Top of the Fold

• Joe Biden defends ObamaCare as Supreme Court again mulls its fate (AP)

Snippet: The suit challenging the health care law was brought in America’s largest conservative state, Texas, and is backed by Trump and top Republicans. It asks the Supreme Court to declare the law’s mandate to buy health insurance unconstitutional because Congress had previously repealed the penalties for noncompliance.

• Senator Joe Manchin dashes liberal hopes for court packing or ending filibuster (Washington Examiner)

Election 2020 Debrief

• Libertarians may have thrown the election to Biden (White House Dossier)

• Kamala Harris will be America’s second VP of color, more than 90 years after the first (Free Beacon)

• Trump improved his numbers among women and minorities (National Review)

• The Lincoln Project’s epic Senate flop (Free Beacon)

Evidence of Vote Fraud

• AG William Barr tells DOJ to probe election fraud claims (AP) | DOJ’s election crimes chief resigns (NBC News)

• Trump campaign details legal action (Post Millennial) | Mitch McConnell backs Trump’s legal challenge of Biden’s apparent victory (Washington Examiner)

• Thousands in Wisconsin may have circumvented voter ID requirement (Washington Examiner)

• In affidavit, Detroit election worker alleges colleagues coached voters to choose Biden (Washington Examiner)

• Trump campaign files suit claiming “two-tier” voting system in Pennsylvania (NY Post)

• Possible ballot harvesting in Pennsylvania involving 25,000 nursing home residents (Washington Examiner)

• Four things to know about voting machine company that’s causing a stir (Daily Signal)

Snippet: Dominion Voting Systems, a voting machine manufacturer founded in Canada, made equipment that is used in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. All those states have seen razor-thin margins in returns from the presidential election, which is officially undecided. The company controls more than one-third of the voting machine market in the United States.

Elsewhere in Politics

• “All-in, must-win battle”: Georgia runoffs critical for pro-life influence (Washington Examiner)

• “Get money out of politics” hypocrisy: Georgia Dems start runoff with Silicon Valley fundraiser (Free Beacon)

• David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler call on Georgia secretary of state to resign (National Review)

Snippet: “The management of Georgia elections has become an embarrassment for our state. Georgians are outraged, and rightly so. We have been clear from the beginning: every legal vote cast should be counted. Any illegal vote must not. And there must be transparency and uniformity in the counting process. This isn’t hard. This isn’t partisan. This is American,” Perdue and Loeffler said in a joint statement.

• McConnell: We’ll “have no lectures” from those who spent four years “refusing to accept” 2016 (Daily Wire)

• Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (Fox News)

Snippet: Esper’s firing comes five months after he said he did “not support invoking the Insurrection Act," amid nationwide protests over the summer. He has not held a press conference in the Pentagon briefing room since July.

• Biden names COVID advisory board, which includes Rick Bright, who feuded with Trump (Washington Times)

• Biden will rejoin Paris Climate Accord and WHO, reinstate DACA, and repeal travel ban on Day 1 (Fox News)

• GOP will face another tough Senate slate in 2022 (National Review)

Leftmedia

• Jon Meacham loses MSNBC gig for not disclosing he helped write Biden speeches (Washington Examiner)

• Media lies about Pfizer partnership with Trump’s Operation Warp Speed (The Federalist)

• Big Tech silences election integrity effort in presidential race (Daily Signal)

• Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support (Washington Examiner)

The Latest on COVID-19

• Dr. Anthony Fauci says Pfizer vaccine could be distributed by the end of the year (Daily Caller)

• Vaccines will not be a "silver bullet” to end the virus immediately (Daily Mail)

• The insufferable Andrew Cuomo says it’s “bad news” vaccine came during Trump administration (Fox News)

• U.S. allows emergency use of first antibody drug (Reuters)

Snippet: The drug is a monoclonal antibody — a widely used class of biotech drugs which in this case is a manufactured copy of an antibody the human body creates to fight infections.

Around the World

• Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia sign Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal (BBC) | It’s time to open a U.S. consulate in Stepanakert (National Interest)

• Saeb Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65 after COVID infection (Fox News)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: Note to Senate GOP: Don’t leave judgeships on the table (Power Line)

• Policy: Reforming the military for a new era (Hudson Institute)

• Satire: BREAKING: Joe Biden creates COVID-19 vaccine just days after being declared president-elect (Genesius Times)

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