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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 …
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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 …
Yascha Mounk / Slate:
So Much For the Institutions  —  Kennedy's retirement proves we can't count on elites to constrain Trump's worst excesses  —  When he heard that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was retiring on Wednesday, a friend in his twenties told me: “Today is the darkest political moment my generation has experienced.”
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump takes over America  —  President Trump, with his refusal to take advice or yield to experts, is the West Wing.  Republicans who control both halves of Congress won't lift a finger against him and fully support his every move.  —  The big picture: With his chance to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy …
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 …
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 …
CNBC:
Anthony Kennedy retiring from Supreme Court
Jeffrey Rosen / The Atlantic:
The Justice Who Believed in America
Discussion: Refinery29, CNN and KTLA
BostonGlobe.com:   Kennedy's retirement gives Trump another chance to make long-term impact
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
With Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Gone, Abortion and LGBT Rights Are Next
Joshua Matz / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court will now fall to chaos
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Was Gorsuch Worth A Trump Presidency? It's Starting To Look That Way
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Jack Goldsmith / Washington Post:
Justice Kennedy's retirement leaves the future of U.S. constitutional law entirely up for grabs
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
LIST: Dem Senators Call On GOP To Wait Until After Election To Fill Kennedy Seat
Discussion: Balloon Juice, HuffPost and Axios
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming  —  It was less than three weeks until Primary Day and, on first blush, the poll that Representative Joseph Crowley had been shown by his team of advisers was encouraging: He led his upstart rival, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by 36 percentage points.
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Benny Johnson / The Daily Caller:
Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite And Racist  —  Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned the political world and rank-in-file Democrats by defeating incumbent Joe Crowley in Tuesday's New York primary.  The Ocasio-Cortez win signaled …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / americamagazine.org:   Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’
Discussion: Mediaite
The Texas Tribune:
Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone  —  As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as three years old are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.
Discussion: The Week
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VICE News:   Listen to a distraught Guatemalan child call his mother from a U.S. immigration shelter
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Trump's IRS nominee didn't disclose properties in Trump-branded hotel  —  The revelation about the hotel seems certain to come up when Chuck Rettig testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.  —  President Donald Trump's pick to run the IRS, tax lawyer Chuck Rettig …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:   Trump's IRS Nominee Has Stake in Units at Trump-Branded Resort
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: New Republic and The Week
Jason Schwartz / Politico:
New Fox chief cracks down on inflammatory statements  —  CEO Suzanne Scott summoned producers to a meeting to direct them to take more control over hosts and panelists.  —  Amid growing backlash against inflammatory statements by Fox News commentators, network CEO Suzanne Scott summoned top show producers …
Heather Murphy / New York Times:
Genealogists Turn to Cousins' DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases  —  Police arrested a D.J. in Pennsylvania and a nurse in Washington State this week, the latest examples of the use of an open-source ancestry site since the break in the Golden State killer case.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
‘I thought you were my friend’: Immigration meltdown exposes GOP hostilities  —  A seven-week effort to pass immigration reform ends in anger and distrust across the House Republican Conference.  —  Moderate House Republicans suspected they were being played.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's private NATO trashing rattles allies  —  You've already read a hundred stories about President Trump's clashes with some of America's closest allies at the G7 summit in Canada.  But we've got new details from his private conversations with heads of state that have put …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Goodlatte: FBI Lawyers Instructed Strzok Not To Answer ‘Many, Many’ Questions In Deposition  —  FBI lawyers instructed Peter Strzok during a congressional deposition on Wednesday not to answer “many, many questions” about his involvement in the Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations …
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%) …
Associated Press:
North Carolina GOP ends nominee's support over racist posts  —  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Republican Party has withdrawn support from a legislative nominee after a website connected to him said God is a racist white supremacist and Jews are descended from Satan.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Poll: Trump approval rating ticks up to 47 percent  —  's approval rating has ticked up to 47 percent in the new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill, a 2 point hike from last month.  —  Trump's approval rating was lifted in part by a 10 point climb among Hispanic voters.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Front Page Magazine and CNN
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.
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Kelsey Tamborrino / Politico:
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Daily Mail:
'When you aggressively f*** with people's lives, you should not be surprised when they decide …
Stuart Williams / Yahoo:
Turkey frees journalist Mehmet Altan after almost 2 years jail
CNN:
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Obama expected to hit the campaign trail for Democrats with help from Pelosi and Schumer
Brent Solomon / WWBT-TV:
‘Go back to Africa’: Business owner criticized over Facebook post
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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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David Siders / Politico:
DNC fight over superdelegates nears resolution
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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
Harron Walker / Jezebel:
Private Messages Reveal the Cis Journalist Groupthink Behind Trans Media Narratives
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: Daily Wire and RedState
New York Times:
Bill Shine Likely as Next White House Communications Director
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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