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Nelson W. Cunningham / Politico:
Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?  —  Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudy Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-Chair Joe Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump blamed ex-counsel McGahn for Mueller investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House Counsel Don McGahn ended his tumultuous tenure at the White House with one last encounter in which President Donald Trump blamed him for Robert Mueller's appointment, sources close to McGahn tell CNN.
Discussion: Political Wire
emptywheel:
No, Mueller Probably Didn't Subpoena Trump, Yet  —  Nelson Cunningham, who has far better legal qualifications than I do but who, as far as I've seen, has written very little on the Mueller investigation has taken Politico's very good reporting on a second appeal involving the Mueller inquiry …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The White-Supremacist Congressman  —  Steve King, who has a long history of racism, may finally be in political danger.  —  Steve King, the Republican congressman who represents the northwestern part of Iowa, is a white nationalist.  —  King has said he doesn't want Muslims working in Iowa meatpacking plants.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
GOP Rep. Mark Sanford: Haitian babies born in US don't deserve birthrights because they are not ‘former slaves’  —  Outgoing South Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Sanford on Wednesday insisted that some babies born in the U.S. — from places like Haiti — do not deserve to be citizens because they are not descendants of slaves.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump lashes out at Paul Ryan over birthright citizenship comments, says he ‘should be focusing on holding the Majority’
Alex Daugherty / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott walks away when asked if he supports Trump ending birthright citizenship
Discussion: National Journal
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal  —  Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.  So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.
Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement  —  Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.  —  The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Never Go Full Trump: The Lena Epstein Story
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Washington Post:
Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate  —  ISTANBUL — Turkey's public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of “advance plans” …
Brad Heath / USA Today:
How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online  —  This is the life of a lie.  —  Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States.  Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Shakesville and Splinter
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Trump vs. Ryan
Discussion: Philly.com and Political Wire
Bim Adewunmi / BuzzFeed News:
Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams  —  Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams.  —  The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.
CNN:
CNN Polls: Tight Senate contests in Arizona, Nevada in final week  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)The Democratic Party's two best pickup opportunities in the Senate playing field are close contests in the final days of campaigning, according to new CNN Polls conducted by SSRS.
Alex Zielinski / Portland Mercury:
Woman Calls Cops City on Portland Man's Parking Job.  She's White.  He's Black.  —  Rashsaan Muhammad and Mattie Khan were waiting for their order inside Little Big Burger on North Mississippi Avenue when they noticed a woman standing across the street, looking at their parked car.
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Anti-Defamation League calls for censure of Rep. Steve King over alleged anti-Semitic statements  —  The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Wednesday penned a letter to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) calling for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to be formally censured over his alleged anti-Semitic words and actions.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Jane Coaston / Vox:
How the rise of conspiracy theory politics emboldens anti-Semitism
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Don't let your sons play for DJ Durkin  —  Parents, don't send your kids to Maryland to play football.  Just don't do it.  It's not a university, it's a canker sore with a couple of dormitories strapped to its suppurating side.  Don't let your son so much as look at an application.
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week.  —  The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How a Democratic Dark-Money Group Flooded the 2018 House Map  —  BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. — The billboard flickered from the side of a truck, displaying an image of Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, wearing a yachtsman's cap.  Keith Fitzgerald, a local dignitary invited …
Washington Post:
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming  —  The findings mean the world might have less time to curb carbon emissions.  —  The world's oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized …
HuffPost:
Confederate-Friendly Ryan Zinke Likens Robert E. Lee To Martin Luther King Jr.  —  Civil rights groups' condemnation of his remarks only adds to the Interior Department secretary's mounting woes.  —  Ryan Zinke, the embattled secretary of the Interior Department, suggested that Robert E. Lee …
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Miranda Green / The Hill:   Interior watchdog referred Zinke probe to Justice days before move to replace agency IG
The Daily Beast:
‘Homeland Security’ Ignores White Terror, DHS Veterans Say  —  As far-right terror attacks mount, DHS is concentrating on a migrant caravan 1000+ miles away—and some FBI veterans say the bureau isn't taking white supremacy seriously enough.  —  On Tuesday, just days after a white supremacist gunned …
Tyler Estep / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge declines Kemp's request to pause absentee ballot injunction  —  A federal judge has declined to pause an injunction she ordered that changes how Georgia elections officials evaluate certain absentee ballots.  —  Secretary of State Brian Kemp had requested that U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin …
Heather Long / Washington Post:
U.S. workers see fastest wage growth in a decade, outpacing inflation  —  U.S. workers are seeing the largest wage increase in a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as companies compete harder for employees than they did in recent years.  —  The typical worker received …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data  —  A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian.  —  You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …
Discussion: Raw Story
David Hudnall / Kansas City Pitch:
Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka  —  “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?”  —  Sherman Smith Twitter  —  I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion  —  By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success.  After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …
Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
Aftab Pureval's campaign manager resigns based on ‘new information.’  —  Here's what you need to know about Steve Chabot and Aftab Pureval in 30 seconds  —  Democratic candidate Aftab Pureval told The Enquirer campaign manager Sarah Topy resigned Tuesday night based on “new information.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Stephanie Perry / NBC News:
Record turnout?  Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote.  —  That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey.  —  About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …
Mike Duncan / Washington Post:
This is how republics end  —  Warnings from the fall of Rome.  —  What does a republic in decline look like?  —  It's an increasingly pressing question for the United States, where rising economic inequality is creating stress, anxiety and resentment.  Endemic racism and ethnic prejudice …
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
The National Enquirer's Plot To Assassinate Ted Cruz's Candidacy  —  In 2016, American Media Inc.'s employees thought their “bullshit” story about Ted Cruz's dad and Lee Harvey Oswald was a riot.  Then Trump ran with it.  —  The newsroom couldn't quite believe what was happening.
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied  —  The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's hate and lies are failing.  Two new studies show why.  —  The closing campaign strategy of President Trump and Republicans is often depicted as mainly an effort to galvanize the GOP's blue-collar white base through fear-mongering about immigrants and incitement of racial-cultural …
Discussion: Vox, The Mahablog, New York Times and CNN
Julia Jacobs / New York Times:
A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight  —  On the crescent-shaped pond in the southeast corner of Central Park, a spectacularly colorful duck floats on the surface with an air of majesty.  —  His head looks like a punk rocker's multicolored mohawk.
Discussion: Jezebel
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Colorado governor says he's ‘leaning strongly’ toward presidential run  —  Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Wednesday that he is “leaning strongly” toward a White House bid, marking his latest hint that he could run for president.  —  “I'm the governor of Colorado and I'm gonna run for president …
Jill Palermo / Fauquier Times:
Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn  —  Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Matt Zdun / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz's lead over Beto O'Rourke narrows to 3.6, UT-Tyler poll says  —  The UT-Tyler poll follows a number of other polls which show Cruz's lead over O'Rourke diminishing. … Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz leads challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, by 3.6 percentage points among likely voters …
Discussion: The Guardian
New York Times:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response … The guns used in the synagogue attack were purchased legally by the suspect, an investigation found.  —  WHITEY BULGER  —  Whitey Bulger, Boston Mobster and Informant, Is Dead at 89 … A Mobster of Many Enemies, Bulger May Have Been Killed in a Hit
 
 
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