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Former Florida Rep. Joe Scarborough said Monday his pet rock could have toppled Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, thanks to all the baggage she carried into the contest.

My pet rock could have gotten 45 percent against Hillary Clinton, Mr. Scarborough said on MSNBCs Morning Joe. Maybe if my pet rock didnt make any gaffes in the three debates, my pet rock could have beaten Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Scarborough, a Republican, said the election was not about President Trump, who won the electoral college and lost the popular vote to Mrs. Clinton by a 48 percent to 46 percent margin.

This election was not about Donald Trump, he said. It was all about Hillary and Bill Clinton.

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Hillary Clinton supporters just cant get over Susan Sarandon aggressively advocating for Bernie Sanders, which they think contributed to Donald Trumps election victory.

Sarandon refused to dial down her criticism of Clinton even as Sanders dropped out of the race. In return, liberals with long memories are boycotting her performance as screen legend Bette Davis on FX anthology TV series Feud.

You would have thought that people watching Ryan Murphys dramatization of the feud between Davis and Joan Crawford (played by Jessica Lange) from Hollywoods bygone age that premiered on FX last month wouldwell let bygones be bygones.

No such luck. Lefties are still mad at Sarandon and despite saying they very much want to watch the new show from Murphy, who createdThe People v. O.J. Simpson, are posting tortured tweets:

Somehow we think Sarandon will get over not being watched by this insurrectionist Feud network!

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Last week, Judge Nathan dismissed a challenge by a group of yellow taxi medallion owners to New York Citys regulatory treatment of Uber and similar ride-hailing services. The plaintiffs alleged that the decision to exempt Uber and its drivers from the requirements imposed on yellow cabs constituted a regulatory taking under the Fifth Amendment and violated the Fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause (see our previous coverage here). Judge Nathan rejected the takings claim as untimely, noting that New York State provided a mechanism for seeking just compensation for a taking, but plaintiffs had not attempted to avail themselves of it.

In response to the plaintiffs equal protection claim, Judge Nathan reasoned that the city was justified in separate regulatory regimes for yellow cabs and Uber:

The Citys for-hire ground transportation industry like its analogues in other parts of the country and the world may well, as Plaintiffs allege, be rapidly evolving. And a notable feature of that evolution may indeed be that the Ubers and Lyfts of the world increasingly share important characteristics with traditional medallion taxicabs, including, as identified by Plaintiffs, the customers they serve, the drivers they employ, the manner in which they transact sales, and even the immediacy with which their services are delivered. But marshaling such similarities risks obscuring persistent (and undisputed) differences in the manner in which these industry participants interact with and relate to their consumers. One set responds, by virtue of a government-created monopoly, to spontaneous street hails by people with whom they have no preexisting contractual relationship and the pickup takes place with no information (for example, names, vehicle type) having yet been formally exchanged. The other responds, pursuant to a preexisting company-customer contract, to remotely transmitted electronic hails and the pick-up takes place following at least a minimal exchange of information. Such differences, easily justify Defendants decision to subject these participants to differential regulatory treatment on the basis of legitimate government policy to serve the sorts of interests discussed above. Under the deferential standards of rational basis review, nothing more is required for the challenged regulations to survive.

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Waymo, the self-driving vehicle business spun out of Googles parent company a year ago, asked a federal court on March 10, 2017 to block Ubers work on a competing self-driving truck that Waymo claimed could be using stolen technology.

Google's Waymo accused Uber of stealing documents that described critical self-driving auto technology, with former top Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski being at the center of the case. Uber's lawyers argue that the company does not have the documents Levandowski is accused of stealing from Waymo, therefore it can not hand them over in the scheduled document production. He did so to avoid turning over documents in the Waymo v. Uber trade-secret litigation.

Speaking to The New York Times, the lawyers for Anthony Levandowski say that he will exercise his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination due to the potential of criminal action in the case.

Anthony Levandowski, the head of Uber's self-driving auto project, took the extraordinary step during a closed court hearing on Wednesday.

The case is expected to be a high-profile fight that pits two of the biggest companies involved in trying to put autonomous cars on the road-unless Uber succeeds in moving things out of the public eye and in to arbitration.

Uber has asked the court to stay Waymo's trade secret and unfair competition claims if it decides they have to be settled by arbitration, but should let the remaining claims such as the patent infringement charges proceed in the court.

For the time being, Levandowski's lawyers said that they're "broadly asserting" his Fifth Amendment rights to "any documents he may possess and control" that are relevant.

The Times cites court transcripts from a Thursday hearing, which include Levandowski's lawyers invoking the amendment in what appears to be a precaution related to document release.

Waymo accuses Levandowski of downloading "over 14,000 highly confidential and proprietary design files for Waymo's various hardware systems" roughly six weeks prior to resigning from the company. But what's unusual is that it's only seeking to move the trade secrets and unfair competition claims, both of which it claims are meritless. The company last week filed a motion to request that the disputes around trade secrets be resolved in private arbitration instead of a public court.

The said arbitration process accused him of leaving the company with a full load of confidential information, which was later used to poach other employees from Waymo.

The allegations Waymo made against Levandowski and Uber in the lawsuit remain unproven.

"You don't get many cases where there is pretty direct proof that somebody downloaded 14,000 documents, and then left the next day", Alsup said at a March 16 hearing.

"There's going to be a lot of adverse headlines in this case on both sides", Judge Alsup said.

"We look forward to our first public response laying out our case on Friday, 7 April", Angela Padilla, Uber's associate general counsel, said in a statement.

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ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Turkish voters in Europe to defy the "grandchildren of Nazism" and back a referendum this month on changing the constitution, comments likely to cause further ire in Europe.

Erdogan has repeatedly lashed out at European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, in campaigning for the referendum, accusing them of "Nazi-like" tactics for banning his ministers from speaking to rallies of Turkish voters abroad.

Both the Germans and Dutch have been incensed by the comparisons to Nazism and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the references must stop.

"With this determination, we will never allow three or four European fascists ... from harming this country's honor and pride," Erdogan told a packed crowd of flag-waving supporters in the Black Sea city of Rize, where his family comes from.

"I call on my brothers and sisters voting in Europe...give the appropriate answer to those imposing this fascist oppression and the grandchildren of Nazism."

Erdogan is counting on the support of expatriates in Europe, including the 1.4 million Turks eligible to vote in Germany, to pass constitutional changes that would give him sweeping presidential powers.

But ties with Europe have deteriorated in the run-up to the campaign. Erdogan last month said Turkey would reevaluate its relationship with the bloc, and may even hold a second referendum on whether to continue accession talks.

On Monday, he said he could take the issue of whether Turkey should restore the death penalty to referendum if necessary.

"The European Union will not like this. But I don't care what Hans, George or Helga say, I care what Hasan, Ahmet, Mehmet, Ayse and Fatma say. I care what God says... If necessary, we will take this issue to another referendum as well," he told the rally.

Turkey abandoned capital punishment more than a decade ago as part of its bid to join the European Union, but Erdogan has repeatedly told crowds calling for it following the July 15 failed coup that he would approve its restoration if parliament passed it.

Restoring capital punishment would all but end Turkey's bid to join the EU, officials from the bloc have said.

(Reporting by Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Humeyra Pamuk)

ANKARA Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Iraqi Kurds to lower the Kurdish flag in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, warning that failure to do so would damage their relations with Turkey.

CARACAS Venezuelan security forces quelled rowdy protesters with tear gas, water cannons and pepper spray in Caracas on Tuesday after blocking an opposition rally against unpopular socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

CAIRO Islamic State said on Tuesday the United States was drowning and "being run by an idiot".

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