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But if Republicans abandon their efforts to take health insurance from millions of people as they seem close to doing Democrats should begin confirming more nominees. They made some progress yesterday, approving eight Pentagon nominees.

I understand the instinct that some Democrats have to oppose the Trump administration in every conceivable way. And if Democrats want to hold up some specific nominations to protest Trumps disdain for the rule of law, Id be all for it.

Yet the current level of obstruction should not continue indefinitely.

It would be a mistake for Democrats to set a precedent that would rob future presidents of the ability to staff their own administration.

On the news. The Wall Street Journal refused to publish a transcript of its own interview with the president, apparently to avoid embarrassing both Trump and Gerard Baker, the Journals editor. But Politicos Josh Dawsey and Hadas Gold got the transcript and published it. (I wrote about the battles between Baker and his staff in a February column.)

The Senate confirmed Christopher Wray as the new F.B.I. director yesterday. Lawfares Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have argued that Wray deserves confirmation but doesnt deserve to serve out his 10-year term: To give Wray his ten years would send a message to all future presidents that there is no cost for removing the FBI director and replacing him or her with your own person.

Kenya, which is holding a presidential campaign, has its own fake news problem, Nanjala Nyabola writes in Foreign Policy: A timid media self-censors political news, opening the door to alternative information sources that arent always truthful.

Reader response. Several of you wrote or tweeted with the names of other people and organizations that helped save health insurance in addition to those I mentioned in yesterdays column.

Among those you mentioned: Adapt and other disability rights activists, including those who were arrested in their wheelchairs; MoveOn; the Protect Our Care coalition; and Planned Parenthood. I know there are many others too.

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