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End the Permanent Campaign

The minute election results are in, federal candidates begin seeking reelection. But imagine an election reform bill that limits the length of federal campaigns and all campaign-related activities to 90 days or, what the heck, even six months. American politics would have no choice but to become a little less broken.

Jennifer Lawless

DreamWorks, Shanghai studio hope ‘Abominable’ suits China

“I think the key point to take away is when Hollywood studios try to create for the Chinese market, they tend to be unsuccessful,” said Aynne Kokas, author of “Hollywood Made in China.” ″They thought ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ would do well in the Chinese market and it didn’t. Some of it is because of a lack of nuance in a lot of the fare.”

Aynne Kokas

Trump’s ‘promise’ to foreign leader sparked whistleblower complaint

What did the president say to a foreign leader that was so troubling it prompted an intelligence official to file a formal complaint? NBC’s Ken Dilanian and Washington Post National Security and Intelligence Reporter Shane Harris join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the incident and why the Director of National Intelligence is refusing to pass that complaint on to Congress. Weighing in: Former Assistant to President Obama, Chris Lu, former FBI Special Agent Clint Watts, and MSNBC Political Analyst Elise Jordan.

Chris Lu

Watchdog or Attack Dog? Experts Weigh In

Professor Jennifer Lawless of the University of Virginia political science department says there is a method to Cicilline’s strategy, “Cicilline can be a watchdog for the voter and a partisan attack dog at the same time. He represents a heavily Democratic district, so he’s well-positioned to hold Republicans accountable for bad behavior without having to worry about suffering at the polls," said Lawless.

Jennifer Lawless

How to remove Brett Kavanaugh without impeaching him

n 2006, years before Christine Blasey Ford publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her when they were both in high school, the Yale Law Journal published a provocative paper. The paper, “How To Remove a Federal Judge” by law professors Saikrishna Prakash and Steven D. Smith, lays out a road map for, well, how to remove a federal judge without resorting to the impeachment power. It argues that a provision of the Constitution stating that federal judges and justices “shall hold their offices during good behaviour” is widely misunderstood.

Saikrishna Prakash

Latest story about Brett Kavanaugh has some holes — Analysis

Saikrishna Prakash of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center told the Review-Journal, “I don’t know of anything that I would think would constitute an impeachable offense. I don’t think (Kavanaugh) lied before the Senate. If you think he did lie before the Senate, that would be for me an impeachable offense.”