| WHAT'S BREWING
STATE POLICE WILL RETURN TO PORTLAND State police will return to Portland, Oregon, after a fatal shooting on Saturday followed clashes between supporters of President Donald Trump and counter-protesters, which led to an argument between the president and Portland's mayor over who was to blame for the violence. Protesters were back on the streets for a demonstration Sunday night. Police declared it unlawful and arrested 29 people. Two of those arrested had handguns, others had knives, at least one had an expandable baton, police said. [AP]
PROGRESSIVES PUSH TO STOP EX-REPUBLICAN FROM WINNING SAFE DEM SEAT Progressive groups are making a late push to block a former Republican from taking advantage of a divided field of left-leaning candidates and winning a safely Democratic seat in the Boston suburbs on Tuesday. Rep. Joe Kennedy III’s decision to run for the Senate nomination and abandon the district — which includes a mixture of high-income suburbs, college towns and the old textile city of Fall River — created a massive primary field. Progressives now fear Jake Auchincloss, a Newton City Council member and former campaign staffer for popular Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, will win the seat. [HuffPost]
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY TO INVESTIGATE JERRY FALWELL JR.'S TENURE AS PRESIDENT Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure as president, an inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the evangelical school’s board announced Monday. In a statement, the board said it had retained an outside firm to investigate “all facets” of the university's operations under Falwell, and that it was “committed to learning the consequences that have flowed from a lack of spiritual stewardship by our former president.” Calls for such an investigation had been mounting since Falwell’s departure last week. He had been president since 2007. [AP]
HEAD OF USPS GOV. BOARD IS ALSO DIRECTOR OF MCCONNELL SUPER PAC A new corporate filing Monday revealed that the chairman of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors is also listed as a director of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s $130 million super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund. The revelation about Chairman Robert “Mike” Duncan comes as Democrats are accusing President Donald Trump, the postmaster general, and Republicans of sabotaging the Postal Service in an attempt to suppress mail-in voting, supposedly to tip the election in Trump’s favor. [HuffPost]
MARYLAND STATE OFFICIAL FIRED FOR SUPPORT OF KENOSHA SHOOTING SUSPECT Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R) administration dismissed a top official for a series of social media posts in which he expressed his support for the teen suspected of killing two men last week in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Arthur “Mac” Love IV had served as deputy director of the Governor’s Office of Community Initiatives since 2015. According to the Baltimore Sun, one of Love’s posts showed an image of suspect Kyle Rittenhouse cleaning graffiti with the caption, “I’m grateful that conservatives are rallying behind this kid. He genuinely seems like a good person.” [HuffPost]
HOUSE COMMITTEE PREPARES SUBPOENA FOR DEJOY House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) stated her intent to issue a subpoena for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, requiring him to produce documents related to recent Postal Service changes that have resulted in mail delays that could potentially threaten mail-in voting in November. Maloney’s subpoena comes after DeJoy failed to provide documents to Maloney’s committee after appearing for a hearing on Aug. 24. She previously requested DeJoy produce documents by Aug. 26 to explain the removal of mail sorting machines from post offices across the country, among other issues. [HuffPost] | 
