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12:50 PM ET, June 4, 2018

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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple  —  The Supreme Court on Monday ruled narrowly for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple.  —  In an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court held …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion  —  The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Breitbart
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
Masterpiece Cakeshop And The Entry Ban  —  This morning, the Supreme Court handed down Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.  Justice Kennedy's majority opinion held that the particular application of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act to the baker in that case violated …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:   Gay Americans Have Little to Fear From the Supreme Court's Compromise in Masterpiece Cakeshop
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple
CNBC:
Supreme Court rules narrowly for Colorado baker who wouldn't make same-sex wedding cake
Discussion: Instapundit and PJ Media Home
CNN:
Supreme Court wipes away lower court ruling that granted undocumented teen access to abortion
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It  —  Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says.  —  WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents  —  THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared Monday that the appointment of the special counsel in the Russia investigation is “totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” and asserted that he has the power to pardon himself …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and CNN
Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress  —  In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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New York Times:
Aide Sought a New Apartment for Scott Pruitt, as Well as an ‘Old Mattress’ From Trump Hotel  —  WASHINGTON — A senior Environmental Protection Agency official acted essentially as the personal assistant to the administrator, Scott Pruitt, helping him hunt for an apartment …
Associated Press:   Aide: EPA's Pruitt sought used Trump-hotel mattress
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’  —  Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era  —  Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign.  “I think I did the right thing.  I defended the Constitution,” he said.  —  Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support  —  Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart  —  German politicians have criticised Donald Trump's new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
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Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump.  Then reveals it was Obama  —  Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling  —  Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump  —  COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
BuzzFeed Allowed Key Defense in Russian's Defamation Suit Over Trump Dossier  —  A Florida judge rejects a Russian entrepreneur who argued that the Trump dossier publication wasn't protected as a fair report of official government action.  —  In its continuing fight against a Russian tech entrepreneur …
New York Times:
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends  —  The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.  —  As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service …
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income  —  STOCKTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today  —  Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers  —  In our lifetime, no president has matched Donald Trump's ability to summon the power of the pulpit, friendly media, and the tweet-by-tweet power of repetition and persuasion to move minds en masse.  —  The big picture: You see this in the silence of Republican critics …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Washington Post:
A historic exodus is leaving Venezuela without teachers, doctors and electricians  —  An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall.  He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office.  But the guidance counselor was gone …
Discussion: Instapundit
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of top business economists believes the major tax cuts President Donald Trump pushed through Congress will give a significant boost to economic growth this year and next year.
Discussion: Axios
Sarah Jones / Columbia Journalism Review:
The great remove  —  How journalism got so out of touch with the people it covers  —  To become a journalist, Rajaa Elidrissi knew she would need a strategy.  Growing up in a low-income household in Elmhurst, Queens, she started collecting clips at age 13.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot  —  Consider the following alternate reality.  —  Imagine that it is now summer 2024.  A 78-year-old lame-duck President Trump is winding down his second term, basking in positive polls.  His dutiful vice president in waiting, Mike Pence, is at last getting his chance to run for president.
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
Washington Post:
The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team.  —  As lawyers and watchdogs who have prosecuted and defended federal investigations of public officials for decades, we thought we had seen (and made) every argument.  But the memorandum by President Trump's lawyers that the New York Times published Saturday startled even us.
Ronald Radosh / The Daily Beast:
Pro-Trump Author Says CIA Has Plan to Kill the President … It is not difficult to conclude that we now have a conspiracy theorist as president of the United States.  During Barack Obama's presidency Donald Trump promised to find proof that he was not born in the United States and claimed …
Discussion: National Review
Bryan Bender / Politico:
The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials  —  Expect lies.  Do your homework — because they will have.  Choose your words very carefully.  And have Job-like patience.  Oh, and remember that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un considers himself a supreme being.
 
 
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Beatrice Verhoeven / The Wrap:
Woody Allen Says He Should Be ‘Poster Boy for the #MeToo Movement’
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Bruce Nelan / Washington Post:
Frank Carlucci, defense secretary and tamer of federal bureaucracies, dies at 87
Discussion: Axios
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
How The Alt-Right Manipulates The Internet's Biggest Commenting Platform
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Mcgough / Sacramento Bee:
Nearly half of Bay Area residents want out, poll shows. The reason why is no surprise
Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
Proposal would add ‘X’ category to NYC birth certificates
Discussion: Daily Wire
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
A Progressive President Could Accomplish a Lot by Following Trump's Example
Discussion: Philly.com and The Mahablog
Rory Carroll / The Guardian:
Elon Musk: as business fortunes dip, he starts a war with the media
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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