Washington Post: Politics

Dara Lindenbaum served as general counsel to Stacey Abrams’s 2018 gubernatorial campaign.

Recapping perhaps the most significant poll of his one-year anniversary in office.

Taken together, the events seem to spell bad news for Trump. But some who have observed him for decades are urging caution.

The criminal case is the first brought by a Justice Department task force formed to help deal with threats to election workers.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Black Americans “are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans,” sparking outrage online. His office said he misspoke and meant to say “other Americans."

Perdue, who is challenging Gov. Brian Kemp (R), has backed baseless claims by former president Donald Trump of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) outlined a useful mnemonic for understanding what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.

A spokesman said the New York Democrat was arrested “alongside at least 20 others, including faith leaders and youth who have been hunger striking for our democracy.”

The court’s liberal justices issued fiery dissents saying it had become complicit in establishing an “unconstitutional chill on abortion care,” and calling the handling of the case “a disaster for the rule of law and a grave disservice to women in Texas, who have a right to control their own bodies.”

Some key questions the Jan. 6 committee hopes to answer now that the Supreme Court has said it can get documents from the Trump White House.