Tuesday Executive Summary - The Patriot Post

Politics

Locked in? Republicans appear to have votes to take up a SCOTUS nominee this year (Washington Examiner)
Trump vetting five women for Supreme Court (Washington Examiner)
Joe Biden says he will not release Supreme Court list (National Review)
Biden on radical idea of packing the Supreme Court: “I’m not going to answer that question” (The Daily Wire)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state in U.S. Capitol on Friday — the first woman to hold that honor (The Daily Caller)
CNN’s Don Lemon suggests blowing up “entire system” (Fox News)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

BLM quietly scrubs anti-American, Marxist language from its website (The Post Millennial)
Second wounded Los Angeles deputy released from hospital after ambush attack (Fox News)
“State of emergency” declared by Louisville police ahead of Breonna Taylor decision (LEX 18)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proposes new felony charges for violent protesters, harsh penalties for cities that defund police (The Daily Wire)

Around the Nation

Federal judge orders Wisconsin absentee ballots postmarked by November 3 to be counted in 2020 election (Fox News)
Pennsylvania mail-in ballot ruling could cause 100,000 ballots to be rejected (Forbes)

Business & Economy

Congressional Budget Office: Federal debt nears “unsustainable” levels (The Washington Times)
U.S. household net worth spikes, surpassing pre-pandemic peak (National Review)
Anyone notice that the Trump recovery is doing much better than expected? (Issues & Insights)

National Security

CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden agrees to forfeit more than $5 million from book proceeds to the U.S. government (Daily Mail)
New York City, Portland, and Seattle deemed by DOJ as “anarchist jurisdiction” (WABC)
Sweeping new sanctions hit Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs (The Washington Free Beacon)
Mike Pompeo threatens China with sanctions over Iran arms deals (Washington Examiner)
House Foreign Affairs Committee report says China tried to cover up scope of COVID-19, could have prevented pandemic (The Daily Wire)
Trump administration invests more than $100 million to fight human trafficking (Disrn)

Other Notables

Beta becomes 9th landfall storm of 2020 in a record-shattering season (NBC News)
Even with lockdowns, the woke Emmys post lowest ratings ever (The Daily Wire)
More than half of all Supreme Court justices were confirmed in 45 days or less (The Federalist)
California wants me to vote, even though I haven’t lived there for over eight years (The Daily Signal)

Closing Arguments

Policy: Too much centralization is turning everything into a political crisis (Mises Institute)
Policy: America needs a plan to bring key manufacturing home (Issues & Insights)
Humor: Ninth Circuit Court overturns death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (The Babylon Bee)

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