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News Roundup: Senate battle for voting protections; Supreme Court rejects latest Trump gambit

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In the news today: Tonight saw the latest Senate battle to protect voting rights even as Republican-held state legislatures pass unprecedented rollbacks targeting those rights. What’s next is unclear, but Democratic leaders organized the vote tonight as a move to force the two Senate Democratic holdouts—as well as all Senate Republicans—on record for blocking the urgently needed protections. Also this evening, the Supreme Court rejected a Trump demand that the National Archives refuse a congressional request for administration records pertaining to the violence on January 6. Justice Thomas was the…

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Fox News Dealt Major Setback In Dominion’s Mega-Defamation Case

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<p>Fox News is staring down the barrel of a $ 1.6 billion defamation claim after it failed to get the case against it by Dominion Voting Systems dismissed.</p> <p>The decision Thursday by a state judge in Delaware clears the way for Dominion Voting Systems to proceed to discovery in the case and cranks up the pressure on Fox News in the high-stakes battle over its coverage of the 2020 election aftermath.</p> Talking Points Memo

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Meadows Says He Rage Dialed Fox News Editor After Network Called Biden’s Arizona Victory

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<p>In his newly released book about his time serving in the Trump administration, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote that he was so infuriated when Fox News first called Joe Biden&#8217;s electoral win in Arizona on election night that he proceeded to angrily dial an editor at the network to contest Trump&#8217;s projected loss, according to <a href=”https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-dialed-fox-editor-bill-sammon-arizona-call-biden-2021-12?op=1&scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4″>Insider</a>.</p> Talking Points Memo

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US President Joe Biden tightens restrictions on Huawei and ZTE – BBC News

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US President Joe Biden tightens restrictions on Huawei and ZTE  BBC News US President Biden signs law to ban Huawei and ZTE from receiving FCC licences  ZDNet Biden signs legislation to tighten U.S. restrictions on Huawei, ZTE  Reuters Huawei, ZTE to Face Tightened Restrictions as US President Joe Biden Signs Legislation  Gadgets 360 Days Before Biden-Xi Meeting, US Tightens Restrictions On Chinese Tech Companies  Swarajya View Full Coverage on Google News “us president” – Google News

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