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Miru / CREW:
Judge removes Griffin from office for engaging in the January 6 insurrection  —  SANTA FE — A New Mexico judge ordered Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin be removed from office, effective immediately, ruling that the attack on the Capitol was an insurrection and that Griffin's participation …
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New York Times:
Judge Unseats Official Who Trespassed at Capitol on Jan. 6  —  The ruling made Couy Griffin, a county commissioner in New Mexico, the first official in more than 100 years to be removed under the Constitution's bar on insurrectionists holding office.  —  WASHINGTON — A judge in New Mexico …
CNN:
Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach  —  A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices …
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Washington Post:
Election deniers repeatedly visited Ga. county office at center of criminal probe, video shows  —  Technology consultants who sought evidence that Donald Trump's 2020 defeat was fraudulent made multiple visits to a county elections office in rural Georgia in the weeks after an alleged post-election breach …
Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Politico's new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media  —  Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down  —  BERLIN — Months after his company bought Politico …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Politico's New Owner Invited Colleagues to ‘Pray’ for Trump's Re-Election
Discussion: Election Law Blog and Twitchy
Abby Aguirre / Vogue:
Jennifer Lawrence Talks Motherhood, Causeway, and the End of Roe v. Wade  —  Lawrence has no patience for the politically unengaged.  “You have to be political.  It's too dire.  Politics are killing people.”  Dior top, skirt, and belt.  Photographed by Tina Barney, Vogue, October 2022.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Beneath campaign nastiness, legitimate concerns about Fetterman's health  —  Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman has not fully recovered from the serious stroke he suffered in May. His campaign has acknowledged his obvious struggles with “auditory processing” …
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Unpacking Judge Cannon's Order for a Special Master in Trump Search  —  I had a column on Monday analyzing Judge Aileen Cannon's order, earlier in the day, granting former president Trump's petition for a special master to review materials the government seized from Mar-a-Lago last month pursuant to a search warrant.
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Andrew Weissmann / The Atlantic:
A Ruling Untethered to the Law
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge's Intervention in Trump Inquiry
FiveThirtyEight:
More Than 1 In 2 Americans Will Have An Election Denier On The Ballot This Fall  —  From the Carolinas to California, Montana to Florida, election denialism has spread across the country.  Candidates who support former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit  —  The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.  —  The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden's Cabinet hasn't changed, a sharp break from Trump  —  When President Joe Biden met with senior members of his administration on Tuesday, the 24 officials sitting around the table were identical to the ones Biden gathered 17 months ago for his first Cabinet meeting.
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Amy Walter / Cook Political Report:
Democrats Winning Over the “Meh” Voter  —  A big reason we pay so much attention to a president's job approval rating, even in a midterm election when the president isn't on the ballot, is the significant correlation between voter opinions of a president and their vote choice in an election.
Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:
Russia Is Buying North Korean Artillery, According to U.S. Intelligence  —  Moscow's purchase of millions of shells and rockets from North Korea is a sign that global sanctions have hampered the Russian military's supply lines.  —  WASHINGTON — Russia is buying millions of artillery shells …
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CNBC:
Deal partner for Trump's Truth Social fails to get backing for SPAC extension: Reuters, citing sources  — The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump's social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can't be saved  —  With the midterm elections hurtling into their final stretch, a group of Never Trumpers is pumping millions of dollars into ads aimed at defeating Republican candidates aligned with Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.
Discussion: The Hill, CNN and Raw Story
Anna Merlan / VICE:
Peter Thiel's Investment Firm Is Backing a Menstrual Cycle-Focused ‘Femtech’ Company  —  Evie Magazine is COVID-skeptical, transphobic, and obsessed with traditional womanhood.  Now, with Thiel Capital's help, they're launching a “wellness” company based on menstrual cycles.  —  Anna Merlan
Discussion: Jezebel and Althouse
Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
The Rise of Mobile Gambling Is Leaving People Ruined and Unable to Quit  —  Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis.  “I can't just get rid of my phone,” one problem gambler says.  —  MS
Kevin Truong / The San Francisco Standard:
San Francisco Braces for Epic Commercial Real Estate Crash  —  Imagine a slow-moving train coming towards you.  The lights are shining, the horn is blaring, but it's just far enough in the distance that the risk doesn't seem real just yet.  —  That's a fitting-enough analogy for the state …
Bloomberg:
Big Tech's $95 Million Spending Spree Leaves Antitrust Bill on Brink of Defeat  —  A high-profile push by Congress to rein in the nation's biggest internet companies is at risk of failing with time running out to pass major legislation ahead of midterm elections.
Discussion: NBC News
War on the Rocks:
To Support and Defend: Principles of Civilian Control and Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations  —  By OPEN LETTER  —  We are in an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment.  Many of the factors that shape civil-military relations have undergone extreme strain in recent years.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico and The Hill
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
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Scott J. Street / The Federalist:
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Reuters:
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Victoria Knight / Axios:
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 Earlier Items: 
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
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