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GOP support clears Senate path for bill on cocaine sentencing

Ten Senate Republicans have signed on to a bill that would eliminate the federal sentencing disparity between drug offenses involving crack and powder cocaine, paving the way for likely passage in the evenly divided chamber where 60 votes are needed for most legislation.

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Darren Bailey and Jesse Sullivan win lottery for first and last spots on primary ballot

But does ballot position matter? Some experts say no. “It’s tradition. It’s part of the summer camp aspect of campaigning,” said political science professor Christopher Mooney. “But does it have an impact on average? No, it doesn’t. But again, in an individual case, who’s to say?”

Chicago Sun-Times

Vetoes show lack of GOP lockstep on transgender sports bans

Republican governors in two states this week rejected legislation to ban transgender players from girls sports

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South Carolina GOP candidate Katie Arrington blasts Mick Mulvaney in texts after ex-Trump chief of staff says she isn't best candidate

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A Trump-backed South Carolina GOP congressional candidate lashed out at the former president's acting White House chief of staff in a series of text messages this week after he told a national news outlet she was "not the best candidate by any stretch of the imagination."

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Republicans ignore Ketanji Brown Jackson’s answers as they badger her about child sex abuse image sentences

‘At some point, you have to follow the rules’ chairman Dick Durbin warns his GOP colleague

The Independent UK

GOP push against ballot drop boxes hits rural places, too

As Republicans question the security of ballot drop boxes, plenty of places stand to lose them, including small communities in Republican-leaning Kansas

The Independent UK

Romney hits out at own party over questions to Ketanji Brown Jackson

‘It struck me that it was off course, meaning the attacks were off course that came from some’

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GOP civil war: Romney won't endorse Lee

“I’m not sure my endorsement is a plus or a minus, so maybe that’s why no one is asking,” Romney said this month

Salon

GOP's racist babies throw SCOTUS tantrum

From attacks on interracial marriage to "white privilege" whining, Republicans triggered by Ketanji Jackson Brown

Salon

Mark Meadows' wife: More voter fraud?

Debbie Meadows, whose PAC backs Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, reportedly filed three false voter forms

Salon

Trump's vendetta against Kemp escalates ahead of his Georgia rally

ATLANTA —Donald Trump's vow to exact revenge on Brian Kemp has morphed into an all-out effort to also punish the Georgia governor's closest allies.

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to overturn Wisconsin congressional map - Roll Call

The map could flip one Democratic held in Wisconsin seat to the GOP in November, when a net pickup of five seats would flip House control.

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House GOP heads to Florida to narrow in on policy plans

WASHINGTON — In a midterm campaign year that typically favors the minority party in Congress, House Republicans will convene their annual retreat Wednesday in Florida, aiming to home in on policy proposals that members have been considering as they work to regain the majority in November.

Tribune News Service

Behind the right's racist KBJ assault

Author and scholar Elie Mystal on our deeply flawed Constitution and the long, dark history of legal racism

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It's science: Trump voters are dumb

Now there's proof: Trump's voters lack "cognitive sophistication," often believe Bible is literal word of God

The Independent UK

Ex-GOP candidate doubles down on criticism of Zelensky outfit at Congress speech: ‘Could’ve worn something nicer’

‘Yes, it’s a war... But I didn’t think it was such a dire life or death situation, at the moment, that he couldn’t have worn something nicer than a t-shirt’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Greitens is accused again of abuse. Will Republican voters finally reject him?

Eric Greitens showed Missouri long ago who he is. To paraphrase Maya Angelou, Missouri should believe him. Yet the disgraced former governor, driven from power four years ago by credible evidence that he physically and sexually abused his extramarital lover prior to his 2016 election, has somehow emerged as the…

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House GOP heads to Florida to narrow in on policy plans - Roll Call

House Republicans convene their annual retreat Wednesday at a Florida hotel next door to one of the top destinations in golf —TPC Sawgrass.

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Progressives speak up for Judge Jackson

Advocacy groups and other progressives call for a quick Supreme Court confirmation of the nominated judge

The Independent UK

Greitens accusations revive GOP worries about Senate bids

Accusations that Missouri Senate Republican candidate Eric Greitens physically assaulted members of his family have added fresh urgency to a GOP push to ensure the party doesn’t nominate candidates who are so damaged that they put otherwise safe seats in play

The Independent UK

Defending her record, Jackson back for 3rd day of hearings

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is returning to the Senate for a third day of hearings

Los Angeles Times

Judge Jackson's sentencing record looms large in Supreme Court confirmation hearing

WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s historic Supreme Court nominee, weathered a long day before a Senate committee on Tuesday, fending off charges by Republicans that she was too lenient in her sentencing of defendants.

Chicago Sun-Times

6 takeaways from Day 2 of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., turned into a one-man rapid response squad, using the power of his gavel to debunk, in real time, GOP misleading or scurrilous claims.

Chicago Sun-Times

Republican Gary Rabine touts support of ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn

The endorsement comes less than two weeks after Michael Flynn appeared before the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, during which the former national security adviser exercised his Fifth Amendment right.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Pennsylvania Republicans running for governor want a safe space for their debates

PHILADELPHIA — Republican candidates for Pennsylvania governor say they’re eager to make their case to voters in televised debates. But first they have a few conditions.

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