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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court agrees to consider whether Trump's tax records should be released — By granting review of these cases now, the justices made it possible for them to be heard during the current court term. — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Rule on Release of Trump's Financial Records — The court's ruling, expected by June, could release information the president has tried to protect. Or the justices could rule that his financial affairs are not legitimate subjects of inquiry so long as he remains in office.
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HotAir, Axios, Bloomberg and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will take up Trump's broad claims of protection from investigation — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will take up President Trump's broad claims of protection from investigation, raising the prospect of a landmark election-year ruling on the limits of presidential power.
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Slate, POLITICUSUSA, Sputnik News and Mediaite
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court will hear three cases over Trump's financial records — The Supreme Court said on Friday that it will hear three cases over President Donald Trump's financial records next year. — Trump asked the justices to reverse three lower court rulings that would require …
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The Gateway Pundit
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Supreme Court to hear Trump pleas to block subpoenas for financial records
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden warns that Boris Johnson's victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left — The leading 2020 contender told donors that the UK election holds lessons for the White House race. — Former Vice President Joe Biden. Win McNamee/Getty Images — Former Vice President Joe Biden …
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Populist nationalism is on the march. No one seems to know how to stop it.
Populist nationalism is on the march. No one seems to know how to stop it.
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thedailychrenk.com, Mother Jones, Marginal REVOLUTION and Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Freedland / The Guardian:
This is a repudiation of Corbynism. Labour needs to ditch the politics of the sect
This is a repudiation of Corbynism. Labour needs to ditch the politics of the sect
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Foreign Policy and Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
McConnell's awful Hannity interview shows power of Fox News's disinformation — It has often been observed that one of President Trump's biggest allies in the impeachment battle is Fox News — that if Richard Nixon had enjoyed the benefit of such a powerful purveyor of propaganda, he wouldn't have been driven from office.
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DNyuz, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Occupy Democrats, Breitbart, Fox News and Common Dreams
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Washington Post:
On impeachment, Democrats can put Republicans on defense. Here's how.
On impeachment, Democrats can put Republicans on defense. Here's how.
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POLITICUSUSA
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
McConnell's vow of ‘total coordination’ with White House on Senate impeachment trial angers Democrats
McConnell's vow of ‘total coordination’ with White House on Senate impeachment trial angers Democrats
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New York Times, Axios, The Daily Beast, HuffPost, Talking Points Memo, Fox News and Balloon Juice
Noah Rothman / Commentary:
Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem — Nobody forced Bernie Sanders's campaign to endorse Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. By the time the Sanders camp's national organizing director, Clair Sandberg, announced that the Vermont senator's team stood in solidarity with the far-left British candidate …
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New York Times, DNyuz, The National Interest, The Sun and Reason
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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
Boris Johnson Is Showing Western Politicians How to Win
Boris Johnson Is Showing Western Politicians How to Win
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New York Times, alicublog, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Post and Damian J. Penny
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
Corbynism Can't Happen Here — Even though the polls always suggested …
Corbynism Can't Happen Here — Even though the polls always suggested …
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National Review, Jacobin, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and New York Magazine
Yascha Mounk / The Atlantic:
How Labour Lost the Culture War
How Labour Lost the Culture War
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Washington Post, DNyuz, CNN and IJR
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Bernie Sanders endorses a Californian who defends crude sex ratings of women — Bernie Sanders endorsed a California congressional candidate Thursday with a long history of making crude and degrading comments about women and provocative statements about Jews, Muslims and other groups.
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The Slot, Vox, The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications, The Gateway Pundit, Fortune and Twitchy
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism
Bernie Sanders Retracts Endorsement of Cenk Uygur After Criticism
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Redstate, CNN and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
A Great Big Gift Not on Trump's Disclosure Form: Giuliani's Legal Advice — For the past 20 months, President Trump has received free personal legal services from one of America's highest-paid lawyers, who has traveled around the country and across the ocean to defend him in the special counsel's inquiry …
Tampa Bay Times:
The case for impeachment — The House has enough reason to justify the impeachment of President Donald Trump. — With reluctance, we conclude the U.S. House of Representatives has enough reason to justify the impeachment of President Donald Trump. We harbor no illusions …
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CNN:
White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal
White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Ethics Experts Slam Trump For Promoting Mar-A-Lago Resort As The ‘Southern White House’: 'It's An Abuse of Power'
Ethics Experts Slam Trump For Promoting Mar-A-Lago Resort As The ‘Southern White House’: 'It's An Abuse of Power'
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Hullabaloo, Spectator USA and Vox
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Icy silence, frayed connections: Impeachment takes a toll — WASHINGTON (AP) — The most raucous committee in Congress sat stone-faced, barely speaking. — One by one, the members around the Judiciary Committee dais voted on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Talking Impeachment to Death
Talking Impeachment to Death
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The Moderate Voice, New York Times, ABC News, NBC News, Taylor Marsh and Deseret News
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Matt Gaetz proves there is no bottom
Matt Gaetz proves there is no bottom
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New Yorker, PJ Media Home, Reason, Fox News, NBC News, Althouse, The Resurgent, Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Judge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls … (Photo: Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) — PORT WASHINGTON - An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.
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New York Times, Tallahassee Democrat, Real Clear Politics and Election Academy
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin judge: 234K voter registrations should be tossed
Wisconsin judge: 234K voter registrations should be tossed
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The Hill
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
One House Democrat goes on record opposing Trump impeachment — Eight other lawmakers in competitive districts are currently on the fence ahead of the full House vote, according to an NBC News tally. — House Democrats hailing from conservative swing districts are all lining up to vote …
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U.S. Congressman Max Rose, Breitbart and MSNBC
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Dan Cobb / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Precinct closures harm voter turnout in Georgia, AJC analysis finds — Closures accelerated after Supreme Court invalidated Voting Rights Act provision, putting thousands farther from the polls. — Until her old concrete-block precinct shut down, Maggie Coleman lived about a mile from a place to cast her ballot in rural Georgia.
Ryan Parry West / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden to be a daddy for the FIFTH time! New South African wife of VP's son is seen with a baby bump amid his messy paternity case and concerns over barrage of attacks from Trump loyalists — Hunter Biden's new wife Melissa Cohen Biden, 32, is pregnant and in her second trimester, DailyMailTV can reveal
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Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Shocking moment school bus bullies pummel 14-year-old boy leaving him hospitalized with head injuries 'because he'd worn a Trump 2020 hat' — Shocking video has emerged showing a 14-year-old boy being attacked on a school bus, allegedly because he'd previously worn a hat supporting President Donald Trump.
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BizPac Review and Disrn
JM Rieger / Washington Post:
Trump has described the same conversation about Israel four times. Each time, the name of his Jewish friend changed. — Touting his accomplishments during a second Hanukkah reception at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump recalled a conversation he said he had with real estate developer Charles Kushner.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
New York Times:
China Announces Initial Trade Agreement With U.S. — The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws protecting foreign companies operating there. — BEIJING — China announced on Friday that it had agreed on an initial trade deal …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘The story stands’: McClatchy won't back off its Michael Cohen-Prague reporting — McClatchy isn't relenting on Cohen-Prague. “Until we have new reporting that tells us our old reporting is wrong, the story stands,” notes Jeanne Segal, a spokeswoman for the newspaper chain, in an email to the Erik Wemple Blog.
Wall Street Journal:
‘Just Having Fun’: Giuliani Doubles Down on Ukraine Probes — Trump's personal attorney escalates his push for investigations—the effort that helped spark impeachment inquiry — Some of Rudy Giuliani's friends told him to keep a low profile. — Instead, Mr. Giuliani is escalating …
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BizPac Review, Talking Points Memo, Vanity Fair, Law & Crime, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, The American Independent, Vox, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, Raw Story and Politico
Axios:
Scoop: House Dems attend Trump's holiday party amid impeachment — Half a dozen House Democrats attended the White House Congressional Ball last night while their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee worked late into the night on articles of impeachment, according to two sources familiar with the event.
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The Nevada Independent, Breitbart, The Hill, The Daily Caller and Rolling Stone
Alisyn Camerota / Vanity Fair:
“FIRST, YOU HAVE TO DO THESE THINGS I SAY”: INSIDE ROGER AILES'S TWISTED GAME OF MIND CONTROL — During my time at Fox News, Ailes bent reality to fit his own needs. But his racist rants and warped demands—"all you have to do is kill Gretchen"—ultimately allowed the women of Fox to bring him down.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes — WASHINGTON — A district court judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter's notes …
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Law & Crime
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Democracy Grief Is Real — Seeing what Trump is doing to America, many find it hard to fight off despair. — The despair felt by climate scientists and environmentalists watching helplessly as something precious and irreplaceable is destroyed is sometimes described as “climate grief.”
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Hullabaloo and DemCast