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4:15 PM ET, March 5, 2015

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Hillary Clinton breaks silence on email controversy  —  She calls on the State Department to release her emails.  —  After two days of silence, Hillary Clinton weighed in on the controversy surrounding her use of a personal email address during her tenure as secretary of state late on Wednesday night …
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Democrats See a Familiar Pattern in the Clinton E-mail Story  —  Reports of Democrats fretting about Hillary's future have been overstated.  —  “You're not going to be the sixteenth writer who asks me about Hillary, are you?” says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.  “I know you would not do that.
Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Clinton State Department Ousted Ambassador Using Private Email  —  In 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration abruptly stepped down from his post.  According to a Foreign Policy report by Josh Rogin (now a reporter for Bloomberg), Gration was the subject of a whithering evaluation from the State Department:
ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Email Mystery Man: What We Know About Eric Hoteham … One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the discovery that Hillary Clinton used a personal email account and private server during her time as Secretary of State was the fact that the system was registered to a man that no one had ever heard of.
Sam Biddle / Gawker:
How Unsafe Was Hillary Clinton's Secret Staff Email System?  —  When Hillary Clinton ditched government email in favor of a secret, personal address, it wasn't just an affront to Obama's vaunted transparency agenda—security experts consulted by Gawker have laid out a litany of potential threats …
Discussion: Hot Air and VodkaPundit
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
House Dem suggests Clinton is raising the bar for transparency
Discussion: Politico and National Review
Lauren French / Politico:
Trey Gowdy: Not backing off subpoena of Hillary Clinton emails
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Mediaite
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Roberts will uphold ObamaCare  —  In this “friend of the court” column, I suggest with 90 percent confidence that Chief Justice John Roberts, who remained virtually silent during oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, will join a majority of justices to uphold the subsidy provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Discussion: RedState
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Did John Roberts Tip His Hand?  —  The Supreme Court oral argument on Wednesday in King v. Burwell featured thousands of words, dozens of provocative questions, two engaged and skillful lawyers—and one very striking silence.  Chief Justice John Roberts, usually among the most active questioners …
Scott Pruitt / Wall Street Journal:
A State Reply to Justice Kennedy  —  We are not children who must be protected by the federal government from making choices.  —  By  —  The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in King v. Burwell, a challenge to ObamaCare.  At issue is wording in the 2010 Affordable Care Act stipulating …
Jonathan H. Adler / USA Today:   Law means what it says: Opposing view
Paul Barrett / Bloomberg Business:   Hundreds of Big Companies Urge Supreme Court to Back Gay Marriage
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  March 5, 2015 - Walker, Bush In Tight Race Among U.S. Republicans, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Clinton Sweeps Dem Field, With Biden In The Wings  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, with 18 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 16 percent …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Likely 2016 GOP hopefuls recast immigration views
Tamara Lush / Associated Press:
Ringling Bros. Circus to give up elephant acts in 3 years  —  12 photos  —  POLK CITY, Fla. (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public concern …
Mike Allen / Politico:
Kathleen Matthews likely to run for Van Hollen's seat  —  Kathleen Matthews, Marriott International's executive vice president and chief global communications and public affairs officer, and wife of MSNBC's Chris Matthews, is planning to run for the seat of Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
Reuters:
Knife-wielding attacker slashes face of U.S. ambassador in South Korea  —  (Reuters) - U.S. ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert underwent two-and-a-half hours of surgery after he was slashed in the face by a Korean nationalist in an attack at a breakfast forum in Seoul on Thursday to discuss Korean reunification.
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Jane Onyanga-Omara / USA Today:
N. Korea: U.S. ambassador attack ‘just punishment’
Jim Salter / Associated Press:
Michael Brown's parents announce civil lawsuit in death  —  3 photos  —  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson said Thursday that they would file a civil lawsuit in Michael Brown's death.
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Washington Post:
The 12 key highlights from the DOJ's scathing Ferguson report
Yasser Okbi / Jerusalem Post:
Speculation over successor after Iran's Khamenei reportedly hospitalized in serious condition  —  Media blitz on Khamenei's health raises questions abo...  Khamenei on Twitter: No cure for barbaric Israeli reg...  Iran's Khamenei: 'Increasing global hatred of Israel ...
Alan Sepinwall / Hitfix:
ONE LAST ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ Q&A WITH MIKE SCHUR  —  ON HILLARY CLINTON, THE SWANSON BROTHERS, HARRIS WITTELS, AND MORE
Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Sheriffs sue Colorado over legal marijuana  —  DENVER — Sheriffs from Colorado and neighboring states Kansas and Nebraska say in a lawsuit to be filed Thursday that Colorado's marijuana law creates a “crisis of conscience” by pitting the state law against the Constitution and puts an economic burden on other states.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Hot Air
 
 
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Rein in the IRS  —  Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) is now chairman …
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