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8:45 AM ET, February 6, 2017

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New York Times:
After 2 Weeks, Trump's Bungles Have Aides Rethinking Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump loves to set the day's narrative at dawn, but the deeper story of his White House is best told at night.  —  Aides confer in the dark because they cannot figure out how to operate the light switches in the cabinet room.
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Michael G. Mullen / New York Times:
I Was on the National Security Council.  Bannon Doesn't Belong There.  —  In his first weeks in office, President Trump has outlined plans to reorganize the White House's National Security Council.  This is in keeping with tradition: New presidents regularly reconfigure the council to fit …
Discussion: Politico
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Why Judge Robart Blocked the Muslim Ban  —  There's no constitutional way to implement an unconstitutional order.  —  It's over—for now.  On Friday night, U.S. District Judge James Robart blocked the entirety of Donald Trump's de facto Muslim ban from taking effect.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Justice Department demolishes case against Trump order
Discussion: The Last Refuge
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump resumes Twitter attacks on judge
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Former top diplomats, tech giants blast immigration order as court showdown looms
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Clashes Early With Courts, Portending Years of Legal Battles
Discussion: ABC News and AOL
Wall Street Journal:
Few Recall Gorsuch's Volunteer Work at Harvard  —  Questions arise over Trump Supreme Court pick's level of participation in programs to help less fortunate while in law school  —  When President Donald Trump introduced his Supreme Court pick on live television last week, he said Neil Gorsuch had …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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Sen. Mitch McConnell / Politico:
Give Neil Gorsuch an Up-Or-Down Vote
Discussion: Axios
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:   Schumer slams Trump for attacking federal judge
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Trump sets Democratic field ablaze with anger  —  The Democratic base is so roiled and enraged after only two weeks of Donald Trump's presidency that a take-no-prisoners posture toward the White House is emerging as the price of entry for the 2020 primary.  —  An election that could have focused …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Burgess Everett / Politico:   ‘The Senate is coming apart’
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Uber, Twitter, Netflix and other tech giants to call travel ban ‘unlawful’ in rare coordinated legal action  —  Silicon Valley is stepping up its confrontation with the Trump administration.  —  On Sunday night, Uber, Twitter, Netflix and other prominent tech companies are planning …
Discussion: Politico
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says ‘Negative Polls Are Fake News’
Michael Sainato / The New York Observer:
Chelsea Clinton Is the Last Thing the Democratic Party Needs  —  The only positive would be for Chelsea to lose a congressional race, teaching Dems a lesson they've continuously failed to learn  —  Since Hillary Clinton's presidential election loss, rumors have circulated that speculate about what she will do next.
Discussion: Instapundit
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Trump Protesters Borrow From Tea Party to Put Pressure on Lawmakers  —  Opponents on the left are making plans to show up in force when members of Congress hold town forums during this month's recess.  —  MORRISTOWN, N.J. — For weeks, a swelling group has been showing up every Friday …
Discussion: Indivisible Guide
WREG-TV:
Town rallies after being forced to remove Christian flag  —  RIENZI, Miss. — More than 100 supporters showed up to a rally in a small Mississippi town Saturday to fight back after being forced to remove a Christian flag flying over Veterans Memorial Park.  —  One organization stepped …
Michael V. Hayden / Washington Post:
Former CIA chief: Trump's travel ban hurts American spies — and America  —  Michael V. Hayden, a principal at the Chertoff Group and visiting professor at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, was director of the National Security Agency from 1999 to 2005 and the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 to 2009.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump 101: he is definitely not a health nut  —  Aides who travelled with Donald Trump during the campaign marveled at the lax health habits of a 70 year-old obsessed with appearance.  Here was a man fixated on his personal brand and look like nobody they'd ever seen.
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Does Trump Actually Want to Succeed?  —  HOUSTON—Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: James A. Baker III was the gold standard when it came to running a White House.  And so far he's not overly impressed when it comes to the troubled kickoff of the Trump administration.
John Yoo / New York Times:
Executive Power Run Amok  —  Berkeley, Calif. — Faced with President Trump's executive orders suspending immigration from several Muslim nations and ordering the building of a border wall, and his threats to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement, even Alexander Hamilton …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Cancel dinner plans.  Send ‘nerd prom’ to the history books.  —  Once merely embarrassing and ridiculous, the annual White House correspondents' dinner is poised to tip over into journalistic self-abasement.  —  It's time to stick a silver-plated fork in it.
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
As a conservative Twitter user sleeps, his account is hard at work  —  CHICAGO — Daniel John Sobieski, 68, climbed the stairs in his modest brick home and settled into a worn leather chair for another busy day of tweeting.  But he needn't have bothered.  As one of the nation's …
Maria Tsvetkova / Reuters:
Kremlin says it disagrees with Trump's assessment of Iran  —  The Kremlin said on Monday it did not agree with U.S. President Donald Trump's assessment of Iran as “the number one terrorist state” and wanted to deepen what it described as already good ties with Tehran.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Joel Kotkin / Orange County Register:
Trump and the end of the world order
Discussion: Instapundit
Fox News:
Pence: Will use ‘all legal means at our disposal’ to reinstate immigration ban
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Discussion: ABC News and WIAT-TV
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Facebook ‘Fake News’ Censor Correctiv Funded By Soros, Staffed By Left-Wing Establishment
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Columnist to CNN's Stelter: You're becoming ‘quite a ridiculous figure’
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
For Trump Foes, Democratic Gains May Remain Elusive in 2018
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
The Democrats face up to their Trump problem
Discussion: twitchy.com and Balloon Juice
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Canada, Leading the Free World
Discussion: twitchy.com
 Earlier Items: 
Jason Pohl / Coloradoan Online:
Hundreds gather in Fort Collins Saturday to protest Betsy DeVos
Discussion: Common Dreams
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Arrests Spur Questions Over Links to U.S. Hacking
Alberto Luperon / LawNewz:
Judge Wears Anti-Trump Pussy Hat to Court
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Free Melania - From Our Expectations
Discussion: New Yorker
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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