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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.
Richard L. Hasen / New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Green Light to Partisan Gerrymandering Will Drag It Down Further Into the Mud  —  ‘Go ahead, be as political as you want’ won't solve the racial redistricting problem the court chose to ignore.  —  Mr. Hasen is a law professor and a political scientist.
Discussion: Washington Post
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Why the Supreme Court's split decisions may not mean what you think
Discussion: Politico, Washington Times and Slate
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump asks lawyers if census can be delayed, calls Supreme Court decision ‘totally ridiculous’
Sam Baker / Axios:
Supreme Court: Partisan gerrymandering “beyond the reach” of federal courts
Discussion: Politico and Vox
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Roberts Won't Let Trump Get Away With a Lie in Census Case
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Affirms Police Can Order Blood Drawn From Unconscious DUI Suspects
Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Supreme Court OKs Excessive Partisan Gerrymandering
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:   John Roberts Rejects the Census Citizenship Question Because Trump Officials Lied About It
New York Times:
House Passes Senate Border Bill in Striking Defeat for Pelosi  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a Senate humanitarian aid package without any of the House's strict protections for migrant children in overcrowded border shelters after Speaker Nancy Pelosi capitulated to Republicans …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
House clears border aid bill after Pelosi bows to McConnell  —  The House cleared a $4.6 billion emergency aid package Thursday to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, sending the bill to President Donald Trump for his signature after Speaker Nancy Pelosi bowed to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Washington Post:
House passes $4.6 billion border bill as leaders cave to moderate Democrats and GOP
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Pelosi Yields to Pressure, Lets House Pass Senate Border Bill
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
House passes border funding bill after Pelosi reversal outrages progressives
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 …
The Daily Beast:
‘He Is Not Going To Like This’: Twitter Will Downgrade Trump Tweets That Break Site's Rules
Discussion: Shareblue Media, Observer and Vox
NBC News:
Trolls target online polls following first Democratic presidential debate  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit implored fellow members to vote for lower-polling candidates, specifically Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio.  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan …
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Tulsi Gabbard Is Having A MAGA Moment After Her Debate Performance  —  “I think a lot of people would vote for her over Trump,” Mike Cernovich said.  “MAGA people.”  Ann Coulter is considering it.  —  Among some conservative pundits there was one clear winner of Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate …
Ariel Zilber / Daily Mail:
First poll has Tulsi Gabbard as the shock winner of the first Democratic debate and Beto O'Rourke as the clear loser  —  Tulsi Gabbard is the winner of the first Democratic debate in Miami on Wednesday, according to a Drudge Report poll.  —  The popular news aggregation internet site took …
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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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:   Michigan Republicans Tune In to Democratic Debate. No Conversions Reported.
David Catanese / US News:
Seth Moulton Missed The First Debate. He Doesn't Think It Matters.
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.
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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The Daily Beast:
‘Angry’ Rex Tillerson Says Jared Kushner Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy
Discussion: Mediaite
Financial Times:
Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’  —  Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.  —  In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka …
Discussion: The Guardian, Politico, Reuters and TASS
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Financial Times:   Transcript: ‘All this fuss about spies ... it is not worth serious interstate relations’
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:   Senate's Russia reports to start publishing in July
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 …
Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Matt Gaetz says he will press charges against woman who threw drink at him  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said this week that he plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him earlier this month as he was leaving a town hall event.  —  Gaetz said during a Fox News appearance Wednesday …
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.
Discussion: Slate, ThinkProgress and TheBlaze
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk:
Trump Administration in Talks With Crypto Startup on Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plans  —  The Trump administration has tapped Israeli crypto startup Orbs to develop blockchain solutions for the region's longstanding political conflicts.  —  The disclosure comes this week from a summit convened …
Discussion: Mother Jones and New York Times
 
 
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Cold, cramped, filthy: Migrants describe border centers
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China to Insist U.S. Lift Huawei Ban as Part of Trade Truce
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EXAMPLE CHANT: “From Palestine to Mexico, All the walls have got to go”
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Most House impeachment inquiry backers are Pelosi's investigators
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