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8:45 PM ET, May 18, 2016

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Jill Colvin / U.S. ELECTIONS:
Trump unveils list of his top Supreme Court picks  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia if he's elected to the White House.
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DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES  —  (New York, NY) May 18, 2016 - Today Donald J. Trump released the much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.
Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
Trump's SCOTUS List is Meaningless because the Word of a Pathological Liar is Worthless  —  Donald Trump has released a list of people who he is apparently going to consider for Supreme Court nominees to replace Antonin Scalia.  Off the top of my head the only two names I recognize are Sykes and Willett …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and The Resurgent
Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
Here's Who Donald Trump Would Put On The Supreme Court  —  Donald Trump has released a list of 11 people who he would nominate to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia's death if he is elected this November.  Trump promised in March to eventually release a list of names.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Trump's Proposed SCOTUS Nominee Sure Seems to Mock Him a Lot on Twitter  —  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released the names of eleven federal judges he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court to fill its open spot Wednesday.  Whether or not his campaign team vetted …
Discussion: LawNewz
John Yoo / National Review:
Trump's Judicial Appoints List Is Filled with Outstanding Conservatives
Discussion: Power Line
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump tops Clinton, both seen as deeply flawed candidates  —  Donald Trump tops Hillary Clinton in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup, according to a new Fox News Poll that also finds majorities of voters feel both frontrunners lack strong moral values and will say anything to get elected.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Cenk Uygur: “CNN Never Showed You” What Really Happened At Nevada Dem Convention  —  The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur explains how CNN exposed its pro-Clinton bias this weekend.  —  “You're so biased you don't even see it,” he said about the hosts of the news network.
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Amid Democratic infighting, polls are improving for Trump
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Liberal allies turning on Bernie Sanders after Nevada donnybrook
Joy-Ann Reid / The Daily Beast:
Come on, Bernie, Time to Level With Your Dreamers
Discussion: Courier-Journal, Slate and Raw Story
Sacramento Bee:
Bernie Sanders can't afford to stay silent any longer
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Sanders camp slams Debbie Wasserman Schultz for ‘throwing shade’
Margaret Talev / Bloomberg:
Clinton, Democrats Confronting Dangerous Divisions Within Party
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Trump's appeal stretches to suburbs that had been trending blue  —  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — At the Bucks County Democrats' first meeting since the April 26 Pennsylvania primary, one worry dominated: Donald Trump had done better than expected in this blue-leaning exurban expanse north and east of Philadelphia.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How I Acted Like A Pundit And Screwed Up On Donald Trump  —  Since Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the Republican nomination this month, I've seen a lot of critical self-assessments from empirically minded journalists — FiveThirtyEight included, twice over — about what they got wrong on Trump.
Mary McNamara / Los Angeles Times:
Review Megyn Kelly goes too easy on Donald Trump in her Fox infomercial, er, special  —  Donald Trump appears on “Megyn Kelly Presents.”  (Eric Liebowitz / Fox)  —  After the weeks of hype and the queasy hopes of an anxious nation, it all became clear:  —  Megyn Kelly didn't ask Donald Trump …
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Jon Ward / Yahoo:
The roots of Mitt Romney's anti-Trump fervor  —  Mitt Romney has ruled out an independent bid for president and is not actively recruiting any more potential candidates to do so at the moment, though he remains hopeful someone will emerge, allies told Yahoo News Tuesday.
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Ben Oldach / WHOTV:
School Mourns 13-Year-Old Killed Tragically in Hammock  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A Catholic school is falling on their faith after one of their classmates was tragically killed over the weekend.  —  Peri Sagun, 13, was on a hammock at her Des Moines home on Saturday.
Discussion: FOX31 Denver, KTLA, WNEP-TV, KXAN-TV and KFOR-TV
Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone:
Pro-Bernie Trolls on Why They Harassed Nevada's Democratic Chair  —  Here's what several men had to say for themselves after threatening Roberta Lange and calling her a “b-tch”  —  Democrats have been in a froth this week in the aftermath of Saturday's contentious, and at times violent, Nevada state convention.
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's viral nightmare: A video of her ‘lying for 13 minutes’  —  You could say that it all depends on how you define “lie.”  Or, perhaps, that it's hell to have a public record.  —  Either way, Hillary Clinton's vast résumé of, shall we say, inconsistencies, is the dog that caught the car and won't let go.
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Donald Trump's gold-plated convention  —  Donald Trump has shoved just about every tradition in modern presidential politics out the window, and now he's preparing to trash one more — the dog and pony show known as the Republican National Convention.  —  From speaking slots to prime …
Robert Draper / New York Times:
Mr. Trump's Wild Ride  —  Down the homestretch with the impossible nominee.  —  'H  —  ave you seen the latest polls?  I'm beating Hillary.  Donald Trump was on the phone with a man he had never met, a Republican delegate in Pennsylvania.  It was May 2, one day before the Indiana primary election …
Colin Wilhelm / Politico:
Ryan strikes Puerto Rico debt deal with Obama administration  —  Speaker Paul Ryan has reached a tentative deal with the Treasury Department on a rescue package to ease Puerto Rico's debt crisis, according to House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R- Utah), who has been leading negotiations.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Madalyn Mendoza / MySanAntonio.com:
School defends video of San Antonio students jumping rope with cat intestines, PETA upset  —  ‘This was not meant to be degrading or disrespectful,’ a school spokesperson said.  —  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has petitioned Winston Churchill High School after a video surfaced …
 
 
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Ian Hanchett / Breitbart:
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
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