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New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban, Delivering Endorsement of Presidential Power  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump's ban on travel from mostly-Muslim nations, delivering a robust endorsement of Mr. Trump's power to control the flow of immigration …
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban  —  The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's most recent travel ban today in a 5-4 decision, ruling that it falls within the president's traditional power to control immigration policy.  —  The big picture: The travel ban was the first big policy announcement …
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court curtails mandatory abortion notices  —  California went too far when it required anti-abortion pregnancy clinics to notify women that abortion is an option, the Supreme Court said today.  —  The issue: Crisis pregnancy centers, often run by Christian organizations that oppose abortion …
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court rules that Trump's travel ban is constitutional  — The ruling concerned the third version of President Donald Trump's immigration restriction, which was challenged on the grounds that it amounted to a “Muslim ban.”  — In the 5-4 opinion penned by Chief Justice John Roberts …
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a major blow to a California law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform women about publicly funded abortion and contraception services.
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court upholds travel ban  —  Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump's travel ban.  —  The ruling was 5-4 along partisan lines, with Chief Justice John Roberts writing for the conservative majority.  —  This is the third version of the travel ban.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Read: Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump's “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its follow­ers”
Discussion: HuffPost and The Root
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
Discussion: Politico, Vox and The Daily Beast
Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations  — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry  — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its probe of the Trump campaign after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump team and evidently tried but failed to damage …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners  —  Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi.  This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Grabien News:   Montage: Media Turning Trump Voters into Public Enemy No. 1
Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: A poll commissioned by Bush and Biden shows Americans losing confidence in democracy  —  THE BIG IDEA: Half of Americans think the United States is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.”  A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” - and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
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Bloomberg:
Trump Says Harley Move Abroad Would Be ‘Beginning of the End’
Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg:   Trump Gets Harley Plans Wrong in Attack Over Trade War ‘Excuse’
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Trailing in CD10  —  Trump's unpopularity hurts House incumbent  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Virginia's 10th Congressional District starts out with the GOP Republican incumbent trailing by ten points according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed:
Trump Supporters Boo A CNN Reporter, Then Ask Him For Selfies  —  Live from civility night in South Carolina.  —  Reporting From  —  West Columbia, South Carolina  —  Hundreds of President Trump's supporters marched into a high school gymnasium Monday and began blistering their new perceived enemy …
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Freedom Caucus to Trump: Lay off Sanford attacks
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and ABC News
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Leinz Vales / CNN:
Woman cites Trump while calling man ‘rapist,’ ‘illegal’ in viral rant  —  Man berated in racist rant caught on camera  —  (CNN)A Latino man and his mother who were doing yard work in California were verbally attacked by a woman who called them “illegals” and “rapists,” and a video of the encounter has gone viral.
Discussion: New York Times, KTLA and FOX31 Denver
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Politico:
White House eyes Helsinki for Trump-Putin sitdown  —  The Finnish capital would give Trump and Putin a backdrop loaded with historical significance for U.S.-Russia relations.  —  The White House is blocking off three days on the back end of President Donald Trump's upcoming mid-July trip …
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Stephen Sestanovich / Axios:   Bolton tees up a Trump-Putin summit
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch  —  The FBI had little problem leaking “unverified” dirt from Russian sources on Donald Trump and his campaign aides - and even basing FISA wiretaps on it.  But according to the Justice Department's inspector general …
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
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CNN:
Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI
Discussion: Salon
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch  —  The nation's fiscal outlook looks ever bleaker, thanks in part to deficit spending during President Donald Trump's first term, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeeper projected Tuesday.  —  Within 16 years, the federal deficit …
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Politico:
GOP flails ahead of immigration vote  —  Despite furious horse-trading among moderate and conservative Republicans, the legislation appears likely to fail in the House.  —  A last-minute effort to salvage a House GOP immigration bill appeared to flounder Tuesday, amid unyielding opposition from the far right.
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Tara Golshan / Vox:   House Republicans' “compromise” immigration push is actually very conservative
Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired  —  The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified.  —  Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Intern for Dem senator suspended for shouting ‘f— you’ at Trump
Discussion: Washington Post, HuffPost and The Root
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
USA Today Network launches a conservative opinion newsletter for the heartland  —  Since its founding in 1982, USA Today has prided itself on a feel for all 50 states that eludes East Coast media.  Now its network is launching a new conservative opinion initiative aimed at Trump voters …
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Wrong About Republicans.  Republicans Are Wrong About Democrats.  —  Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy.  —  The defining divide in American politics is probably between Republicans and Democrats.
Discussion: Breitbart
CBS News:
Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women  —  The United States has been ranked for the first time among the ten nations deemed to be the most dangerous for women by experts in the field.  A survey by the Thompson Reuters Foundation of about 550 experts in women's issues around …
Discussion: Townhall, CNN and twitchy.com
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Her son was killed — then came the Russian trolls  —  Videos produced by Samantha Guff, Julian Quinones and Margaret Dawson  —  (CNN)It was the height of presidential primary season, just a few weeks before the Republican and Democratic conventions, but on July 7, 2016 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Brian Faler / Politico:
Republican tax law hits churches  —  Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time.  —  Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars.
Discussion: Axios, Friendly Atheist, MSNBC and The Week
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration  —  Trump: GOP should stop wasting time on immigration  —  (CNN)The firestorm over the separation of children from their undocumented parents at the border has almost completely overshadowed another milestone …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Russia and China See in Trump Era a Chance to Roll Back Human Rights Promotion at U.N.  —  As the United States retreats from the world, Moscow and Beijing seek to gut U.N. programs, cut staff.  —  China and Russia, emboldened by the Trump administration's retreat on human rights issues …
 
 
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Eugene Volokh / Reason:
The “Travel Ban” Decision, in One (Non-Snarky) Sentence
Michael Boren / Philly.com:
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Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
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Washington Post:
Trump's VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views
Piers Morgan / Daily Mail:
Dear liberals, you won't beat Trump by banning his staff from restaurants, threatening his son …
CBS Sacramento:
California Considers Creating A Fake News Advisory Group
Discussion: Daily Wire
 Earlier Items: 
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump
The Daily Beast:
Fox News Suspends Ex-Trump Aide David Bossie for ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark