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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 …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Kennedy, the pivotal swing vote on the Supreme Court, announces retirement — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced Wednesday that he is retiring from the Supreme Court, a move that gives President Trump the chance to replace the court's pivotal justice and dramatically shift …
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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 …
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Daily Kos
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 …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won — Nobody likes him, but he's the most effective politician of his time. — When Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled a new rule of American politics out of thin air and said there could be no vote …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire — WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced on Wednesday that he will retire this summer, setting in motion a furious fight over the future of the Supreme Court and giving President Trump the chance to cement a conservative judicial philosophy …
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.
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 …
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Mother Jones, Shareblue Media, Daily Kos and Breitbart
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The horrifying consequences of Justice Kennedy's retirement — Donald Trump is an accidental president. He lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots. And he would be far more powerless if not for the fact that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic relic.
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New Republic, The Federalist, Senator Mitch McConnell, NPR and CNN
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, ABC News and Constitution Daily
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
McConnell Promises Fall Vote to Confirm Next Supreme Court Justice
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Shareblue Media and Outside the Beltway
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Here are 25 names Trump could nominate to replace Justice Kennedy
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Washington Post:
Republicans plan to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick before the November elections
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Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Anthony Kennedy, crucial Supreme Court swing vote, retiring after 3 decades
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Conservative group launches SCOTUS ad to pressure Dems
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chris Matthews: ‘Hell to Pay’ If Democrats Don't Block Anthony Kennedy Replacement
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RedState, POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justice Kennedy retiring; Trump gets 2nd Supreme Court pick
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Washington Free Beacon and Towleroad
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court deals a devastating blow to government unions
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CNN:
Senior Democrat: Wait to consider Trump's nominee until after the election
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Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and Mediaite
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Anthony Kennedy, Swing Vote on U.S. Supreme Court, Will Retire
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Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A 28-Year-Old Democratic Giant Slayer — She has never held elected office. She is still paying off her student loans. She is 28 years old. “Women like me aren't supposed to run for office,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in a viral campaign video released last month.
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Michael Calderone / Politico:
Times takes heat for missing Crowley's defeat
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CNN:
Pelosi on Crowley loss: 'I am female. I am progressive. What's your problem?'
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Washington Post, Shareblue Media, HuffPost and Splinter
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Why Joseph Crowley's Defeat Should Scare Joe Biden
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New York Times and Daily Kos
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.
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Political Wire
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.
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.
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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.
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Trump has poured ‘poison’ down 'America's throat' — Former President Clinton is suggesting that President Trump — is at least partly to blame for a lack of civility in politics, saying he has poured “poison” down “America's throat.” — “It started off calling Mexicans rapists …
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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%) …
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The Daily Caller, Global Guerrillas and Clayton Cramer
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.
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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.
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The Atlantic
ProPublica:
We've Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties — Most came from political entities such as the Trump campaign, but government agencies chipped in, too. “I could offer clarity,” one federal employee explained, “but I choose not to.”
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Shakesville
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories — The Washington Post has dismissed a reporter for inadequately attributing material and closely parroting sentences from other publications in articles based on outside news sources.
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
GOP incumbents ousted in Oklahoma amid teacher challenges — OKLAHOMA CITY — At least six Republican incumbents were bounced from office during Oklahoma's primary election, including several who were targeted by pro-education groups. — Tuesday's primary election was the first test …
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Daily Kos
Frank Miles / Fox News:
Benghazi mastermind sentenced to 22 years in prison on federal terrorism charges — Ahmed Abu Khattala, 47, a Libyan national, was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in prison on federal terrorism charges for the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Battleground state polls find more voters prefer Congress as a check on Trump — Only about a third of voters in Arizona, Florida and Ohio say Trump deserves to be re-elected. — WASHINGTON — Voters in three key Senate battleground states prefer the next Congress to be a check …
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Wall Street Journal:
Publisher to Feature Ex-Playmate After Allegation It Buried Trump Affair Story — The publisher accused of suppressing Karen McDougal's story now wants her on front of Men's Journal magazine — The publisher accused of buying and then suppressing a Playboy model's claim she had an affair …
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Raw Story
Benjamin Haas / The Guardian:
North Korea making ‘rapid’ upgrades to nuclear reactor despite summit pledges — Monitoring group says work shows why a denuclearisation deal rather than a ‘statement of lofty goals’ is needed — North Korea has continued to upgrade its only known nuclear reactor used to fuel its weapons program …
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Robert Clark / Light Reading:
Huawei Boss Slams ‘Ignorant’ Rubio on Research Restrictions — Huawei boss Eric Xu has let fly at “ignorant” US Senator Marco Rubio and other US lawmakers over their campaign against Huawei research partnerships with US universities. — Xu, the current rotating chairman of the Chinese vendor …
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