This is huge news for voting rights. Ho was the lead attorney in #ACLUvKobach

https://twitter.com/MikeSacksEsq/status/1443561908414603264

Background google.com/amp/s/amp.kans…

Some news: @POTUS makes an appearance at the congressional baseball game. Biden introduced by the racing presidents and swings by the Democratic dugout. Part of Biden's charm offensive as he looks to keep his party intact during the wrangling over infrastructure/reconciliation.

Traveling for a couple days, so I’m going to try to stay off this app— except in cases like right now when my train is delayed during which I reserve the right to waste time with the rest of you. In related news, if any of you live in New York I’ll be up there later today. Eventually. Food and bar recs welcome.

Just now: Psaki says the president finds lawsuit in MO unacceptable kansascity.com/news/coronavir… Exact quote: "We've seen, including recently I think today or yesterday in Missouri, additional steps taken that in our view put more kids at risk. The president thinks that's completely unacceptable."

And Biden has tapped former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to serve as ambassador to Japan, a pick that’ll generate controversy even as it’s been floated for months. As a grad student, I covered Emanuel’s decision to shutter 50 schools. Here’s a piece I did during that time for @NPR about the impact to special needs students latinousa.org/2013/05/24/chi…

Marshall & Rubio are holding a presser calling for the repeal of the enhanced unemployment benefits. Marshall speaking now. “They’re just being paid more stay at home,” he says.

Transportation chair DeFazio says House will pass infrastructure package before July 4 break. Pelosi talking about her father and brother’s service as mayors of Baltimore as she gives introduction to Lucas and the other mayors here.

KC Mayor @QuintonLucasKC is in DC this week. He will joining Pelosi and the mayors of LA & Richmond for an event pushing Biden's infrastructure package. Lucas, a potential #mosen candidate, has been a vocal supporter of the proposal kansascity.com/news/politics-… Lucas will also meeting with members of both parties from both MO & KS while he's here, but I would not expect a Hawley meeting based on recent comments...

Bad Lieutenant (1992) & Uncut Gems (2019) - treat them as one cinematic universe of degenerate gamblers.

https://twitter.com/letterboxd/status/1362533849327038468

You can make it a triple feature if you want to add in The Gambler (1974).

The holdup in passing the Senate organizing resolution doesn't just delay the handoff of cmte chairs from R's to D's. It also means new members, including Kansas freshman @RogerMarshallMD, don't have any cmte assignments yet.

https://twitter.com/connorobrienNH/status/1356600822470242304?s=20

Marshall tweeted about a Zoom meeting with Vilsack and has clearly been operating under the assumption that he'll get a seat on Senate Ag (a big part of his campaign). But we don't actually know that until the organizing resolution passes.

Buried at the bottom of ⁦@TeamHawley⁩ email that went out earlier is January fundraising figures. These contributions will be in the April report. But the crux is that as corporate PACs ask for refunds after Jan. 6, Hawley’s campaign is reporting increase in small dollars This dovetails with the polling data that showed Hawley’s favorability drop in Missouri, but increase among Republicans nationally after the riot google.com/amp/s/amp.kans…

Cory Bliss, who ran Pat Roberts' 2014 campaign, quoted here: “If you want to spend all your time going on Fox and be[ing] an asshole, there’s never been a better time to serve.“

https://twitter.com/nationaljournal/status/1354255063812894721?s=20

Bliss continues: “But if you want to spend all your time being thoughtful and getting shit done, there’s never been a worse time to serve.”

Hawley in April of 2017: I am working very hard at the job people elected me to do. It is far too early to be thinking about any future election with so much pressing work to do.” He formed an exploratory cmte in August of 2017 and announced in October stltoday.com/news/local/gov… In other words, maybe a story about a politician saying they're not running for X position doesn't warrant siren symbols when it's almost four years out. All due respect to the good people at @businessinsider. Some of us have just been thru a round of this before.

I mentioned on here the other week that before the Capitol riot I was working on a story about what the loss of chairmanships would mean for KC. This is that story. First spoke to @RoyBlunt and @JerryMoran's staffs about it that morning. kansascity.com/news/politics-… That morning feels like a different universe. Story was conceived after the GA runoff results, but the Capitol attack has given new emphasis on the importance of cross-aisle cooperation.

ICYMI former Sen. John Danforth, who mentored Hawley, continues his media penance tour where he voices regret for his role in clearing Hawley's path to the Senate msnbc.com/the-last-word/… Danforth has previously spoken about this to @tonymess stltoday.com/news/local/col… And me kansascity.com/news/politics-…

Hey @MattLaslo, looks Hawley found someone whose questions he was willing to take this week.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1348812530949320704?s=20

.@HawleyMO's team has repeatedly ignored requests for comment since Wednesday as his political mentor and donors disavow him and his colleagues call for his resignation. But he's happy to go on Tucker.

My one reflection on the Bill Belichick news: The man who beat him in Super Bowl LII lost his job today. Not excusing the Eagles' post-Super Bowl decline, but I'm one of a handful of Eagles fans who is thankful enough for 2017/2018 that I still like Doug as a dude.

.@GovParsonMO (R) was asked about the widespread calls for one of the state's two senators to resign. He changed the subject back to his inauguration: “This is a special day for me and for my family. It’s a special day for our state" kansascity.com/news/politics-… #moleg This is a day after "Resign Hawley" was written in the street in St. Louis.

KC area Dems @repcleaver and @RepDavids both signed on as co-sponsors to impeachment resolution. Cleaver told me last week that "if it comes to the floor, I’ll push my card down as hard as I can push it" kansascity.com/news/politics-…

https://twitter.com/repcleaver/status/1348682754062430209?s=20

Waiting on more R's from the region to issue statements. Wichita's @RepRonEstes confirmed he opposes. Estes says he supports a full investigation of what happened Jan. 6, but contends "impeachment will only sow more division and chaos in an already precarious situation"

It's been less than a week since Confederate-clad rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol after weeks of conspiracy-mongering by the president and his allies about plurality Black cities. Missouri's Black leaders on what this moment means kansascity.com/news/politics-… It's worth remembering that in the days leading up to the bloody Capitol siege the president's son spent days verbally attacking a Black minister who is a member of Congress kansascity.com/news/local/new…

Hawley’s first day in Senate he refused to take questions from @lindsaywise, @craasch or myself, the three reporters writing for his constituents. A few days later, he told me he wouldn’t play “hallway roulette” when I asked about furloughed fed workers google.com/amp/s/amp.kans… A lot of reporters in DC covered him past two years as the next big thing and only viewed things through the lens of whether it would help propel him forward, but both @KCStar & @stltoday covered him with a more skeptical eye about what these moves meant for MO’s biggest cities.