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3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 3/27/2018

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Trump’s legal team is in shambles. The timing is terrible.

Mueller’s Russia investigators want to talk to the president right as his legal team is falling apart.

President Trump’s legal team is in shambles at one of the worst possible moments in the Russia investigation.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is heating up, and Trump is facing a big decision about whether to sit down for an interview with Mueller. But because of the staffing chaos that seems to have plagued the rest of his administration, the president now finds himself with virtually no qualified attorneys left to defend him in the Russia probe.

Trump’s top personal lawyer, John Dowd, resigned on Thursday. Reports say he’d grown frustrated with Trump’s unwillingness to heed his legal advice, including his view that an interview with Mueller would be too risky.

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The Supreme Court Case That Could Transform Politics

The late Antonin Scalia believed the court was powerless to do anything about gerrymandering. Will today’s justices agree?

For decades, the Supreme Court struggled with when and how to regulate the drawing of legislative districts for partisan and self-interested purposes. Before Scalia joined the court, a fractured decision in 1986’s Davis v. Bandemer held that courts were open to hear cases about partisan gerrymandering—in court parlance, that the claims were “justiciable.” But the standard the court announced—that the gerrymandering would have to be so bad as to consistently frustrate the will of the majority of voters—was so hard to meet that no one was ever able to successfully bring a claim.

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Multiple suspicious packages sent to DC-area military and intelligence installations

The FBI has taken custody of multiple suspicious packages sent to military locations and the CIA in the Washington, DC area, officials said Monday.

They said packages were sent to the CIA, Fort Belvoir and Fort McNair. A US official said a Naval Support Facility in Dahlgren, Virginia, also received a suspicious package and that the FBI is leading the investigation.
A law enforcement official told CNN there were more than 10 devices. All were very crude, involving black powder, and would not have caused fatalities had they gone off, the official said.

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