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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Matt Gaetz eyes early retirement to take job at Newsmax  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has privately told confidants he's seriously considering not seeking re-election and possibly leaving Congress early for a job at Newsmax, three sources with direct knowledge of the talks tell Axios.
New York Times:
Biden's Judicial Nominees Have Diverse Backgrounds  —  The president's first choices for district and appeals court openings reflected his campaign promise to choose judges from outside of traditional backgrounds.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden began a drive to reshape the federal courts …
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Washington Post:
Biden's first slate of judicial nominees aims to quickly boost diversity in federal courts  —  President Biden plans to announce his first slate of judicial nominees on Tuesday, elevating U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the influential appeals court in Washington to succeed Merrick Garland …
The White House:
President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates … WASHINGTON - President Biden today announced his intent to nominate 10 individuals to serve as Federal Circuit and District Court judges, and one individual to serve as a Superior Court Judge for the District of Columbia.
Madison Hall / Insider:
Trump appointed 28% of all the federal judges in the US, and they could mold American life for decades to come
Discussion: Bloomberg and NPR
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden falsely claims the new Georgia law ‘ends voting hours early’  —  “What I'm worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is.  It's sick.  It's sick ... deciding that you're going to end voting at five o'clock when working people are just getting off work.”
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
The Voter-Suppression Lie  —  It's not ‘Jim Crow’ to require ID, to expand weekend voting, or to provide food and drink for the general public near polling places.  —  President Joe Biden is so committed to bipartisan cooperation and fact-based governance that he's launched an ignorant …
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Signal
Keecee DeVenny / NAACP Legal Defense …:
Civil Rights Groups Sue Georgia Over New Sweeping Voter Suppression Law
Discussion: Insider and Forbes
Zachary Petrizzo / Salon:
Former Parler CEO says Dan Bongino owns no shares, got hustled by Rebekah Mercer  —  Fox News contributor Dan Bongino claims to be a Parler investor — but former CEO John Matze says he was duped  —  Pro-Trump pundit, conservative media tycoon and self-proclaimed Parler investor Dan Bongino …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Florida COVID numbers face new scrutiny  —  published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the coronavirus pandemic successfully.
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP is facing a sickness deeper than the coronavirus  —  It is the sign of a sickness deeper than covid-19 that the defiance of public health guidance has become a political selling point in the Republican Party.  —  Consider the case of South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem.
The Daily Beast:
Dominion Builds Legal Behemoth to Drain Trumpland of Billions  —  Dominion Voting Systems is adding a new team of lawyers as they prepare for their current lawsuits—and another potential round.  —  With billions of dollars in lawsuits now in the balance, Dominion Voting Systems …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Attack on Asian Woman in Midtown Prompts Another Hate Crime Investigation  —  The New York Police Department said it was searching for a man who kicked a 65-year-old woman, stomped on her and made anti-Asian statements.  Building staff members who witnessed the attack and did not intervene have been suspended.
Politico:
Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time  —  Americans outraged by the storming of Capitol Hill are in for a jarring reality check: Many of those who invaded the halls of Congress on Jan. 6 are likely to get little or no jail time.  —  While public and media attention in recent weeks …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The G.O.P. Has Some Voters It Likes and Some It Doesn't  —  This is what happens when a political party turns against democracy.  —  The most outrageous provision of the Election Integrity Act of 2021, the omnibus election bill signed by Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia last week …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why the Republican War on Democracy Is Moving to the States
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Fox News Promotes Kayleigh McEnany to Host of Outnumbered, After Initially Balking in Wake of Capitol Attack  —  Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was hired as a Fox News contributor a few weeks ago, has already been promoted to a full-time hosting gig.
Discussion: Politico and TVNewser
Bloomberg:
WHO Chief Faults Covid Report for Dismissing Lab Leak Theory  — Investigators were frustrated by difficulties in getting data  — Tedros asks for samples from at least September 2019  —  The World Health Organization's chief said a mission to study the origins of the coronavirus …
Amy Sherman / The latest factchecks PolitiFact.com …:
The facts about Georgia's ban on food, water giveaways to voters  —  Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a sweeping elections bill into law.  It includes some controversial provisions about absentee and in-person voting.  —  One provision of the new law includes a ban on giving away water or food …
Discussion: Twitchy and Newsbusters
Insider:
A Trump appointee who drank vodka and had sex on the General Services Administration building's roof is back with a new political committee, documents show  — P. Brennan Hart III was at the center of a Trump administration sex scandal.  — The former official admitted to having oral sex …
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Satisfaction With U.S. Vaccine Rollout Surges to 68%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — With well over 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, the public's satisfaction with the rollout has surged 24 percentage points to 68% in the last month.  —  Satisfaction with the COVID-19 vaccine process …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Trump's heir?  Pence reemerges, lays groundwork for 2024 run  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When former President Donald Trump was asked to list those he considers the future leaders of the Republican Party, he quickly rattled off a list of names, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Surprise!  States That Make It Harder to Vote Had Lower Turnout in 2020  —  State-level turnout data shows why Republicans are so interested in making it harder to vote in the next election.  —  As Republicans make a sweeping voter suppression push nationwide, they insist it won't have any real impact …
KFF:
KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor: March 2021  —  The KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor is an ongoing research project tracking the public's attitudes and experiences with COVID-19 vaccinations.  Using a combination of surveys and qualitative research, this project tracks the dynamic nature of public opinion …
Discussion: The 19th and The Week
Melissa Cooke / Politico:
Ruby Cramer joins POLITICO as senior staff writer  —  Announcement from Managing Editor, Washington and Politics, Blake Hounshell, Editor of POLITICO Carrie Budoff Brown and Editor-in-Chief Matt Kaminski:  —  It's not the first time POLITICO has tried to hire her, but it's the first time we actually …
New York Times:
With an Eye on 2024, a Rarely Bashful Pompeo Grows More Combative  —  Criticized for partisan activity even when he was the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo is taking aim at the Biden administration and talking like a candidate.  —  WASHINGTON — As secretary of state during the Trump administration …
Philip Klein / National Review:
Biden's Call for Reinstating Mask Mandates Undercut by Evidence from Texas and Michigan  —  President Biden, speaking on a day in which his CDC director voiced her sense of “impending doom” over the uptick in COVID-19 cases in the United States, said, “I'm reiterating my call for every governor …
Freddie deBoer:
If You Want to Make It As a Writer, For God's Sakes, Be Weird  —  you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't … Writing is not a hard profession.  Writing is actually an impossibly easy profession.  I could sleep until noon every day if my cat didn't wake me up at 5:30 AM.
Nico Grant / Bloomberg:
YouTube Refuses to Remove Anti-Asian Song, Drawing Staff Ire  — Uproar at Google video unit focuses on ‘Meet the Flockers’  — Executives cite exception for clips with artistic context  —  YouTube's refusal to remove a song some employees find racist to people of Asian origin …
Discussion: The Hill and Variety
Wall Street Journal:
Behind Biden's Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive Growth  —  Multitrillion-dollar spending program would reverse Reagan-era tacit understanding that public sector is less efficient than the private in allocating resources  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden envisions long-term federal spending claiming …
Politico:
Freedom Caucus frets over how far to push its rebellion  —  A group of House ultra-conservatives who rose to power by making life hell for GOP leaders is now facing cracks in its once-united front — which some worry could foreshadow an even wider rift if Republicans win back the majority next year.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Jon Skolnik / Salon:
Behind the dark-money web that put Barrett (and Kavanaugh and Gorsuch) on the Supreme Court  —  When future Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a federal appeals court in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at the time ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee …
Peter J. Hotez / Scientific American:
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands  —  Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world  —  Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force …
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
All Trump's Codependents  —  Some of the former president's biggest critics are finding it hard to quit him.  —  “My predecessor.  Oh God, I miss him.”  —  So spoke Joe Biden Thursday in his first press conference as president.  In February Mr. Biden had said he was …
Brianna Jackson / Bloomberg Government:
FINANCE BRIEFING: Banks Briefing Regulators After Hwang's Blowup  —  Wall Street banks grappling with the implosion of Bill Hwang's investment firm spent yesterday briefing U.S. regulators as Washington starts to dig into one of the biggest fund blowups in years.
Cecilia Muñoz / The Atlantic:
Realism About the Border Is in Short Supply  —  The U.S. shouldn't turn children away.  But as a legal matter, the country's borders are not open.  —  Despite some claims on cable news that President Joe Biden was “caught off guard” or “completely unprepared,” his administration foresaw …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Morgan Watkins / Courier-Journal:
Kentucky lawmakers override veto of McConnell-backed Senate vacancy plan  —  The Republican-run Kentucky legislature on Monday easily overrode Gov. Andy Beshear's veto of a notable bill that restricts his ability to fill any vacancies that arise if one of the state's U.S. senators dies or leaves office early.
Bloomberg:
NRA Board Member Demands LaPierre Probe in Bankruptcy Case  — Kansas judge sold guns from personal collection to win seat  — Phillip Journey argues the court should ‘let in an examiner’  —  A gun-collecting Kansas judge is leading a new crusade to save the National Rifle Association …
BBC:
Hong Kong: China limits parliament to ‘patriots’  —  China has passed sweeping changes to Hong Kong's electoral rules which will tighten its control over the city.  —  The number of directly elected seats in parliament has been cut almost by half, and prospective MPs will first be vetted …
 
 
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pentagon diversity chief ‘reassigned’ after comparing Trump to Hitler on social media
Peter Hasson / Fox News:
San Diego public school teachers to give migrant kids in-person instruction before their own students
Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Unsafe cities, divisive mainstream media the real legacy of George Floyd's death
Discussion: RedState and Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Look at Lowering Medicare Eligibility Age in Healthcare Package
Discussion: CBS News and NPR
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
What Americans really think about billionaires during the pandemic
Discussion: Reason
NBC News:
Fired, interrogated, disciplined: Amazon warehouse organizers allege year of retaliation
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Proud Boys organizer charged in Capitol attack says he aided FBI ‘antifa’ inquiries
Discussion: NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The WHO covid report is fatally flawed, and a real investigation has yet to take place
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Right Says Sorry In Advance for Going Fascist
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How a Supermoon Helped Free the Giant Container Ship From the Suez Canal
Maya T. Prabhu / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Two weeks after shooting spree, Georgia Senate backs bill to loosen gun restrictions
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post reverses prohibition on reporter from writing about sexual assault
Angela Giuffrida / The Guardian:
Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Axios:
Scoop: Substack is raising $65 million amid newsletter boom
Washington Post:
New accounts detail how New York health officials were told to prioritize coronavirus testing of people connected to Andrew Cuomo
 

 
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