memeorandum: Despite Concerns, Census Will Ask Respondents if They Are U.S. Citizens (Emily Baumgaertner/New York Times)

11:30 AM ET, March 27, 2018

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John Paul Stevens / New York Times:

Repeal the Second Amendment — Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement school children and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect.

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Rich Lowry / National Review: The Teenage Demagogues — Stoneman Douglas students' passion is not wisdom

Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Former Supreme Court justice: ‘Repeal the Second Amendment’

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San Francisco Chronicle:

Citizenship question on 2020 census may result in undercount — The size of your child's kindergarten class. Homeland security funds for your community. Natural disaster preparation. Highway and mass transit resources. Health care and emergency room services.

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Department of Commerce:

U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Reinstatement of Citizenship Question to the 2020 Decennial Census — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced that a question on citizenship status will be reinstated to the 2020 decennial census questionnaire to help enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

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Politico:

Census to add controversial question on citizenship status — The 2020 U.S. Census will include a controversial question about citizenship status, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, a move that sparked outrage from Congressional Democrats, civil rights groups and liberal state attorneys general.

Emily Baumgaertner / New York Times:

Despite Concerns, Census Will Ask Respondents if They Are U.S. Citizens — WASHINGTON — The 2020 census will ask respondents whether they are United States citizens, the Commerce Department announced Monday night, agreeing to a Trump administration request with highly charged political …

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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
California sues Trump administration over addition of citizenship question to census

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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Trump Administration Creates Census Crisis With Move to Suppress Immigrant Responses

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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:

Stormy Daniels Spanks Trump Again — Because there is broad consensus that Donald Trump is a lewd degenerate, nothing Stormy Daniels, the pornographic film actress and director, told “60 Minutes” about their alleged 2006 sexual encounter was particularly astonishing.

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Wall Street Journal:

The Tale of Stormy Donald — His willful self-indulgence catches up to President Trump. — Every sentient voter in 2016 understood that Donald Trump had a bad history with women. He survived politically because his opponent had spent 20 years denying or apologizing for even worse behavior by her husband.

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Washington Post:
‘Not in a punch-back mode’: Why Trump has been largely silent on Stormy Daniels

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Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
EXCLUSIVE: Stormy Daniels' Friend Alana Evans: I'm Also Going to Sue Michael Cohen

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NBC News:
FEC ruling on Stormy Daniels payment could take a year or longer

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NBC News:
Stormy Daniels sues Trump lawyer, says he defamed her, broke campaign finance law

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BuzzFeed:

Christopher Steele's Other Report: A Murder In Washington — The author of the famous Trump dossier provided a secret report to the FBI asserting that RT founder Mikhail Lesin was bludgeoned to death by thugs hired by an oligarch close to Putin. Three other sources independently told the FBI …

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Katie England / Daily Herald:

At Q&A in Provo, Mitt Romney says he's more conservative than Trump on immigration … U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the Utah County Republican Women's event in the ballroom at the Provo City Library on Monday, March 26, 2018, in Provo. … A notecard is read …

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trump Talks of Bringing Back Rob Porter, Aide Accused of Spousal Abuse — WASHINGTON — President Trump has stayed in touch with Rob Porter, the former White House staff secretary who stepped down after allegations that he had abused his two former wives came to light, according …

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Ray Hagar / Nevada NewsMakers:

Rumor is Ryan will resign as U.S. House Speaker; Scalise will replace him, Amodei says — Nevada's 2nd U.S. House District Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, said on Nevada Newsmakers Monday that Rep. Paul Ryan may soon resign as Speaker of the U.S. House. — Amodei said he was repeating a rumor that's around Capitol Hill.

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Associated Press: AP-NORC Poll: Trump benefiting from economic policies

CNN:
CNN Poll: 42% approve of Trump, highest in 11 months

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The Daily Beast:

Dan Webb and Tom Buchanan Latest Lawyers to Decline to Join Trump's Legal Team … Two more high-power attorneys have had to turn down President Donald Trump. Tom Buchanan and Dan Webb confirmed to The Daily Beast that Trump reached out to them about representing him, and that they couldn't do it.

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Abigail Tracy / Vanity Fair:
“A Target, Not a Witness”: Will Trump's Legal B-Team Collapse Before Mueller?

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Danny Vinik / Politico:

How Trump favored Texas over Puerto Rico — SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — As Hurricane Maria unleashed its fury on Puerto Rico in mid-September, knocking out the island's electrical system and damaging hundreds of thousands of homes, disaster recovery experts expected that only one man could handle …

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Reuters:

Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters — LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.

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Tim Mak / NPR:

NRA Says It Receives Foreign Funds, But None Goes To Election Work — The National Rifle Association acknowledged that it accepts foreign donations but says it does not use them for election work — even as federal investigators look into the role the NRA might have played in Russia's attack on the 2016 election.

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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

Trump and the West give Putin the fight he needs … Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — On Monday morning the United States, Canada and the European Union carried out a coordinated mass expulsion of Russian diplomats, responding to Moscow's alleged role in the March 4 poisoning …

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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:

Her son, facing murder charges, is being called an ‘alt-right killer.’ This mother blames herself. … Her troubled son had been up for two nights straight, inconsolable over a breakup, when she pulled him into her bed to soothe him. She never meant to doze, but woke with a start at 4:26 a.m.

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Trump fundraiser turned to Foreign Affairs chair for help winning work in Romania — WASHINGTON — Top Donald Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy sought help last summer from the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and lobbyist Rick Gates, a key figure in the Russia influence probe …

Discussion: New York Times

Pamela Wood / Baltimore Sun:

Sheriff: Maryland high school shooter died by shooting himself — Austin Wyatt Rollins, the 17-year-old who opened fire on classmates at Great Mills High School in Southern Maryland last week, injuring one and killing another, died by shooting himself in the head, officials investigating the case said Monday.

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Sarah Rumpf / RedState:

CBS Video Confusing. Hogg Was on Campus. — UPDATE: This video shows Hogg apparently in a closet during the shooting: — His comments quoted below to CBS still don't make sense. Did he leave campus and then violate the lockdown to enter campus and interview students? How did he get home and back?

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Wall Street Journal:

White House Probes Loans to Kushner's Business — White House attorneys are examining whether two loans totaling more than $500 million to Jared Kushner's family business may have violated any criminal laws or federal ethics regulations, according to a letter from a federal ethics agency.

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New York Times:

After Stormy Daniels, Republicans Face a Referendum on Trump's Conduct — WASHINGTON — When Representative Ryan Costello of Pennsylvania announced on Sunday that he would join more than 40 other congressional Republicans not seeking re-election in November, he left no doubt about the reason …

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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:

Trump Does Trump, and Things Get Worse … Amidst the numbing chaos that is the Trump administration, these past few days are worth reflecting on because three events have moved the needle in a bad direction. — 1. The hiring of John Bolton highlights Donald Trump's instability …

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Roxana Kopetman / Orange County Register:

In response to California sanctuary law, Orange County Sheriff makes public inmates' release dates — The Orange County Sheriff's Department, whose leadership opposes the new California sanctuary law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials, announced Monday …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Anthony Man / Sun-Sentinel:

Wasserman Schultz wants background checks for ammunition buyers — Sun Sentinel — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants a federal law that would require background checks for people who buy ammunition. — “I really think it's important to underscore that without bullets a gun …

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John Kruzel / PolitiFact:

Does Mike Pence call his wife ‘Mother’? — The old-fashioned quality of Vice President Mike Pence's relationship with wife Karen has made their marriage something of an obsession. — Pence said in 2002 that in the interest of “building a zone around (his) marriage,” he never dines alone …

New York Times:

Income Mobility Charts for Girls, Asian-Americans and Other Groups. Or, Make Your Own. — Last week we wrote about a sweeping new study of income inequality, which followed 20 million children in the United States and showed how their adult incomes varied by race and gender.

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Aileen Chuang / Associated Press:

Indiana Governor Signs Bill Mandating Abortion Information — Gov. Eric Holcomb has signed a bill that requires medical providers to report more patient information to the state. — INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a new law that will require medical providers …

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