Joe Biden announces a bipartisan infrastructure deal, Senator Amy Klobuchar talks to Dan Pfeiffer about what’s next for voting rights, Democrats grapple with the issue of crime, and this week’s most important question: could the next Speaker of the House be Donald Trump?

Show Notes

SR1

• Intelligencer: Democrats’ Voting Rights Push Stalled. It Was Still Worth It.
• NYT: A Bill Destined to Fail May Now Spawn More Plausible Options 
• WaPo Opinion: The GOP shows Manchin and Sinema that saving democracy is a partisan issue
• AP: GOP filibuster blocks Democrat’s big voting rights bill
• The Daily: Lessons from the Demise of a Voting Rights Bill 
• NYT: Democrats Vow to Redouble Voting Push: ‘Today Is the Starter Pistol’ 
• The Atlantic: The Democrats’ Dead End on Voting Rights
• Brennan Center for Justice: Voting Laws Roundup: May 2021
• Brennan Center for Justice: Congress Must Pass the ‘For the People Act’ 
• The Hill: Harris meets with Stacey Abrams, voting rights advocates 
• CNN: Why Biden didn’t do more to avert voting rights defeat
• Slate: The Right Way to Get the most Urgent Voting Rights Passed
• Axios: Democrats’ losing hand on voting rights
• Roll Call: Biden puts voting rights in Harris’ portfolio ahead of Senate debate 
• NYT: Democratic Group Will Pour $20 Million Into Voting Rights Efforts
• The Hill: Murkowski to vote ‘no’ on voting rights bills 
• WaPo Opinion: Kyrsten Sinema: We have more to lose than gain by ending the filibuster 
• NBC: John Lewis voting rights bill faces steep uphill climb in Senate

CRIME

• FOX: Kayleigh McEnany op-ed: Biden and America’s crime spike – don’t be fooled by president’s revisionist history
• MediaMatters: Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy: America is on “the path” to antifa-run towns 
• The Atlantic: Why America’s Great Crime Decline Is Over
• The Dispatch: Are Rising Crime Rates a Blip or a Longer-Term Concern? 
• CNN: Biden set to announce his gun crime prevention and public safety strategy as White House looks to tackle crime surge 
• The Crime Report: DOJ Launches ‘Strike Forces’ to Target Gun Trafficking
• CNN: Concerns rising inside White House over surge in violent crime
• NBC: Biden tackles crime, again — but this time he’s in charge 
• WaPo op-ed: Biden is about to propose a crime plan. How about a real debate about this?
• Slate: Why NYC Might Elect a Former Cop as Mayor
• The New Yorker: Policing Politics Takes Over the New York City Mayoral Race 
• Intelligencer: Democrat Wins Big in New Mexico Special Congressional Election 
• NYT: Why a New Mexico House Race Is a Crucial Test of the G.O.P. Focus on Crime
• Slate: Why New York’s Chaotic, Depressing Election Matters for America
• NYPD: Overall Crime in New York City Reaches Record Low in 2020 
• WaPo: Biden launches an effort to head off violent crime — and political peril for his party 
• The New Republic: Can the Politics of Police Reform Survive the Crime Rates of Our Pandemic Year? 
• Yahoo: Will rising crime rates sink the push for police reform?
• NYT: Why People Misperceive Crime Trends (Chicago Is Not the Murder Capital) 

SPEAKER TRUMP

• Axios: McCarthy asked about Trump becoming House Speaker 
• Mediaite: Matt Schlapp Tells Newsmax Republicans Could ‘Crown’ Trump as Speaker If They Win Back Majority in the House
• Guardian: Trump has ‘zero desire’ to be speaker of House, spokesman says 
• CNN: Donald Trump for … speaker of the House?
• MSNBC: GOP chatter about possibly electing Trump as House Speaker grows 
• Congressional Research Service: Electing the Speaker of the House of
• Representatives: Frequently Asked Questions 
• Intelligencer: Could Trump Become Speaker of the House? 
• The Atlantic: Who Is Trump Reaching? 
• CNN op-ed: Trump World’s latest crazy idea could be good for Democrats
• The Hill: DeSantis tops Trump in 2024 presidential straw poll
• Yahoo!: Meadows says DeSantis won’t run against Trump in 2024
• Daily Beast: Trump Wanted His Justice Department to Stop ‘SNL’ From Teasing Him
• CNN: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner distance themselves from the former President and his constant complaints 

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