"Department of Justice officials have impaneled a federal grand jury in the Hillary Clinton email case and FBI agents have launched a second, separate investigation on political corruption involving the former secretary of state'€™s official activities and the Clinton Foundation, a former U.S. attorney told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

"Joseph E. diGenova, who served as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia for four years, said Wednesday he believes the FBI is investigating two separate Clinton scandals.

'"The Bureau has between 100 and 150 agents assigned to the case. They would not have that many people assigned to a classified information case,' he told TheDCNF, addressing Clinton's use of a private email server located at her New York home."

"Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton's Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to 'help.'

"Clinton wants a cadre of new government educrats to undo the decades-old damage of old government educrats in America's worst public schools. She pitched her creepy proposal at the Democratic presidential debate in Michigan on Sunday for an 'education SWAT team' to swarm down and rescue students from failing districts in decrepit cities such as Detroit (run by whom? Oh, yeah. Democrats!). ...

"Detroit's schools, swimming in $3.5 billion of accumulated debt, face bankruptcy in April. The district is now under FBI investigation for a vendor kickback scheme involving the very kind of 'experts' -- entrenched teachers, self-serving principals, and profligate school officials -- whom Clinton would enlist to rescue the schools they are guilty of plundering.

"It's government SWAT team business as usual: Destroying the village to 'save' it."

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"It was the 'excuse me' that echoed around Democratic politics.

"In their intense Flint, Mich., debate, Bernie Sanders pointedly said to Hillary Clinton in the heat of one exchange, 'Excuse me, I'm talking.'

"Sanders has an $18 trillion unicorns-dancing-on-rainbows spending program and a paranoiac's view of Wall Street, but nothing is quite as disqualifying for the feminist Left as his alleged 'condescension' in this moment and a couple of others (in two other instances, he asked if he could finish, please).

"As far as decorum goes, the Clinton-€“Sanders spat was like a dispute over what dinner fork to use at a four-course meal at the Four Seasons compared with the food fights during the Republican forums. It takes a primatologist to try to unravel the dynamics at a GOP debate, whereas the Democratic debates are being scored by the kind of people who worry about microaggressions and need ready access to safe spaces."

"Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton's publicly released correspondence.

"The finding is the first accounting of the Democratic presidential front-runner’s personal role in placing information now considered sensitive into insecure email during her State Department tenure. Clinton's authorship of dozens of emails now considered classified could complicate her efforts to argue that she never put government secrets at risk.

"In roughly three-quarters of those cases, officials have determined that material Clinton herself wrote in the body of email messages is classified. Clinton sometimes initiated the conversations but more often replied to aides or other officials with brief reactions to ongoing discussions."

"Under the Affordable Care Act, deductibles are increasing in 41 states, with some deductibles increasing by more than $1,000, according to Freedom Partners 2016 Obamacare deductible increase tracker.

"The tracker looks at deductible increases from the previous year through Obamacare'€™s Bronze, Silver and Gold plans as well as a weighted average increase for all plans.

"While some states are already facing high deductibles of $3,000 or more, the tracker finds that deductibles increased by $265 or 8.4 percent on average, with some state deductible increases rising as high as $1,395."

"The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton's private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.

"The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign before setting up the server in her New York home in 2009.

"As the FBI looks to wrap up its investigation in the coming months, agents are likely to want to interview Clinton and her senior aides about the decision to use a private server, how it was set up, and whether any of the participants knew they were sending classified information in emails, current and former officials said."

"The final returns from most states are not quite in as I write, and the delegate count is not established, but here are some initial observations.

"On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton has a clear flight path to the Democratic nomination. She won everywhere except in Bernie Sanders's Vermont, in Oklahoma with its low black population (and its large number of conservative registered Democrats), and in the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses. ...

"Donald Trump won, but not quite as big as he might have liked. He lost Oklahoma as well as Texas to Ted Cruz, he came within 2 or 3 points of losing Virginia to Marco Rubio, he ran third in the (announced late in the evening) Minnesota caucuses which Rubio won. His best percentages were in the very different states of Alabama, with its populist tradition, and Massachusetts, with its very low number of registered Republicans. Elsewhere he got between 21 and 39 percent -- good numbers, but well below 50 percent."

"A federal magistrate judge on Monday denied the United States government's request that Apple extract data from an iPhone in a drug case in New York, giving the company's pro-privacy stance a boost as it battles law enforcement officials over opening up the device in other cases.

"The ruling, from Judge James Orenstein in New York's Eastern District, is the first time that the government's legal argument for opening up devices like the iPhone has been put to the test. The denial could influence other cases where law enforcement officials are trying to compel Apple to help unlock iPhones, including the standoff between Apple and the F.B.I. over the iPhone used by one of the attackers in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., last year.

"Judge Orenstein, in his 50-page ruling on Monday, took particular aim at a 1789 statute called the All Writs Act that underlies many government requests for extracting data from tech companies. The All Writs Act broadly says that courts can require actions to comply with their orders when not covered by existing law. Judge Orenstein said the government was inflating its authority by using the All Writs Act to force Apple to extract data from an iPhone seized in connection with a drug case."

"According to a recent American Enterprise Institute report, the ideological make-up of the Republican Party hasn't changed much over the last 15 years. Looking at Gallup data, the researchers found that the share of Republicans who identify as 'conservative' increased from 62 percent in 2000 to 68 percent in 2015.

"But the percentage of Democrats who self-identify as liberal has risen in that time from 29 percent to 45 percent. The number of white Democrats who identify as liberal has nearly doubled, from 28 percent to 50 percent. The report also found that barely a third (37 percent) of Democrats describe Hillary Clinton as a liberal. About half call her a moderate.

"Michael Barone, the Washington Examiner's senior political analyst and an AEI resident scholar who contributed to the report, analyzed exit poll data from the early primaries. He found not only that the Democratic electorate is getting more liberal, but that it is shrinking. Exit polls and vote totals in the early Democratic primary states find that the Democratic electorate is 'much more liberal' than it was eight years ago."

"The Republicans ought to be comfortable in their catbird seat, surveying nothing but knee-high cotton, corn as high as an elephant's eye and blue skies for as far as anyone can see. They have the happy prospect of running against a Democratic foe awash in scandal and chicanery. Few voters like her, nobody trusts her and she seems as likely to land in prison as in the White House.

"But the Grand Old Party dare not break out the bubbly, not just yet. It's caught in a curious dilemma. The party elites, with their hands on the familiar levers of the party apparatus, are the helpless hosts of a party they can't control. They huff and they puff and then huff some more, but at the end of the day they're only exhausted, frustrated, and out of breath."