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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 …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Presidents Have Declared Dozens of Emergencies, but None Like Trump's — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday pointed to nearly five dozen previous instances in which presidents of both parties have declared emergencies as justification for his invocation of extraordinary powers to build his border wall.
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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 …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter Fires Back at Trump: ‘The Only National Emergency Is That Our President Is an Idiot’
Ann Coulter Fires Back at Trump: ‘The Only National Emergency Is That Our President Is an Idiot’
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The Atlantic, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Contemptor and Hot Air
Washington Post:
How President Trump came to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall
How President Trump came to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Why Trump's Going to Win on the National Emergency
Why Trump's Going to Win on the National Emergency
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just plunged the country into dangerous new territory. Here's what's really at stake.
Trump just plunged the country into dangerous new territory. Here's what's really at stake.
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Raw Story, New York Times, Vox and CNBC
Lawfare:
What Authorities Is President Trump Using to Build a Border Wall?
What Authorities Is President Trump Using to Build a Border Wall?
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Foreign Policy, AAF and The Gateway Pundit
Josh Blackman / Lawfare:
How Congress and President Obama Made Trump's Wall Possible
How Congress and President Obama Made Trump's Wall Possible
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President Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump's Border Security Victory
President Donald J. Trump's Border Security Victory
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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.
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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.
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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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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison
Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison
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Fox News:
Judge imposes partial gag order in Roger Stone case
Judge imposes partial gag order in Roger Stone case
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Associated Press, Daily Wire and Townhall
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Judge gags Roger Stone from Mueller comments around D.C. courthouse
Judge gags Roger Stone from Mueller comments around D.C. courthouse
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Chicago Tribune:
Aurora mass shooting updates: 6 dead, including gunman, and 5 officers wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm — Six people, including a gunman, died in a shooting at a manufacturing warehouse in Aurora on Friday afternoon, and five officers were struck by gunfire, officials said.
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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 …
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Doha Madani / NBC News:
Several injured, shooter apprehended at Aurora, Ill., manufacturing plant
Several injured, shooter apprehended at Aurora, Ill., manufacturing plant
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Washington Post:
‘A recipe for disaster’? Trump's border emergency drags the GOP into a risky fight ahead of 2020. — President Trump's decision to unilaterally attempt to build his promised wall at the Mexico border is pulling his party into a tailspin of drama and unease — a move that could help …
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
House Judiciary to investigate Trump's emergency declaration
House Judiciary to investigate Trump's emergency declaration
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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.
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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 …
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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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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
California's move to Super Tuesday hands Harris a big edge in 2020 — Kamala Harris is building a wall around California. — The Democratic senator has been activating her forces on the home front since launching her White House bid last month — cornering some of the state's most prolific donors …
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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 …
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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.
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
N.C. election officials will consider fate of congressional seat at Monday hearing — Investigators on Monday will begin revealing the breadth of an alleged ballot-tampering scheme in North Carolina, launching a potentially bitter and partisan battle over how to fill a congressional seat that has remained vacant since January.
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