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Julie K. Brown / Miami Herald:
With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers  —  Jeffrey Epstein spent a second night in a New York jail cell Sunday, with a federal indictment expected to be unsealed Monday, charging him with sex offenses involving underage girls he and others allegedly trafficked …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Why the Trump White House Is Caught Up in the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal  —  In the years since Mr. Epstein was first accused of sexually abusing minors, one of Mr. Trump's Cabinet officials has been accused of letting him off easy.  —  By the time Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and felon …
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein Is Accused of Luring Girls to His Manhattan Mansion and Abusing Them  —  The billionaire financier is charged with running a sex-trafficking operation that brought dozens of girls as young as 14 to his opulent Upper East Side home.  —  Federal prosecutors appear to have resurrected …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Christine Pelosi warns it's ‘quite likely that some of our faves are implicated’ in ‘horrific’ Epstein case  —  Christine Pelosi, a Democratic National Committee official and daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, warned conspicuously on Saturday evening that it is “quite likely …
Mimi Rocah / The Daily Beast:
Jeffrey Epstein Shouldn't Expect to Wriggle Free Again  —  Feds in Florida cut an infamous sweetheart deal with the confessed billionaire sex predator.  The ‘sovereign’ district of New York isn't likely to do that.  —  Justice has seemed elusive these past three years.
Alexander Kacala / Newsweek:
Miami Herald Investigative Reporter: ‘Quite A Few Powerful, Important People’ May Be Named in Jeffrey Epstein Case
Discussion: twitchy.com and RedState
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: New swing-district polling illustrates impeachment peril
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Justice Department changing lawyers on census case  —  The Justice Department is swapping out the lawyers who had been representing the administration in its legal battle to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, possibly signaling career attorneys' legal or ethical concerns …
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JM Rieger / Washington Post:
The Trump administration has changed its story on the census citizenship question at least 10 times in four months  —  Originally, it was supposed to help the Justice Department enforce the Voting Rights Act.  Then the Supreme Court said that was a pretext.  —  It would not be used for immigration enforcement.
Tom Hals / Reuters:
In losing legal battles over census, Trump may win political war
Discussion: Political Wire
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
A New Team of Government Lawyers Will Take Over Census Fight
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:   Census farce: Trump, Barr and the Justice Department make a mockery of the law
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:   Census Citizenship Question Re-do?  Part I: Moment of Truth (and Integrity) for the Office of the Solicitor General
Associated Press:
AP: Federal grand jury probing GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A federal grand jury in New York is investigating top Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy, examining whether he used his position as vice chair of President Donald Trump's inaugural committee to drum up business deals …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:   Federal Grand Jury Probing Top GOP Donor Elliott Broidy Over Trump Inauguration
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Tom Steyer Is Telling Allies He's Running for President  —  The presidential-campaign announcements may not be over yet—with the latest potentially coming from a person who ruled out a run just a few months ago.  —  The billionaire investor Tom Steyer, who in the past decade …
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
CNN will hold live draw for 2020 Democratic debate lineup  —  New CNN poll shows Harris and Warren rise after debates  —  (CNN)CNN will conduct a live draw to determine which night each candidate will appear in the highly anticipated Democratic presidential primary debates airing later this month on the network.
Discussion: Mediaite
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
MIRIAM ADELSON: A time of miracles  —  Miriam Adelson, a Las Vegas philanthropist, researcher, physician and expert in drug addiction, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Israel Hayom newspapers with her husband, Sheldon Adelson.  —  Cherishing, promoting and safeguarding the U.S.-Israeli alliance …
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
In surprise move, admiral tapped to lead U.S. Navy declines job, retires instead  —  Bill Moran said he turned down the job of Chief of Naval Operations because of a probe of his ties to an officer investigated for inappropriate conduct.  —  WASHINGTON — The man set to take over as the head …
Discussion: USNI News, Wall Street Journal and UPI
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump wants to talk.  Iran isn't interested.  —  When it comes to nuclear negotiations, Iran is not North Korea.  —  President Donald Trump wants to sit down with Iranian leaders — but they don't share his eagerness to talk, revealing the limits of the president's personal diplomatic overtures.
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Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:   Reports: Iran enriching uranium to 4.5%, breaking deal limit
Nikki Schwab / New York Post:
Melania Trump reportedly told Donald that Christine Blasey Ford was ‘lying’  —  A new book says that first lady Melania Trump told her husband she thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:   Exclusive excerpt: Inside Kavanaugh's leaked mock hearing
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The Purell presidency: Trump aides learn the president's real red line  —  He asks visitors if they'd like to wash their hands in a bathroom near the Oval Office.  —  He'll send a military doctor to help an aide caught coughing on Air Force One.  —  And the first thing he often tells …
Discussion: Political Wire
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
If I Had Five Minutes to Question Robert Mueller  —  Here's a puzzle: Imagine that you are a member of Congress who, under rules seemingly designed to preclude effective questioning, had exactly five minutes to interview Robert Mueller on national television.  What would you ask him?
Penelope Green / New York Times:
Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning?  —  Summer's great indoor-temperature debate rages on.  —  Modernity was born 116 years, 11 months, two weeks and two days ago, at a printing plant in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, when a junior engineer named Willis Carrier devised a contraption …
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver's License Databases  —  WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have mined state driver's license databases using facial recognition technology, analyzing millions of motorists' photos without their knowledge.
Discussion: VICE
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Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
UK hunts mole behind leak of envoy's frank Trump missives  —  LONDON (AP) — The British government was hunting Monday for the source of a leak of diplomatic cables from Britain's ambassador in Washington that branded President Donald Trump's administration “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Kamala Harris on race and electability in 2020  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state's 2008 caucus.  —  “I remember her saying to me …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Joe Biden's reboot: A “wrap the bow” strategy
Discussion: PJ Media Home
 
 
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