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3:55 PM ET, January 4, 2021

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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.
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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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire
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.
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.
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
Marc Caputo / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The backstory of Trump's Georgia call  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good morning from Atlanta, Gateway to the South and the pulsing center of Tuesday's two U.S. Senate runoffs that will determine partisan control of the upper chamber and the success of Joe Biden's first term as president.
NBC News:
Democrats ask FBI Director Wray to open criminal probe into Trump after leaked phone call  —  A pair of House Democrats are asking FBI Director Christopher Wray to open a criminal probe into President Donald Trump after a leaked phone call showed him pleading with Georgia Secretary …
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
‘Disgusting’: Perdue hammers Georgia secretary of state for recording Trump call  —  Sen. David Perdue tore into Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday for recording a phone call with President Donald Trump over the weekend, calling it “disgusting” to do so.
Summer Concepcion / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Tried 18 Times To Get Ahold Of GA Sec Of State Before Bullying Him In Irate Call
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
We Can't Let Our Elections Be This Vulnerable Again
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Raffensperger: Trump could face investigation over election call
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Georgia GOP lieutenant governor says Trump call with secretary of state ‘inappropriate’
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Georgia's Raffensperger says he ‘never believed’ it appropriate to speak with Trump about election
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Phone Call Is What Coup Fever Looks Like
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
The Wall Street Journal Epitomizes the Failure of Elite Conservatism  —  Once the paper of record for conservative opinion-makers, the Journal's editorial page has betrayed its readers.  —  The Wall Street Journal editorial page is probably the most influential elite conservative outlet in the country.
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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 …
Associated Press:
Urging calm, DC mayor calls in National Guard for protests  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington, D.C.'s mayor urged calm Monday as some 340 National Guard troops were being activated while the city prepared for potentially violent protests surrounding Congress' expected vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
D.C. Police to contact GOP Rep. Boebert about plans to bring Glock to work
Discussion: The Hill, Washingtonian and Townhall
Meagan Flynn / Washington Post:
In viral ad, new member of Congress appears to walk Capitol Hill streets with a Glock
Discussion: The Hill
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Worse Than Treason  —  “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”  Republicans in Congress are pretending to be seditionists—and so they have become, in fact, seditionists.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump seethes at GOP ‘surrender caucus’ that won't back his coup attempt
Discussion: NBC News
Jonathan Rauch / Persuasion:
The Made-Up Conspiracy  —  A Republican bid to deny Biden's victory is another worrying Trumpist disinformation ploy  —  When Republican senators attempt to block congressional confirmation of Joe Biden's presidential victory this week, they will not succeed in reversing the outcome of the election.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
We must stop calling Trump's enablers ‘conservative.’ They are the radical right.
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and Politico
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.
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas:
Cotton Statement on Joint Session of Congress  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 734-0430  —  Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the joint session of Congress later this week:
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 …
Washington Post:
Israel is vaccinating so fast it's running out of vaccine  —  JERUSALEM — Israel, which has inoculated a higher proportion of its population against the coronavirus than any other country, is delivering shots so quickly that it is outstripping its supply of vaccine.
Discussion: Meduza.io and Power Line
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Media adopts canard Israel denies vaccine to Palestinians - analysis
Discussion: The Guardian
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
The story of the great Republican crackup  —  GOP Senators call for audit of election results … - C.S. Lewis, “On living in an atomic age,” 1948.  —  It's amazing to write, but the biggest political story in Georgia today is not about Tuesday's white-knuckle, two-seat runoff election with control of the Senate on the line.
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Britain takes a gamble with Covid-19 vaccines, upping the stakes for the rest of us  —  In an extraordinary time, British health authorities are taking extraordinary measures to beat back Covid-19.  But some experts say that, in doing so, they are also taking a serious gamble.
Discussion: In the Pipeline and Japan Times
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Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Moderna increases minimum 2021 Covid vaccine production by 20% to 600 million doses
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win  —  Almost 200 of the country's top business leaders urged Congress to certify the electoral results for President-elect Joe Biden in a letter Monday, arguing that “attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy.”
David Holt / The Bulwark:
In Praise of Those Who Resist Temptation  —  The job of elected officials is to tell people the truth.  Even when they want to hear lies.  —  The greatest, most dangerous, and most frequent temptation faced by an elected official is the temptation to tell your constituents what they want to hear.
Kate Conger / New York Times:
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism  —  The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers.  Executives have struggled to handle the change.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers …
Nicholson Baker / New York Magazine:
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis For decades, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses in hopes of preventing a pandemic, not causing one.  But what if ...? … What happened was fairly simple, I've come to believe.  It was an accident.  A virus spent some time in a laboratory, and eventually it got out.
Newsmax:
Trump Ga. Transcript Shows Case for Vote Fraud, President Acted Properly  —  The Washington Post on Sunday released audio of a Saturday phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which the two can be heard discussing election results.
 
 
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BBC:
Covid in Scotland: Scots ordered to stay at home in new lockdown
Discussion: BBC and Political Wire
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE:
Florida Is Using Eventbrite for COVID-19 Vaccine Slots and It's Not Going Well
Discussion: The Daily Dot and DNyuz
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House Republicans try to block Democratic rules package that sidelines GOP
Discussion: Axios and Newsbusters
Tony Ewing / Forbes:
Warning: Facebook And Twitter Are ‘Dangerous’ Even If You've Never Used Them
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Rhode Island governor emerges as leading candidate for Commerce Department
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Marco Rubio / Fox News:
Georgia Senate runoffs — The fate of our nation is in Georgia's hands
Discussion: Florida Politics and DNyuz
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
117th Congress kicks off with GOP civil war, calls for impeachment and plexiglass
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Terry McAuliffe raises a record $6.1 million in bid to reclaim Executive Mansion
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