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Focus on Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally raises stakes for Justice

BY HARPER NEIDIG

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The Justice Department’s new focus in the Jan. 6 investigation on the “Stop the Steal” rally will present prosecutors with new legal challenges.

Nearly all of the defendants who have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot so far entered the building or otherwise participated in the mayhem that day.

Targeting those who organized the Stop the Steal rally would shift prosecutors’ scrutiny to figures who had little or no direct involvement with the violence that was carried out at the Capitol but may nonetheless have been working to prevent Congress from certifying President Biden’s election win.

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Polls spell trouble for Biden with Hispanic voters

BY RAFAEL BERNAL AND BRETT SAMUELS

President Biden has been mired in a stretch of disappointing polls, but recent surveys suggest he’s having particular trouble keeping the support of Hispanic voters. 

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Could the end of Roe v. Wade save Democrats in November?

BY HANNA TRUDO

Democrats fear a Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade would seriously endanger women’s health and disintegrate one of their most sacrosanct political rights. 

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Whitmer goes on offense amid barrage of GOP attacks in Michigan

BY JULIA MANCHESTER

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is stepping up her appeals to voters as an energized GOP works to oust her in November.

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Ohio Republicans, furious over redistricting snubs, target state’s chief justice

BY REID WILSON

A narrow majority of justices on Ohio’s Supreme Court voted this week to reject a new redistricting plan that they said would unduly favor Republican candidates in the decade ahead, the fourth time the high court has rejected maps drawn by Republicans who control the redistricting process.

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The Memo: RNC’s break on debates nudges nation toward factionalism

BY NIALL STANAGE

Washington took one more step toward factionalism this week with the announcement from the Republican National Committee (RNC) that it was withdrawing from the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD).

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Russia pushes Finland, Sweden into NATO’s arms

BY REBECCA BEITSCH

Finland and Sweden appear to be edging closer to joining NATO, a move that leaders and experts see as the best way to confront Russia as it escalates its rhetoric on nuclear weapons. 

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Putin’s gambit: To kill a president

BY HARLAN ULLMAN

OPINION | Eighty years ago this Monday, in the early months of World War II when Japan was gobbling up much of Asia after sinking America’s battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor, 16 B-25 bombers under the command of Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet to strike Tokyo in a daring, one-way raid. Little physical damage was done. But the psychological effect was massive. The invulnerability of Japan promised by the senior military was shattered.

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Twitter faces the ‘nightmare’ of being forced into free speech

BY JONATHAN TURLEY

OPINION | Twitter’s board of directors gathered this week to sign what sounds like a suicide pact. It unanimously voted to swallow a “poison pill” to tank the value of the social media giant’s shares rather than allow billionaire Elon Musk to buy the company.

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