An Ignoble Experiment: The walls are closing in for Andrew Cuomo

By Liza Hearon

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Wednesday, Aug. 4

BIDEN CALLS ON ANDREW CUOMO TO RESIGN President Joe Biden called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign after an explosive report concluded that Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women. The report by New York state Attorney General Letitia James found that Cuomo "sexually harassed current and former New York State employees by engaging in unwelcome and non-consensual touching and making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women." Cuomo denies the allegations. [HuffPost]

WIN FOR MODERATE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT IN OHIO Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman, defeated Nina Turner in the special primary election for Ohio's 11th Congressional District, all but ensuring that she will represent the Cleveland-area seat in Congress. It's a stinging defeat for a progressive movement that counted Turner, a former Ohio state senator-turned-Bernie Sanders lieutenant, as one of its most beloved stars. [HuffPost]

CDC ANNOUNCES NEW EVICTION PROTECTIONS The Biden administration issued a new eviction moratorium after progressive lawmakers turned up the pressure as protections for millions of vulnerable renters lapsed over the weekend. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new order targets counties with elevated rates of COVID-19 infections and will last for 60 days. [HuffPost]

TRUMP'S DONORS KEEP PAYING FOR AN OFFICE Donald Trump's reelection campaign is long finished, but his loyal donors are still paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to rent office space in his Manhattan skyscraper. One of the ex-president's new political committees continues to pay $37,500 a month in rent at Trump Tower, just as he did during his reelection campaign. [HuffPost]

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WHAT'S BREWING

'RECESS CAN WAIT': STATE LAWMAKERS URGE SENATE TO PASS VOTING BILL Amid chants of "Recess can wait, democracy can't," nearly 150 state lawmakers from 30 states came to Washington to rally with Democratic U.S. senators and representatives and call on the Senate to suspend its August recess to pass voting rights and anti-gerrymandering legislation. [HuffPost]

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TEXAS ORDER ON MIGRANTS A federal judge temporarily blocked an executive order issued by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) that sought to restrict the ground transportation of migrants. The judge agreed with the federal government that the order would cause "irreparable injury" to the United States and to people the U.S. is "charged with protecting." [HuffPost]

INFRASTRUCTURE DEAL WOULDN'T REMOVE ALL LEAD PIPES Biden has repeatedly bragged that the bipartisan infrastructure bill germinating in the U.S. Senate will spur the removal of America's toxic drinking water pipes made of lead. But the bill only provides money to a revolving fund that utilities can use to replace lead pipes if they want -- something that's only happened in a handful of cities. [HuffPost]

MIAMI BEACH OFFICERS CHARGED AFTER VIOLENT ARREST OF BLACK MEN Five Miami Beach police officers have been charged with battery after video appeared to show them violently assaulting two Black men last week. The officers had already been suspended over the violent July 26 confrontation at a hotel. [HuffPost]

AMAZON BROKE LAW, SHOULD FACE NEW UNION ELECTION The labor union challenging its election loss at an Amazon warehouse cleared a major hurdle with a preliminary finding that the online retailer violated labor law during the closely watched union campaign in Alabama earlier this year. [HuffPost]