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1 Sporkin dies: Stanley Sporkin, who was the scourge of industry in the 1970s as the crusading chief enforcement officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission and who later had a colorful and controversial tenure as a federal judge in Washington with strongly worded rulings on high-profile cases, died March 23 at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland. He was 88. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Elizabeth Sporkin.

Government fight: Israel was 2 on the brink of a constitutional crisis Tuesday as the speaker of the parliament vowed to defy a Supreme Court order that he must allow lawmakers to vote for his replacement. Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said he would continue to block moves in the newly elected parliament to elect a new leader of the body, despite an emergency court ruling that the vote be held by today.

3 Jazz star dies: Afro-Jazz star Manu Dibango, best known for his hit single “Soul Makossa,” died in Paris after contracting the coronavirus, his family said on his Twitter account. He was 86.

4 Can’t block Twitter: A federal appeals court in New York on Monday let stand a ruling that prevents President Donald Trump from blocking critical voices from the Twitter account he uses to communicate with the public. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request to revisit an earlier holding that Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked individual Twitter users who were critical of the president or his polices.

5 Bloomberg sued: Fourfield organizers for billionaire Michael R. Bloomberg’s aborted presidential bid sued his campaign Monday, arguing they were fraudulently promised employment and health care through the November election.