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The election-denying Republicans who aided Trump’s ‘big lie’ and got promoted

In 2022, many Republicans who embraced election denialism were re-elected and, in some cases, elevated to higher office

The Guardian - US

Day 4 of our Top 15 stories to watch in 2023 – local elections

Welcome to the Thursday, March 9, Brew.

Ballotpedia

Trump's revenge tour: Republicans beware

The former president vows to go on a tour of retribution. Who will he hit first?

Salon

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Ex-Trump attorney censured over election lies as she admits claims were ‘misrepresentations’

Ellis’s lawyer files stipulation accepting 10 ‘misrepresentations’ were made

The Independent UK

Commentary: Supreme Court justices’ financial status has no bearing on legality of student debt relief

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about the legality of President Joe Biden’s student debt relief plan. Given the normal schedule followed by the Supreme Court, we shouldn’t expect a final decision until at least June.

Chicago Tribune

Biden unveils his budget plan in a campaign-style speech. Here's what is in it

President Biden is using his budget to show how he could cut the deficit and still fund his pledges like universal preschool, paid leave and more childcare funding.

WEKU

How a pastor is trying to revive a 150-year-old US law to ban abortion

Mark Lee Dickson is trying to get the federal anti-obscenity law at the heart of ordinances enforced across the US

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Legislation aims to deter book bans at public libraries by withholding grants

Legislation aimed at discouraging public libraries from banning books has been introduced in the Democratic-controlled Illinois General Assembly amid largely partisan battles around the country over what books and school curricula are suitable for children.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Will the real Ron DeSantis please stand up?

Smiling and relaxed, Gov. Ron DeSantis made a serious effort to present a warmer and more reasonable likeness of himself in his State of the State address Tuesday.

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial: End time-shift insanity! Give us permanent daylight saving time now

Every March, it’s the same old thing. On the second Sunday, we set the clocks forward an hour to begin daylight saving time (or increasingly, our smart devices do it automatically) and then spend the next few days slightly discombobulated and wondering why we still practice this odd ritual.

Los Angeles Times

Jonathan Bernstein: How Trump could lose the primaries but win the nomination

Here’s another headache for Republicans who don’t want to see Donald Trump as their presidential nominee in 2024: There’s a mechanism that could allow him to get the party’s nomination even if he’s defeated in its primaries and caucuses.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: First Amendment is under siege from all sides

Hostility to the First Amendment is a bipartisan endeavor. Too many elected officials take an oath to uphold the Constitution without having bothered to read the document.

Tribune News Service

Biden budget seeks big deficit cuts in challenge to GOP

President Joe Biden is ready to unveil his proposed federal budget, his opening offer in a high-stakes debate about federal finances

The Independent UK

Spokesman: GOP leader McConnell hospitalized after fall

A spokesman for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized after tripping and falling Wednesday at a hotel

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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell hospitalised after fall at hotel

Mitch McConnell ‘tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner’, says spokesperson

Axios

GOP leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized after fall

"This evening, Leader McConnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner," his spokesperson said.

Tribune News Service

80 former Congress members mishandled classified documents

WASHINGTON — Documents with classified markings were found mingled in material donated to libraries or universities by as many as 80 former members of Congress, the leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday.

Chicago Tribune

At first debate of Chicago mayoral runoff, Johnson attacks Vallas’ record as rival tries to stay above the fray

CHICAGO — The first debate of Chicago’s mayoral runoff election featured a series of attacks from Brandon Johnson on Paul Vallas, who largely avoided attacking in kind, even as the criticism escalated.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Runoff face-off: Johnson casts Vallas as ally of ‘right-wing extremists’ — but Vallas dubs attacks ‘nonsense, again’

Both mayoral hopefuls accused each other of trying to, as Paul Vallas put it, ‘make race the issue’ in the campaign between Black and white candidates where the African-American vote is likely to be decisive.

Ballotpedia

Habush Sinykin (D) and Knodl (R) to run in special general election for Wisconsin State Senate District 8

Jodi Habush Sinykin (D) and Daniel Knodl (R) are running in the special general election for Wisconsin State Senate District 8 on April 4, 2023.

Ballotpedia

President Biden appointed 109 federal judges through March 1

President Joe Biden (D) has appointed and the Senate has confirmed 109 Article III federal judges through March 1, 2023, his third year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in all presidencies since Ronald Reagan (R). The Senate had confirmed 86 of President…

Axios

Biden to propose 25% billionaire tax

The new budget request to Congress includes a 25% minimum tax on the richest Americans.

Tribune News Service

Senate votes to overturn DC criminal code changes

WASHINGTON — The Senate cleared a disapproval resolution Wednesday to block a District of Columbia bill that would have overhauled the criminal code, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk.

Reason

Happy 100th Birthday to Senator, Undersecretary, and Judge James L. Buckley

A remarkable life, with service in all three branches of government.

Ballotpedia

Control of Wisconsin Supreme Court at stake in most expensive judicial election in U.S. history

On April 4, Wisconsin voters will decide the ideological balance of their state supreme court, choosing between Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz and former Justice Daniel Kelly.

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