Politics A.M.: Senate appropriators to debate Supreme Court ethics proposal

The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers; FBI chief Chris Wray: 'Insane' to say I'm biased against conservatives; The demographic shifts in voting, visualized; Tim Scott raises $6 million for presidential campaign in second quarter; No Labels snags Sen. Joe Manchin for event, stoking talk of presidential run; Trump conjures up a phony dispute with Ron DeSantis over China tariffs; DOJ will no longer intervene on behalf of Trump in Carroll defamation suit; Man found near Obama's D.C. home detained pending trial; 'Insane,' 'ludicrous,' 'absurd': FBI's Wray shows teeth to GOP critics; Study finds GOP midterm wins came down to partisan turnout, not defections; Judge convicts one of first Oath Keepers arrested in Jan. 6 riot; Why can't the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps?; Congress struggles to see expanding foreign funding of U.S. sports; Murdoch is realizing that he's stuck with the monster he created ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Get unlimited access to The Post for $1 a week  Sign up for this newsletter Read online The most important politics stories today.     (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) ANALYSIS Senate appropriators to debate Supreme Court ethics proposal Democrats' push to force the Supreme Court to adopt stronger ethics rules could get a bit of a test run today. By Leigh Ann Caldwell, Theodoric Meyer and Tobi Raji ●  Read more »   The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers The FTC is demanding documents from Open AI, ChatGPT's creator, about data security and whether its chatbot generates false information. By Cat Zakrzewski ●  Read more »   FBI chief Chris Wray: 'Insane' to say I'm biased against conservatives Wray appears before Congress for the first time since the June indictment of Donald Trump and plea agreement with Hunter Biden. By Devlin Barrett ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS The demographic shifts in voting, visualized A look at how the votes of Americans have changed since 2016. By Philip Bump ●  Read more »   Tim Scott raises $6 million for presidential campaign in second quarter A memo from his team says the GOP senator from South Carolina has more than $21 million in cash on hand By Marianne LeVine and Maeve Reston ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   No Labels snags Sen. Joe Manchin for event, stoking talk of presidential run Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) is slated to appear next week at an event hosted by the bipartisan group No Labels. Manchin has not ruled out a third-party presidential bid. By John Wagner ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS Trump conjures up a phony dispute with Ron DeSantis over China tariffs The former president claims Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed his tariffs on China and his aid to farmers. That's false. By Glenn Kessler ●  Read more »   DOJ will no longer intervene on behalf of Trump in Carroll defamation suit The Justice Department had argued that Trump was immune from any liability because he was acting within his presidential duties when he denied sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. By Rachel Weiner ●  Read more »   Man found near Obama's D.C. home detained pending trial Taylor Taranto, a defendant in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, was in Obama's neighborhood hours after former president Donald Trump shared the address on social media. By Olivia Diaz ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS 'Insane,' 'ludicrous,' 'absurd': FBI's Wray shows teeth to GOP critics The FBI director played up his status as a Republican while showing his critics some teeth. By Aaron Blake ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Study finds GOP midterm wins came down to partisan turnout, not defections A Pew survey finds Trump voters were more likely than Biden voters to turn out last fall By Scott Clement ●  Read more »   Judge convicts one of first Oath Keepers arrested in Jan. 6 riot Donovan Crowl, part of a line that marched single-file into the Capitol, was convicted of conspiracy. James Beeks became the first Oath Keeper acquitted of all Jan. 6 charges. By Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS Why can't the right-wing bubble give up on Ray Epps? The former marine filed a lawsuit against Fox News even as Republican lawmakers continued to falsely imply that he was an agent provocateur. By Philip Bump ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS Congress struggles to see expanding foreign funding of U.S. sports After Tuesday's Senate hearing on a massive Saudi-funded golf deal, Republicans and Democrats fail to recognize how much Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds are pouring into sports. By Paul Kane ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS Murdoch is realizing that he's stuck with the monster he created Multiple reports suggest that Rupert Murdoch — and by extension his media empire — is giving up hope on Ron DeSantis. He can largely blame himself. By Philip Bump ●  Read more »     News whiz? Play our daily news quiz. Test your knowledge of current events with our new quotable game, On the Record. Play game   We think you'll like this newsletter Check out A Better Week for a 7-day email course that will help you conquer your calendar, get more done and find time for the things you care about. Sign up »

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