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JUSTTHENEWS (Greg Piper) - Democrats boycott Senate hearing on protecting women's sports as 'vendetta' against trans athletes

Democrats offer no witnesses of their own, with committee's top Democrat calling the hearing irrelevant and a threat to "cisgender girls" because they will endure "inappropriate gender verification checks" to exclude male athletes.

THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Trump DOJ Hits Back at Corporate Media Lawsuit Against White House Bans: ‘Access is a Privilege, Not a Right.’

The Trump administration argues that access to the White House is a privilege, not a right, citing national security concerns and breaches of decorum by the media outlets.

The Trump administration has stated that access to the White House is a privilege, not a right, in response to corporate media outlets suing the administration over their loss of White House access. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has defended the administration’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), and POLITICO from the White House, calling corporate media access to the complex a privilege rather than a constitutional right. In a late-night filing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., four DOJ attorneys, including Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, argued that Trump acted after determining the outlets had failed to meet expected standards of professionalism and decorum. DETAIL:…Open

HUFFPOST (U.S. News) - Dolly Parton's Estate Accuses Her Nephew Of Threatening Violence And To Destroy Aunt’s Legacy

Bryan Seaver, who owns a company that provided the music icon’s security detail, was handpicked by the star to announce her death last month.

WASHINGTONPOST (Justin Jouvenal) - Missouri congressional map fight returns to Supreme Court for third time

People Not Politicians, an anti-gerrymandering group, asked the Supreme Court late Tuesday to block yet again a map that would likely allow Republicans to pick up an extra seat in the U.S. House.