Above the Fold
**HERE’S HOPING FRINGE GROUPS DON’T HIJACK IT:** Virginia braces for gun-rights rally as worries over violence, hate groups, and militias grow ([Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-braces-for-gun-rights-rally-as-worries-over-violence-hate-groups-and-militias-grow))
POTENTIALLY BIG RAMIFICATIONS: Supreme Court to hear “faithless electors” case (NPR)
Government & Politics
**GOOD RIDDANCE:** School lunch guidelines rolled back on Michelle Obama’s birthday ([Hot Air](https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/01/19/school-lunch-guidelines-rolled-back-michelle-obamas-birthday/))
BEHAVE — OR ELSE: GOP senators considering “kill switch” option should impeachment trial spiral out of control (Fox News)
KARMA: Chuck Schumer’s 1999 letter about impeachment comes back to bite him (New York Post)
STATISM’S DEEP ROOTS: Supreme Court again agrees to consider ObamaCare contraceptive-mandate exemptions (National Review)
NOT THE RIGHT VENUE: Federal court dismisses teenagers’ climate-change case against the government (Washington Examiner)
Other Notables
**CORRUPTION:** Puerto Rico governor under fire after emergency aid found sitting in warehouse ([Townhall](https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bronsonstocking/2020/01/19/puerto-rico-director-fired-after-emergency-aid-found-stashed-in-warehouse-n2559761))
A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Mexican troops block U.S.-bound caravan travelers (AFP)
DECLINE: The Women’s March took place Saturday and attendance was way down. Again. (The Daily Wire)
Closing Arguments
**POLICY:** The woke Left versus Martin Luther King Jr. ([Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-woke-left-vs-martin-luther-king-jr))
POLICY: Trump’s vast deregulatory landscape goes unnoticed by the experts (E21)
HUMOR: DNC to take 90% of Bernie’s votes and redistribute them to less popular candidates (Genesius Times)
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