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From The Reporter’s Notebook
A handful of pollsters and pundits told TPM’s Lauren Fox that the GOP campaigns and candidates had an obligation to attempt to stop Donald Trump before Iowa. “I don’t pretend to know if it would definitely work but we are getting to the point that someone needs to try,” said Republican strategist Brian Walsh.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: Fox News acts as Donald Trump’s Leni Riefenstahl, elevating his bigotry and weaving a tapestry of falsehoods and hysteria that creates a mental world in which his “mounting volume of racist incitement is just not at all surprising.”
Say What?!
“I think it’s a mistake to base immigration or moratoriums based on religion. But you know, I’ve called for something similar, which is a moratorium based on high risk.”
– Rand Paul disparaged Trump’s Muslim ban, but said he had a similar idea too.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “If Tony Scalia really is a literalist who thinks the Court should honor original intent, this is over-and-done with. In the debates over the Fourteenth Amendment, the idea of apportioning on the basis of eligible voters was discussed and amendments of the wording to allow such were brought forward more than twice. They were defeated every time. Congress did not intend to allow apportionment on the basis of eligible voters. Period. But beyond that, the national experts on counting (the Census Bureau) filed an amicus brief in which they said the data do not exist to allow apportionment by eligible voters and they doubt data reliable enough to be used for apportionment can be collected. So, no data exist and the experts doubt it can be collected.”
Related: SCOTUS is tip-toeing around minorities in an important voting rights case.
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What We’re Reading
The Navy reprimanded a 2-star admiral for getting drunk and wandering around naked at a Florida hotel. (The Washington Post)
An interactive map to see how many people have been shot in your neighborhood. (Slate)
Study: Jeb Bush’s tax plan is 4 times as expensive as his brother’s tax cuts. (Vox)
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