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Capital Journal
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Good morning from the WSJ Washington Bureau.
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Trump's Day: President Trump participates in a town hall on Fox News tonight.
Congress: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to weigh in on the remarks Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made outside the Supreme Court Wednesday. More below.
Markets: Investors around the world remain jittery about the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. The U.S. death toll from the virus has risen to 11.
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The House has passed legislation to fund a roughly $8.3 billion response to the coronavirus outbreak, racing to approve the spending as the number of people with the illness continued to grow, reports Andrew Duehren. The Senate is expected to pass the bill this week.
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Under the legislation, more than $3 billion is slated for developing treatments for the virus and $2.2 billion is allocated or the CDC to contain the outbreak, among other measures
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Live updates: What to know now about the coronavirus epidemic
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Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are poised to emerge as the standard-bearers for two wings of the Democratic Party: liberals who want a much larger government role in the U.S. economy versus moderates who include much of the party’s establishment. Julie Bykowicz and Chad Day report.
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Mr. Biden has been the only candidate so far to expand the Democratic electorate, report Aaron Zitner and John McCormick. Mr. Sanders’s appeal among the young, the liberal and the politically independent was too weak in places to create the revolution he promised.
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Most importantly, the Lazarus-like rise from the dead staged by Mr. Biden revelead that Democratic voters are carrying into the polling booth a coldblooded desire to beat the president, writes Jerry Seib. "Nobody unites the Democratic Party the way Donald Trump does."
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How Joe Biden’s Super Tuesday Reshapes the Democratic Primary
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Joe Biden’s string of Super Tuesday victories amounts to one of the biggest political comebacks in recent memory. Here's a look at two potential assets Mr. Biden may have as the race moves forward.
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Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images
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Michael Bloomberg’s "100-day wild ride" was a campaign like no other (Full story)
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Top takeaways from Tuesday’s House and Senate primaries (Full story)
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President Trump attacks Jeff Sessions (Full post)
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House urges administration to weigh Secret-Service protection for Democratic candidates (Full story)
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Where the Democratic race goes from here, with about 60% of all available delegates up for grabs (Interactive)
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Democrats criticize ad targeting GOP lawmakers over coronavirus (Full story)
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Protesters gather outside as justices hear oral arguments in June Medical Services LLC v. Russo at the Supreme Court March 4./PHOTO: Shawn Thew/Shutterstock
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Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday criticized the Senate’s top Democrat for saying the Supreme Court’s two Trump appointees will “pay the price” should they vote against abortion rights, reports Jess Bravin. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous," he said in a statement.
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What Sen. Chuck Schumer said: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
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Mr. Schumer’s spokesman said the comments referenced the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that they will unleash a grass roots movement.
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Supreme Court justices voiced clashing views about abortion restrictions in Louisiana in a case that could send signals about whether a more conservative high court will begin to narrow precedent on abortion rights, report Brent Kendall and Jess Bravin. On Wednesday, the court considered a law enacted in 2014 that requires doctors performing abortions to hold admitting privileges at a hospital no more than 30 miles away.
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From reporter Jess Bravin:
In addition to defending its admitting-privileges law, Louisiana mounted an attack on the right of abortion providers to file lawsuits on behalf of their patients. A win would limit challenges to abortion restrictions, but the gambit gained almost no traction at Wednesday's arguments. Of the three conservative justices who spoke, only Justice Samuel Alito appeared sympathetic to Louisiana’s claim that doctors and clinics have a conflict of interest with patients when it comes to regulations the state asserts are intended to protect women from substandard care.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh ignored the issue, while two other conservatives, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, asked no questions. It was inconceivable that any of the four liberal justices, who consistently have defended abortion rights, would seriously consider stripping clinics and doctors of the right to challenge restrictions.
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A Defense Department linguist has been charged with sharing classified information with an individual connected to the Hezbollah terrorist group, including the real names of individuals who were spying for the U.S., report Warren P. Strobel and Aruna Viswanatha.
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Justice Department officials said Mariam Taha Thompson, 61, transmitted the highly classified data while serving at a Special Operations Task Force site in Erbil, Iraq.
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The U.S. Army has initiated the biggest shift since the Vietnam War era in how it selects a key class of officers, drawing on private-sector hiring practices, reports Nancy A. Youssef. The new system stresses anonymity to eliminate any possible bias.
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After former Vice President Joe Biden's rush into the lead on Super Tuesday, Democrats may suffer a Biden hangover. (DC Examiner)
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By its final few days, most of those in the campaign of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg realized its implosion couldn't be stopped. (The Atlantic)
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New Hampshire's Republican governor says the state will defend the Affordable Care Act before the Supreme Court. (WMUR)
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