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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.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump liked the idea of a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option — President Trump liked the idea of declaring a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option. — Between the lines: Trump never gravitates towards complexity.
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Politico, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, ABC News and Breitbart
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Bill Weld launches GOP presidential exploratory committee — Announces in NH he's eyeing run against Trump — Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld is launching a presidential exploratory committee to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries, saying the country is …
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Washington Post:
Shutdown averted: President Trump has signed a sweeping spending bill hours before funding expired for parts of the government — BREAKING: Another shutdown is averted. President Trump has signed a sweeping spending bill hours before funding expired for parts of the government.
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ABC News, USA Today, ThinkProgress, Protect Democracy, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, CityLab, NPR, The Week, Orlando Weekly and CNBC
Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter: National Emergency Designed ‘for Trump to Scam the Stupidest People in His Base’ — Conservative provocateur Ann Coulter fired shots at Trump on Friday for saying he'll sign a bill that would avert another government shutdown and instead declaring a national emergency to build his Mexico border wall.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Keeps Doubling Down On The Same Failed Strategy — President Trump will declare a national emergency and seek money to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday, moments before the U.S. Senate passed a compromise spending bill that didn't include wall funding.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump asked for a wall. He's forcing a constitutional crisis.
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Washington Post, Shareblue Media, The Bulwark, Politico and Conservative Review
Erwin Chemerinsky / American Prospect:
Trump's ‘Emergency’ Action: Unlawful and Unconstitutional
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Law & Crime and Reason
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
In a Divided Washington, Congress Averted a Shutdown — but at a Price — WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, went to bed Wednesday night cautiously optimistic that a shutdown crisis that had stretched back to December had finally ended.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall — WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency at the border on Friday to access billions of dollars to build a border wall that Congress refused to give him, transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a fundamental confrontation over separation of powers.
Washington Post:
‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat
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Townhall, Politico, Daily Kos, Portland Mercury, Talking Points Memo, The Week, National Review, ABC News and Splinter
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Trump's Rationale for a National Emergency Is Based on False or Misleading Claims
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PolitiFact, Defense One and The Guardian
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
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New York Times and Washington Post
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump once called executive action on immigration dangerous, unconstitutional and impeachable
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Washington Post, KFOR-TV, Shareblue Media, Mediaite and Politico
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court takes up Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship in census — The Supreme Court added a politically explosive case to its low-profile docket Friday, agreeing to decide by the end of June whether the Trump administration can add a question about citizenship …
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Reports Claim Jussie Smollet Allegedly Staged Hate Crime Attack; Police Say News Is ‘Unconfirmed, Inaccurate’ — Two local media outlet are now reporting that the assault of Empire actor Jussie Smollet last month may have been a hoax: Smollet himself is suspected of organizing the attack …
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Taylor Day / American Thinker:
Two Nigerian immigrants to be charged for Jussie Smollett ‘hate crime’
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Poolreports / Public Pool:
Subject: Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States — DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY CONCERNING THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE UNITED STATES — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States
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Lawfare and Cronkite News
Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Trump for the Republican presidential nomination — The president remains popular with Republican voters, but Weld said he would attempt to defeat him or at a minimum hurt him with a primary challenge.
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CNN:
Trump may have his first 2020 Republican challenger with former Massachusetts governor
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Live: Republican William Weld announcing launch of presidential exploratory committee
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Politico, TheBlaze, Axios, Washington Times and Hit & Run
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The massacre Trump's envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — “I fail to understand,” the congresswoman said at a hearing Wednesday, “why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Twitter Suspended A DC Think Tank For Violating Its Rules Against Fake Accounts — BuzzFeed News previously revealed the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology was using fake accounts to promote its work. Now it's under scrutiny again. — Twitter has suspended three accounts connected …
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Mel Watt attempted to ‘coerce’ relationship with employee while FHFA director, IG report says — “Standing up for myself” against the director of a federal agency “has not been an easy thing to do,” the woman said. — Former congressman Mel Watt misused his position when he was director …
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Politico, Axios and Political Wire
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge hits Roger Stone with gag order — A federal judge on Friday ordered Roger Stone, his attorneys and the special counsel's office to halt all public commentary about the case involving charges that the longtime Donald Trump associate lied to Congress and obstructed its Russia investigation.
CNN:
Top US general disagrees with Trump over Syria troop pullout — Muscat, Oman (CNN)The US commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN Friday that he disagreed with Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the President.
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Washington Monthly, Reuters, Raw Story, Defense One and Political Wire
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The President Is Hallucinating and I Think We Should Be Concerned — Trump is declaring a fictional emergency to complete a wall he hasn't started in response to an incursion that doesn't exist. It's Wayne Hays in the White House. — Season three of True Detective follows Wayne Hays …
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New York Magazine
Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
After the Coup is Gone — As the perpetrators of one of the most shameful scandals in American political history begin slowly to retreat, we are left to ponder one overarching question: — What now? — The tale we've been told for more than two years—that Donald Trump's campaign team …
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Brian Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
“A Profound Mistake” - New Mike Pence Video Surfaces Implying His Real Thoughts Towards Executive Action — With the president expected to officially declare a national emergency, allowing him to pillage other Congressionally allocated funds and repurposed those fund for a wall, a new video has just ironically surfaced.
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ThinkProgress and Contemptor
Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
How Kids YouTube Star Blippi Used Copyright Law to Hide His Harlem Shake Poop Video — Someone claiming to represent Blippi filed DMCA copyright takedown requests to Google in order to get an embarrassing viral video hidden. — Wednesday night, BuzzFeed News published a blockbuster investigate report …
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The Big Lead
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox hosts are so mad at Rubio for opposing Trump's emergency declaration they want his resignation — Two Fox hosts said on Friday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should resign his Senate seat after suggesting that the president should not violate the U.S. Constitution to build a border wall unilaterally.
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