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CNN:
Inside Jerry Nadler's private push to open up impeachment inquiry  —  Nadler: Mueller clearly demonstrated that Trump is lying  —  (CNN)At a frank meeting this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler again lobbied to win Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Robert Mueller could be subpoenaed in the next two weeks  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special …
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
House Democrats To Make It Easier To Find Trump Aides In Contempt, Bring Them To Court  —  The House will also more forward with enforcing subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn.  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to vote next week …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Trump and impeachment, some Democrats fear a nightmare scenario
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
Dems, media try 1973 tactics to fight Trump's 2019 ‘cancer on the presidency.’ It won't work
Discussion: Mediaite and emptywheel
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pelosi Wants Trump to Go to Prison. Here's How It Could Happen.
Discussion: Politico, The Week and Breitbart
Laurence H. Tribe / Washington Post:
Impeach Trump. But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.
Discussion: Bookworm Room and Balloon Juice
Los Angeles Times:   House Democrats don't have a majority for impeachment, but support is growing
Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Trump Delays D-Day Commemoration Start With Laura Ingraham Interview
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
New Files From GOP Operative's Hard Drive Suggest N.C. Republicans Lied in Court to Maintain Racial Gerrymander  —  The latest bombshell from the formerly secret files of the GOP's top gerrymandering guru emerged on Thursday, and it's astounding: Voting rights advocates claim to have evidence …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
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Michael Wines / New York Times:   Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North Carolina, Advocates Say
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:   Court Doc: GOP Consultant's Files Reveal NC Leg Lied In Redistricting Case
Washington Post:
Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers  —  U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …
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The Hill:
Trump plans to declare new national emergency to impose tariffs
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
CNN:
Larry Kudlow once said Trump's proposed trade policies ‘will pose incalculable damage’ to US economy
Discussion: fox5sandiego.com
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media.  Here's How They All Got It Wrong.  —  Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.
New York Times:
Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran  —  Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment.  —  BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …
Discussion: Political Wire and Sean Hannity
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:   1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Brady McCombs / HuffPost:
Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress  —  Scott Brian Haven of Utah is accused of making over 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol over a three-year period about Democrats threatening Trump's presidency.  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) …
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge  —  It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.  Perhaps more surprising, though, is how much has changed there in just the last two and a half years.
Washington Post:
‘These boys were on a holiday’: Trump family members promote themselves, and businesses, on European trip  —  As parties go, it's hard to top a state dinner with the queen of England, but President Trump's sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — tried to keep the revelry going during an impromptu pub crawl in Doonbeg …
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Please, My Wife, She's Very Online  —  It might have begun with “Borat.”  In that Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary, from 2006, which was subtitled “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the protagonist has a particular way of saying “my wife,” which …
Discussion: New York Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his longtime attorneys.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Michael Cohen's life behind bars  —  What prison life could be like for Cohen  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen was nervous about his new life behind bars.  President Donald Trump's former fixer turned star government witness was worried that inmates who supported Trump might bring trouble when he arrived …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Don Lemon Reveals He Was Called “F***ot” Recently While Filming Show  —  “I was doing a shoot in the park the other day and someone said, 'We built this country.  I can't wait for CNN to fire your black ass,'” Lemon said.  —  At an industry conference on Thursday …
Discussion: Deadline and Mediaite
Matthew Adams / Dallas Morning News:
Should women who have abortions go to jail?  ‘Absolutely,’ says Arlington Rep. Ron Wright  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, said on a video released by an abortion rights group that women commit murder if they have an abortion and should “absolutely” be punished.
Washington Post:
How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA's disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports  —  After catastrophic floodwaters submerged wide stretches of southern Louisiana in 2016, displaced homeowners and officials criticized the federal recovery effort as dangerously slow, leaving thousands of people homeless for months.
Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To  —  It's easy to stick up for someone's right to say something, anything.  But free speech is about more than owning the libs.  —  It may surprise you to learn that there is very little record of the Founding Fathers' debates …
Sridhar Pappu / Los Angeles Times:
The women of MSNBC are reshaping the television landscape  —  “We should have been blasting ‘9 to 5,’” said Stephanie Ruhle, sitting at her anchor desk in the MSNBC studio at 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan.  It was nearing 9 a.m. in late May and Ruhle, who anchors …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
Del Harvey / Twitter:
Making our rules easier to understand  —  Our rules exist to help keep everyone using Twitter safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation.  Over time, we've added new rules and updated existing ones, but these changes eventually made our rules confusing and difficult to understand.
Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
Steven Nelson / Washington Examiner:
Rudy Giuliani plans to leave Trump legal team — unless needed  —  President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says he plans to depart that role after he finishes “cleanup” from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.  —  The former New York City mayor, who once led …
 
 
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Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Buttigieg says Stacey Abrams was robbed in Georgia governor's race
Discussion: NBC News
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
John James announces 2020 Senate run in Michigan
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Bernie Sanders praised communist Cuba and the Soviet Union in the 1980s
SEIU:
SEIU passes resolution in support of Green New Deal
Discussion: Common Dreams
USA Today:
FCC should block robocalls by default
Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed News:
The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Finished. It's Not Stopping Migrants From Coming In.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
Democrats urge Trump to rethink July 4 plans
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
White House invites key Trump business allies to Bahrain forum in search for a Middle East ‘deal of the century’
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter:
The Obamas Ink Deal With Spotify to Produce, Host Podcasts
David Enrich / New York Times:
Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Politico
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Lobbyists Cut Check to Giuliani's Ukraine ‘Investigator’
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