memeorandum: How Jeff Sessions would change the Justice Department (Byron York/Washington Examiner)

8:35 AM ET, January 10, 2017

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5 GOP Senators Propose Delay On O'Care Repeal To Work Out Replacement — After publicly airing some of their grievances with the GOP's current strategy of repealing Obamacare without a replacement plan, a handful of Republican senators put their concerns in legislative writing.

Discussion: ACASignups.net

Bloomberg:

Breakaway Senate Republicans Push to Delay Obamacare Repeal — More support for ‘repeal and replace’ to happen simultaneously — Republicans increasingly open to delaying repeal of tax hikes — A breakaway group of five moderate Senate Republicans pushed Monday to delay …

Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post

Lauren Fox / Talking Points Memo:

A lead Republican in the fight to repeal Obamacare said Monday night that he wanted to work in a step by step manner to repeal Obamcare once a replacement was “available to the American people ” — Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is the chairman of the Senate's HELP Committee and has been a leading voice …

Steven Shepard / Politico:

Voters skeptical of Obamacare repeal without a replacement plan — Voters want — and expect — President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress to repeal the 2010 health care law, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll released Tuesday, but they are skeptical …

Discussion: The Week, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hit & Run

Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP leaders vow to plow ahead with Obamacare repeal

Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Magazine

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Obamacare Repeal Might Have Just Died Tonight

Discussion: Vox, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Talking Points Memo, Politico and Daily Kos

Associated Press:
GOP Anxiety Mounts Over Voiding Health Law Without Own Plan

Discussion: Politico and ABC News

Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:

Sessions failed to disclose oil interests as required, ethics experts say — Attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions did not disclose his ownership of oil interests on land in Alabama as required by federal ethics rules, according to an examination of state records and independent ethics lawyers who reviewed the documents.

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Daily Kos

Alex Johnson / NBC News:

Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. John Lewis to Testify Against Jeff Sessions for Attorney General — Booker to testify against colleague Sessions 6:22 — Sen. Cory Booker is set to make history this week when he testifies before the Judiciary Committee against Sen. Jeff Sessions' nomination …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, CNN, The Week, NBC News and twitchy.com

The Hill:

Five things to watch for in Sessions confirmation hearing — (R-Ala.), who has emerged as one of President-elect Donald Trump — 's most polarizing Cabinet picks, will face his colleagues in the Senate on Tuesday as he seeks confirmation to become the country's next attorney general.

Discussion: Hot Air

CNN:
First on CNN: Condoleezza Rice endorses Sessions for attorney general

Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine, The Root, ThinkProgress, Raw Story, Religion News Service and Feeds

Byron York / Washington Examiner:
How Jeff Sessions would change the Justice Department

Discussion: Instapundit

Kenneth Lipp / The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Wanted to ‘Drop the Case’ Against KKK Lynching, Attorney Testified

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Atlantic

Grace Watkins / Politico:

Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation — Monica Crowley, President-Elect Donald J. Trump's pick for a top National Security Council job, plagiarized numerous passages in her Ph.D. dissertation, Politico Magazine has found. — An examination of the dissertation …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, AOL and Libraries Home

Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Post:
The Trump team's embarrassing defense of fraudulence

Discussion: New York Magazine

New York Times:

Obama Watchdog in Congress Has New Target in Trump Era: Postal Reform — An Obama watchdog has changed his tune now that a Republican will be in the White House. — President-elect Donald J. Trump, after an intelligence report concluded that Russia tried to help him get elected, is going after ... Meryl Streep.

Diana Pearl / People.com:
D.C. Dress Shops Dispute Trump's Claim That They Are ‘Sold-Out’ for Inauguration: 'There's Never Been Less Demand'

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week, Raw Story, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Washingtonian, AOL, East Bay Times, Washington Post and New York Times

Farah Stockman / New York Times:

Women's March on Washington Opens Contentious Dialogues About Race — Many thousands of women are expected to converge on the nation's capital for the Women's March on Washington the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration. Jennifer Willis no longer plans to be one of them.

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Instapundit and Power Line

Emma Brown / Washington Post:

Senate postpones confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick — The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has postponed the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NPR, New York Magazine and The Week

Benjamin Wermund / Politico:
DeVos' donations spark questions about her stance on campus sexual assault

Discussion: RedState

The Guardian:
We were ethics lawyers for Bush and Obama. Trump's cabinet hearings must be delayed

Discussion: Shareblue, Common Dreams and Raw Story

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

A Troll Outside Trump Tower Is Helping To Pick Your Next Government — An internet troll, who was once called “the most hated man on the internet” and is banned from Twitter, is recommending candidates to serve in the Trump administration. — Charles “Chuck” Johnson …

Discussion: The Verge, RedState, Little Green Footballs, New York Magazine and Heat Street

Robby Mook / New York Times:

Russia's D.N.C. Hack Was Only the Start — Imagine the headlines if, in 2015, Russian agents had leapt out of a van at 2 a.m. in Southeast Washington and broken into the Democratic National Committee offices using sophisticated tools and techniques to steal tens of thousands of documents …

Discussion: Politico and The Week

Liam Quinn / Daily Mail:

Shocked waitress is left a racist note by white couple who 'don't tip black people' even after they admitted she gave them ‘great service’ — A waitress who served a white couple at a Virginia restaurant was left a racist message instead of a tip. — The waitress, Kelly Carter …

Discussion: Sputnik International, AOL and alan.com

Mike Carter-Conneen / WJLA-TV:
Waitress undeterred by racist note left on bill at restaurant

Discussion: The Root and Raw Story

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:

White House defends Meryl Streep's anti-Trump speech — President Obama's top spokesman on Monday defended actress Meryl Streep's Golden Globes speech that criticized President-elect Donald Trump — “She clearly was delivering a thoughtful, carefully considered message that she believes in deeply …

Discussion: ABC News and Hot Air

Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Changing His Tune? Trump Praised ‘Excellent’ Meryl Streep In 2015

Discussion: Us Weekly, Mediaite, Mashable and RedState

Jennifer Calfas / The Hill:

Sanders: ‘Much too early’ to say if I'll run for president again — (I-Vt.) said it is “much too early” for him to consider a 2020 presidential run. — “It is much too early to talk about that,” Sanders said during a CNN town hall Monday night. — Sanders, who will be 79 years old in 2020 …

Discussion: alan.com

Ashley Feinberg / Gizmodo:

Trump Just Dismissed the People in Charge of Maintaining Our Nuclear Arsenal — Between the Trump transition team's infighting, incompetence, and high-profile resignations, any decisions that signaled even a modicum of stability for the country would come as a relief at this point.