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6:25 PM ET, March 7, 2019

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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
New cracks emerge in Dem unity  —  House Democrats are showing more cracks in their united front just two months into the new Congress.  —  Leaders are scrambling to contain high-profile rifts between liberals and centrists on everything from the Green New Deal and “Medicare for all,” …
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Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
I've Faced the Charge of Dual Loyalty  —  I'm all for new voices in the U.S. Congress.  But lately, some of those new voices have been voicing some very old canards.  —  I'm talking about Representative Ilhan Omar, one of the newly elected Democrats who populate the 116th Congress.
Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:   Ilhan Omar Is Hurting the Palestinian Cause
New York Times:
Democrats Put Off Anti-Semitism Resolution After Fierce Backlash
Washington Post:
Rep. James Clyburn says Ilhan Omar's experience is ‘more personal’ than that of Holocaust survivors' children
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Meghan McCain Breaks Down in Tears After Heated Anti-Semitism Debate: Omar's Comments Are ‘Very Scary’
Discussion: The Daily Beast, IJR and ABC News
The Babylon Bee:   Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That's Where Israel Is
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross broke law, violated Constitution in census decision, judge rules  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted in “bad faith,” broke several laws and violated the constitutional underpinning of representative democracy when he added a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Discussion: Mother Jones and East Bay Times
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Holder Says Next Democratic President Should Consider Court Packing  —  The former attorney general made the comments Thursday during a chat with the Yale Law National Security Group.  —  Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the next Democratic president should …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Senate Confirms Trump Court Pick Who Repeatedly Weakened Voting Rights  —  Every Republican voted to make Eric Murphy, 40, a lifetime federal judge.  —  WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Eric Murphy to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, meaning a 40-year-old lawyer …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Embassy Staffers Say Jared Kushner Shut Them Out of Saudi Meetings  —  When a member of the administration travels overseas, the embassy often helps coordinate the trip.  Not when Jared Kushner meets his buddy MBS.  —  Officials and staffers in the U.S. embassy in Riyadh said they were not read …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
John Kelly, Out of White House, Breaks With Trump Policies  —  The former White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, on Wednesday declined to answer questions about the existence of a memo he wrote saying that President Trump had ordered officials to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance in May 2018.
Reid Standish / Foreign Policy:
U.S. Cancels Journalist's Award Over Her Criticism of Trump  —  Jessikka Aro was to receive a “Women of Courage” prize.  Then officials read her Twitter feed.  —  Jessikka Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist, has faced down death threats and harassment over her work exposing Russia's …
New York Times:
Biden's 2020 Plan is Almost Complete.  Democrats Are Impatient.  —  WASHINGTON — The pieces for a Joseph R. Biden Jr. presidential campaign are falling into place: His nucleus of advisers has begun offering campaign positions to seasoned Democratic strategists.
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Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden's tough talk on 1970s school desegregation plan could get new scrutiny in today's Democratic Party  —  When Joe Biden was a freshman senator in the mid-1970s, his home state of Delaware, like other hotspots across the country, was engulfed in a bitter battle over school busing …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Biden in 1993 speech pushing crime bill warned of ‘predators on our streets’ who were ‘beyond the pale’
Discussion: Splinter
Bloomberg:
Cohen Fires New Shot at Trump With Suit for Millions in Fees  — Ex-Trump lawyer claims he's owed at least $3.8 million  — Cohen says he appeared before Congress, Mueller for the firm  —  Michael Cohen sued the Trump Organization, claiming the president's family company stiffed …
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Bernard Condon / Associated Press:   Out of the shadows: Loyal money man swept into Trump probes
Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
It's time — high time — to take Fox News's destructive role in America seriously  —  Chris Wallace is an exceptional interviewer, and Shepard Smith and Bret Baier are reality-based news anchors.  —  Now that we've got that out of the way, let's talk about the overall problem of Fox News …
Wall Street Journal:
Martin Shkreli Steers His Company From Prison—With Contraband Cellphone  —  The disgraced pharmaceutical executive dubbed “Pharma Bro” remains the shadow power at the drug company that became a national lightning rod for jacking up the prices of rare drugs.
Associated Press:
A nanny state?  Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor  —  FAIR HAVEN, Vt. (AP) — A 3-year-old Nubian goat named Lincoln is poised to become the first honorary pet mayor of the small Vermont town of Fair Haven.  —  The nanny goat was chosen this week by townspeople for the one-year post at the community's Town Meeting Day.
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Read more: The Definitive Net Worth of Donald Trump  —  The other assets that make up Trump's $3.1 billion ­fortune are down $600 million since he became president, by our count, largely because of a slump in retail real estate and an increasingly toxic brand.
Axios:
The biggest political scandal in American history  —  Even without seeing Robert Mueller's report, or knowing what prosecutors with the Southern District of New York have unearthed, or what congressional investigators will find, we already have witnessed the biggest political scandal in American history.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Why I am critic, not a NeverTrump absolutist  —  CNN commentator Matt Lewis recently observed the bitter fights breaking out on social media among conservatives who in an earlier era might have seen themselves as ideological allies.  —  “We are at the stage where the (last?) …
Vindicator:
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020  —  U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown will not run for president in 2020.  —  Brown, a Cleveland Democrat, announced today that he has “decided the best place for me to continue fighting for Ohio and for the dignity of workers across the country …
Discussion: The Atlantic and POLITICUSUSA
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
What Kirsten Gillibrand Is Missing: New York Endorsements for 2020  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Cory Booker has been endorsed for president by New Jersey's entire 11-member Democratic congressional delegation, his state's governor and its other senator.  Senator Bernie Sanders has the backing …
 
 
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Jane Chastain / WND:
AOC was a Girl Scout ... just say no to the cookies
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Wire and New York Post
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How will we repair our democracy after Trump? H.R. 1 offers a clue.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Yahoo! Sports:
Exclusive: Wiretap reveals LSU coach Will Wade discussed recruiting ‘offer’ with hoops scandal middleman
Discussion: New York Post and The Daily Caller
Bryce Covert / The Nation:
How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job?
Bloomberg:
Merkel Rejected U.S. Pressure to Provoke Russia's Navy, Sources Say
Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
The Washington Post asks court to unseal records in Manafort case
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Joel K. Goldstein / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Don't Sell Biden's Vice Presidential Experience Short
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Will Block Anti-Vax Ads And Reduce Vaccine Misinformation In The News Feed, Pages, And Groups
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
The Only Democrat Running to Challenge Trump on National Security
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Andrew M Harris / Bloomberg:
Russian Firm Spars With Mueller Over Ability to See Documents
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal:
Philadelphia Is First U.S. City to Ban Cashless Stores
Discussion: Eater
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Stacey Abrams, Star Trek Nerd, Is Traveling at Warp Speed
Discussion: NB Blog
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Trump Settles on His Reelection Message
Elizabeth Landers / CNN:
Lindsey Graham tells CNN: Judiciary Committee to hold gun control hearing March 26
 

 
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Financial Times:
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