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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself  —  President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller made “such a fool” out of himself last week when he delivered his first and only public statement about the Russia investigation.
CNN:
House Democrats to give committees more power to sue administration officials  —  House to vote on holding Barr in contempt  —  (CNN)House Democrats are planning to vote next week to empower committees to go to court to enforce their subpoenas, a move that will give committee chairmen …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Jerry Nadler could subpoena Mueller within two weeks  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special counsel's …
NBC News:
Warren wishes handcuffs for Trump, says Biden wrong on abortion
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Trump and impeachment, some Democrats fear a nightmare scenario
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Breitbart
Laurence H. Tribe / Washington Post:
Impeach Trump.  But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the University Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard and the coauthor, most recently, of “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.”  —  It is possible to argue that impeaching President Trump …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …
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Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Shadow of 1998  —  Revisiting and reassessing the GOP's …
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Walter Shapiro / New Republic:   1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum
Associated Press:
D-Day 75: Nations honor veterans, memory of fallen troops  —  OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — With the silence of remembrance and respect, nations honored the memory of the fallen and the singular bravery of all Allied troops who sloshed through bloodied water to the landing beaches of Normandy …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Guess who else voted against federal funding for abortion?
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Charlamagne tha God has some questions for Joe Biden
Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller and Fox News
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
Discussion: Political Wire and ABC News
Robby Soave / Reason:
YouTube Punishes Steven Crowder for Homophobic Speech, a Confused Approach to an Unsolvable Problem  —  In the last 24 hours, YouTube declined to punish conservative content creator Steven Crowder for homophobic speech directed at a gay Vox journalist, then debuted a far-reaching ban on extremist videos …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
New York Times:
Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Hails Elizabeth Warren's ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan: ‘She Sounds Like Donald Trump at His Best’  —  Tucker Carlson is... Team Warren?  —  In a stunner of a monologue Wednesday night, the Fox News host praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — yes, Elizabeth Warren — for her newly-released economic proposal.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his long-time attorneys.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
John James announces Senate bid in Michigan  —  Republican John James announced another campaign for Senate in Michigan Thursday, setting up a major clash with first-term Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.  —  James, a veteran and businessman, ran for Senate in 2018, losing by 7 percentage points to Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
Discussion: Fox News, Axios and Roll Call
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Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
John James announces 2020 campaign for U.S. Senate
Andrew Witherspoon / Axios:
Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close  —  No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump.  —  Why it matters: Trump has been happy to fill many of the positions with …
Marc Tracy / New York Times:
Craig Newmark, New Friend to Journalism, Gives $6 Million to Consumer Reports  —  An entrepreneur who made a fortune thanks to his digital disruption of the newspaper industry has joined forces with a fearsome nonprofit watchdog publication that is expanding its coverage of the tech industry.
Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
Jonathan Kozol / The Nation:
Joe Biden Once Made Common Cause With School Segregationists  —  The candidate's years as an anti-busing crusader cannot be forgotten—or readily forgiven.  —  Advocates for children and civil rights who have not yet given up entirely on the struggle to break down the walls of racial isolation …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Drag Queen Story Time Continues Its Reign at Libraries, Despite Backlash  —  Once upon a time, at a public library in San Francisco, a drag queen arrived at story time and read to the children she met there.  —  The children — no strangers to playing make believe — had fun …
Discussion: Gothamist
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’  —  The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington" by Alexander Nazaryan.  Copyright © 2019.  Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  —  They were the best people, the finest in the land, tasked with returning the nation to greatness.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
William Barr is asking questions the media don't want asked  —  “I'm amused,” Attorney General William Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford, “by these people who make a living disclosing classified information, including the names of intelligence operatives, wringing their hands about whether …
Discussion: twitchy.com and American Greatness
David Enrich / New York Times:
Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions  —  A group of Democratic senators want top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious.
Discussion: Politico
Zach Goldberg / Tablet Magazine:
America's White Saviors  —  To understand the motivations behind the “great awokening” we must first review some of the basics of political psychology.  Social scientists use a model called “The Big Five personality traits” or “five-factor model” to describe how the relative prevalence …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Lobbyists Cut Check to Giuliani's Ukraine ‘Investigator’  —  A payment to Global Energy Producers' Lev Parnas was revealed in federal court proceedings, in which a former partner is attempting to recoup money over a movie deal gone bad.  —  BEAST INSIDE
Anand Giridharadas / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America.  But He May Have to Change Himself First.  —  Bernie Sanders wants to make a joke.  Pretty good joke, he thinks.  He is slumped in a window seat in coach on a plane parked at Chicago O'Hare.  He has about an hour in transit to get the joke into his next speech.
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren's campaign unionizes, joining growing number of campaigns in making history  —  The campaign of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unionized, Warren announced on Thursday.  —  “My campaign has submitted their support to join @IBEW 2320,” Warren said on Twitter.
Ivana Hrynkiw / al.com:
Roy Moore's lawyer Trenton Garmon arrested on drug charges  —  Former Senate candidate Roy Moore's attorney was arrested Wednesday night for charges of driving under the influence and for possessing drugs.  —  Trenton Roger Garmon, 39, was booked into the Etowah County Jail around 8 p.m., according to jail records.
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Introducing PolitiFact's Mueller Report book club  —  For quite awhile, Robert S. Mueller III was one of the most mysterious men in Washington.  But on May 29, he came before the cameras to make an in-person closing statement about his time as special counsel.  —  Mueller's words were sparing, and there were few pithy quotes.
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
At Democratic Retreat, Chiefs of Staff Coached on Schmoozing With K Street  —  Democratic chiefs of staff gathered on Thursday for a retreat to hash out strategy for the coming year and orient themselves in Washington.  One of the key agenda items: “How to Engage Downtown.”
 
 
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Biden puts Texas in play, pulling ahead of Trump 48-44 in new poll and exposing 2020 peril for GOP
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
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Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
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