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Defend the Public Defenders

Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural—public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it—and the system can be fixed structurally: by creating a state-level office whose job it is to defend public defenders.

This Arizona Democrat is the first House member to announce retirement for 2022

Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick announced Friday that she would not seek reelection in Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District, a once swingy Tucson-area seat that has trended hard to the left over the last few years but could look quite different next year.

Kirkpatrick is the first House member from either party to announce her retirement for this cycle; Texas Democratic Rep.

DeJoy insults committee members as he asks for more money to carry out his Postal Service sabotage

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was slightly less bombastic than the last time he testified in front of a House oversight committee, when he declared he was going to be in this job for “a long time. Get used to me.” He was marginally less obnoxious on Thursday, when he testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee on financial service. He even attempted contrition, sort of.

Michigan Democratic Rep. Brenda Lawrence, a former U.S.