBC News:
Democrats ask FBI Director Wray to open criminal probe into Trump after leaked phone call
Rep. Jamie Raskin / Medium:
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin  —  TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin:  —  “On January 30, 1995 …
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
Proud Boys leader arrested in the burning of Black Lives Matter banner, D.C. police say  —  The leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested by D.C. police late Monday afternoon on a warrant charging him with burning a Black Lives Matter banner taken from a historic Black church during …
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Georgia Official Blasts Trump for Repeating Falsehoods on Eve of Two Critical Senate Runoffs  —  It was like “Groundhog Day,” the top election official said of once again having to debunk President Trump's baseless claims of election fraud.  Georgia's two runoff races on Tuesday …
Will Carless / USA Today:
Proud Boys leader arrested for destruction of property ahead of DC protests against election results
Discussion: Law & Crime, DNyuz and Washingtonian
New York Times:
Pharmacist Accused of Tampering With Vaccine Was Conspiracy Theorist, Police Say  —  The police say a Wisconsin pharmacist believed the Moderna vaccine would harm people and tried to sabotage the effort to vaccinate frontline workers.  —  A pharmacist who was arrested on charges …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
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Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Wisconsin pharmacist thought vaccine was unsafe  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's DNA, according to court documents released Monday.
Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
BREAKING: U.S. Attorney for North Georgia resigns, effective immediately  —  U.S. Attorney Byung J.  “BJay” Pak resigned his position Monday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia.In October 2017, Pak was sworn into office after being appointed …
Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Scottish airport sets off speculation that Trump may flee the country  —  A news report in Scotland is touching off rampant speculation on Twitter that Donald Trump may flee the country before President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated and he becomes subject to arrest for the many crimes he's been accused of committing.
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Jody Harrison / HeraldScotland:   Could Donald Trump be planning to snub Joe Biden with trip to Scotland?
TMZ.com:
Tanya Roberts' Partner Explains Why He Thought She Had Died  —  4:25 PM PT — We just spoke with Lance, Tanya's long-term partner.  He tells us he went to the hospital Sunday after getting a call from doctors saying Tanya was fading fast, and it was going to end in her death.
George Will / Washington Post:
Hawley, Cruz and their Senate cohort are the Constitution's most dangerous domestic enemies  —  On a conference call last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus that, in his 36 Senate years, he has twice cast votes to take the nation to war and once to remove a president …
New York Times:
Pence's Choice: Side With the Constitution or His Boss  —  The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden's victory.  President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.  —  WASHINGTON — Speaking to supporters …
New York Times:
America Can't Even Produce the Things It Invented  —  The United States can bring manufacturing back — which will bring back good jobs and protect national interests.  —  Mr. Breznitz is a co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of the University of Toronto and an award-winning political economist.
Discussion: Noahpinion
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
In a Topsy-Turvy Pandemic World, China Offers Its Version of Freedom
Discussion: Twitchy
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
D.C. Police to contact GOP Rep. Boebert about plans to bring Glock to work  —  “That Congresswoman will be subjected to the same penalties as anyone else that's caught on the D.C. streets carrying a firearm,” said police chief Robert Contee III.  —  GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert smiles …
Yuval Levin / National Review:
Failures of Leadership in a Populist Age  —  For many years now, an important segment of the Republican electorate has been increasingly frustrated with the elites who lead our core institutions.  The political outlook of these voters has come to be defined by that frustration …
The Intercept:
FBI Questioned a Michigan Senate Staffer After Zoom Call About Banning Tear Gas … Two officers with an FBI task force showed up at the home of a Michigan state senator's chief of staff and aggressively questioned her about a draft bill she had discussed on a private legislative Zoom call.
 
 
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Google Staff Launch Union, Escalating Tension With Leaders
Rachel M. Cohen / The Appeal:
Newly Elected Michigan Prosecutor Will Stop Seeking Cash Bail
Discussion: Michigan Advance
Mike Dickerson / KNOCK:
Vons, Pavilions to Fire “Essential Workers,” Replace Drivers with Independent Contractors
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Marc Kovac / The Columbus Dispatch:
Gun rights groups happy as Gov. Mike DeWine signs ‘stand your ground’ legislation into law
Discussion: The Hill, NPR and Breitbart
Adam Hoffman / National Review:
The New Strategy to Suppress Conservative Voices on Campus
Discussion: New York Post
 Earlier Items: 
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Biden will try to fix our vaccine rollout mess
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Howard Stern rips Trump over Georgia call: 'This is criminal. It's gangster'
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win
Associated Press:
Urging calm, DC mayor calls in National Guard for protests
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Wall Street Journal Epitomizes the Failure of Elite Conservatism
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and The Hill
Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Moderna increases minimum 2021 Covid vaccine production by 20% to 600 million doses
 

 
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Dell warns customers of a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data for ~49M customers, but says financial and payment data was not stolen
 
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