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February 14, 2020

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Texas Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn vote against bipartisan measure to limit Trump’s Iran war powers
Dallas Morning News

The Texans’ stand helped make clear that the rebuke has no chance of withstanding the veto Trump has pledged to issue if and when the Democratic-run House approves the measure. It also marked another instance in which Cruz and Cornyn declined to buck the president, a fellow Republican.

Bernie edges past Biden among Texas Democrats
Austin American-Statesman

Sanders was the choice of 24% of Democrats, doubling his 12% share in the October poll and vaulting him past both Biden, at 22%, and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, at 15%, who also led Sanders in the last survey.

Trump bucks Barr’s request to stop tweeting about Justice Dept., declaring a ‘legal right’ to seek intervention in criminal cases
The Washington Post

On Tuesday, Trump criticized as unduly harsh the sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years made by prosecutors. Shortly thereafter, the Justice Department signaled that it would seek a more lenient sentence for Stone, a move that prompted the four career prosecutors to withdraw from the case — and one to resign from the government.

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