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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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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
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.
Discussion: HuffPost, Salon and OpenSecrets.org
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.”
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 …
New York Times:
With Kennedy Gone, Justice Must Be Won at the Ballot Box  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  If the last few days hadn't been dispiriting enough for those who believed …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump takes over America
Discussion: The Week, Mediaite and Chuck Grassley
Weekly Standard:   Exit Kennedy  —  Yes, elections have consequences.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff
BostonGlobe.com:   Kennedy's retirement gives Trump another chance to make long-term impact
Jeffrey Rosen / The Atlantic:
The Justice Who Believed in America
Discussion: Refinery29, CNN and KTLA
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Here are 25 names Trump could nominate to replace Justice Kennedy
CNBC:
Anthony Kennedy retiring from Supreme Court
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
With Supreme Court Justice Kennedy Gone, Abortion and LGBT Rights Are Next
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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New York Times:
Top Democrat's Defeat Throws Party Leadership Into Turmoil  —  WASHINGTON — The stunning defeat on Tuesday of Representative Joseph Crowley, the fourth-ranking House Democrat and a potential future speaker, threw the future of the septuagenarian-led caucus into chaos, opening the door …
Washington Post:
The worst thing to be in many Democratic primaries? A white male candidate.
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
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Axios:
Trump to meet Putin in Finland next month  —  The White House announced has announced details of the Trump-Putin summit: … The backdrop: The meeting will take place shortly after the NATO summit in Brussels on July 11 and 12th.  Senior officials from four NATO member nations told Axios' Jonathan Swan …
Washington Post:
Trump, Putin will hold a summit July 16 in Finland, the White House announced
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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 and Splinter
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VICE News:   Listen to a distraught Guatemalan child call his mother from a U.S. immigration shelter
CBS News:
CBS News interview with ICE whistleblower interrupted by surprise visit from government agents  —  In his first television interview, former Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson James Schwab opens up about why he abruptly resigned in March.  Schwab admits both the Obama …
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
Trump's IRS nominee didn't disclose properties were at Trump-branded hotel  —  President Donald Trump's pick to run the IRS, tax lawyer Chuck Rettig, owns properties at the Trump International Hotel Waikiki and Tower.  —  He'd previously disclosed his 50 percent stake in a pair of Honolulu rental units …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
The Daily Beast:
Scott Pruitt Personally Involved in ‘Ratf*cking’ Ex-Aides Who He Feels Betrayed Him … On May 18, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt testified to a congressional committee that she had been tasked with procuring her boss a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel …
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
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 …
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.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Federal officials launch two reviews into Trump's handling of migrant children  —  The GAO and the Health and Human Services inspector general both launched reviews Wednesday into the Trump administration's handling of thousands of migrant children separated from their families at the border.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Poll: Trump approval rating ticks up to 47 percent
Discussion: Daily Wire, Front Page Magazine and CNN
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Daily Mail:
'When you aggressively f*** with people's lives, you should not be surprised when they decide …
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