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10:05 AM ET, November 27, 2017

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Lorraine Woellert / Politico:
Consumer bureau's top lawyer sides with Trump in leadership clash  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's top lawyer sided with the Justice Department over President Donald Trump's appointment of Mick Mulvaney to lead the CFPB as a leadership battle over the controversial watchdog agency escalated.
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Allie Malloy / CNN:
Cordray's successor sues Trump administration over Mulvaney's appointment to CFPB
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. consumer finance agency lawyer sides with Trump over succession - sources
Discussion: Washington Post
Kate Berry / American Banker:
CFPB's English sues Trump administration to block Mulvaney appointment
Discussion: Reuters
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Al Franken on whether he will face more groping allegations: 'I don't know.  I can't say.'  —  Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) spoke to a handful of Minnesota media outlets on Sunday in response to the four allegations of sexual misconduct against him, saying he is “embarrassed and ashamed” …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Al Franken on Whether He's Ever Groped a Woman's Butt: 'I Can't Say I Haven't' Done That'  —  Sen. Al Franken, who is currently plagued by a number of sexual misconduct accusations, received a tough grilling in a 30-minute interview with WCCO on whether he has ever grabbed a woman's backside.
Jennifer Brooks / Star Tribune:
‘Ashamed’ Franken says he'll return to work on Monday
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
“She Didn't Want This Come Hell or High Water”: Inside Melania Trump's Secretive East Wing  —  Understanding the most enigmatic First Lady—and unusual marriage—in modern political history.  —  I. “NOT MY THING”  —  Back in 2014, when Donald Trump was considering yet again a run for president …
New York Times:
In Tax Debate, Gift to Religious Right Could Be Bargaining Chip  —  WASHINGTON — For years, a coalition of well-funded groups on the religious right have waged an uphill battle to repeal a 1954 law that bans churches and other nonprofit groups from engaging in political activity.
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Bernie Becker / Politico:
Tax reform hangs in balance in critical week for GOP
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
GOP leaders in advanced talks to change tax plan in bid to win over holdouts
Heather Long / Washington Post:
Senate GOP tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, CBO finds  —  The Senate Republican tax plan gives substantial tax cuts and benefits to Americans earning more than $100,000 a year, while the nation's poorest would be worse off, according to a report released Sunday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Discussion: Daily Kos
David Usborne / Esquire:
THE LAST DETAIL  —  When Donald Trump won the presidency, many Americans hoped John McCain would live up to his maverick image and resist his agenda.  But after the senator was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, his contrarian resolve revealed itself in unexpected ways that may shape his legacy—and our future.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Bharara compares Trump to Jan Brady after Russia tweet  —  For U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara invoked the classic sitcom “The Brady Bunch” after President Trump lamented coverage of the Russia investigation, comparing Trump's “Russia, Russia, Russia” comment to Jan Brady's famous “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” line.
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
The case for Roy Moore  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  Whence goeth that Yellow Dog?  —  Once upon a time, even a Yellow Dog could get elected in places like Alabama — so long as he was a Democrat.  —  That dog done run off and nowadays a Democrat can't hardly win, even when running against an accused pedophile.
Discussion: Associated Press
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Roy Moore Is Deplorable, and Donald Trump Condoning His Sins Is Unforgivable
Discussion: Raw Story
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
CBS boss told me to sleep with coworkers to get ahead: suit  —  It's another black eye for Black Rock.  —  A week after CBS host Charlie Rose was outed as an alleged serial sex harasser, one of the network's former producers says she was told by a boss that she would have to sleep with coworkers to get anywhere in the company.
Discussion: bizpacreview.com
Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:
More Than 180 Women Have Reported Sexual Assaults at Massage Envy  —  Across the US, people go to Massage Envy spas in search of a soothing, affordable escape.  More than 180 people say what they got instead was sexual assault.  But the billion-dollar company says that's not its problem to solve.
Discussion: NBC News, CBS Philly and AOL
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump White House ethics lawyer exits  —  The ranks of former White House ethics lawyers available to comment on the ongoing controversies engulfing President Donald Trump's administration has just grown by one — an attorney who's certain to offer a much different perspective …
Discussion: Raw Story
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John Hilliard / BostonGlobe.com:
Tufts postpones Scaramucci event after he threatens to sue student, paper  —  Tufts University postponed a Monday event featuring Anthony Scaramucci, a former Trump White House spokesman, after he threatened to sue a student and the school newspaper for defamation following the publication of an op-ed column criticizing him.
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Bernie makes moves pointing to 2020 run  —  Bernie Sanders is taking steps to address longstanding political shortcomings that were exposed in 2016, ahead of another possible presidential bid in 2020.  —  From forging closer ties to the labor movement to shoring up his once-flimsy foreign policy credentials …
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's role in Middle Eastern nuclear project could compound legal issues  —  In June 2015, retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn took a little-noticed trip to Egypt and Israel, paid for by a U.S. company he was advising.  The company hoped to build more than two dozen nuclear plants …
Discussion: Arutz Sheva
Bloomberg:
Tax-Hike Fears Trigger Talk of Exodus From Manhattan and Greenwich  —  End of state and local tax deduction to raise rates for many  —  Miami real estate looking for an influx of high-tax refugees  —  Even Bruce McGuire, founder of the Connecticut Hedge Fund Association …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Congress races to fix secret hush money system as “a lot more” revelations expected  —  Capitol Hill veterans expect that “a lot more” sexual-harassment settlements by lawmakers will be uncovered.  So now there's a race to strengthen workplace rules that are scandalously archaic.
 
 
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Wang Dan / New York Times:
Beijing Hinders Free Speech in America
Kirby Wilson / Tampa Bay Times:
Marco Rubio: Al Franken ‘should consider resigning’
Notice & Comment:
PTAB, Patents, and the Constitution, by Philip Hamburger
Discussion: Instapundit
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández / New York Times:
ICE's Courthouse Arrests Undercut Democracy
Associated Press:
FBI gave heads-up to fraction of Russian hackers' US targets
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Trump's Russian Schizophrenia
 Earlier Items: 
Christina Hoff Sommers / New York Daily News:
A panic is not an answer: We're at imminent risk of turning this #metoo moment into a frenzied rush to blame all men
Nicole Russell / Washington Examiner:
For the love of God, why can't Democrats leave the Little Sisters of the Poor alone?
UAA Communications / Florida Gators:
University of Florida Selects Dan Mullen as Head Football Coach
Discussion: WBRC-TV, WHNT-TV and The Daily Caller
NBC News:
Archbishop of Canterbury baffled by Christians who back Trump
Discussion: ITV and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's long history of misleading the media
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Horton / Washington Post:
Pentagon tried to block independent report on child sex among Afghan forces, Senate office says
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Readers Accuse Us of Normalizing a Nazi Sympathizer; We Respond
Emma Brockes / The Guardian:
Susan Sarandon: 'I thought Hillary was very dangerous. If she'd won, we'd be at war'