The Hill (9/3, Weixel) reports, “The Justice Department is coming under fire for what critics see as a politically-motivated probe into coronavirus deaths in state-run nursing homes.” The DOJ is deciding “whether to investigate if four Democratic-led states violated the civil rights of nursing home residents by requiring that homes not turn away other residents for readmission who had the COVID-19 disease.” Former DOJ officials and nursing home advocates “have slammed the investigation as a nakedly partisan attack on Democratic governors.” InDepthNH (9/3) reports a New Hampshire legislative committee is seeking “to determine why patients in long-term care facilities and nursing homes comprise 81 percent of the 432 deaths from COVID-19 in.