Capital Journal: Judge Sets Deadline on Clinton Email Review | Trump Courts Black Vote | Clinton to Offer Plan for Small Businesses

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HIGHLIGHTS

•	Trump Courts Black Vote but Avoids African-American Communities

•	Carol E. Lee: Obama Confronts New Political Dynamics on Trade

•	Federal Judge Sets Deadline on Clinton Email Review

•	Clinton to Offer Plan for Small Businesses

•	Seib Video: Voter Demographics and Trump's Minority Outreach

TRUMP COURTS BLACK VOTE BUT AVOIDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES: Donald Trump for the last week has been asking for support from African-American voters who have long backed Democrats, but his campaign has for months rebuffed invitations from supporters for the Republican presidential nominee to appear before black audiences. The result is Mr. Trump hasn't campaigned in the African-American communities he now says he wishes to win over. Supporters of the New York businessman say they have asked him to speak at black colleges, in black churches and to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People—the nation's largest black advocacy organization—but he has declined. Mr. Trump has delivered some of his appeals to African-Americans in communities that are overwhelmingly white. Reid J. Epstein and Michael C. Bender report.

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CLINTON TO OFFER PLAN TO SMALL BUSINESSES TODAY: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is proposing a package of ideas aimed at helping small businesses, including a new standard deduction that could simplify tax filing and improvements to a little-used tax credit for companies that offer workers health insurance. Mrs. Clinton also would let small businesses immediately deduct up to $1 million in capital expenses against their taxes. The current limit is $500,000. Mrs. Clinton plans to tout the plan Tuesday in a conference call with small-business owners around the country, the campaign said. Laura Meckler reports.

More on election 2016: Despite signs that Trump may be softening his rhetoric on illegal immigrants, he said he wasn't waffling and reiterated his commitment to strict measures ... A majority of business economists in a new survey said Hillary Clinton is the best choice to oversee the U.S. economy as president ... More in Washington Wire.

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CAROL E. LEE: OBAMA CONFRONTS NEW POLITICAL DYNAMICS ON TRADE

President Barack Obama is set to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership during a trip next month to Asia. But it's a domestic audience he needs to convince, and to do so he plans to lean heavily on the argument that the failure to approve TPP would expand the influence of China. Read Carol E. Lee's full post in Washington Wire.

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FEDERAL JUDGE SETS DEADLINE ON CLINTON EMAIL REVIEW: A federal judge prodded the State Department to quickly review a batch of 14,900 recently discovered emails as the controversy over Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's correspondence while she served as America's top diplomat continued to simmer. Judge James Boasberg, in an order, set a deadline for the department to complete the email review by Sept. 22 to determine which ones contain sensitive government information and which are strictly personal conversations. That could pave the way for the emails to be released as early as mid-October. The emails were found by the Federal Bureau of Investigation during its probe of Mrs. Clinton's use of private email when she was secretary of state. The judge's request came on the same day as the release of a separate batch of emails showing a Clinton Foundation official seeking access to the department while Mrs. Clinton was secretary of state. Rebecca Ballhaus and Devlin Barrett report.

VOTER INFLUX APPEARS MISSING FOR TRUMP: This year's presidential primaries produced a slight increase in new voters compared with 2012, but not in numbers that suggest a major influx that might benefit Republican candidate Donald Trump, a new analysis of voter registration data finds. The study by the Democratic firm Catalist, which analyzed records from 10 battleground states this year through June, suggest that the record-breaking turnout seen in the Republican primaries was the result of general election voters becoming motivated to show up for the party's turbulent primary season, rather than a big inflow of new supporters into the Republican Party. But in potential good news for the Trump campaign, Catalist found that white voters accounted for a larger share of the new-voter pool in the first half of this year compared with 2012, and that the number and share of African-Americans was down. Byron Tau reports.

IN CLINTON VS. TRUMP, IMPACT OF ASIAN-AMERICANS OVERLOOKED: Asian-Americans are the nation's fastest-growing racial group. More than nine million of them will be eligible to vote in November, up 16% from four years ago. The bad news for Republicans is that this growth in the Asian-American electorate appears to be accompanied by an increasing tilt toward the Democrats. Read Washington Bureau Chief Gerald F. Seib's full Capital Journal column.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's directive allowing transgender public school students to use the bathroom of their choice, siding with Texas and a coalition of 12 other states that filed a lawsuit over the issue. As millions of students head back to school for a new academic year, the Texas judge's decision has school administrators focused on a vexing question: Which bathrooms are open to transgender students?

• The Federal Emergency Management Agency proposed regulations that would require companies and homeowners using federal funds on construction projects in flood-prone areas to build on higher ground.

• Republican lawmakers on Monday urged the U.S. Treasury Department to rethink controversial proposed rules aimed at curtailing companies' use of corporate debt to reduce their U.S. taxes.

• The S&P 500 has been remarkably tranquil. The danger is not so much complacency about markets but complacency about central banks.

• The alcohol industry, long helped by the idea that light drinking can be good for the heart, is fighting back against growing warnings from public-health officials of elevated cancer risks.

• Teacher unions won a big victory after the California Supreme Court let stand a ruling that provides greater job protections to teachers based on tenure.

• Body camera footage from the fatal police shooting of a 23-year-old man in Milwaukee that sparked unrest earlier this month won't be publicly released until a decision is reached on whether to charge the officer.

• Swimwear apparel company Speedo, Ralph Lauren and other sponsors have dropped their endorsement deals with Ryan Lochte in the wake of the Olympic swimmer's Rio robbery scandal.

• A powerful federal committee blessed ChemChina's $43 billion planned takeover of seed giant Syngenta, months after shooting down much smaller Chinese deals for electronics and lightbulb manufacturers.

• World news: A military alliance between Tehran and Moscow showed signs of strain as Iran's defense minister accused Russia of "showing off"... Nicolas Sarkozy will run to become the leader of France in 2017, four years after he pledged to retire from politics when he was defeated by Socialist François Hollande ... Police and vigilantes have killed over 1,700 people in the Philippines since Duterte took office, the nation's top police official said ... Leaders from France, Germany and Italy proposed to step up cooperation in areas such as intelligence sharing and border defense ... The U.K. plans to separate Muslim extremists from other prisoners in the nation's jails.

SEIB VIDEO: VOTER DEMOGRAPHICS AND TRUMP'S MINORITY OUTREACH

The 2016 election will see the lowest white voter turnout as a percentage of the electorate ever in American history. Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib explains what this means for Donald Trump's campaign and his hopes to increase the GOP share of minority voters. [Watch]

HERE'S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD

• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: President Barack Obama visits Baton Rouge, La., to tour a neighborhood damaged by recent floods at 1:15 p.m. ET. He delivers a statement to the media at 1:55 p.m. Vice President Joe Biden holds meetings with President Raimonds Vejonis and Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis of Latvia, President Toomas Hendrik Ilves of Estonia and President Dalia Grybauskaite of Lithuania in Latvia. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria to discuss counterterrorism efforts, the Nigerian economy, the fight against corruption and human rights issues.

• ELECTION 2016: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a rally in Austin, Texas, at 8:30 p.m. ET. His running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, holds a rally at 4 p.m. in Pipersville, Pa. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a conference call with small-business owners in which she plans to tout her package of ideas aimed at helping small businesses. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, participates in a discussion with small-business leaders in Lakewood, Colo.

• ECONOMIC INDICATORS: The Commerce Department releases new home sales for July at 10 a.m.

WHAT WE'RE READING AROUND THE WEB

• National Review's Rich Lowry writes that Hillary Clinton's argument that she used a private email system because her predecessor as secretary of state, Colin Powell, kept a private email address "doesn't make much sense. While the former general used a private e-mail as secretary of state, it was at a time when the department didn't have a robust email system of its own. And he obviously didn't set up his own private server."

• Albert Hunt of BloombergView longs for a serious campaign debate between Mrs. Clinton and Donald Trump on taxes: "Trump wants to cut taxes massively, especially for the wealthy, which he claims will stimulate unprecedented growth. Clinton wants to boost taxes on corporations and the rich and use the revenue to create jobs and help the middle class. Both evade some specifics but there's enough for a substantive debate."

• In the WSJ's Think Tank, Aaron David Miller writes that a big problem with the U.S. transfer of $400 million in cash to Iran at the same time American prisoners were being released there is that "the Obama administration's handling of Iran in this situation plays into the narrative that the U.S. is weak and feckless and behaving as if it doesn't know what it's doing."

MILESTONE

13,000

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe restored voting rights to 13,000 people with felony records, a fraction of those he had hoped to restore before being blocked last month by the state Supreme Court.

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