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‘No Celebrities’: Embarrassing Turnout at Trump's Beverly Hills Fundraiser — Tickets for the event allegedly started at $15,000 and went as high as $150,000. — BEVERLY HILLS, California—Late Friday afternoon, Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles for a re-election fundraiser.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story

Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:

Feds Arrest New York Man for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Rep. Ilhan Omar — A 55-year-old New York man was arrested Friday for allegedly threatening to kill freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the Elmira Star-Gazette reports. The man, identified as Patrick W. Carlineo …

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Jeff Murray / Elmira Star-Gazette:

Steuben County man makes death threats against Rep. Ilhan Omar, federal official say — Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate after an upheaval that split Democrats and clouded their agenda.

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Kevin Bohn / CNN:

New York man charged with threatening to assault and kill Rep. Ilhan Omar — (CNN)A New York man is in custody after having been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York.

Discussion: Axios and Mediaite

Associated Press: FBI: NY man threatened to kill Minn. Congresswoman

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: W.H. resurrects health care push — DRIVING THE DAY — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — W.H. HEALTH CARE PUSH NOT OVER ... NANCY COOK: “White House acting chief-of-staff MICK MULVANEY is convening a meeting at Camp David this weekend with top White House staffers and key Cabinet members …

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Joe Biden's rustiness is showing

Discussion: The Root, Balloon Juice and CNN

Roger Cohen / New York Times: Biden, Honorable Patriot, Should Side With Restraint

New York Times:
Biden Didn't Rush Into 2020. The Race Came to Him Anyway.

Discussion: VICE News

Post and Courier:

Former SC Governor, U.S. Senator Ernest F. ‘Fritz’ Hollings dies at 97 … Fritz Hollings celebrates his 1998 victory over Republican challenger Bob Inglis to retain his U.S. Senate seat. It would be his final campaign. File/Matthew Fortner/staff — Fritz Hollings is sworn …

Discussion: CNN, Bloomberg, Roll Call, NPR, Joe.My.God., The Week and Raw Story

David Travis Bland / The State:

Former U.S. Senator Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings has died — One of South Carolina's political titans has passed. — Ernest F. Hollings died on Saturday. — Hollings was 97. — Better known as “Fritz” Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat served in the state's House of Representatives before becoming Lieutenant Governor in 1954.

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Congress' new Mueller fight: Do Dems need to begin impeachment to see secret files? — Do Democrats have to begin the process of impeaching President Donald Trump in order to access special counsel Robert Mueller's secrets? — That legal debate began raging inside the House Judiciary Committee …

Discussion: Lawfare and Raw Story

Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Ruling on grand jury records could affect release of Mueller report details

Discussion: Raw Story, Politico, Slate and Talking Points Memo

Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:

Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski might have been a woman or intersex — Researchers noticed the Polish officer's delicate bone structure after the skeleton was extracted from the Pulaski monument in Savannah, Georgia. — Casimir Pulaski, hero of the Revolutionary War and the pride …

Associated Press:

A 2016 hangover: Some Bernie Sanders supporters still upset — IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — It was hard to miss Cheri Pichone's excitement about Bernie Sanders' second presidential run. She showed up to a recent Iowa rally decked out in Sanders gear, complete with a figurine of the Vermont senator and progressive icon.

Nancy Scola / Politico:

Here's a Trump campaign strategy Democrats are eager to embrace — President Donald Trump left many in Washington scratching their heads when he put his 2016 campaign's digital chief in charge of his entire reelection effort. — But now Democrats are embracing that strategy too.

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story

Heather Long / Washington Post:

Trump administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program, which brings many Mexican workers — As President Trump threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days, his Department of Homeland Security nearly doubled the number of temporary guest worker visas available this summer.

Discussion: Mother Jones

Bandy X. Lee / New York Daily News:

Trump's mental condition seems to be getting worse: He should subject himself to a rigorous assessment now — Two years after organizing a conference at Yale about how mental health professionals could warn the public ethically and effectively, our predictions have borne out to be true …

Discussion: Raw Story

Paul Kane / Washington Post:

Pelosi outlines a path to victory for House Democrats in 2020 — and guarantees it — Barely three months into her second turn in charge, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already mapped out a plan to overwhelm Republicans in the 2020 elections. — “I'm going to have our races won by this November,” the California Democrat said.

Discussion: Raw Story and Political Wire

Richard Fausset / New York Times:

3 Black Churches Have Burned in 10 Days in a Single Louisiana Parish — ATLANTA — Three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south Louisiana parish, where officials said they had found “suspicious elements” in each case. The officials have not ruled …

Brian Faler / Politico:

Democrats face minefield if they get Trump's tax returns — Democrats' bid to seize President Donald Trump's tax returns will come with some serious legal risk to themselves. — Lawmakers are concerned that, even if they get the president's filings, his returns will still be protected …

Discussion: Breitbart, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, CNN and The Hill

Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
The Reluctance of Bernie Sanders to Release His Damn Tax Returns Is Part of a Bigger Issue

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, ABC News, TheBlaze, CNN and Washington Post

David French / National Review:
The Trump Era Should Make Libertarians of Us All

Discussion: Viking Pundit and Patterico's Pontifications

Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:

Republican Senator John Kennedy Suggests Someone Could Be ‘Killed’ if Unredacted Mueller Report Is Released — Republican Senator John Kennedy suggested that someone could be “killed” if the unredacted version of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is released to the public.

Abraham Riesman / New York Magazine:

Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left? On the eve of the Jewish state's elections, an appraisal of the battered opposition. — Barreling down a barely existent road in the South Hebron Hills, as I sit in the passenger seat of Nasser Nawaja's well-worn Dacia Duster, the conversation turns to the fate of the Holy Land.

Neil Irwin / New York Times:

What's at Risk if the Fed Becomes as Partisan as the Rest of Washington — The credibility of the Federal Reserve around the world has been built over decades. — Politicians have had strong opinions on what the Federal Reserve should and shouldn't do throughout its 105-year history.

Ed Condon / Catholic Herald:

‘As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West’: An interview with Cardinal Sarah — Cardinal Sarah kneels before the Blessed Sacrament in Toronto (University of St Michael's College) — The Vatican cardinal discusses his hard-hitting new book in this exclusive interview with La Nef

Discussion: Breitbart and The American Conservative

Laurens Cerulus / Politico:

Ireland's Varadkar: EU veto on Brexit extension ‘extremely unlikely’ — Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Saturday he considered it highly unlikely that EU leaders would veto a proposal to grant Britain another extension in the Brexit process. — Any EU country that vetoes an extension and …

Discussion: RTÉ, One America News Network and The Guardian

Gerard Baker / Wall Street Journal:

The Deep Rot Exposed by the Biden Flap — The problem isn't too much hugging but the rancor and triviality of our political debate

Discussion: Althouse

ABC News:

Trump pulls ICE director nominee amid threats to close border over illegal immigration — Trump said he wants someone “tougher” to lead ICE. — As he left for a high-profile trip to the southern border on Friday to highlight his efforts to stop illegal immigration, President Donald Trump …

Erica L. Green / New York Times:

Education Department Has Stalled on Debt Relief for Defrauded Students — WASHINGTON — The Education Department failed to approve a single application for federal student loan relief in the second half of last year, according to new department data that signals that students who claim …