| No Images? Click here  Tuesday, March 26TRUMP COURT THREAT The Trump administration has adopted a more extreme position on a lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act: Instead of asking the federal courts to throw out just one part of the law, as it had done previously, it now wants the courts to throw out the entire thing. Protections for people with pre-existing conditions, tax credits for lower- and middle-class insurance buyers, and expanded state Medicaid programs for the poor would all be gone. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] DEMS DEMAND FULL REPORT House Democrats are giving Attorney General William Barr until April 2 to provide a copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report to Congress after lawmakers were only given a four-page summary of the investigation. They have also asked for the investigation’s underlying evidence and materials by next week. [HuffPost] CONGRESSMAN QUOTES HITLER IN HOUSE Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) quoted an attack by Adolf Hitler on Jews on the House floor Monday to chide Democrats and the media. Brooks read from Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, about the Nazi leader’s characterization of “big lie” propaganda that he said was used by his Jewish opponents. In Brooks’ scenario, it applies to Democrats and the media. [HuffPost] NEW JERSEY TO ALLOW TERMINALLY ILL TO END THEIR LIVES New Jersey is poised to be the latest state in America to allow terminally ill people the right to end their own lives. State lawmakers passed bills in the New Jersey Assembly and Senate on Monday approving the measure, which would take effect later this year. The “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act” would allow patients with six months or less to live to self-administer life-ending medication. [HuffPost] CARBON EMISSIONS REACH RECORD HIGH Global energy-related carbon emissions rose to a record high last year as energy demand and coal use increased, according to the International Energy Agency. Energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.7 percent from the previous year, the highest rate of growth since 2013, with the power sector accounting for almost two-thirds of this growth. The United States’ CO2 emissions grew by 3.1 percent in 2018, reversing a decline a year earlier, while China’s emissions rose by 2.5 percent and India’s by 4.5 percent. [Reuters] TEEN WHO EGGED SENATOR BREAKS SILENCE Melbourne teen Will Connolly egged Australian Sen. Fraser Anning last week after the politician said the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings were the fault of Muslim immigrants for entering the country in the first place. “I understand what I did was not the right thing to do,” Connolly, 17, told a television program on Australia’s Network 10. “However, this egg has united people and, you know, money had been raised, tens of thousands of dollars have been raised for those victims.” [HuffPost]
 TRUMP CAMPAIGN ATTEMPTS TO SHAME INTERVIEWERS OUT OF MEETING “CERTAIN GUESTS” Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign sent a memo to television networks on Monday listing “certain guests” who have been critical of the president, including several Democratic lawmakers and former CIA Director John Brennan. The memo urged producers to question whether these people have sufficient credibility to appear on news programs in the future. [HuffPost]FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: MUELLER AIMED TO “PUNT” TO CONGRESS, BARR INTERCEPTED Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Monday he believes that special counsel Robert Mueller intended to “punt” a decision on obstruction of justice charges against Donald Trump to Congress. Instead, Attorney General William Barr “came off the sidelines, caught the ball, and ran it into the end zone for a touchdown for Trump,” Bharara said. [HuffPost]CNN DROPS MARK GERAGOS CNN cut ties with its legal commentator Mark Geragos shortly after he was reported as a co-conspirator of star lawyer Michael Avenatti, who was arrested Monday on charges of fraud and attempted extortion. [HuffPost]CHARLOTTESVILLE STUDENTS WALK OUT Students at Charlottesville High School in Charlottesville, Virginia, walked out of classes on Monday, days after they were targeted by a racist threat on 4chan. The walkout, organized by local activist and student Zyahna Bryant and the high school’s Black Student Union, was framed around pushing the school district for cultural reform and increased safety ― particularly salient concerns in a city where white supremacists held a large and deadly rally less than two years ago. [HuffPost]REPUBLICANS BLOCK MOVE ON MAKING MUELLER REPORT PUBLIC Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday blocked a second attempt by Democrats to pass a measure aimed at prodding the Justice Department to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the public. [Reuters]ISRAEL MOBILIZES AFTER GAZA ROCKET ATTACK An early-morning rocket fired from the Gaza Strip demolished a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding seven people and prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cut short a trip to Washington. The military quickly mobilized troops and called up reserves, setting the stage for a potential major conflagration shortly before Israel’s upcoming elections. [AP]
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