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September 26, 2020

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The Man Who Is Determined to Stop Trump From Rigging the Election
 

Democratic lawyer Marc Elias is leading the fight to preserve the integrity of the ballot.

By Matt Ford

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What a Defiant Democratic Party Looks Like Their leaders’ timidity has failed to limit Republican extremism. So it will cost them nothing to fight tooth and nail against McConnell’s latest plot.
By Jeff Hauser, Eleanor Eagan
 
 
Conservatives Are Already Whitewashing the Trump Years Danielle Pletka’s historical revision of Jesse Helms’s career shows how Trumpists will rationalize their role in this disastrous presidency.
By Nick Martin

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McConnell Will Sacrifice Anything to Fill Ginsburg’s Seat—Even His Senate Majority Neither precedent nor principle, nor even electoral consequences, will sway him from his ultimate goal.
By Alex Pareene
 
 
Weaken the Presidency—Even If Biden WinsThe powers of the executive branch need to be downsized, and only one party seems willing to do it.
By Matt Ford

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Some Rich People Are Hilariously Freaked Out About a Biden Presidency The mere prospect of a Democratic president nominally meddling with their plunder has generated anxiety among the wealthy. Poor things.
By J.C. Pan
 
 
Can Senate Democrats Run Out the Clock on Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee? They should be able to delay until after the election—and if they take back the Senate in November, McConnell may not be able to get anyone confirmed.
By Walter Shapiro

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