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Editor's Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative news and view in January, 2022Note: Excerpts are from the authors' words except for subheads and occasional "Editor's notes" such as this.
Jan. 18
Top Headlines
Washington Post, House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump-allied attorneys Giuliani, Powell and others, Jacqueline Alemany- New York Times, Senate Democrats Press Ahead With Debate on Voting Rights Bill
- Associated Press, Sinema, Manchin slammed as Senate begins voting bill debate
- Washington Post, Federal website for rapid tests goes live a day early
- New York Times, Analysis: C.D.C. Grapples With Rapidly Evolving Virus and Imperfect Data
New York Times, Russia and U.S. to Meet in Effort to Break Deadlock Over Ukraine
Threats To U.S. Elections, Democracy
- Washington Post, Fla. governor proposes special police agency to monitor elections
- Washington Post, Opinion: Trump’s Arizona project shows the dire threat to American democracy, Paul Waldman
Virus Victims, Responses
New York Times, Live Updates: Omicron May Be Peaking in Parts of U.S., but Hospitals Are Strained- Washington Post, Opinion: Glenn Youngkin’s awful first moves are already sparking a rebellion, Greg Sargent
New York Times, Opinion: Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues, Paul Krugman
New York Times, Will Omicron Bring Pandemic’s End? It’s Too Soon to Know, Fauci Says- HuffPost, Unvaccinated Novak Djokovic Now Faces French Open Ban
New York Times, The Chinese public will not be allowed to buy tickets to the Olympics- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals: U.S. Deaths: 874,321
- Washington Post, 209 milliion in U.S. fully vaccinated
U.S. Law, Courts, Crime
- New York Times, Judge Approves Deal to Resolve Puerto Rico Bankruptcy
- New York Times, Britney Spears Fights Father’s Fee Claim, Alleging Financial Misconduc
- New York Times, 3 Police Officers Charged in Fatal Shooting of Child Outside Football Game
- New York Times, Synagogue Hostages Spent Hours Plotting Strategy Before a Daring Escape
- New York Times, Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Had ‘Mental Health Issues,’ Brother in U.K. Says
- Washington Post, Six-week abortion ban remains in effect in Texas after federal appeals court ruling
U.S. Politics, Elections, Governance
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Roger Stone vows to take Ron DeSantis down with him
- Washington Post, Liberal policy promises fall flat as Biden’s plans wither
- Washington Post, Democrats fret about delivering on health-care promises ahead of midterm elections
- New York Times, Cuomo Has $16 Million in Campaign Cash and No Campaign. What Now?
- New York Times, Emily’s List threatened to pull support from Senator Kyrsten Sinema over her stance on the filibuster change
- New York Times, Hochul Outpaces Foes by Raising Record-High $21.6 Million for Campaign
- Washington Post, Swing-district Democrats push leadership to break up spending bill
- Washington Post, Opinion: Democrats should take a page from Biden's strategy for fighting Russian lies, Jennifer Rubin
World News, Human Rights, Disasters
- New York Times, Russia Thins Out Its Embassy in Ukraine, a Possible Clue to Putin’s Next Move
- Washington Post, Tonga races to prevent a ‘tsunami of covid’ as rescue efforts begin after volcano disaster
U.S. Media, Education News
Media Matters, After DirecTV dropped the channel, OAN host asked viewers to dig up dirt on AT&T's board chairman- WhoWhatWhy, Investigative Commentary: On JFK: Washington Post Deserves Pinocchio Award, Peter Janney
- New York Times, Airlines Warn of Chaos if 5G Mobile Service Is Deployed This Week
- Washington Post, David S. Ferriero, archivist of the United States, is retiring
Washington Post, Israeli police accused of using Pegasus spyware on opponents of Netanyahu- New York Times, Security Flaws Plague China’s Mandatory App for Olympic Athletes
- Washington Post, Microsoft to acquire embattled video game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Top Stories
Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani hawking their false claims that they could prove election fraud caused Democratic nominee Joe Biden's presidential victory in 2020.
Washington Post, House Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump-allied attorneys Giuliani, Powell and others, Jacqueline Alemany, Jan. 18, 2022. Rudolph W. Giuliani was Trump’s personal attorney, and Sidney Powell led a legal charge to overturn the 2020 election. Two other Trump allies were also subpoenaed.The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection issued subpoenas to members of former president Trump’s outside legal team on Tuesday, including Trump’s former personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, former White House aide Boris Epshteyn, and lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell.
“The four individuals we’ve subpoenaed today advanced unsupported theories about election fraud, pushed efforts to overturn the election results, or were in direct contact with the former President about attempts to stop the counting of electoral votes,” Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said in a statement.
Thompson’s statement added, “We expect these individuals to join the nearly 400 witnesses who have spoken with the Select Committee as the committee works to get answers for the American people about the violent attack on our democracy.”
Giuliani and Epshteyn were part of the group of Trump advisers who coalesced at a “command center” at the Willard Hotel in the lead up to the Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the counting of electoral votes, the Washington Post has reported.
In a letter transmitting notice of the subpoenas, Thompson cites Giuliani’s involvement in seeking to convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results, his urging of Trump to seize voting machines across the country, and his contact with Trump in the days ahead of Jan. 6 “regarding
strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election.”Thompson’s letter to Epshteyn references his presence at the Willard Hotel in the days leading up to Jan. 6, along with his participation on a call with Trump on the morning of Jan. 6 where options were discussed to delay the certification of election results.
In a letter accompanying the subpoena to Ellis, right, Thompson notes her involvement in preparing and circulating two memos “purporting to analyze the constitutional authority for the Vice President to reject or delay counting electoral votes from states that had submitted alternate slates of electors.”
New York Times, Senate Democrats Press Ahead With Debate on Voting Rights Bill, Catie Edmondson, Jan. 18, 2022 (print ed.). The Senate on Tuesday will begin to debate new voting rights protections, even though the measure appears all but dead in the face of two key Democratic defections.Senate Democrats plan to press ahead this week with an effort to push new voting rights protections through Congress, in an all but doomed attempt to enact a key piece of President Biden’s agenda that has been undercut by members of his own party.
The Senate on Tuesday will begin to debate legislation that combines two separate bills already passed by the House — the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — and folds them into an unrelated measure. The move would allow the Senate to bring the bill directly to the floor, avoiding an initial filibuster.
But that strategy would still allow Republicans to block it from coming to a final vote, and Democrats lack the unanimous support needed in their party to change Senate rules to muscle through the legislation themselves. Still, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said late last week that Democrats would forge ahead anyway, forcing Republicans to publicly declare their opposition to the bill.
“We all have to be recorded at this moment in time about where are we in protecting the right to vote,” Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “Right now, it doesn’t look like it has the votes to pass, but we’re going to cancel our Martin Luther King Day recess and be there this week because we think it’s so important for the country.”
The push to proceed even in the face of almost certain failure reflects the party’s conundrum, facing two key defections in its ranks and a wall of Republican opposition. It comes days after a critical Democrat, Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, emphatically announced that she would not support undermining the filibuster to pass legislation under any circumstances and Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, left, reiterated the same position.Mr. Kaine suggested on Sunday that other paths around the filibuster existed, including narrowly altering it explicitly to pass the voting rights bill, and lengthening the debate time in an effort to pass the bill on a simple majority vote.
Associated Press, Sinema, Manchin slammed as Senate begins voting bill debate, Lisa Mascaro, Facing stark criticism from civil rights leaders, senators return to Capitol Hill under intense pressure to change their rules and break a Republican filibuster that has hopelessly stalled voting legislation.The Senate is set to launch debate Tuesday on the voting bill with attention focused intently on two pivotal Democrats — Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia — who were singled out with a barrage of criticism during Martin Luther King Jr. Day events for their refusal to change what civil rights leaders call the “Jim Crow ...
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