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Trump keeps cycling through his staff—even during a pandemic. POLITICO cites research by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas finding that "one of the key pandemic jobs, the deputy national security adviser, has been held by six different Trump officials in less than three years."
SCOTUS and the president's tax returns. On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Benjamin Wittes discussed whether the Supreme Court might rule that Congress went too far in seeking broad access to the president's personal financial documents.
Grading the electoral college: C for chaos. In The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne writes that the "faithless elector" case before the Supreme Court reveals the absurdity of how we choose our president and warns of grave risk if we continue to allow the electoral college to "deprive the American people of the president they have freely chosen."
California voters believe COVID-19 has increased inequality. Camille Busette spoke to the Los Angeles Times about a new poll showing that the vast majority of registered voters in the state agree that there are racial disparities in the virus’ effect.
Trump's latest effort at distraction. In The Atlantic, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes write that "Obamagate" is just the latest effort to divert public attention and that "every distraction distracts from another distraction, which in turn, distracts from yet another. It's distractions, all the way down."
