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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Blackburn Warns Dems Could Try To Pack Court With Ketanji Brown Jackson Before Breyer Retires To Try To Save Roe v. Wade  —  Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn warned Wednesday that Democrats could try to pack the Supreme Court by adding Ketanji Brown Jackson …
Discussion: The Daily Signal
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David French / The Atlantic:
What Alito Got Right  —  Sign up for David's newsletter, The Third Rail, here.  —  We do not know if Justice Samuel Alito's leaked draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health represents the current consensus of a majority of the Supreme Court.  We certainly don't know yet if it's a preview of the Court's actual ruling.
Jill Lepore / New Yorker:
Why There Are No Women in the Constitution  —  There is little mention of abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787.  This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.  —  Within a matter of months, women in about half of the United States may be breaking the law if they decide to end a pregnancy.
Natalie Allison / Politico:
Farewell to the dumbest Senate primary ever  —  Nearly every politician commits an occasional gaffe, and nearly every election features at least one news cycle about something stupid that a candidate did or said.  —  Even so, the recently concluded Ohio Republican Senate primary was uniquely stupid, by almost any standard.
Discussion: Reason
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Axios:
J.D. Vance's Trump-like effect  —  If J.D. Vance follows his Tuesday night victory in Ohio's Senate primary with a general election win in November he'll arrive in a Washington filled with enemies and be seen as arguably the hardest-edged populist nationalist in the Senate GOP.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
A mole hunt, a secret website and Peter Thiel's big risk: How J.D. Vance won his primary  —  Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary — but last week, the Silicon Valley tycoon decided he wanted to give even more.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
J.D. Vance Is a Dangerous Authoritarian
Sarah Longwell / New York Times:
J.D. Vance Is More Proof That Trump Is King of the Republican Party
CNN:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tests positive for Covid-19  —  (CNN)Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.  —  “Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 this afternoon via a PCR test.
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Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Journalists from multiple news outlets test positive after White House Correspondents Dinner weekend
Juliette Kayyem / The Atlantic:   Biden Is Rightsizing the COVID Crisis
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Militia group leader tried to ask Trump to authorize them to stop the transfer of power  —  The justice department has alleged that Oath Keepers leadership called the president's confidant to allow them to use force  —  Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers militia group leader charged …
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Third Oath Keepers defendant pleads guilty to sedition in Capitol riot case
Politico:
Donald Trump Jr. interviews with Jan. 6 select panel  —  Donald Trump Jr., the son of the former president, interviewed with the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  He's the latest member of the Trump family to provide testimony …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion An upset win over the ‘enjoy rape’ MAGA candidate speaks volumes  —  “Hate Won't Win.”  —  That hashtag went viral last month after Mallory McMorrow, an obscure Democratic state senator from Michigan, delivered a blistering takedown of a GOP colleague who'd falsely labeled her a “groomer.”
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Associated Press:
AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike  —  LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — She stood in just her bathrobe in the freezing basement of the Mariupol theater, coated in white plaster dust shaken loose by the explosion.  Her husband tugged at her to leave and begged her to cover her eyes.
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Reuben Johnson / You searched for:   Russian troops held me captive at gunpoint for two weeks in Ukraine. Here's what I learned.
NBC News:
Covid's toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths  —  The United States on Wednesday surpassed 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News — a once unthinkable scale of loss even for the country with the world's highest recorded toll from the virus.
Discussion: Political Wire
Associated Press:
Sinn Fein eyes historic win in Northern Ireland election  —  BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Ever since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state a century ago, its governments have been led by unionist politicians who defined themselves as British.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The Right to Move Is Under Attack  —  For much of American history, freedom from an oppressive legal system could be found by picking up and leaving.  During the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans abandoned the Jim Crow South for the North, Midwest, and West; at a smaller scale …
Discussion: Fox News
Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Mass Student Debt Cancellation Legally Risky, Says Top Obama Education Lawyer  —  Former Education Department general counsel warned it is ‘doubtful’ courts would accept Biden canceling debt for all student borrowers  —  President Biden would be on shaky legal ground if he were to pursue …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Matthew Duss / Foreign Affairs:
The War in Ukraine Calls for a Reset of Biden's Foreign Policy … “The invasion of Ukraine is a paradigm shift on the scale of 9/11,” British Foreign Minister Liz Truss told an audience in Washington on March 10.  “How we respond today will set the pattern for this new era.”
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Adam Tooze / The Guardian:
Is escalation in Ukraine part of the US strategy?
Discussion: The Daily Beast
ABC News:
Dr. Oz's vote in 2018 Turkish election renews criticism  —  The celebrity doctor scored a key endorsement from Donald Trump last month.  —  As Dr. Mehmet Oz embarks on a bid for the U.S. Senate, the television star has largely shied away from discussing his ties to Turkey …
 
 
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New York Times:
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