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6:35 PM ET, December 22, 2019

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Keith E. Whittington / Reason:
When Is an Officer Impeached?  IV  —  Now that President Donald Trump has gotten wind of the fact that he might not yet have been impeached, we should make some things abundantly clear.  —  At a Turning Point USA event in Florida, the president noted, “In fact, there's no impeachment.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Key Democratic senator remains undecided on whether Trump should be removed from office  —  Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.), who won a stunning special election victory in 2017 and faces a difficult reelection campaign next year, said Sunday that he remains undecided on whether President Trump should be removed from office.
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
If Trump's Impeached, Then Why Can't a Senate Trial Start Now?
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pence chief of staff not worried about Pelosi impeachment tactics: ‘She will yield’
Discussion: Associated Press
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Sen. Roy Blunt: Impeachment trial is “not a trial in any classic sense”
Discussion: The Hill
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Pelosi plays games with impeachment, what next for GOP?
Discussion: Twitchy
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
How a Poisoning in Bulgaria Exposed Russian Assassins in Europe  —  For years, members of a secret team, Unit 29155, operated without Western security officials having any idea about their activities.  But an attack on an arms dealer in Sofia helped blow their cover.
Colby Itkowitz / SFGATE:
Trump is remaking the federal judiciary  —  WASHINGTON - After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November's election.  —  Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. circuit court judges.
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
How Trump is filling the liberal 9th Circuit with conservatives  —  A bastion of liberalism in the federal judiciary is slowly turning rightward, threatening Democratic court challenges on everything from abortion to who gets a green card.  —  The Senate confirmation of Lawrence VanDyke …
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App.  It's Secretly a Spy Tool.  —  ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.  —  WASHINGTON — It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message …
IMPORTANTVILLE:
Scoop: Mayor Pete's South Bend polling  —  The mayor leads the Democratic field in his hometown.  —  In one of his last acts as both mayor and presidential candidate, Pete Buttigieg commissioned a poll of his own South Bend constituents showing he leads the Democratic field and President Trump …
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USA Today:
How America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in one head-spinning political decade  —  Obama's America and Trump's America feel like separate nations, but they are bound by Newton's law: For every action, an equal and opposite reaction.  —  How did we get from Barack Obama to Donald Trump?
Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Christianity Today editor: Trump's ‘public morality’ makes him ‘unfit’ for office  —  Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli said on Sunday that President Trump has crossed a line where his actions benefiting the evangelical community no longer excuse his misconduct in other areas.
Discussion: Christianity Today, Fox News and CNBC
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘Evangelicals are not monolithic’: Following scathing editorial, top Trump aide defends president
Discussion: Raw Story, DemCast and The French Press
Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:
Poll: 43% Of Evangelicals Approve Of Trump's Removal From Office
Kim Norvell / Des Moines Register:
Elizabeth Warren shakes up Iowa campaign style, with more candid events, but she still shies away from candidate attacks  —  OTTUMWA, Ia.  — As she slips in state and national polls, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is shaking up her campaign style in Iowa — a move that paves the way for more candid, sometimes personal events.
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Universal Notifies Theaters ‘Cats’ Is Being Updated With “Improved Visual Effects”  —  The move is unheard of for a finished film already in release.  —  How many lives does Cats have?  —  On Friday — the movie's opening day — Universal notified thousands of theaters they will be receiving …
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Using stark “us vs. them” language, President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign have begun framing his impeachment not as a judgment on his conduct but as a referendum on how Democrats regard him and his supporters.
Associated Press:
Inside impeachment: How an ‘urgent’ tip became ‘high crimes’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The night before the whistleblower complaint that launched President Donald Trump's impeachment was made public, Democrats and Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee crammed into the same room to get a first look at the document.
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Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's distorted letter to Dems and history
Discussion: Fox News
HuffPost:
Trump's Mar-A-Lago Winter Vacation Pushes Taxpayer Golf Tab Above $118 million  —  Trump criticized predecessor Barack Obama for spending too much time playing golf — but is on track to pass Obama's eight-year total in just four years.  —  President Donald Trump has pushed …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept:
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants  —  Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers to track down and arrest an immigrant in Southern California.
New York Post:
If FBI was routinely cutting corners on FISA warrants, Comey will look even worse  —  Now that we know FBI agents deceived the court to get the warrants to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page, the big question is: Was this the exception, or the rule?  —  That is, has the bureau taken …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   FISA Judge Orders FBI To Identify All Cases Involving Lawyer Who Allegedly Altered Carter Page Email
 
 
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Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump, Giuliani Spoke Briefly at Mar-a-Lago Party on Saturday
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all
Associated Press:
GOP governors grapple with whether to accept refugees or not
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
How Trump Made a Writer of Thrillers Stick to Facts
Wall Street Journal:
Klobuchar Works to Boost Momentum in Iowa
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Largely Ignores Impeachment as He Rallies Young Conservatives
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Wall Street Journal:
Pakistani Professor Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy on Social Media
Vanessa Thorpe / The Guardian:
BBC could restrict journalists' use of Twitter
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Officials Discussed Hold on Ukraine Aid After Trump Spoke With Country's Leader
Los Angeles Times:
California population growth slowest since 1900 as residents leave, immigration decelerates
Discussion: PJ Media Home
Shea Johnson / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Fiore tied to report alleging domestic terrorism by Washington lawmaker
Discussion: Task & Purpose, Salon and Raw Story