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5:15 PM ET, April 9, 2019

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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Crisis  —  Behind the flailing lies a potential disaster for immigration hawks.  —  Across the decade that preceded Donald Trump's election, American politicians of both parties consistently tried to pass big, sweeping immigration bills that would legalize …
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Vicki Divoll / New York Times:
Subpoena Isn't the Only Way to Get the Mueller Report  —  By law, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees should already have certain investigative materials relating to Russian election meddling.  —  PAUL KRUGMAN  —  Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?  —  The tax cut fizzled; send in the clowns!
Axios:
Trump orders dramatic changes in immigration policy, aims to accelerate deportations
Washington Post:
Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’
Discussion: Shakesville and Raw Story
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
New York Times:
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate  —  A detailed look at the voters with the numbers to decide the 2020 Democratic nominee.  —  Democrats on social media  —  Progressive activists Other Democrats  —  The Democratic electorate off social media
Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy  —  President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the southern border.
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and Rolling Stone
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says no plan to revive family separations, blames Obama for uproar
Discussion: Breitbart
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:   Trump takes an honor of a lifetime and turns it into a black hole
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit  —  California Representative Devin Nunes is being mocked on Twitter after filing a $150 million lawsuit over a May 2018 story featuring the headline: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes …
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Sam Stanton / Sacramento Bee:
First Twitter, now The Fresno Bee: Devin Nunes files lawsuit against McClatchy  —  In his latest legal onslaught against perceived critics of his policies, U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, filed a $150 million defamation suit Monday in a Virginia circuit court against the McClatchy Co …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, Law & Crime and twitchy.com
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-Semitism  —  Stephen Miller is personally responsible for the most xenophobic policies of the most xenophobic presidency in modern American history.  The senior White House adviser authored the travel ban that denied a wide variety …
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Jonathan Broder / Newsweek:
How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel—and Upending the 2020 Campaign  —  In late March, some 18,000 people crowded into a grand ballroom the size of a commercial airline hangar in downtown Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination  —  Herman Cain is in deep trouble.  And he hasn't even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve yet.  —  Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult …
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Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
Why Trump Is Serious About Herman Cain
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?
Discussion: Vanity Fair, CNBC and Daily Kos
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment  —  Former FBI General Counsel James Baker told the House Judiciary Committee last October that it's his understanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said there were 2 members of President Trump's Cabinet …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice
Discussion: Raw Story
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement  —  Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel's office about the potential release of President Trump's tax returns …
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing.  Thank TurboTax.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
Washington Post:
The full Mueller report could be released — if the House opens preliminary impeachment hearings  —  Philip Allen Lacovara was a counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor.  Laurence H. Tribe is a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School.  —  The uncertain prospect …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats plan to use hearing to press Barr on Mueller report
Asha Rangappa / Politico:
The Forgotten Reason Congress Needs to See the Mueller Report
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Haaretz:
Israel Election 2019: Gantz and Netanyahu Tied; No Clear Path to Premiership for Either — Exit Polls  —  Netanyahu's party places 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling sites ■ Gantz helps injured motorcyclist ■ 6.3 million people eligible to vote
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New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.  —  An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.  —  President Trump has adopted a blunt new message in recent days for migrants seeking refuge …
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 ‘wellness’ habits: From no food all weekend to ice baths  —  The ancient philosophy of Stoicism - which teaches to be satisfied with what you have and includes practices like self-denial — has become a trend among Silicon Valley elites.
Steve Vladeck / Slate:
Trump Is Abusing His Authority to Name “Acting Secretaries.”  Here's How Congress Can Stop Him.  —  One of the more interesting legal phenomena of the Trump administration has been the attention paid to previously obscure federal statutes—and how the legal authorities they provide can be abused …
Discussion: Vox
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Pew Research Center:
Race in America 2019  —  Public has negative views of the country's racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse  —  More than 150 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, most U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery continues …
Discussion: Vox, Axios, Boing Boing, CNN and The Root
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Moderate Democrats Back Balanced-Budget Amendment, Countering Liberals  — Group backs balanced budget amendment to Constitution  — Move by Blue Dogs highlights differences with progressives  —  A group of moderate House Democrats is proposing a balanced budget amendment …
Discussion: Splinter
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John Bresnahan / Politico:   House Dems cancel vote on budget plan amid internal revolt
Matthew Gault / Motherboard:
Read the Best Parts of Alex Jones's 159-Page Deposition About Pepe the Frog  —  Jones is getting sued for allegedly violating the copyright of Pepe the Frog's creator by selling Pepe posters on Infowars.  —  In a court deposition obtained by Motherboard, Infowars's Alex Jones claimed Pepe the Frog was more than just a cartoon frog.
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS  —  One of the GOP senators from Kris Kobach's home state said Tuesday that the Senate would not be able to confirm the Kansas Republican if President Donald Trump tapped him for a cabinet post.
New York Times:
At Trump's Florida Resort Empire, a Quiet Effort to Eliminate an Undocumented Work Force  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — Behind the clipped hedges of President Trump's sumptuous private clubs in South Florida, including his Mar-a-Lago estate where he has spent many getaway weekends …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
 
 
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Ruth Graham / Slate:
The White House Is Hosting a Screening of the Gory Anti-Abortion Film Gosnell
Discussion: Vanity Fair and New York Times
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Fresh Off the 2016 Debacle, Facebook Backs Away From the 2020 Election Debates
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
It Wasn't ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends guest: Black families were better off as slaves
Discussion: twitchy.com
Kevin Krause / Dallas Morning News:
Teen ‘lone wolf’ gets 20 years in prison for terrorism plot to shoot up Frisco Mall
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Vladimir Kara-Murza / Washington Post:
Putin's Russia feels increasingly like a fortress under siege
Robert Mackey / The Intercept:
AIPAC Targets Bernie Sanders in Facebook Ads Focused on Key Democratic Primary States
 Earlier Items: 
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Young Trump judge faces charges of conflict of interest and corporate favoritism
Washington Post:
Netanyahu has descended into new depths of demagoguery
John Myers / Los Angeles Times:
Hackers attacked California DMV voter registration system marred by bugs, glitches
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John F. Kennedy Jr. and George Magazine: A Story of Politics, Love and Loss, 20 Years Later
New York Times:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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