In the news today: Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced yesterday that his party will not stand in the way of postponing the current debt ceiling fight until December. Finding at least nine other Republicans willing to go along with that announcement, however, proved a challenge, and a filibuster scuttling the deal was avoided today by only the narrowest of margins. Also in the Senate, a near-400-page report from the Senate Judiciary Committee details Donald Trump’s many, many actions to pressure his Department of Justice into overturning the 2020 presidential election. And a judge has suspended the Texas anti-abortion “bounty hunter” law, but that victory isn’t expected to last long.

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