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Sanders responds to Clinton criticism: ‘Unlike Secretary Clinton, I don’t want to relive 2016’ By Marty Johnson TheHill March 10, 2020 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 White House hopeful, responded late Tuesday to criticism from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying he doesn’t want to relive 2016, unlike the former Democratic nominee. At a Fox News town hall, moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum played a clip for Sanders from a new documentary about Clinton. “Bernie just drove me crazy,” Clinton said in the clip. “He was in Congress for years. Years. He had one senator…

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Trump and GOP mount coordinated campaign to paint Biden as senile By Alex Isenstadt POLITICO March 10, 2020 President Donald Trump stood before about 500 of the Republican Party’s biggest patrons at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Friday and raised a topic few in the audience expected: Joe Biden’s mental capacity. Trump walked the donors through a list of Biden’s recent verbal stumbles, such as his recent declaration that he was running for Senate and his assertion that 150 million Americans had been killed by gun violence since 2007. Trump questioned whether the former vice president had the mental…

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Philadelphia Bar Association tells lawyers, judges to resist ICE arrests By Stephen Dinan The Washington Times March 9, 2020 The head of the Philadelphia Bar Association on Monday compared ICE to a “police state” and called on lawyers, judges and other courthouse personnel to resist the agency when its officers attempt to make arrests at city courthouses. Bar Chancellor A. Michael Snyder, a retired judge, asserted that the arrests violate illegal immigrants’ due process rights and go against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s own internal rules. He said they were “aided and abetted” by courthouse staff who stood…

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Opinion | Biden will pick a woman as his running mate. But who? By Fred Hiatt Washington Post March 9, 2020 Picking a vice president is always about winning the election. If you lose, it won’t matter who goes down with you. But for the Democratic nominee this year, good politics matches good governance as never before, because voters’ No. 1 question will be: Is this vice presidential nominee ready to be president? And if, as seems likely today, former vice president Joe Biden heads the ticket, voters will have a second, related question: Would we want this…

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Trump ‘not concerned’ as first coronavirus case confirmed in Washington, D.C. By Alice Miranda Ollstein POLITICO March 8, 2020 Public health officials in Washington, D.C., have confirmed the city’s first known case of coronavirus, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Saturday night. The infected man is a D.C. resident in his 50s who started exhibiting symptoms in late February. He was admitted to a D.C. hospital on March 5, Bowser said, and tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday afternoon. Because the man had no history of international travel and no close contacts with anyone known to have coronavirus, the case…

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Rory on PGL: Glad I was first to speak out’ Golf Channel March 7, 2020 Rory McIlroy made his thoughts clear on the proposed Premier Golf League last month at the WGC-Mexico Championship, but Thursday at Bay Hill he went on to explain his motivation to speak out. In Mexico, McIlroy said he was “out” when it came to the proposed circuit and added that he doesn’t like how the league will impact a player’s autonomy. “The reason I said what I said is because, we were in Mexico a couple of weeks ago and some people decided…

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Omar attacks Kavanaugh and Thomas as ‘two accused sexual predators’ Washington Examiner March 7, 2020 Rep. Ilhan Omar lashed out at Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas during a contentious abortion debate, referring to them as “sexual predators.” “Two accused sexual predators should not be deciding whether or not women have access to healthcare in this country,” she tweeted on Wednesday. Two accused sexual predators should not be deciding whether or not women have access to healthcare in this country. https://t.co/okJE85pwoN — Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) March 4, 2020 Continue Reading…..

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