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This is one of those little things that's a big deal. Unless this decision is overturned, it will shave points off the Philadelphia vote. The 3rd Circuit appeals court upheld a requirement for Pennsylvania voters to put accurate handwritten dates on the outside envelopes of their mail-in ballots, saying it does does not violate a civil rights law.
Matt Schlapp announced the defamation lawsuit against him had been dropped, saying that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar. That's not how it works, though: ACU's insurance company wrote the check. Via the Daily Beast:
But what Schlapp didn’t disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout.
Paul Ryan is warning Republicans of the negative effect that Trump will have on down-ballot Republican candidates. Not quite sure I understand why, unless it's to set himself up as a party leader after Trump crashes the party. Via MSN.com:
“I think we’re going to lose more seats than we otherwise would with Trump because there are just too many suburban swing voters that just don’t like him, that therefore vote against Republicans,” Ryan said in an interview with Southern Methodist University’s student-run Daily Campus on Tuesday.
Former GOP hopeful Nikki Haley, who dropped out of the Republican primary race after Super Tuesday, would have been a more unifying presidential candidate, he suggested.
Ryan said he didn’t subscribe to the nationalist populism of Trump, which is where “the bulk” of Republicans are right now, and also called the current GOP a cult of personality tied to Trump rather than based on a set of principles.
I'll give him credit for this: The granny-starver was one of the first Republican leaders to read the writing on the wall and get out of Congress.
A telling little clip from Mediate, where TV financial pundit Jim Cramer is basically urging Trump to cash in his chips, relinquish control or at least partial control and get a big fat payday. In theory, that sounds like sound advice. One small problem with that is what he's advocating is not technically legal.
driftglass: The revelation according to Chuck.
Lawyers, Guns and Money: No labels, no logic.
Blue Virginia: Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoes numerous bills that would have made Virginia safer.
Rewire: College students don't know their schools' abortion services.
Equal Justice Initiative: Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people.
This installment by Batocchio.
Larry Fink, the billionaire CEO of the world's largest asset management firm, wrote in his annual letter to investors on Tuesday that it is "a bit crazy" that 65 is viewed as a sensible retirement age in the United States, drawing swift backlash from Social Security defenders and policy analysts.
Dean Baker, senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, replied that the CEO of BlackRock apparently doesn't know the U.