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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Court and the Era of Minority Rule  —  Democrats have won the national vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, which, with the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, will have resulted in the appointment of eight of its nine justices.  And yet four of those justices …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Politico:
GOP plans to steamroll Dems on Supreme Court pick  —  Senate Republicans will move quickly to replace Anthony Kennedy before the midterm elections.  —  Senate Republicans plan to confirm a new Supreme Court justice to replace retiring Anthony Kennedy before the midterm elections …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff  —  One of my favorite genres of writing is the charitable obituary written about a political opponent.  My remembrance of Judge Robert Bork, the conservative icon President Ronald Reagan tried and failed to put on the Supreme Court …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Only Thing That Might Stop Trump From Replacing Kennedy With a Scalia Clone  —  Buckle up, folks.  If you did not like what the Supreme Court has done in the last few weeks on voting rights, public-sector unions, and Trump's travel ban, things are going to get a whole lot worse …
Jeffrey Rosen / The Atlantic:
The Justice Who Believed in America  —  Like everyone who follows the Supreme Court, I've been trying to read Justice Anthony Kennedy's mind for more than thirty years.  I was an intern for Senator Joe Biden on the judiciary Committee the summer that Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: CNN, Refinery29 and The Daily Signal
Joshua Matz / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court will now fall to chaos  —  Joshua Matz, publisher of the Take Care legal blog, was a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from 2014 to 2015.  —  The Supreme Court teaches us about liberty, dignity and democracy.  It safeguards those principles and helps make the Constitution real in our lives.
Discussion: Politico, USA Today and Daily Kos
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chris Matthews: ‘Hell to Pay’ If Democrats Don't Block Anthony Kennedy Replacement … MSNBC's Chris Matthews did not mince words in reacting to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's surprise retirement announcement on Wednesday.  —  “I don't think the Democrats should allow meetings …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, RedState and Breitbart
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero  —  It's no secret that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his imminent retirement on Wednesday, always had an eye toward his legacy.  During this 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Kennedy often wrote grandiose opinions …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Why Anthony Kennedy Gave Up  —  In his last year on the bench, the lifelong devotee of dignity and the rule of law joined Team Trump.  What happened?  —  It was always more fan fiction than reality that Justice Anthony Kennedy was a moderate centrist.  Democrats liked to soothe themselves …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Above the Law
Jack Goldsmith / Washington Post:
Justice Kennedy's retirement leaves the future of U.S. constitutional law entirely up for grabs  —  Jack Goldsmith, a professor at Harvard Law School, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from 1990 to 1991.  —  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's retirement from the Supreme Court …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Kennedy, the pivotal swing vote on the Supreme Court, announces retirement
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Promises Fall Vote to Confirm Next Supreme Court Justice
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Anthony Kennedy, crucial Supreme Court swing vote, retiring after 3 decades
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Will Retire
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
LIST: Dem Senators Call On GOP To Wait Until After Election To Fill Kennedy Seat
Discussion: Axios, CNN, HuffPost and Balloon Juice
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Announces Retirement
Discussion: Vox and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Republicans plan to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick before the November elections
USA Today:
President Trump says process to replace Kennedy on Supreme Court will ‘begin immediately’
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’  —  (I-Vt.) on Wednesday came to the defense of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, saying individuals should “have the right to go into a restaurant and have dinner.”
Discussion: Mediaite
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / americamagazine.org:   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A 28-Year-Old Democratic Giant Slayer
Reuters:
Manafort had $10 million loan from Russian oligarch: court filing  —  (Reuters) - A search warrant application unsealed on Wednesday revealed closer links than previously known between President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin.
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Bill Shine Likely as Next White House Communications Director  —  WASHINGTON — Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger E. Ailes, the network's ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The Hill:
HHS watchdog launches probe into conditions at child detention centers  —  The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) inspector general is launching a review of the conditions at the agency's shelters for unaccompanied migrant children.  —  The probe will only focus on safety and health concerns …
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Rasmussen Reports:
31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon  —  Most voters fear that political violence is coming from opponents of the president's policies, just as they did in the second year of Barack Obama's presidency, and nearly one-in-three think a civil war is next.  —  Thirty-one percent (31%) …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
92% of Republicans think media intentionally reports fake news  —  Nearly all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (92%) say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.
Washington Post:
Man accused of driving into crowd at ‘Unite the Right’ rally charged with federal hate crimes  —  The Justice Department charged James Alex Fields Jr, the driver accused of murdering a counterprotester at last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, with multiple hate crime counts Wednesday.
Discussion: USA Today, The Root, IJR, Axios and Mediaite
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Will Oremus / Slate:
The Great Facebook Crash  —  The social giant is retreating from the news business.  It's been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.  —  The first months of Donald Trump's presidency were a fraught and chaotic time in American politics.
more at Mediagazer »
Harron Walker / Jezebel:
Private Messages Reveal the Cis Journalist Groupthink Behind Trans Media Narratives  —  Over the past few years, Jesse Singal has become a leading public intellectual and one of the most prominent journalists covering trans issues, including but not limited to adolescent transition.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased  —  Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters — with accusations that the country's tech giants are censoring right-leaning posts, tweets and news.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Obama expected to hit the campaign trail for Democrats with help from Pelosi and Schumer  — Obama is expected to hit the campaign trail to help the Democrats flip Congress and win governorships, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter, and receive guidance from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
Brent Solomon / WWBT-TV:
‘Go back to Africa’: Business owner criticized over Facebook post  —  A Chesterfield business is under a cloud of criticism after a restaurant owner is accused of posting a racist message on her personal Facebook Page.  —  The comment on Judy Maxie's page told Congresswoman Maxine Waters …
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and CNN
Emma Anderson / Politico:
Greece open to migrants deal with Germany  —  Athens is open to a deal with Angela Merkel to take back asylum seekers who head to Germany from Greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.  —  Ahead of Thursday's summit of EU leaders, the Greek leader told the Financial Times …
CNN:
Mexico goes to the polls this weekend.  132 candidates have been killed since campaigning began, per one count  —  (CNN)Even for a country numbed by escalating violence, the toll the campaign season in Mexico has exacted is horrifying.  —  In the nine months leading up to this weekend's …
 
 
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Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Officer who fatally shot East Pittsburgh teen Antwon Rose charged with criminal homicide
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Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
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David Siders / Politico:
DNC fight over superdelegates nears resolution
Discussion: Washington Times
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Some rules of civility for the Trump era
Meena Venkataramanan / ABC News:
Trump is the ‘most effective uprooter of liberalism’: Newt Gingrich talks GOP, midterms, space
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Head of prominent charity that campaigns against child abuse is arrested for 'trying to arrange …
Discussion: RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Freed From Jail, Once-Notorious White Nationalist Says No Interest In Politics
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
David Sivak / checkyourfact.com:
FACT CHECK: ‘Wages Are Growing At Their Fastest Rate Since 2008’
Discussion: RedState
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
Is This the End of Public-Sector Unions in America?
Discussion: Chalkbeat
Kyle Sammin / The Federalist:
The Four Dissenting Votes In The Travel Ban Ruling Are A Dangerous Sign
Discussion: Lawfare
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
GOP incumbents ousted in Oklahoma amid teacher challenges
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Publisher to Feature Ex-Playmate After Allegation It Buried Trump Affair Story
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
We've Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties
Discussion: Shakesville
Carrie Dann / NBC News:
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