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Molly McKew, a longtime adviser to former Soviet republics on information warfare, has been arguing for years that Russia was at war with the West and that the primary battlefield was the information space and cyberspacehttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/26/molly-mckew-russia-cyberspace-00020656 …

Trump supporters are pushing to prohibit machine counting of ballots in future elections around the country, which election officials say could make vote-counting slower, more expensive and — most importantly — less accuratehttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/26/trump-allies-elections-vote-counting-00020574 …

Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who won his office with a tough-on-crime message, faces longstanding issues of trust between the police and the community with some critics saying the NYPD hasn’t taken hate crimes seriously enoughhttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/26/asian-hate-crimes-new-york-adams-00019365 …

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chair Richard Glick may see his efforts to put climate change at the forefront of federal energy policy cost him his jobhttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/26/federal-energy-regulatory-commission-glick-senate-00017800 …

A judge dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Washington Post by one of its reporters over her claims that the paper illegally discriminated against her as a sexual assault victim when it banned her from reporting on such issues.https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/25/court-tosses-out-reporters-discrimination-suit-against-washington-post-00020626 …

In the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance, Russia stalls Kyiv offensive and shifts its focus to Donbas in the east.https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/25/russia-kyiv-offensive-ukraine-counterattack-00020622 …

TGIF. Check out this week's foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events, captured by the nation's political cartoonists https://www.politico.com/gallery/2022/03/25/the-nations-cartoonists-on-the-week-in-politics-00020090?slide=0 …

A number of prominent public officials have hidden behind pseudonyms that were later exposed. Ex) Sen. Mitt Romney went by "Pierre Delecto" on a Twitter account he created in 2011, a month before he announced his run for presidency.https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/not-so-secret-aliases/ …

Step 5: That's a wrap! If discharged, Jackson's nomination process would play out as normal. Schumer would file a cloture motion to end debate. After that vote, there would then be up to 30 hours before a final confirmation vote.https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/what-if-theres-a-tie/ …

Step 4: There would be 4 hours of debate and a simple majority vote on that motion. If there’s a tie, VP Kamala Harris would break it. (Yep, we could see the first Black woman VP break a tie on the first Black woman Supreme Court nominee) And *finally*https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/what-if-theres-a-tie/ …

Step 3: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would file a "motion to discharge" the committee from further consideration of Jackson's nomination. Then https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/what-if-theres-a-tie/ …

Step 1: If the judiciary panel splits down the middle 11-11 on Jackson's nomination, then Step 2: Its chair, Sen. Dick Durbin, would notify the Senate and the tie vote would be printed on the record. Then https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/what-if-theres-a-tie/ …

A committee tie vote is a very real possibility for Ketanji Brown Jackson. If that does happen, here's what would come next https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/03-25-2022/what-if-theres-a-tie/ …