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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Elizabeth Warren's plan to cancel student loan debt would be a slap in the face to all those who struggled to pay off their loans  —  In the escalating battle of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to see who can offer the most free stuff, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
I'm calling for something truly transformational: Universal free public college and cancellation of student loan debt  —  Growing up, my dream was to become a teacher.  And I knew that if I wanted to teach, I had to get a college degree.  —  I managed to get a college scholarship, but then things turned upside down.
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren's Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has structured her presidential campaign around a steady unveiling of disruptive policy ideas, on Monday proposed her biggest one yet: a $1.25 trillion plan …
Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Warren's plan to wipe out student debt (and how she'd pay for it)
Discussion: VICE News
Washington Post:
Trump and his business sue House Oversight chairman to block congressional subpoena of financial records  —  President Trump is seeking a court order to prevent his accounting firm from complying with what his lawyers say is an illegitimate use of congressional subpoena power by congressional Democrats.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire and Daily Kos
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump sues in bid to block congressional subpoena of financial records  —  In a federal filing, the president claims the House Oversight Committee is abusing its powers to damage him politically.  — David A. Fahrenthold, Rachael Bade, John Wagner -  · - 54 minutes ago -  ·
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
What House Democrats should do now  —  It may not have been his intention, but special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has forced a momentous choice on the Democrats who control the House of Representatives.  How they navigate the next several months will matter not only to politics but …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Trump sues to block House subpoena of financial records  —  President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit against House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings to block a subpoena of the president's financial records from an accounting firm, escalating tensions between …
Discussion: Shareblue Media and Breitbart
NBC News:
Trump Organization sues House Oversight chairman over subpoena for financial records
Discussion: Breitbart
CNN:
Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore called it a ‘travesty’ that women ‘feel free’ to play sports with men  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's picks to serve on the Federal Reserve Board has written that women should be banned from refereeing, announcing or beer vending at men's college basketball games …
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Politico:
Trump says he won't nominate Herman Cain for Fed seat
Davis Richardson / The Bulwark:   Why Is Stephen Moore Hanging Out with the Alt-Right?
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Discussion: Power Line and Axios
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to decide whether anti-discrimination employment laws protect on basis of sexual orientation and gender identity  —  The Supreme Court on Monday added what could be landmark civil rights cases to its docket for the next term: whether federal anti-discrimination laws protect …
Discussion: Althouse
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump wins over big donors who snubbed him in 2016  —  Deep-pocketed Republicans who snubbed Donald Trump in 2016 are going all in for him in 2020, throwing their weight behind a newly created fundraising drive that's expected to dump tens of millions into his reelection coffers.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How to think about the Democrats' impeachment dilemma
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Seth Moulton, Massachusetts Congressman, Is Running for President  —  Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a third-term congressman who has pushed for a “new generation of leadership” in Washington, declared his candidacy for president on Monday, becoming the 19th candidate to enter the Democratic primary field.
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
How Seth Moulton Could Win The 2020 Democratic Primary
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Rep. Seth Moulton is latest Democrat to enter 2020 field
Washington Post:
Trump is accused of gross abuse of his office.  We're not talking about the Mueller report.  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP is accused of a gross abuse of his office, and his administration has not provided Congress the information it needs to reach the truth of the matter.
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Norm Ornstein / The Atlantic:
Impeachment Is Not the Answer. At Least Not Yet.
Discussion: Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
No bottom: Republicans show they'll defend just about anything Trump does  —  There's a pattern that Donald Trump has followed many times when accused of wrongdoing.  First, deny it.  Then, when irrefutable proof emerges that you did it and your denials were lies, insist that there was nothing wrong with it in the first place.
Discussion: Mercury News
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:   Impeach Donald Trump?
The Daily Beast:
Trump Calls Bernie Sanders Crazy, Praises Him in Private  —  The president tells confidants that the Vermont independent is a smart pol, with a formidable base and fundraising acumen.  But he still thinks he'll beat him.  —  To his rally-goers, Donald Trump openly craves a 2020 showdown …
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New York Times:
To Defend Against a Mercurial Boss, Trump Aides Wield the Pen as Shield  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump glanced around the room and noticed Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, then his national security adviser, with his head bent over a notebook, scribbling something down.
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NBC News:
The Mueller report makes a damning case about Trump's dishonesty
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Russian 'Collusion's' Greatest Hits  —  From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect, and inaugurated President Trump “colluded” with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, to assemble a suspect cabinet …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
For some Dems, breaking up with dossier is hard to do
Seth Masket / FiveThirtyEight:
We Asked Democratic Activists Who They're Backing — And Who They'd Hate To See Win  —  We're still months away from the first nominating contest in Iowa, but I'm still regularly checking in with early-state Democratic Party activists to see what the party's most engaged members think about the pre-primary race so far.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:   Buttigieg scrambles to turn 2020 buzz into momentum
Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times:
He got into a great college the old-fashioned way.  He dreamed big, worked hard  —  Eva Vazquez was at a bus stop on Wilshire Boulevard, on the way to work as a cashier at a discount store near MacArthur Park, when her phone rang.  —  “I knew it was probably him,” she said.  —  It was Thursday, March 28.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Medicare, Social Security face shaky fiscal futures  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The financial condition of the government's bedrock retirement programs for middle- and working-class Americans remains shaky, with Medicare pointed toward insolvency by 2026, according to a report Monday …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump plausibly committed impeachable offenses.  A leading expert explains how.  —  After botching their initial response to the Mueller report, top Democrats are now seriously engaging the debate over whether the shocking scale of corruption, wrongdoing, contempt for our democracy …
 
 
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Dave Levinthal / Center for Public Integrity:
Mum's the word: Some Democratic presidential hopefuls won't discuss their big-dollar ‘bundlers’
Mary Katherine Wildeman / Post and Courier:
A loophole lets SC hospitals take millions from residents' tax refunds for unpaid bills
Anya Kamenetz / NPR:
Most Teachers Don't Teach Climate Change; 4 In 5 Parents Wish They Did
Eric Geller / Politico:
Turmoil consumes White House team guiding feds' tech strategy
Discussion: Raw Story
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Washington Post:
New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census
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