LARRY HOGAN IS NOT GIVING ON UP ON THE GOP Larry Hogan, Maryland's term-limited Republican governor, is fueling speculation that he's likely to run for president in a growing anti-Trump lane. While he refrained from making announcements on his political future in a Wednesday appearance at a party hosted by one of his PACs, An America United, he told the audience: "I am not about to give up on the Republican Party, or on America." [HuffPost]
REP. ANNIE KUSTER DEFEATS PHARMA-FRIENDLY LAWMAKER IN BID TO LEAD MODERATE DEMOCRATS Members of the New Democrat Coalition, a bloc of moderate House Democrats, elected Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire as their new chair. The vote comes as a source of relief for advocates of lower prescription drug prices who resent her challenger Rep. Scott Peters' (Calif.) opposition to a stronger bill empowering Medicare to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for the first time in the program's history. [HuffPost]
EXTREMISTS ORGANIZING TO PURGE REPORTED 5,000 PROGRESSIVES FROM TWITTER WITH FAKE COMPLAINTS Right-wingers are out to scrub Twitter of everyone but them, with Elon Musk's help. Extremists are reportedly working to "purge" a list of 5,000 people from Twitter, including progressive journalists, Democrats, celebrities and researchers. [HuffPost]
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO PROBE SUPREME COURT CORRUPTION The House Judiciary Committee announced it would hold a hearing next week to investigate the religious right lobbying campaign that led to the allegation that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of his 2014 Hobby Lobby decision to its participants. [HuffPost]
ARIZONA COUNTY CERTIFIES ELECTION AFTER JUDGE'S ORDER A rural Arizona county certified its midterm election results Thursday, following the orders of a judge who ruled GOP supervisors broke the law when they refused to sign off on the vote count by this week's deadline. The vote allows the statewide certification to go forward as scheduled on Monday. [AP] |
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