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11:40 PM ET, February 15, 2019

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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's National Emergency Just Got Its First Legal Challenge  —  Legal advocacy group Public Citizen filed suit on behalf of landowners in Texas and an environmental group.  More lawsuits are expected.  —  Reporting From  —  Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON - A consumer advocacy group filed …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump Isn't Just Defying the Constitution.  He's Undermining SCOTUS.  —  The president defended his national emergency by boasting that he'll win at the Supreme Court because it's full of his judges.  —  In a Rose Garden speech Friday morning announcing that he was declaring a national state …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter Fires Back at Trump: ‘The Only National Emergency Is That Our President Is an Idiot’  —  The president said she had gone ‘off the reservation’ during his Rose Garden address declaring a national emergency for the wall.  —  Matt Wilstein  —  Ann Coulter says she's thankful …
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why Trump's Going to Win on the National Emergency  —  All through the 2016 campaign Donald Trump warned about the menace of immigration by reciting the lyrics of a song called “The Snake,” about a kind woman who takes a snake into her home, only to die when he bites her.
Discussion: Breitbart
The Bulwark:
A Defining Moment for the GOP  —  President Trump's emergency declaration is a red line for Republicans.  —  Now that President Trump has declared a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build his wall, Republican legislators face a time for choosing: Support Trump or the rule of law.
Discussion: Raw Story and Hill Reporter
David French / National Review:
Trump's Emergency Declaration Is Contemptuous of the Rule of Law  —  This is no Trump v. Hawaii; the president's discretion is dramatically limited.  —  One thing that is abundantly clear from reading the full text of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the southern border …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, transforming …
Washington Post:
‘A recipe for disaster’? Trump's border emergency drags the GOP into a risky fight ahead of 2020.
Discussion: Philly.com, Raw Story, The Atlantic and Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just plunged the country into dangerous new territory. Here's what's really at stake.
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and Vox
Shannon Vavra / Axios:   House Judiciary to investigate Trump's emergency declaration
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
There's an emergency — and it's Trump's power grab
Josh Blackman / Lawfare:
How Congress and President Obama Made Trump's Wall Possible
Discussion: New York Times and CNN
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Special counsel prosecutors say they have communications of Stone with WikiLeaks  —  Washington (CNN)Prosecutors said for the first time that they have evidence of Roger Stone communicating with WikiLeaks, according to a new court filing from special counsel prosecutors.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and VICE News
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CNN:
Exclusive: WH press secretary Sarah Sanders interviewed by special counsel's office  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has interviewed White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, she told CNN on Friday.  —  “The President urged me, like he has everyone in the administration …
USA Today:
Mueller's office seeks prison sentence of 20 years or more for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort  —  WASHINGTON - Russia special counsel Robert Mueller asked a federal judge on Friday to send former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to prison for between 20 and 24 years for his conviction on multiple financial fraud charges.
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison  —  Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller said in a new court filing that President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort should serve between 19.5 and 24.5 years in prison for the financial crimes for which he was convicted in a Virginia court last August.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Beast
Fox News:
Judge imposes partial gag order in Roger Stone case
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Washington Post:
At least 5 civilians dead and 5 officers wounded in shooting in Aurora, Ill., officials say  —  Five people were killed and five police officers wounded Friday afternoon when a gunman opened fire inside of a warehouse in Aurora, Ill., police say.  —  Aurora Police Chief Kristin Zimen confirmed the suspect …
Discussion: Splinter
Daily Herald:
Suspect in custody after multiple Aurora cops, civilians shot
Discussion: CNN, WGN-TV and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Trump's bewildering national emergency press conference, annotated  —  President Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border on Friday — but not without making a scene full of false claims, offbeat comments and tense exchanges.  —  Below is the full transcript, with annotations in yellow.
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Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Words are a president's strongest weapon.  Trump is terrible at words.  —  The lawyers will fight over the legality and constitutionality of President Trump's national emergency declaration.  What his legal team can't salvage is the American people's assessment of his ability to do his job.
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?  —  The two hottest commodities in the Democratic Party are Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Earlier this week, Omar exhibited stunning ignorance in her hostile questioning of Elliott Abrams.  Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez has often displayed a surprising lack …
Discussion: twitchy.com, Breitbart and Daily Wire
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Cummings: 2 Trump attorneys may have lied about Cohen payments  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said on Friday that his panel received new documents showing that two attorneys for President Donald Trump may have lied to government ethics officials about Trump fixer Michael …
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:   Ethics Office Notes Show ‘Evolving Stories’ on Trump's Reimbursement of Michael Cohen, House Oversight Committee Says
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
PICTURED - Two Nigerian actor brothers are arrested over Jussie Smollett attack, as it's revealed they are FRIENDS with the Empire star amid claims the assault was staged to save his career  — Police are now treating the two brothers as suspects and not persons of interest but neither has been charged
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Roll Call:
Capitol Police crackdown on press escalates to physical altercation  —  A Capitol Police crackdown turned physical Thursday afternoon, when officers clashed with reporters attempting to speak with senators in a location known as key territory for lawmakers and media to mix: the Senate basement.
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
‘Bring back our #ChildHoodDiseases,’ White House official's wife says as she criticizes vaccines  —  Darla Shine, the outspoken wife of White House communications director Bill Shine, has been tweeting about childhood diseases, claiming that illnesses such as measles, mumps and chickenpox “keep you healthy & fight cancer.”
Discussion: Daily Wire, The Guardian and Mediaite
CNN:
Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials  —  New York (CNN)Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September.  But the pages pushing the videos do not disclose that they are backed by the Russian government.
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
A quote Trump may come to regret: 'I didn't need to do this'  —  Donald Trump delivered a series of rambling comments this morning about his emergency declaration, which was then followed by a rambling press conference.  And while the president made a series of odd claims …
New York Times:
Air Force Defector to Iran Severely Damaged U.S. Intelligence Efforts, Ex-Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — A former Air Force sergeant who defected to Iran did severe damage to American intelligence operations, and is suspected of revealing the names of double agents run by United States military intelligence …
New York Times:
After Amazon Deal's Demise, ‘Raw’ Feelings and Democratic Infighting  —  In the hours after the deal to bring Amazon to New York had unraveled, the urgent message went out to Democratic state legislators: We need to talk.  —  Barely a month before, the Democrats had assumed control of the State Senate for the first time in a decade.
Discussion: Politico and Common Dreams
 
 
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