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2:00 PM ET, August 7, 2020

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Washington Post:
House can sue to force former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with subpoena  —  House Democrats can sue to force President Trump's former White House counsel Donald McGahn to comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. appeals court rules against Trump over subpoena for ex-White House lawyer
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Associated Press:
Appeals court revives House lawsuit for McGahn's testimony
Discussion: Axios
CNN:
House can subpoena former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify, appeals court rules
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Nellie Bowles / New York Times:
Abolish the Police?  Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren't So Sure  —  What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish?  Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.  —  SEATTLE — Faizel Khan was being told …
Discussion: Twitchy and Instapundit
Madeline Holcombe / CNN:
Georgia student suspended after posting a photo of a crowded school hallway says it was ‘good and necessary trouble’  —  (CNN)A viral photo showing students in a Georgia high school crowded in hallways and with few visible masks resulted in the sophomore who posted it being suspended, she said.
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New York Times:
‘The Photo Does Not Look Good’: Georgia School's Crowded Halls Go Viral
David Siders / Politico:
Donald Trump is losing the culture wars  —  The culture wars aren't working for Donald Trump.  —  His law-and-order rhetoric isn't registering with suburban voters.  One of his leading evangelical supporters, Jerry Falwell Jr., was just photographed with his zipper down.
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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Portland protesters cause mayhem again, police officer hurt  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of about 200 people, some wielding homemade shields, clashed with police early Friday in Portland, Oregon for the third consecutive night as two other Black Lives Matter rallies proceeded peacefully elsewhere in the city, authorities said.
Discussion: KPTV-TV and The Daily Caller
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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Protesters rally in Portland as mayor decries violence
Discussion: Instapundit
Politico:
Who made the cut — or got axed — for coveted Democratic convention speaking slots  —  Bernie Sanders and John Kasich will share a night in the spotlight, and both Clintons are slated to have prominent speaking roles at the all-virtual Democratic National Convention in less than two weeks …
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:   Over 300 DNC delegates, members urge Biden to pick Bass for VP
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Trump Blew Up More Than Just TikTok and WeChat  —  The latest executive orders targeting China could be deep and damaging.  Brace for impact.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to ban dealings with ByteDance Ltd., owner of video-sharing sensation TikTok, appears to codify what his administration has already been warning.
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TikTok:
Statement on the Administration's Executive Order
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The politics of walking away  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THERE ARE LOTS OF POLITICAL CALCULATIONS in legislative negotiations: what to give away when, what to ask for, where to hold the meeting and what aide to bring in tow, for example.  —  PERHAPS NOTHING IS MORE TRICKY than deciding when — and how — to walk away.
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Andrew Marra / Palm Beach Post:
Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms  —  “I don't think any of us are in a position to balk the governor,” one director said.  —  As Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed this summer for schools to reopen, state leaders told school boards they would need Health …
Discussion: The Week, Political Wire and Eschaton
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones  —  Anomaly Six has ties to military, intelligence agencies and draws location data from more than 500 apps with hundreds of millions of users  —  WASHINGTON—A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense …
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Trump Fails to Stall Rape Accuser's Lawsuit; Deposition Looms  —  President Donald Trump can't stall a defamation lawsuit filed by a New York advice columnist who claims he raped her two decades ago, a judge ruled, allowing the two sides to start digging for evidence.
Discussion: Common Dreams
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Priscilla DeGregory / New York Post:   Judge rules Trump can't postpone E. Jean Carroll's defamation case
Lee Hawkins / Wall Street Journal:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Says All School Districts in State Are Authorized to Reopen  —  The move allows New York City to go forward with a plans to offer optional in-person classes and remote-learning instruction  —  All New York schools can reopen because of the state's low coronavirus infection rate …
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NBC News:
New York governor says schools can reopen for in-person classes
Discussion: Politico, Axios, Townhall, The Hill and IJR
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
The case against American truck bloat  —  When I was growing up in rural Colorado, my family had a classic work truck: a 1980 F-150 with the famous 300 cubic inch inline six-cylinder engine.  It was often my task to fetch a load of sand for mixing concrete, or landscaping soil, or lumber for some project.
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
‘I can say anything I want’: Michigan official defends using racist slur while refusing to wear a mask  —  A local road commission meeting in northern Michigan on Monday started with one commissioner asking another why he wasn't wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Where Do Republicans Go From Here?  —  The party looks brain-dead at every spot Trump touches.  But off in the corners, there's a lot of intellectual ferment.  —  Jonathan V. Last thinks President Trump is here forever.  Last, an editor at The Bulwark, a conservative site that's been hostile to Trump …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Mr. President, What Are Your Priorities?”  Is Not a Tough Question  —  Trump is running for reëlection, but, unlike four years ago, he can't even say why.  —  It was not supposed to be a trick question, or even all that tricky.  For any other candidate, it would have been the softest of softballs, the slowest of pitches.
Sarah Jeong / The Verge:
The US declared war on TikTok because it can't handle the truth … I cannot emphasize enough how messed up this entire “sell TikTok to an American company” saga is.  The latest twist is a deeply confusing set of executive orders banning transactions with ByteDance (TikTok's Chinese parent company) and WeChat (a Chinese texting app).
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Right-wing media defanged as anti-Biden storylines disintegrate  —  The three biggest anti-Joe Biden storylines in right-wing media over the last year have either fizzled or are getting less online traction than they used to, according to data from NewsWhip provided exclusively to Axios.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Released from jail at height of pandemic, Alexandria rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser  —  Ibrahim Bouaichi then shot himself as police closed in Wednesday, leaving him in critical condition  —  The incident in Karla Dominguez's apartment last October was violent, and it was not consensual …
Discussion: New York Post
Avik Roy / Wall Street Journal:
Why It's (Mostly) Safe To Reopen the Schools  —  Younger children urgently need to get back to their classrooms, and the evidence from Europe shows no wider harms.  It's more complicated with older students.  —  Every American has a stake in the ongoing debate over how, when and if to reopen schools this fall.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
CNN:
First on CNN: Warren and other top Democrats ask USPS watchdog to investigate practices  —  Washington (CNN)Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other top Democrats on Friday sent a letter to the United States Postal Service inspector general asking her to investigate recent operational changes within the agency.
Art Cullen / The Guardian:
Trump is in electoral hot water.  It could be even worse for him by November … President Trump is in deep trouble in the midwest, which edged him over the top into the White House, and things can only get worse by November.  —  'They're dying ... it is what it is': key takeaways from Trump's shocking interview
Discussion: Raw Story
Axios:
U.S. sanctions Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam  —  The Treasury Department on Friday placed sanctions on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, following months of tension as she has allowed continued overreach by Beijing to subvert Hong Kong's autonomy.  —  Why it matters: It's the toughest sanction yet imposed …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Individuals for Undermining Hong Kong's Autonomy
Discussion: New York Post and UPI
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
What Biden Really Needs From a VP Pick  —  We are in an incredibly volatile time and a stable political environment.  President Trump's political standing, while still weak, seems to have stabilized.  Yet, at the same time we don't seem to be making any real progress in getting the COVID-19 crisis under control.
Discussion: Pew Research Center
New York Times:
Pompeo Warned Russia Against Bounties on U.S. Troops in Afghanistan  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is said to have sternly discussed payouts and red lines in a telephone call with Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister.  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …
Discussion: National Review
The Atlantic:
Trump Has Launched a Three-Pronged Attack on the Election  —  And it starts with undermining the U.S. Postal Service.  —  University professor of constitutional law emeritus at Harvard Law School  —  Professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Marisa Iati / Washington Post:
As Fauci battles the pandemic and politics, his grateful neighbors celebrate him as a hero
Discussion: The Hill
Michael Wines / New York Times:
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Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
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Jerrold L. Schecter / Washington Post:
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Discussion: alicublog
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Anti-maskers explain themselves
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Olear / PREVAIL:
The Great Escape: Donald John Trump's Exit Strategy
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump long has relied on nondisclosure deals to prevent criticism. That strategy may be unraveling.