The book is called Holy Crap, and it’s being taped onto lampposts around the neighborhood. So take care when you walk the dog. [EV Grieve]
supreme court
Republicans Are Daring Democrats to Expand the Supreme Court
THE FEED
games
If Trump Wins, Athletes Might Just Stop Playing
supreme court
Trump’s Justices Show How They Might Help Him in Contested Election
the system
Two Visions of the Suburbs Are on the Ballot. Both Are Myths.
This ruling was expected, but now Trump’s DOJ has a chance to appeal. As Barbara McQuade noted previously: “Each step delays the day of reckoning by many months.”
A federal judge on Tuesday denied the Justice Department’s effort to intervene in a defamation lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by a longtime magazine columnist who has alleged he raped her, paving the way for the case to proceed.
The department had sought to substitute itself as defendant in the lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a move that likely would have ended the proceedings, since the federal government can’t be sued for defamation.
breonna taylor
What Really Happened With the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury?
pivot
Why Aren’t Facebook’s Emergency Measures in Place All the Time?
Biden is venturing into some reach states today
One week until Election Day, Joe Biden is going on offense, heading Tuesday to Georgia — which hasn’t backed a Democrat for president since 1992 — and pushing into other territory where President Donald Trump was once expected to easily repeat his wins from four years ago.
The Democratic presidential nominee planned to travel to Iowa, which Trump took by 10 points in 2016, later in the week. His running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to Arizona and Texas, where Republicans haven’t lost any statewide office since 1994 — the nation’s longest political winning streak.
The aggressive schedule is a sign of confidence by the Biden team, which is trying to stretch the electoral map and open up more paths to 270 electoral college votes. But after Democrats flirted with GOP territory in 2016, only to lose those states as well as their traditional Midwestern strongholds, Biden’s campaign is mindful of overreaching.
The former vice president will also visit in the coming days Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida.
the top line
The World’s Best Bureaucrat
scotus
Amy Coney Barrett Sworn in As Supreme Court Justice
vision 2020
Why the Size of Biden’s Lead Still Matters
maga
The 10 Strangest Moments From Trump’s Trifecta of Pennsylvania Rallies
politics
Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Is Proof That Norms Are Dead
covid-19 stimulus
Another Day of Overtime Stimulus Talks Ends With No Deal
vision 2020
FBI Won’t Release Doc on White-Supremacist Terror Until After Election: Report
climate change
Republicans Put the Oil Industry Above Economic Growth
buyer's market
Leisure Travelers Will Miss Business Travelers
scenes from your election day
Scenes From Your Election Day
From one conservative hero to another
*JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS TO ADMINISTER OATH TO BARRETT TONIGHT
—@justinsink
politics
Jared Kushner Told the Truth About Republicans and Black People
Mitch McConnell’s work is done here
For the first time in more than four decades, there are no vacancies on the circuit court level, where approximately 30 percent of those sitting on the bench have been nominated by Trump.
—@harrylitman
Tantalizingly close but not quite there for Democrats
NYT/Siena College poll of Texas: Trump 47% to Biden 43% among likely voters https://t.co/LTCx5alsF0
—@GeoffRBennett
the national interest
Trump Admits China, Russia, North Korea are Rooting for Him to Beat Biden
vision 2020
Supreme Court’s Vague Election Orders Are a 2020 Wild Card
just asking questions
How to Restore the Justice Department After Trump Leaves Office
the national interest
Trump Let the Right Make Him the Herbert Hoover of the Coronavirus
vision 2020
New Yorkers Brave Depressingly Long Lines on First Weekend of Early Voting
An encouraging vaccine update
A Covid-19 vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca AZN 0.08% PLC showed a promising immune response and low levels of adverse reactions in the elderly and older adults, according to an interim analysis that the drugmaker said was encouraging.
The vaccine, now in late-stage human trials aimed at showing its efficacy and safety, is a front-runner in the global sprint for a shot to protect lives and jump-start economies hobbled by the pandemic. Trials in the U.K. could produce results before year-end, fueling hopes among scientists and government leaders that a vaccine might be available for high-risk groups here by early 2021.
The results showed positive outcomes for adults over 56, including the especially higher-risk age group of those 70 and older, and were based on analysis of previously conducted interim safety and immune-response data, AstraZeneca and Oxford said Monday.
Just what we need as COVID-19 cases surge: an understaffed HHS
At least 27 political appointees have exited the embattled Health and Human Services department since the start of the Covid-19 crisis in February, according to a POLITICO review, and senior leaders are bracing for dozens more officials to depart swiftly if President Donald Trump loses re-election.
Such a wave of departures would leave only a shell staff shepherding the department through a uniquely challenging winter of coronavirus outbreaks and drug and vaccine authorizations until Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, according to interviews with 17 current and former HHS officials, some of whom requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.
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