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2:00 PM ET, June 26, 2018

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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 …
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
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Read: Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump's “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its follow­ers”
Discussion: HuffPost and The Root
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 …
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Discussion: Taylor Marsh
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
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.
Discussion: Axios
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’
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
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Brian Faler / Politico:
Republican tax law hits churches
Discussion: Axios, Friendly Atheist, MSNBC and The Week
Nick Hanauer / American Prospect:   Want to Expand the Economy? Tax the Rich!
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
DHS warns threats against staff are rising amid anger over Trump immigration policies  —  Employees of the Department of Homeland Security have been targeted by escalating online threats and harassment in their neighborhoods during the past week, officials say, with rancor …
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Merdie Nzanga / USA Today:
Stephen Miller's D.C. home a target of immigration policy protest
Just Security:   The Trump Administration Must Extend Temporary Protected Status for Yemenis
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In South Carolina rally, Trump targets Sanford, McCain and TV comedians  —  WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — President Trump flew here Monday night ostensibly to urge South Carolina Republicans to vote for Gov. Henry McMaster in the Republican primary Tuesday, repaying a political favor to one of his earliest supporters.
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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
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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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
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 …
Faye Penn / InStyle.com:
16 Espressos and a 5 a.m. Call Time: A Day In The Life of NBC's Andrea Mitchell  —  Badass Woman spotlights women who not only have a voice but defy the irrelevant preconceptions of gender.  —  A few minutes past 1 p.m., Andrea Mitchell enters an NBC green room fresh off a show that spanned …
Discussion: twitchy.com
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
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
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
Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Reality Winner pleads guilty in NSA leak case  —  AUGUSTA - Reality Winner, the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking sensitive government information, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending to the news media a top-secret National Security Agency report about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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.
Discussion: Vox
 
 
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Washington Post:
Q&A: Do migrants who enter illegally get ‘due process’?
Discussion: Politico
Grant Stern / The Stern Facts:
Republicans helped set up Putin's lobbying operations in America
William Cummings / USA Today:
Iowa Rep. Steve King says America is heading toward another civil war
Discussion: Daily Wire
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
The “Travel Ban” Decision, in One (Non-Snarky) Sentence
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Russia and China See in Trump Era a Chance to Roll Back Human Rights Promotion at U.N.
Michael Boren / Philly.com:
Black parents say movie theater manager called police on them in West Philadelphia
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Boss Is Building a Tabloid Death Star to Do Trump's Bidding
Washington Post:
Trump's VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views
 Earlier Items: 
CBS Sacramento:
California Considers Creating A Fake News Advisory Group
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Daily Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose
Discussion: Daily Wire
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
Bethan McKernan / The Independent:
Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump