Sideline Huddle: “U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met briefly on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in India. It’s the first face-to-face interaction between the countries’ two top diplomats since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.” Meanwhile, Putin got some rare good news when it comes to the Ukraine invasion. US support for Ukraine, especially in the GOP-led House, appears to be softening.

+ If the Suit Fits: “The department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, ‘no part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence. By definition, such conduct plainly falls outside the President’s constitutional and statutory duties.'” Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

+ Inside Job: “Mexicans were suddenly catapulted into the same world of blurry constitutional uncertainty faced in the past by (among many others) Poles, Turks, Hungarians, Filipinos, and Venezuelans; more recently by Israelis; and, of course, by Americans. What do you do when a legitimate, democratically elected president or prime minister undermines the rules of the legal system, or of democracy itself? What if that president or prime minister is popular?” Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: How Do You Stop Lawmakers From Destroying the Law?

+ Ship Wrecks: “‘We talk about how happy people probably made fun memories on this ship,’ Ms. Atay said, adding that she could imagine people dancing on the deck below, where strings of lights swayed above a wooden floor. ‘But we are broken.'” NYT: More than 1,000 Turkish residents displaced by the recent earthquakes are staying on a luxury boat in the Mediterranean Sea.