Tipsheet: Trump furor stokes fears of unrest

View in your browser     The Memo: Trump furor stokes fears of unrest BY NIALL STANAGE   Fears are rising across the political spectrum that the nation is close to coming off the rails, amid uproar over recent comments by President Trump. Read the full story here     Trump plans to pick Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg on court BY ALEXANDER BOLTON, MORGAN CHALFANT AND BRETT SAMUELS   President Trump will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court on Saturday barring any last second change, multiple people familiar with the process confirmed to The Hill. Read the full story here     GOP, Democrats look to galvanize women with SCOTUS fight BY JESSIE HELLMANN AND JULIA MANCHESTER     Democrats and Republicans are looking to use the fight over President Trump's Supreme Court nominee to galvanize women ahead of November’s election, citing the influence his pick could have on decisions related to issues like abortion and health care. Read the full story here     Republican lawyers brush off Trump's election comments BY JONATHAN EASLEY   Conservative lawyers are brushing off President Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transition of power if he loses the election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, saying there are safeguards in place to ensure a proper transition whether the president voluntarily leaves office or not. Read the full story here       Centrist Democrats got their COVID bill, now they want a vote BY MIKE LILLIS AND SCOTT WONG   Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) took a remarkable step this week in shifting tactics to begin drafting a new partisan package of coronavirus relief. But the same moderate Democrats she’s aiming to appease with the $2.4 trillion proposal want something more: a guarantee they’ll get to vote on it. Read the full story here     Ginsburg becomes the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol BY CRISTINA MARCOS   The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol on Friday, underscoring her impact as a trailblazer for women. Read the full story here     Court removes Pendley from role as public lands chief BY RACHEL FRAZIN   A federal judge on Friday ordered William Pendley to be removed as leader of the head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), a role that typically requires Senate confirmation.  Read the full story here     Democrats ramp up pressure on Lieberman to drop out of Georgia Senate race BY TAL AXELROD     Democrats have begun ramping up pressure on Georgia Democrat Matt Lieberman to drop out of the race for one of the Peach State’s two Senate seats up for grabs this year, citing concerns that he may cost the party a chance to compete for the seat in November. Read the full story here     Trump assails Black Lives Matter in appeal to Black voters BY MORGAN CHALFANT   President Trump on Friday assailed the Black Lives Matter movement as an “an extreme socialist” organization that is harmful to Black Americans during a campaign event planned to court Black voters.  Read the full story here     Florida to lift all COVID-19 restrictions on restaurants, bars BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL   Florida is lifting all coronavirus restrictions on restaurants and bars effective immediately, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) saying he is also prohibiting local governments from closing businesses or imposing any restrictions without justification. Read the full story here     SCOTUS confirmation in the last month of a close election? Ugly BY BILL SCHNEIDER   OPINION | Here’s the big question about the 2020 presidential campaign: Is it going to be about the coronavirus or the court? Democrats want it to be about the coronavirus. Republicans want the main issue to be the Supreme Court.  Read the full story here     Know the issues in this election BY DIANA BATE HARDY   OPINION |  If we continue to allow the legitimacy of our Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary to be destroyed by the rampant hyper-partisanship of the past four years, we all will have lost so much more than a coveted seat or two on the high court. It will threaten to destroy our entire constitutional democracy. Read the full story here     The New York Times: The quiet 2013 lunch that could have altered Supreme Court history BY SUSAN DOMINUS AND CHARLIE SAVAGE   President Obama met with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hinting at retirement, but the art of nudging justices off the court is politically delicate and psychologically complicated. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Supreme Court fight returns Lindsey Graham to spotlight BY SIOBHAN HUGHES   The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will consider President Trump’s court nominee, is tied in polls against well-funded South Carolina Democrat Jaime Harrison. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Trump readies a debate onslaught — and Biden allies worry BY SEAN SULLIVAN AND JOSH DAWSEY   President Trump is gearing up to launch blistering personal attacks on Joe Biden and his family in the first presidential debate on Tuesday, while Biden is bracing for an onslaught and worried allies are warning the Democratic nominee not to lose his temper and lash out, according to people with knowledge of the strategies in both camps. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Trump shifts focus to Pennsylvania to shore up reelection BY JONATHAN LEMIRE, MARC LEVY AND THOMAS BEAUMONT   President Donald Trump’s campaign has grown increasingly focused on making inroads in Pennsylvania to offset potential vulnerabilities in other battlegrounds. The president will travel to the state for the second time in a week on Saturday, hoping to attract the same rural and white working-class voters who delivered him a narrow victory here in 2016.  Read the full story here     Bloomberg: TikTok judge schedules Sunday hearing as Trump's ban looms BY DAVID YAFFE-BELLANY AND CHRIS DOLMETSCH   A federal judge scheduled an unusual Sunday morning hearing to decide whether the U.S. can go through with its ban on the video-sharing app TikTok. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? 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