| No Images? Click here  Monday, April 1MCCONNELL PLANS RULE CHANGE TO CONFIRM TRUMP JUDGES Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants to adjust the rules again to make it easier to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominees to lifetime seats on federal courts. McConnell, whose greatest legacy is denying a Supreme Court seat and dozens of other federal judgeships to President Barack Obama, said the rule change is necessary because of Democrats’ “unprecedented obstruction” of Trump’s nominees. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]DEMS SLOW-WALK TRUMP’S TAXES Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) can ask for copies of Trump’s federal tax returns whenever he wants, but seemingly doesn’t care if Democrats don’t get the documents before the next election. Though the law is clear that the treasury secretary is supposed to hand over returns requested by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has all but said he’ll disobey the law, meaning there will be a court fight. [HuffPost]BIDEN RESPONDS TO KISS CLAIM Former Vice President Joe Biden has responded to allegations that he displayed inappropriate affection toward a former Nevada assemblywoman, saying that in his years as a public figure, “not once ― never ― did I believe I acted inappropriately.” Biden’s response follows Lucy Flores’ accusation that he touched and kissed the back of her head without her consent in 2014 during an appearance with her to aid her unsuccessful campaign for Nevada lieutenant governor. [HuffPost]TEEN FATALLY SHOT AFTER KNOCKING ON WRONG DOOR A Georgia man is facing murder charges after police said he shot a 19-year-old who mistakenly knocked on his apartment front door looking for his girlfriend. “A verbal exchange ensued between the two parties and at some point, the resident produced a handgun and shot the victim,” the Atlanta Police Department said in a release. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim to HuffPost as Omarion Banks. [HuffPost]NIPSEY HUSSLE DEAD AT 33 Rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed and two others were injured in a shooting in Los Angeles’ Hyde Park neighborhood, NBC and the Los Angeles Times reported. Shortly before the shooting, Hussle, whose birth name is Ermias Asghedom, tweeted an ominous message: “Having strong enemies is a blessing.” He is survived by his young son and daughter, and his girlfriend Lauren London. [HuffPost]STUDENT FOUND DEAD AFTER GETTING INTO WRONG CAR A 21-year-old University of South Carolina student is believed to have been kidnapped and murdered after entering a vehicle she mistook for her Uber ride early Friday, authorities said. Samantha Josephson was out with friends in Columbia, South Carolina, when she was seen getting into a black Chevrolet Impala around 2 a.m. Her body was found the next afternoon in a wooded area by turkey hunters. [HuffPost] ACLU PREPARED TO SPEND $30 MILLION ON 2020 ELECTION The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing 2020 presidential candidates to commit to cutting the federal prison population in half and to allow incarcerated people to vote, part of a $30 million push to shape elections and advance civil libertarian ideas over the next two years. It has used its rapidly expanding membership and budget during the Trump era to get increasingly involved in electoral politics. [HuffPost]FEDS FEAR LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF TRUMP’S FBI ATTACKS Trump, who has called the special counsel team a “National Disgrace” and Mueller a “conflicted prosecutor gone rogue,” said Monday that he thought Mueller had acted honorably. “Total exoneration,” he falsely said of a report that explicitly says it “does not exonerate” the president. The law enforcement community worries that the sudden shift in Trump’s rhetoric won’t soon erase the long-term consequences of the president’s repeated attacks on the Justice Department and the FBI. [HuffPost]SANDERS FLOATS 50-PERCENT PRESCRIPTION PRICE CUT Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) vowed that if his 2020 bid for the presidency succeeds, he will slash prescription drug prices in half. “I am elected president, I’m going to cut prescription drug costs in this country by 50 percent so that we are not paying any more than other major countries are paying,” he said during a Sunday appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” [HuffPost]COMEDIAN LEADS UKRAINE ELECTION Comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who plays Ukraine’s president on TV and has no political experience, was leading in Ukraine’s presidential election on Sunday, an exit poll indicated. With 11 percent of the ballots counted, Zelenskiy had more than 29 percent of the votes, while incumbent President Petro Poroshenko was in a distant second place. [AP]SETBACK FOR ERDOGAN AS PARTY LOSES CAPITAL The party of Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost control of the capital, Ankara, in local elections in a setback to his 16 years in power. The opposition is also ahead in the contest for mayor of the largest city, Istanbul, the election commission says. Nationally, the president's AKP-led alliance won more than 51 percent of the vote in municipal elections. [BBC]
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