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He voted in Florida for the first time in 2020. Then came the criminal charges

John Boyd Rivers says he was misled by an election official who urged him to vote for the first time in 2020. Now he’s been found guilty of voter fraud

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How Republicans are embracing the accused subway killer Daniel Penny

White former marine accused of killing Black street performer has raised more than $2m for his legal defense fund

The Guardian - US

Negotiating with post-Trump Republicans is like dealing with a toddler’s tantrum

While one side is happy to defecate on the floor, the other side has no choice but to clean up the mess

The Guardian - US

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New GOP argument: Juries don't count

John Durham's report cements the new GOP line of attack on democracy: Rejecting the legitimacy of jury trials

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2023 sees highest number of public-sector union bills in past five years

Welcome to the Friday, May 19, Brew.

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Damning new evidence spells trouble for Trump in Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe

Trove of 16 presidential records appears to pour cold water on Mr Trump’s claims that he doesn’t think he did anything wrong by taking the documents when he left the White House

The Independent UK

Scoop: Janet Yellen’s private debt ceiling warning to Wall Street

Behind closed doors, Yellen says borrowing costs are already rising.

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DeSantis' 2024 campaign pitch: Make America Florida

The Florida governor will tout a far-right cultural agenda.

Axios

Who is Vivek Ramaswamy, the 37-year-old entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful?

He spoke to The NPR Politics Podcast about his political identity as a nationalist and expanding Donald Trump's "America First" message to a new audience.

WEKU

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s return to Capitol has been closely watched. Can she still do her job?

WASHINGTON — For seven months in 1988, Joe Biden was absent from the Senate, recovering from operations to repair brain aneurysms.

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Tim Scott launching ad campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire for expected presidential bid

Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina plans to begin airing ads in Iowa and New Hampshire early next week as he prepares for an expected 2024 Republican presidential campaign

The Independent UK

Noah Feldman: Biden has no power to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling

If Congress fails to raise the debt limit, can President Joe Biden somehow borrow more money to save the United States from default? The short answer is no. But that hasn’t stopped a group of Senate Democrats from urging Biden to act unilaterally by invoking the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Editorial: Appalling remarks made on NC House floor. Do better, Republicans

It was, simply put, shameful.

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Jackie Calmes: Why is the climate on the table in the debt ceiling fight?

Lost amid all the attention to the partisan standoff over raising the nation's debt limit is the insanity of a big part of the Republicans' bargaining position: Many of the savings they demand in return for a higher debt ceiling would come from killing the landmark clean energy initiatives President…

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Editorial: Delayed gratification: Santos must be removed, but expulsion vote was premature

Yesterday, the House of Representatives did the right thing in rejecting a resolution to expel serial liar Con(gressman) George Santos by sending the matter to where it belongs, the Ethics Committee.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Conservative attacks on abortion depend on a law that courts have snubbed for 100 years

Nothing reflects that show-stopping lyric "everything old is new again" like the tactics of the antiabortion movement — specifically, its reliance on a long-discredited 1873 law to eviscerate women's healthcare rights in the modern age.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: NC’s new abortion law is about polls, not beliefs

When you consider North Carolina’s new abortion law, what’s striking isn’t that it limits access to abortion from 20 weeks to 12 weeks, but that it allows abortion at all.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Newsom and California lawmakers need to say where they stand on reparations for slavery

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Legislature will soon receive a sweeping set of recommended reparations for African Americans whose ancestors suffered economically from slavery and racial discrimination. Then what?

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Commentary: The Trump trap

For anyone who may have forgotten (or tried to forget), there was Donald Trump, that pied piper of the extreme right, again on full display for seventy-minutes in a town hall/campaign rally that CNN thoughtfully provided for him. Any American harboring illusions that the man had changed, even the teeniest…

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Three Oregon Senators Become Ineligible For Re-election Under Measure 113

On May 15, three senators involved with the walkout declared ineligible to be re-elected to a subsequent term under Measure 113

The Independent UK

Most say pair debt limit increase with deficit cuts, but few following debate closely: AP-NORC poll

A new poll finds that most U.S. adults say they are highly concerned about the impact on the national economy if the U.S. debt limit is not increased and the government defaults on its loans

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Cornyn goes anyone-but-Trump for 2024, and Trump aide slams him as part of ‘Deep State’

WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. John Cornyn has joined the anyone-but-Trump caucus, becoming one of the most prominent Republican leaders to shun the former president’s 2024 comeback bid.

The Independent UK

George Santos accused of scamming fellow GOP candidates in fraud scheme

The New York congressman is now under federal indictment

Los Angeles Times

LA Council approves Bass’ $13 billion budget, greenlighting plan to hire 1,000 cops

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council signed off on Mayor Karen Bass’ plan for expanding the Police Department on Thursday, approving a budget that calls for the hiring of about 1,000 officers over the next fiscal year and record spending to fight homelessness.

The Independent UK

Former FBI employees testify on GOP politicization claims after losing clearances

Several FBI employees accused the bureau of politicization in congressional testimony Thursday, a day after the agency announced two of them had seen their security clearances revoked over concerns about how their views of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capital attack affected their work

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