memeorandum: Danforth Aide Says Missouri Auditor Shot Himself After Call (David A. Lieb/Associated Press)

1:35 PM ET, March 6, 2015

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The Hillary Camp's Rationale for Staying Quiet — Hillary Clinton won't be presiding over a soul-searching press conference or sitting down for a come-clean interview about her use of a private email address any time soon — at least if everything goes according to her team's plan.

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‘Who knows? She could implode totally’

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White House alerted to potential Clinton email problem in August

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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP giddy over Hillary's problems

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The POLITICO Caucus: Dems fret over toll of Clinton email stories

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Clinton private email violated ‘clear-cut’ State Dept. rules

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:

Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup — Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker. — And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.

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GOP leaders to skip Selma event — 'They've lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,' one black lawmaker says. — Getty — Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary.

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Politico: Rebels with a cause — A new group of far-right House Republicans …

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Obama: Deporting immigrant kids not ‘true to the spirit’ of Selma — Deporting illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children would violate the spirit of the civil rights movement, President Obama said ahead of his trip to Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery.

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Obama Invokes Selma To Justify Amnesty — President Obama invoked the “spirit of Selma” to justify his executive amnesty policies Friday in an interview with Sirius XM's Joe Madison. — “The notion that some kid that was brought here when he was two or three years old might somehow …

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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Obama: Ferguson ‘not an isolated incident’ — The work of the civil rights movement remains unfinished, President Obama said ahead of his trip to Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery. — “I think that the generation that has followed the civil rights generation …

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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Lawmakers, Obama, civil rights leaders to honor Selma's ‘Bloody Sunday’ this weekend

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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
What Obama's trip to Selma means

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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:

As Supreme Court Weighs Health Law, G.O.P. Plans to Replace It — WASHINGTON — The legal campaign to destroy President Obama's health care law may be nearing its conclusion, but as the Supreme Court deliberates over the law's fate, the search for a replacement by Republican lawmakers is finally gaining momentum.

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Zeke J Miller / TIME:

More Than 300 Republicans Call on Supreme Court to Recognize Gay Marriage Nationally — Signers include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sens. Susan Collins and Mark Kirk and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker — More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants …

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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservative Justices: If we gut Obamacare, Republicans will fix it! (No, they won't.)

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States Weigh Legislation to Let Businesses Refuse to Serve Gay Couples

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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:

In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases — LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council's Judicial Board.

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Oliver Roeder / FiveThirtyEight:

Obamacare's Chances Of Survival Are Looking Better And Better — Solicitor General Donald Verrilli won Wednesday's oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Or at least that's what the wisdom of the crowd is telling us.

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Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
How States' Rights Shapes King v. Burwell

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Sean Davis / The Federalist:

Here's What The Unemployment Rate Looks Like If You Add Back Labor Force Dropouts — The Department of Labor announced today that the official unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent last month, the lowest it's been since Spring of 2008. Good news, right? Well, kind of.

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Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg Business:
Payrolls Rose by 295,000 in February, U.S. Jobless Rate at 5.5%

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Wall Street Journal:

How America Was Misled on al Qaeda's Demise — The White House portrait of a crumbling terror group is contradicted by documents seized in the bin Laden raid. — By — In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside …

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David A. Lieb / Associated Press:

Danforth Aide Says Missouri Auditor Shot Himself After Call — An aide to former U.S. Sen. John Danforth said Thursday that she was on the phone with Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich — discussing his angst over perceived rumors about his religion — just moments before he killed himself.

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CNN:

Jeb Bush aides used private domain for public business — Photos: Political families 28 photos — Photos: Political families - Debbie Dingell announced Friday, February 28, that she would run for the seat held for 58 years by her husband, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, who announced earlier that he was retiring.

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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:

Fox News Pundit: Muslim Holidays Discriminate Against Christians — Fox News pundit Todd Starnes appeared on the Family Research Council's “Washington Watch” program yesterday to chat with Tony Perkins about what they perceive as growing anti-Christian persecution in America …

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