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11:05 AM ET, September 2, 2018

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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
John McCain's Funeral Was the Biggest Resistance Meeting Yet  —  Two ex-Presidents and one eloquent daughter team up to rebuke the pointedly uninvited Donald Trump.  —  Donald Trump's name was never mentioned.  It didn't have to be.  The funeral service for John Sidney McCain III …
Discussion: Power Line and Hullabaloo
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Trump allies fume at McCain memorial addresses, urge counterattack  —  President Donald Trump's allies went on the counterattack Saturday after tributes to the late Sen. John McCain took pointed aim at the president.  —  As Washington mourned McCain, Trump's people grew angry.
Discussion: Raw Story, ABC News, Breitbart, Axios and Vox
Mike Allen / Axios:
D.C. dreams of saner times  —  Amid the Trump-shaming at the emotional Washington National Cathedral sendoff for Sen. John McCain, the televised eulogies and private conversations reflected a broader dream that the United States is still capable of a saner politics.
Discussion: Politico
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
John McCain's Funeral Was a Council of War—Just as He Meant It to Be
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Daily Wire and Townhall
Washington Post:   McCain's funeral was a melancholy last hurrah for what's been lost in Trump era
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
McCain tributes echo with criticism of Trump
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
WATCH: Obama, Bush, Meghan McCain Swipe at Trump During John McCain Funeral Service
Discussion: IJR and Breitbart
Annie Linskey / BostonGlobe.com:
Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law  —  CAMBRIDGE — The 60-plus Harvard Law School professors who filed into an auditorium-style room on the first floor of Pound Hall on that February 1993 afternoon had a significant question to answer: Should they offer a job to Elizabeth Warren?
Rob Tibbetts / Des Moines Register:
From Mollie Tibbetts' father: Don't distort her death to advance racist views  —  Mollie was nobody's victim.  Nor is she a pawn in others' debate  —  CONNECT  —  Ten days ago, we learned that Mollie would not be coming home.  Shattered, my family set out to celebrate Mollie's extraordinary life …
Associated Press:
Kansas high court rules grand jury must be convened to investigate Kris Kobach … A grand jury must be convened to investigate whether Republican gubernatorial candidate and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach intentionally failed to register voters in 2016, the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled.
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Peter Hancock / The Lawrence Journal-World:
Kansas Supreme Court agrees Douglas County must summon grand jury to investigate Kobach
Anna Sanders / New York Post:
AMI employees donated thousands of dollars to Cuomo campaigns … National Enquirer boss David Pecker isn't just Donald Trump's longtime pal and campaign confidant — he's quietly lavished tens of thousands of dollars on Gov. Cuomo.  —  Pecker's American Media Inc., company executives …
Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times:
Caught in a political echo chamber?  Listening to the opposition can make partisanship even worse  —  Dwelling in a political echo chamber — where you only encounter people who agree with you — is hardly conducive to a healthy democracy.  —  But it turns out that broadening your horizons …
New York Post:
Suspected MS-13 member broke into sleeping girl's bedroom, raped her: cops  —  A purported member of the MS-13 gang broke into the bedroom of a sleeping 11-year-old Brooklyn girl and raped her in her bed, cops said Saturday as the suspect was taken into custody.
Martin Cizmar / Raw Story:
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro brutally shames Jeff Sessions for refusing to quit: 'Where is your dignity?  You're not wanted'  —  Fox News host Jeanine Pirro delivered a rant addressed to Jeff Sessions to open her show on Saturday night.  —  In her customary format of addressing herself directly …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Steven Kurutz / New York Times:
How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank  —  Fed up with their high-pressure jobs, some millennials are quitting and embracing the FIRE movement.  (It stands for financial independence, retire early).  —  Carl Jensen experienced what he calls “the awakening” sometime around 2012.
Discussion: Althouse
Theresa May / Telegraph:
There will be no second referendum on Brexit - it would be a gross betrayal of our democracy  —  Follow the author of this article Follow the topics within this article … The coming months will be critical in shaping the future of our country and I am clear about my mission.
Discussion: The Guardian, France 24 and Politico
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
White House Cites Executive Privilege to Withhold 100,000 Pages of Kavanaugh Records  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, citing executive privilege, is withholding from the Senate more than 100,000 pages of records from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's time as a lawyer in the administration of former President George W. Bush.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Kavanaugh's Kozinski Test
Discussion: Balkinization and Washington Post
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Wall Street Journal:
Anatomy of a Fusion Smear
Discussion: Power Line and The Last Refuge
John Bowden / The Hill:
DeSantis: Gillum wants to turn Florida ‘into Venezuela’  —  is going after his Florida Democratic gubernatorial rival Andrew Gillum as the GOP congressman seeks to move on from controversy surrounding a racially-charged remark made last week.  —  DeSantis told host John Catsimatidis …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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