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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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Mitch McConnell Has Already Won — Mitch McConnell has just one goal: to preserve and extend Republicans' advantage in Washington and beyond. He'll do anything to achieve that goal, indifferent to everything but the will to power. We see this most clearly in McConnell's approach to the Supreme Court.
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HuffPost, OpenSecrets.org and Fox News


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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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Daily Kos


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.”


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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Axios, Daily Kos, ABC News, Shareblue Media, Politico, New York Magazine and Breitbart


Exit Kennedy — Yes, elections have consequences. — Justice Anthony Kennedy's announcement on June 27 that he will retire from the Supreme Court came as a bracing relief for conservatives and a prophecy of woe for liberals. — Kennedy, though nominated in 1988 by Ronald Reagan …


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 …
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The Week, Mediaite and Chuck Grassley


Chris Matthews: ‘Hell to Pay’ If Democrats Don't Block Anthony Kennedy Replacement
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Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff
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The Justice Who Believed in America
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Democrats Want to Fight Trump's Supreme Court Pick. They Just Have No Power to Do It.
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Just Security, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Politico

With Kennedy Gone, Justice Must Be Won at the Ballot Box
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The Week, Washington Post, Constitution Daily and HuffPost

Here are 25 names Trump could nominate to replace Justice Kennedy
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USA Today, New York Times, Slate, Axios, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, The Strident Conservative, Breitbart, Hot Air, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Federalist

The Only Thing That Might Stop Trump From Replacing Kennedy With a Scalia Clone
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Modern Democracy, National Review, Vox, BloombergQuint, No More Mister Nice Blog and Law & Crime

Conservative group launches SCOTUS ad to pressure Dems
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, The Week and NPR

Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and HuffPost

Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero
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With Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Gone, Abortion and LGBT Rights Are Next
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twitchy.com, The Hill, Splinter and NewsBusters

Was Gorsuch Worth A Trump Presidency? It's Starting To Look That Way
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The Supreme Court will now fall to chaos
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FiveThirtyEight, Guns.com, Politico and SCOTUSblog


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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NY State of Politics and Greensburg Tribune-Review
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Socialist Darling Caught Celebrating, Campaigning With Known Anti-Semite And Racist
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Washington Post, Mediaite and El Paso Times


Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’
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Mediaite


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.
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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 …
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Raw Story


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 …
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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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New Republic and The Week


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 …
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Mediaite and Media Matters for America


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.


‘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.
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Talking Points Memo


A Half-Dozen House Ratings Changes in Favor of Democrats — And the fall of Joe Crowley in New York — KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — Rep. Joe Crowley's (D, NY-14) primary loss represents a changing of the guard in a diverse district. It does not necessarily suggest we should expect …

Trump, Putin will hold a summit July 16 in Finland, the White House announced — The meeting signals a growing rapprochement between the United States and Russia. President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have pursued the tete-a-tete in hopes of soothing tensions over Russia's interference …
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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 …
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Washington Post, Daily Caller News Foundation and CNN