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Reuters reports: A U.S. federal appeals court issued a stay Saturday freezing the Biden administration’s efforts to require workers at U.S. companies with at least 100 employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly, citing “grave statutory and constitutional” issues with the rule. The ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit comes after numerous …

Mediaite reports: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- GA) attacked fellow Republicans as “traitors” for helping pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill Friday night. Greene joined the vast majority of Republicans who voted against the legislation Friday night, along with 6 Democrats. 13 Republicans, however, joined the Democratic majority to pass it. Greene listed all 13 of them and repeatedly called them …

Axios reports: Heritage Action for America, a conservative 501(c)(4), is taking its first shots at an incumbent Republican senator this cycle, hitting Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) with full-page ads for supporting voting rights legislation, Axios has learned. Heritage Action, which can raise unlimited donations, has been engaged in contentious cultural issues, like criticizing Major League Baseball for moving its All-Star …

CNN reports: Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election. With Trump appearing to prepare for another presidential run in 2024, Gonzalez told CNN he will try to stop Trump from running the same 2020 playbook to overturn another election, but he warned that Trump could …

The Washington Post reports: The 17-year-old son of Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) tried to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s gubernatorial election twice despite being too young to vote, Fairfax County officials said in a statement released Friday. The statement, which identified the teen as Youngkin’s 17-year-old son, emphasized that he did not end up voting and stated that he …

The New York Times reports: The attorneys general in 11 states filed a lawsuit on Friday in an effort to prevent the Biden administration from requiring large companies to mandate coronavirus vaccinations, the latest sign of growing pushback against the federal government’s biggest effort yet to enlist private businesses in combating the virus. “This mandate is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise,” …

Newsweek reports: Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, assessed that lies are “standard” under the leadership of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, and former President Donald Trump. Kinzinger, a staunch Trump critic, made the remark on Twitter Thursday after McCarthy claimed that the GOP congressman had angled to become Air Force secretary under the former president’s administration. …

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden’s daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election, according to people briefed on the matter. Federal agents in New York …

Philadelphia’s NBC News affiliate reports: The story of a plucky truck driver who ousted New Jersey’s longest-serving Senate president in a long-shot, upset victory took a turn after the revelation of xenophobic and transphobic social media posts. One post on Republican Edward Durr’s Twitter account calls the Prophet Muhammad a “pedophile” and Islam a “false religion” and a “cult of …

The Birmingham News reports: The Alabama Legislature Thursday night gave final approval to a bill requiring parental consent for minors to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. The bill goes to Gov. Kay Ivey [photo], who could sign it into law. The bill would create an exception to the state law that allows minors 14 and older to consent to medical treatment. …

The Hill reports: House Democrats are now planning to vote Friday on their long-sought social spending package as well as the bipartisan infrastructure bill as they rush to deliver on President Biden’s agenda after disappointing state election results earlier this week. The House Rules Committee met late Thursday night to advance the final text of the social spending legislation. The …

Fox News reports: New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli is refusing to concede defeat in the election, despite calls from the media declaring incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy the winner. “The governor’s victory speech last night was premature,” Ciattarelli said in a video message on Twitter Thursday. “No one should be declaring victory or conceding the election until every …

Florida Politics reports: The winning Republican in this week’s congressional Primary in South Florida is a former felon who did not go through the state’s process to restore his civil rights after imprisonment, interviews and records show. That step is required under Florida law for a candidate to hold political office. Jason Mariner, 36, an advertising executive and self-described “America …

“I’m telling you, when I see the people that are in Washington, DC who are trying to insert their woke politics into our culture, trying to destroy western civilization, trying to take all of our morality away from everyone, trying to make everyone genderless, sexless, and Godless. We want our country back, we want our culture back, and if you …

The Hill reports: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley suggested in an interview on Thursday that leaders in the government who are of an advanced age should undergo a “cognitive test.” The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody questioned Haley about her thoughts on the mental health of 78-year-old President Biden, the oldest man to hold the office, …

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Texas over its new voting law, passed earlier this year in the Legislature. The Texas voting law will “disenfranchise eligible Texas citizens who seek to exercise their right to vote, including voters with limited English proficiency, voters with disabilities, elderly voters, members of the military deployed away from home, …

Florida Politics reports: Florida declared war Thursday against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, joining a handful of Republican led states filing lawsuits to halt what is among the most contested public health measures amid the pandemic. Alongside Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo in Tallahassee, DeSantis vowed to protect the livelihoods of the unvaccinated and defeat the emergency health mandate in …

CNN reports: Rep. Adam Kinzinger is actively weighing whether to seek his political fortunes in the Senate, the Illinois governor’s mansion or even the White House, despite serious questions about whether there’s any future at all for a Donald Trump critic like him in today’s GOP. Acknowledging his potential career options and timeline for the first time since announcing his …

From the Republican National Committee: Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on the Biden administration’s forced vaccine mandate. “Joe Biden failed to shut down the virus as he promised – he couldn’t do his job, so now he wants you to lose yours. This mandate is yet another attack on frontline workers, first responders, …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Republican Party of Texas chairman and 2022 gubernatorial hopeful Allen West was involved in a physical altercation at the Dallas Fort-Worth International Airport Wednesday. The incident allegedly stemmed from West’s refusal to wear a mask on the premises, according to a press release from his campaign. The statement alleges the GOP candidate was approached by a …