Electoral Reform Bill
- House Passes Extensive Election And Campaign Finance Overhaul Bill by Miles Parks (NPR)
- House Passes the Most Significant Democracy Reform Bill in a Generation by Ari Berman (Mother Jones)
- House Democrats just passed a slate of significant reforms to get money out of politics by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
- House passes sweeping voting rights, electoral reform bill by Addy Baird (ThinkProgress)
- House Passes Election Reform Bill – but It’s Already Dead in the Senate by Matthew Daly (TIME)
Mueller Investigation / Manafort
- Robert Mueller Is Not Invincible by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Manafort penalty sparks outrage among legal experts: ‘4-year sentence far below the recommended 20 years’ by Reis Thebault (Independent)
- Trump falsely claims the judge who sentenced Manafort exonerated him on Russia collusion by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Trump falsely claims Manafort sentence ends search for Russian collusion by Casey Michel (ThinkProgress)
- Robert Mueller Has Raised Big Trump-Russia Questions. Will His Report Answer Them? by David Corn, Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Trump calls Russia investigation a ‘collusion witch hoax’ in rambling and inaccurate White House rant by Adam Forrest (Independent)
- Dems signal Michael Cohen’s “explosive” closed-door testimony implies legal peril for Trump family by Cody Fenwick (Salon)
- Manafort’s ‘mind-boggling’ 47-month sentence prompts debate over judicial system’s ‘blatant inequities’ by Reis Theibault and Michael Brice-Saddler (Washington Post)
- Opinion: Americans have every right to be furious over Manafort’s sentence by Jennifer Rubin (Washington Post)
- Don’t expect details from Mueller probe: senior U.S. Republican by David Morgan (Reuters)
Other News
- Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- Trump hosted ‘prostitution’ day spa founder for Super Bowl party to watch Robert Kraft’s team play by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- Trump Watched Super Bowl With Founder Of Spa Where Patriots Owner Allegedly Paid For Sex by Sara Bobltz (Huffington Post)
- Trump says he wants to ‘honour’ and ‘celebrate’ women – Here’s all the times they’ve accused him of sexual misconduct by Clémence Michallon (Independent)
- Trump shrugs off dismal jobs report as a blip by Katie Galioto (Politico)
- President Trump Reportedly Wants Allies to Pay Full Cost of Hosting U.S. Troops Abroad ‘Plus 50%’ by Nick Wadhams, Jennifer Jacobs (TIME)
- Bill Shine: White House communications director resigns to work on Trump re-election campaign by Clémence Michallon (Independent)
- Bill Shine resigns, will join Trump campaign (Politico)
- Trump will submit NAFTA replacement to Congress ‘very shortly’ by Doug Palmer (Politico)
- Trump signs Bibles during disaster tour of Alabama by Katie Galiato (Politico)
- Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- House Oversight Committee obtains leaked documents relating to Ivanka and Jared’s clearances by Travis Gettys (Salon)
- Donald Trump Signs Bibles At Alabama Baptist Church, Twitter Users Throw The Book At Him by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Judge Says Government May Have To Reunite More Migrant Families Separated At Border by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Erik Prince acknowledges 2016 Trump Tower meeting for first time (Al Jazeera)
Opinion
- Back to Fire and Fury? by Fred Kaplan (Slate)
- I Helped Write the Exec Order on Required Public Reporting of U.S. Lethal Operations. Here’s What Trump Has Undone. by Luke Hartig (Just Security)
- Everyone’s against bigotry, right? Not 23 House Republicans, apparently by Luke O’Neil (Guardian)
- Democrats’ major investigation into White House security clearances, explained by Ella Nilson (Vox)
- How Trump’s Global Gag Rule Is Stigmatizing Women’s Reproductive Rights Overseas by Clarissa-Jan Lim (Bustle)