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  1. Judgement Call: The Nomination of Janice Rogers Brown; The Economist’s Bill Emmott; Faith and the Law; Polio ** FILE ** California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown smiles during a court session in San Francisco in this May 27, 2003 file photo. A sharecropper's daughter from the conservative South, Brown is one of two appeals court nominees being debated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
    10 Oct 2003 … The bitter battle over President Bush's nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a conversation with the man at the helm of The Economist, and the political effects of piety in government. Continue reading
  2. Unsanitized: What’s In the Last Chance for COVID Relief Image by Karolina Grabowska for Pexels
    12 Dec 2020 … This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response We are now four days away from a self-imposed Congressional deadline to pass an omnibus spending package Continue reading
  3. Who Owns Law and Order?
    9 Sep 2020 … Why is Trump so hell-bent on reelection? He has made it clear he doesn’t particularly like the job. Continue reading
  4. The Looking Glass World of the White House
    11 Nov 2020 … President-Elect Joe Biden is now 5.6 million votes ahead of Trump in the popular vote, with 50.9% of the vote to Trump’s 47.3%. And yet, Trump continues to maintain he won the election. Continue reading
  5. Coronavirus Denial Syndrome
    11 Nov 2020 … As Trump continues to claim, against all evidence, that he won the election, he has refused to begin the process of transition to a Biden presidency. Continue reading
  6. Unsanitized: The Dealmakers Don’t Want to Make a Deal
    12 Dec 2020 … The Republicans are running out the clock. They have offered up increasingly untenable proposals in a bid to pin the responsibility for no deal on the Democrats. Continue reading
  7. Unsanitized: The Precarious State Unemployment Systems
    12 Dec 2020 … Plus, another bipartisan gang pitching a probably fruitless deal. Continue reading
  8. Trump’s New Mantra: Herd Immunity
    10 Oct 2020 … The White House has abandoned the idea of controlling the virus and instead is openly embracing the idea of “herd immunity.” Continue reading
  9. Unsanitized: Mnuchin Mothballs the Money Cannon, and I Feel Fine Treasury Secretary-designate Steve Mnuchin waits to begin a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Mnuchin defended his record as an owner of a mortgage lender that was accused of unfair loan and foreclosure practices during the financial crisis. (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … There were pretty strong hints that Republicans were disinterested in continuing the CARES Act’s Federal Reserve lending facilities after it technically expires at the end of the year. The deadline could be extended, but Treasury would have to agree to Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: Crawling Toward a Deal on COVID Relief Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response All the momentum for a year-end COVID relief deal made contact with reality yesterday, and in today’s Washington that Continue reading