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10:00 PM ET, April 5, 2019

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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Reluctance of Bernie Sanders to Release His Damn Tax Returns Is Part of a Bigger Issue  —  Why hasn't Bernie Sanders just released his damn tax returns already?  —  It's a question that's something of a Rorschach test for Democratic primary voters.  For veterans of the great war of 2016 …
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CNN:
Trump lawyers issue letter fighting tax return request  —  Trump on releasing his tax returns: Speak to my lawyers  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump continues to hold his ground against Democratic efforts to obtain his tax returns, with one administration official telling CNN …
David French / National Review:
The Trump Era Should Make Libertarians of Us All  —  Democrats' quest for Trump's tax returns once again highlights the distortions in American law.  —  Democrats and many other Trump opponents are thrilled that House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal has “formally requested” six years of Donald Trump's tax returns.
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump's Lawyer Urges IRS to Reject Democrats' Tax-Return Demand
Discussion: Law & Crime and Washington Times
New York Times:   Trump Lawyer Asserts President's Right to Keep Tax Returns Private
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
If Biden Runs, They'll Tear Him Up  —  The old Democratic Party was warm, like him.  The new one rising is colder, less human and divisive.
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Sofie Karasek / Washington Post:
A photo of me and Joe Biden went viral. I want him to take ownership for his actions.
Kevin Robillard / HuffPost:
Joe Biden Is Betting The Democratic Party Hasn't Changed
The Babylon Bee:   Joe Biden Appointed As Head Of TSA
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Mnuchin losing two senior Treasury aides  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is about to lose two of his most trusted aides, just as House Democrats ramp up pressure on his department to release President Donald Trump's tax returns.  —  Eli Miller, chief of staff at Treasury …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says law ‘100 percent’ on his side in tax return fight  —  President Trump on Friday said the law is “100 percent” on his side in a battle with Democrats over the release of his tax returns.  —  Trump, who has steadfastly refused to release his tax returns, citing an ongoing audit …
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR, Axios and Politico
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump says he will again skip the White House correspondents dinner
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump raises eyebrows by saying, ‘We should get rid of judges’  —  A reporter asked Donald Trump this morning why, after all of his rhetoric, he didn't close the border like he said he would.  The president replied: … On the first point, the idea that Mexico is suddenly implementing policies …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts. Stop pretending he's in control.
Associated Press:
‘Our country is full’: Trump says migrants straining system
Discussion: CBS San Francisco
ProPublica:
The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy.  It Didn't Go Well.  —  Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people.  But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.
Charles Duncan / The Charlotte Observer:
Accused of money laundering in Russia, former NC congressman's bank loses license  —  A Russian bank owned by former North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor has been accused of money laundering and lost its license, according to Bloomberg News.  —  The Commercial Bank of Ivanovo …
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Associated Press:   Ex-US Congressman's Russian bank stripped of license
Liz Mair / USA Today:
Free speech means I don't have to be nice to Devin Nunes on Twitter.  So why's he suing me?  —  I didn't act like Miss Congeniality toward a member of Congress.  He's upset that I did my job, so now he's trying to stifle my free speech and yours.  —  CONNECT
Associated Press:
Ex-spy Valerie Plame eyes run for Congress in New Mexico  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Former CIA operative, author and activist Valerie Plame said Friday she is considering a 2020 run for an open U.S. congressional seat in New Mexico.  —  Plame told The Associated Press she is spending time with residents and will make a decision soon.
Discussion: twitchy.com and Axios
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Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:   Ex-spy Valerie Plame eyeing return to Washington — as a member of Congress
Marcy Wheeler / Washington Post:
We already knew Barr's summary was too easy on Trump.  Public records prove it.  —  Court filings and congressional testimony show the attorney general left out a lot of Mueller's findings.  —  When Attorney General William P. Barr released a four-page memo two weeks ago opining that …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Ruling on grand jury records could affect release of Mueller report details  —  Mystery grand jury in Mueller probe explained  —  (CNN)The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, sided with grand jury secrecy on Friday, ruling that federal district judges don't have the power …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Appeals court narrows path for disclosure of grand jury info in Mueller report
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Is Pete Buttigieg a Transformational Candidate?  —  One of the reasons I thought Donald Trump would win in 2016 was not just that he was focusing on the core issues roiling the middle classes (immigration and globalization).  It was because he had the perfect foil for his persona in Hillary Clinton.
Hell World:
I hate what they've done to almost everyone in my family  —  Progress is made one funeral at a time  —  Mom don't read this one.  I love you very much and I will call soon I promise but don't read this one ok because it's about me jacking off just kidding it's about a sore spot …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Already Plotting His Post-White House Tell-All Memoir  —  The president is ‘excited’ about penning a dishy book.  So much so that he keeps talking about the scores he plans to settle.  —  As he navigates turbulent domestic and international affairs, President Donald Trump …
Washington Post:
Trump ditches his nominee to lead ICE, says he wants someone ‘tougher’ for top immigration enforcement role  —  President Trump said Friday he is looking for someone “tougher” to lead the country's top immigration enforcement agency, hours after the White House unexpectedly withdrew its nomination …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's next possible Fed nominee can't understand basic policy issues  —  Nein, nein, nein.  —  That should be the Senate's response if President Trump actually nominates his friend Herman Cain, the former pizza magnate turned failed Republican presidential candidate, to the Federal Reserve Board, as Trump said he plans to do.
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Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren just called for eliminating the filibuster.  She's got a point.  —  Back in February, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told “Pod Save America” that if Democrats take the White House, they have to be prepared to wage full-blown procedural warfare.
Discussion: Vox, The Mahablog and The Daily Beast
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Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
Critical Carlos reads ‘Healthy Holly’  —  Inside the children's book that has landed Baltimore's mayor in a political scandal  —  Hi, I'm Critical Carlos, and I want you to read books like I do!  Reading is good for your brain and helps us all learn.  If you read enough books, then one day …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
That Fox-y feeling?  The nation's largest TV station owner hires some familiar Fox News names  —  Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation's largest TV station owner, rolled out its latest news and public affairs program this week, a one-hour broadcast called “America This Week” hosted by Eric Bolling.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Designate Iranian Guard Corps a Foreign Terror Group  —  The Trump administration is preparing to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. officials said, a step that would vastly escalate the American pressure campaign against Tehran but which has divided U.S. officials.
Tim Chitwood / ledger-enquirer:
Exclusive: Teresa Tomlinson is taking first official step toward a US Senate bid  —  Former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson is planning to take the first official steps today toward challenging Republican U.S. Senator David Perdue in the 2020 election, according to an exclusive interview Thursday with the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.
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James Arkin / Politico:
Stacey Abrams torn between running for president, Senate
 
 
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Sonia Nazario / New York Times:
‘Someone Is Always Trying to Kill You’
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's border threats jam up Pence's trade tour
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
‘Our country is full. .  . . So turn around,’ Trump warns migrants during border roundtable
Discussion: Breitbart
Stephanie Baker / Bloomberg:
Where Rudy Giuliani's Money Comes From
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Trumps were once one of many immigrant families in the working-class Bronx
Nick Wilson / Quillette:
What They Don't Teach You at the University of Washington's Ed School
Washington Post:
Trump to have dinner at his for-profit golf course near L.A. during West Coast trip
 Earlier Items: 
Michael R. Sisak / Associated Press:
Ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner ordered to register as sex offender
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Emily Bazelon / New York Times:
Making Jail a Last Resort
David Margolick / New York Times:
That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone
Discussion: Gothamist
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The “Witch Hunt” Lives: Trump and the Investigation That Just Won't End
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Politico
 

 
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Financial Times:
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