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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Jim Jordan knows about Trump's coup attempt — and what he may cover up  —  The House select committee examining Jan. 6 appears increasingly focused on a highly consequential question: What did Donald Trump say and do as he watched the violent assault on the Capitol unfold over the course of at least two hours?
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Washington Post:
Trump asks Supreme Court to withhold records from House Jan. 6 committee  —  Lawyers for former president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block release of his White House records to a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump  —  Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding.  The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump.  —  As federal prosecutors increasingly use …
Politico:
Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates  —  The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House.  —  Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trumpland has a new favorite Jan. 6 conspiracy theory
Discussion: Raw Story
William Grimes / New York Times:
Joan Didion, ‘New Journalist’ Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87  —  She established a distinctive voice in American fiction before turning to political reporting and screenplay writing.  But it was California, her native state, that provided her with her richest material.
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Harrison Smith / Washington Post:
Joan Didion, who chronicled American decadence and hypocrisy, dies at 87  —  Joan Didion, a virtuosic prose stylist who for more than four decades explored the agitated, fractured state of the American psyche in her novels, essays, criticism and memoirs, and who as one of the “New Journalists” …
Discussion: Mercury News
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.
Zachary Cohen / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …
New York Times:
Will Donald Trump Get Away With Inciting an Insurrection?  —  Mr. Tribe taught constitutional law at Harvard for 50 years.  Merrick Garland was one of his students.  Mr. Ayer oversaw criminal prosecutions and investigations as Ronald Reagan's U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Enough despair. We cannot be victims of excessive expectations.
Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:   The problem with performative centrism
New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …
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Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Biden tells ABC's David Muir ‘yes’ he'll run again, Trump rematch would ‘increase the prospect’
Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
Could bipartisan democracy-protection have worked?  Could it still?  —  There has been skepticism voiced by some about my suggestion that, after January 6, Democrats in Congress should have pursued a strategy of finding at least ten GOP Senators to support the kind of structural electoral reform …
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Biden backs exception to filibuster for voting rights bills  —  President Biden says he supports creating an exception to the legislative filibuster in the Senate in order to pass voting rights legislation over Republican opposition.  —  Biden told ABC News' David Muir in a portion …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Mediaite
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Kyle Blaine / CNN:
Biden says he supports filibuster carve-out for voting rights
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Chandelis Duster / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Hundreds of faith leaders demand more from Biden and other Democrats on voting rights legislation
Discussion: Raw Story and Grist
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk  —  Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.
Discussion: The Hill
Monique Beals / The Hill:
Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat  —  Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said.  —  Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …
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NBC Chicago:
Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview  —  Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said.  —  The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day  —  As 2021 ends, the forces of democracy remain beleaguered and the forces of sanity on the defensive.  —  Where do we stand, as year 2021 of the common era and year one of the Biden presidency comes to an end?  —  We're much better off than we might have been.
Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth  —  U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
DOJ: Missouri let fugitive go because of Second Amendment law  —  After an Independence police officer was killed in a shootout in September, Missouri state law enforcement initially refused routine federal assistance in tracing the murder weapon.  The same month, a Missouri State Highway …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week  —  After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor.  —  The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.
Discussion: Insider and Raw Story
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding  —  CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and his wife, Cristina Cawthorn, are divorcing after less than a year of marriage.  The North Carolina lawmaker cited his time in Congress …
Melissa Block / NPR:
The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’  —  It's been nearly a year since the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on constitutional democracy.  —  When a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the goal was to overturn the results …
Discussion: Raw Story
Katelyn Burns / MSNBC:
‘The Matrix Resurrections’ makes more room for trans identity in corporate Hollywood  —  The first and last phrases to appear on the screen of the original “Matrix” film includes “trans” — a detail that many everyday moviegoers probably missed when the smash film hit theaters in 1999.
Discussion: Politico, The Daily Wire and The Ringer
Darragh Roche / Newsweek:
Jen Psaki Mocked Free At-Home Tests Three Weeks Before Omicron Testing Crisis Hit America  —  The United States is facing a COVID-19 testing crisis heading into the holidays as the new Omicron variant has become dominant in new cases, and many drug stores have run out of rapid antigen tests.
Roger Scruton / The New Criterion:
The right targets  —  Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.”  —  Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims.  Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, sceptical.  —  A large part of this issue of The New Criterion is devoted …
 
 
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Kenneth Garger / New York Post:
Macron's wife plans to sue over false claims she is transgender
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Brian C. Joondeph / American Thinker:
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Wall Street Journal:
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Politico:
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Maya King / Politico:
Republicans are trying to pin the ‘Big Lie’ on Stacey Abrams
John Bowden / The Independent:
‘Fox News is putting a target on the back of top scientists’: Fellow medics back Fauci in Watters row
Mara Gay / New York Times:
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