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Ron Filipkowski, who served on a state judicial panel, wrote in a pointed resignation letter to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office that he considered the search warrant executed on Rebekah Jones’s house “unconscionable.”
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Polls have faced strident criticism after President Trump outperformed pre-election surveys nationally and in key states.
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Maskless residents walk past storefronts in Mitchell, S.D., on Nov. 22. (KC McGinnis for The Post)
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Many small landlords, an important source of affordable housing in the District, don't have enough reserves to survive a prolonged drop in rental income.
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