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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 …
Discussion: Politico and Vox
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.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:   John Roberts Rejects the Census Citizenship Question Because Trump Officials Lied About It
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court says federal courts don't have a role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims
Discussion: Mother Jones
Steven Shepard / Politico:   Justices: Federal courts can't police partisan gerrymandering
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Blocks Citizenship Question From 2020 Census for Now
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court blocks 2020 census citizenship question
Discussion: KTLA and United We Dream
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Is Beyond The Reach Of Federal Courts
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Declines to Set Limits on Political Gerrymandering
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:   Supreme Court allows severe partisan gerrymandering to continue
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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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
The Land Mine that Just Got Laid for Elizabeth Warren  —  On several occasions in Wednesday night's Democratic debate, the NBC moderators invited candidates to take a shot at Elizabeth Warren, and neither of her fellow senators, Amy Klobuchar or Cory Booker, took the bait.
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.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Mocks Beto and Booker's ‘Humorous’ Spanish Skills at Democratic Debate
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Elizabeth Warren proved she's ready for the big show
TIME:
The First Debate Showed How Far to the Left Democrats Have Moved
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
David Catanese / US News:   Seth Moulton Missed The First Debate. He Doesn't Think It Matters.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Elizabeth Warren Takes a Huge Risk by Calling to End Private Health Insurance
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Booker and Castro Thrive, Warren Coasts, and Beto Crashes
Discussion: Washington Post and Althouse
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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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 …
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?
Discussion: Axios
The Daily Beast:
‘Angry’ Rex Tillerson Says Jared Kushner Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy  —  The former secretary of state accused the president's son-in-law of setting up his own private State Department, according to a congressional transcript seen by The Daily Beast.  —  Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson claims …
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Trump says what happens in Putin meeting is ‘none of your business’
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:   Latest sex accusation against Trump lands with a thud
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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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.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze
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 …
Carol Robinson / al.com:
Woman indicted in shooting death of her unborn child; charges against shooter dismissed  —  A woman whose unborn baby was killed in a 2018 Pleasant Grove shooting has now been indicted in the death.  —  Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old Birmingham woman, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on a manslaughter charge.
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Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:   Alabama Woman Who Lost Pregnancy in Shooting Is Charged in Fetus's Death
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: ThinkProgress, Slate and TheBlaze
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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Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Julián Castro claims momentum, denies advocating ‘open borders,’ after debate performance  —  MIAMI - After months of struggling for attention in the crowded Democratic presidential primary, former Obama administration official Julián Castro claimed momentum in the wake …
Discussion: Axios, Politico and Breitbart
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Julián Castro had a very good night at the first Democratic debate
Discussion: Politico, Washington Post and VICE
 
 
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P.R. Lockhart / Vox:
Joe Biden is winning black voters, but will it last?
Anna Sanders / New York Daily News:
Queens Democratic machine scrambles for a recount after public defender Tiffany Cabán …
Discussion: The Root
Laura J. Nelson / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. is hemorrhaging bus riders — worsening traffic and hurting climate goals
Bob Price / Breitbart:
20 Times Breitbart Reported on Migrant Deaths During Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared
Geir Moulson / Associated Press:
Germany's Merkel seen shaking again at Berlin event
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Fact-checking the first Democratic debate
Discussion: Cafe Hayek
Jed Handelsman Shugerman / New York Times:
How Mueller Can ‘Fix His Mistakes’
Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
Elizabeth Warren Lays Out a Theory of Change at First Democratic Debate
Discussion: Reason
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Jacob Wohl Says He'll Enlist if Trump Attacks Iran
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK
 
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