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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Promising to Fight the Census Case. That Might Actually Work. — Despite a favorable ruling for opponents of the census citizenship question on Thursday, the Supreme Court did not definitively decide to exclude the citizenship question from the 2020 census.
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Bars Challenges to Partisan Gerrymandering — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against the challengers opposed to partisan gerrymandering, the practice in which the party that controls the state legislature draws voting maps to help elect its candidates.
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Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court: Partisan gerrymandering “beyond the reach” of federal courts — In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court said that cases about partisan gerrymandering are “beyond the reach of the federal courts” — a blow to voting-rights activists and Democrats. — Why it matters …
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court blocks Trump administration on census citizenship question
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
John Roberts Rejects the Census Citizenship Question Because Trump Officials Lied About It
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump asks lawyers if census can be delayed, calls Supreme Court decision ‘totally ridiculous’
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New Republic and Political Wire
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Court orders do-over on citizenship question in census case
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Fox News, New York Times, The Resurgent, Outside the Beltway, Amy Howe, Althouse and ImmigrationProf Blog
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts
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The Federalist and Big League Politics
Ted Hesson / Politico:
Supreme Court deals blow to Trump's push to add citizenship question to census
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says federal courts don't have a role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims
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Politico, Washington Times and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Who talked most during the first night of the Democratic debate — Ten Democratic primary candidates faced off tonight in the first night of the first 2020 presidential debate. The Washington Post tracked the amount of time each candidate spoke. — Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
The winner of the first Democratic debate: Donald Trump — Analysis: The Republican commander in chief emerged from the scrap largely unscathed, while several of his would-be rivals took aim at each other instead. — MIAMI — President Donald Trump was the big winner of the first 2020 Democratic debate.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Land Mine that Just Got Laid for Elizabeth Warren
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New York Times:
Democrats Diverge on Economy and Immigration in First Debate
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David Catanese / US News:
Seth Moulton Missed The First Debate. He Doesn't Think It Matters.
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Washington Free Beacon
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Mocks Beto and Booker's ‘Humorous’ Spanish Skills at Democratic Debate
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon and Breitbart
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Elizabeth Warren Takes a Huge Risk by Calling to End Private Health Insurance
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon and Vox
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Beto Bust — Column: And a Booker bounce?
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ABC News
Washington Post:
Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules — a move with potentially stark implications for Trump's account — The social media site will also down-rank such tweets via its algorithms to reduce circulation — SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has long said it is unlikely to take down politicians …
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Twitter:
Defining public interest on Twitter — Our highest priority is to protect the health of the public conversation on Twitter, and an important part of that is ensuring our rules and how we enforce them are easy to understand. In the past, we've allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Twitter says it will label tweets from Trump and other leaders that break its rules — New York (CNN Business)Twitter plans to place a disclaimer on future tweets from world leaders that break its rules but which Twitter decides are in the “public interest,” the company said in a blog post Thursday.
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Big League Politics, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
Washington Post:
Tillerson told House panel that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner left him in the dark on conversations with foreign nations — Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson met privately with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month to discuss the Trump administration's foreign policy, including issues related to Russia.
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Washington Post:
Tillerson: Jared Kushner left him in the dark on conversations with foreign nations — In newly disclosed testimony, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner operated independently with world leaders without coordination with the State Department …
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Daily Kos, POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
‘It makes me angry’: Tillerson vents frustrations with Kushner — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was having dinner at a local restaurant when the owner came over to tell him that Mexico's foreign secretary happened to be eating at the same place. Would he like to say hello?
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Axios
The Daily Beast:
‘Angry’ Rex Tillerson Says Jared Kushner Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump says what happens in Putin meeting is ‘none of your business’
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New York Times:
Corroborating E. Jean Carroll … The writer E. Jean Carroll came forward last week with explosive accusations that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Today, the two women who corroborated her account go on the record for the first time with our colleague. — On today's episode:
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New York Times:
Why E. Jean Carroll, ‘the Anti-Victim,’ Spoke Up About Trump — The writer's friends and confidantes talk publicly for the first time about her sexual assault allegation against the president. — E. Jean Carroll tore through the doors of the Fifth Avenue entrance of Bergdorf Goodman, her heart racing.
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New York Times:
In Defeat, Pelosi Agrees to Pass Senate Border Bill Without House Conditions — WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi agreed on Thursday to clear the Senate's version of emergency humanitarian aid package for strapped federal agencies dealing with a migrant crisis, jettisoning the House's strict controls …
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Jack Crowe / National Review:
Pelosi Caves, Will Hold Vote on Senate-Passed Border-Funding Bill
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The Hill:
House Democrats cave, will take up Senate border bill
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Political Wire, CNN and illegal immigration …
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Yields to Pressure, Will Allow Vote on Senate Border Bill
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The Week
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Trump Wants To Withdraw Deportation Protections For Families Of Active Troops — The Trump administration wants to scale back a program that protects undocumented family members of active-duty troops from being deported, according to attorneys familiar with those plans.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Heading to G-20, Trump Once Again Assails America's Friends — OSAKA, Japan — President Trump, arriving in Japan on Thursday, opened his latest foreign trip much as he did his last one, lashing out at America's allies, including his hosts, just before sitting down with them to talk through differences …
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Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
Bill De Blasio Roasted for Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Campaign Stop … New York politics and Miami politics are not the same. This may seem like an obvious statement. But at a rally today for striking workers at the Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential …
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Saleha Mohsin / Bloomberg:
White House Considers Capital Gains Tax Break That Would Benefit Wealthy — Trump team considering bypassing Congress to adopt change — Trump would likely face legal challenge by acting on his own — The White House is developing a plan to cut taxes by indexing capital gains to inflation …
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