From Politico: Congressional investigators are preparing to seek testimony from John Eastman, the attorney who crafted a legal strategy to help Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election results on Jan. 6, a House aide confirmed on Tuesday… Continue reading

From OpenSecrets: New details of how a top fundraiser for former President Donald Trump’s campaign “parked” funds with groups that helped organize the Jan. 6 rally before the Capitol attack shine light on the coordination between seemingly independent… Continue reading

From the Editorial Board of the Washington Post: In the Virginia gubernatorial race, Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee, has indulged Mr. Trump’s falsehoods while seeking not to embrace them so wholeheartedly as to alienate suburban voters who don’t buy… Continue reading

From Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they were launching a review of a recently completed audit of the 2020 election, just days after one of their members said the review had shown voting had been… Continue reading

Congratulations to Mryna Perez: The U.S. Senate on Monday voted to confirm Myrna Perez to serve on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, clearing the way for the voting rights expert to join the New York-based appellate court… Continue reading

Large spending for open seat on PA’s Supreme Court fueled on one side by school-choice advocate and the other by labor unions and trial lawyers. From the AP: Spending in the race for an open seat on Pennsylvania’s state… Continue reading

From the Tennessean: Tennessee Sen. Brian Kelsey has been indicted in a campaign finance conspiracy alongside a Nashville social club owner, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nashville announced Monday. A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Kelsey, 43,… Continue reading

From the AP, via CNN initially: A Republican secretary of state who challenged former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 is the front-runner for a job heading the Biden administration’s effort to protect future elections, according… Continue reading

From the Washington Post: President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead… Continue reading

WP: The failure to reach agreement on any maps, with time running out to reconvene,marks a stunning departure from the type of redistricting overhaul voters sought when they approved the commission last year. While voters and advocates hoped… Continue reading

From AFP Fact Check: Social media posts call for the decertification of the 2020 US presidential election, citing purported irregularities in the vote. But claims of systemic fraud have been repeatedly debunked, there is no legal process for decertifying the… Continue reading

At Washington Post: Ahead of the 2020 U.S. election, Facebook built a “voting information center” that promoted factual information about how to register to vote or sign up to be a poll worker. Teams at WhatsApp wanted to create a… Continue reading

From AP, the title on the story is “In France, Trump-like TV pundit rocks presidential campaign”: A survivor of the terrible journey to Auschwitz remembered how the youngest wailed. There were 99 children squeezed among 751 adults gasping for… Continue reading

From Politico: The Supreme Court Building has stood at 1 First Street since 1935, a nameless monument in a neighborhood that includes many buildings named after historical figures, like the Thomas Jefferson Building and the James Madison Building, part of… Continue reading