NYC TO REQUIRE COVID PROOF — Reuters: “New York City will become the first major U.S. city to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination at restaurants, gyms and other businesses, Mayor Bill de Blasio said … as the nation grapples with the rapidly spreading Delta variant. “With vaccines widely available, political leaders were combating the latest surge in infections with shots and masks rather than ordering businesses to close and Americans to stay home as they did last year.” NEW YORK ASSEMBLY MOVES CLOSER TO IMPEACHMENT — Our Bill Mahoney: “The state Assembly’s Democratic majority is moving even closer to impeaching … Cuomo if he does not resign. “That outcome become clear after an emergency meeting of legislators on Tuesday afternoon … The state Assembly's Judiciary Committee has been looking into impeachment since March. … The Judiciary Committee has a preplanned meeting on Monday to discuss the next steps in its impeachment investigation." BIDEN FLIPS TO NEW EVICTION BAN — Our Katy O'Donnell, Laura Barrón-López, and Heather Caygle: “The Biden administration … announced a new, targeted federal eviction ban to replace the one that expired over the weekend, setting up a potential clash with the Supreme Court. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new ban will apply to ‘counties experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels’ of Covid-19 and will last until Oct. 3, the agency said. … The announcement comes after a dayslong standoff with Congress in which Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats … waged an intense public campaign to goad the White House into action. … “The new ban would give state and local programs additional time to distribute rent relief and to increase vaccination rates, the agency said. The moratorium is expected to affect 80 percent of counties and 90 percent of the U.S. population, according to Democrats familiar with the details.” SO WHAT CHANGED? — Nothing changed on the legal front. The ban could still get tossed by the Supreme Court. It just became politically untenable for the White House not to at least take a shot at it given the negative Covid news and outrage on the left. If it gets knocked down, the White House figures, the conservative court can take the blame. DEM ESTABLISHMENT WINS IN OHIO — Our Ally Mutnick: “The Democratic establishment dealt a crushing blow to the progressive movement Tuesday, with Shontel Brown, the preferred candidate of party stalwarts, triumphing over Nina Turner, a face of the insurgent left, in a special congressional primary election. … “Brown’s victory in the primary, which is tantamount to the general election in this deep-blue, Northeast Ohio seat, brings an end to a contentious summer of internecine squabbling for Democrats over the direction of their party” SO DOES TRUMP CANDIDATE — Our Marissa Martinez: “Mike Carey … won the Republican primary for a vacant House seat south of Columbus, vaulting to the top of a crowded special election field with support from former President Donald Trump. “Carey’s win affirms Trump’s ability to influence Republican primaries with endorsements even while out of office during the Biden administration. Trump advisers were eyeing the Ohio primary after Susan Wright, another Republican House candidate backed by the former president, lost her own special election for a district in Texas last week.” | 
