Politics A.M.: Arizona’s Maricopa County will replace voting equipment, fearful that GOP-backed election review has compromised security

Pelosi introduces legislation that would establish select committee to probe Jan. 6 Capitol attack; Biden heading to Wisconsin to pitch nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal; Trump attorneys meet with New York prosecutors to argue that his company should not be criminally charged over its business practices; Supreme Court will not hear transgender bathroom rights dispute, a win for Va. student who sued his school for discrimination; Biden defends authority to launch airstrikes in Iraq and Syria; Pa. woman arrested, accused of recording, encouraging assault on NYT photographer in Capitol riot; Biden tries to move beyond flubbed rollout of infrastructure deal; Blinken says the number of ISIS fighters and family members being held at detention camps in Syria is 'untenable'; Bill Barr wants his legacy to be his mumbled opposition to Trump on fraud, not his shouted agreement; Fact Checker: The continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Introductory offer: Get one year of digital access for just $40.  Sign up for this newsletter Read online The most important politics stories today.     (Courtney Pedroza for The Post) Arizona's Maricopa County will replace voting equipment, fearful that GOP-backed election review has compromised security The decision to ditch the machines could be a costly consequence of a process decried by local officials as a "circus." By Rosalind Helderman ●  Read more »   Pelosi introduces legislation that would establish select committee to probe Jan. 6 Capitol attack An aide said Monday that the speaker is "strongly considering" including a Republican among her eight appointees to the panel. By Felicia Sonmez ●  Read more »   Biden heading to Wisconsin to pitch nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal The White House is seeking to navigate divisions among Democrats on Capitol Hill about how to proceed toward passage of the nearly $1 trillion measure. By John Wagner ●  Read more »   Trump attorneys meet with New York prosecutors to argue that his company should not be criminally charged over its business practices The former president has been under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney and New York attorney general for more than two years. By David A. Fahrenthold,, Josh Dawsey and Shayna Jacobs ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Supreme Court will not hear transgender bathroom rights dispute, a win for Va. student who sued his school for discrimination The justices declined to hear an appeal to a lower court decision that overturned a school board decision to deny Gavin Grimm the right to use the boys' restroom. By Robert Barnes and Hannah Natanson ●  Read more »   Biden defends authority to launch airstrikes in Iraq and Syria Some Democrats are uneasy about Biden's action, which also came as nuclear talks with Iran appear stalled. By Anne Gearan ●  Read more »   Pa. woman arrested, accused of recording, encouraging assault on NYT photographer in Capitol riot Sandra Weyer yelled, "Get her out, mace her!" and said the group targeted the photographer because she was "anti-Trump," the FBI alleged. By Spencer Hsu ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Biden tries to move beyond flubbed rollout of infrastructure deal The White House last week had to reassure Republicans that Biden would not veto the compromise deal. Now he's facing anger from liberals who want Biden to go beyond the compromise. By Seung Min Kim and Sean Sullivan ●  Read more »   Blinken says the number of ISIS fighters and family members being held at detention camps in Syria is 'untenable' At a meeting in Rome of the coalition to defeat the Islamic State, the secretary of state said countries need to repatriate their citizens. By Karen DeYoung ●  Read more »   Bill Barr wants his legacy to be his mumbled opposition to Trump on fraud, not his shouted agreement Trump's attorney general and his party did the bare minimum possible to derail Trump's fraud claims — when they even did that. Analysis ●  By Philip Bump ●  Read more »   Fact Checker: The continuing GOP fiction that President Biden supports defunding police The Trump campaign kept falsely saying that Biden wanted to defund police. Now that he's proposed to boost funding, GOP lawmakers keep repeating this falsehood. Analysis ●  By Glenn Kessler ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Coronavirus Updates for news to help you stay safe and informed during the pandemic. Access to all stories in the newsletter is free. Sign up »

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