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9:55 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?  —  New theories on when impeachment happens make no sense when followed to their logical constitutional conclusion.  —  Call me old fashioned or naïve, but I think my job is to explain what the U.S. Constitution actually means, no matter who likes it or doesn't.
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:   Pence chief of staff not worried about Pelosi impeachment tactics: ‘She will yield’
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Sen. Roy Blunt: Impeachment trial is “not a trial in any classic sense”
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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Timothy Dalrymple / Christianity Today:
The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT's President  —  Why our editor in chief spoke out against Trump, and why the conversation must continue.  —  Reader responses to Mark Galli's recent editorial have spanned the spectrum.  We have received countless notes of encouragement from readers who were profoundly moved.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:   ‘Evangelicals are not monolithic’: Following scathing editorial, top Trump aide defends president
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: John Bolton hits Trump for bluffing on North Korea nukes  —  In his sharpest criticism yet of his old workplace, John Bolton suggested the Trump administration is bluffing about stopping North Korea's nuclear ambitions — and soon might need to admit publicly that its policy failed badly.
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 …
New York Times:
Stranded on Border, This Migrant Became the Camp Doctor  —  A Cuban doctor waiting for asylum in the United States has become the only full-time physician at a makeshift encampment for 2,500 migrants in Mexico.  —  MATAMOROS, Mexico — Under a canopy on the edge of a squalid encampment …
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.
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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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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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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?
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 …
Jordan Fabian / Bloomberg:
Trump, Giuliani Spoke Briefly at Mar-a-Lago Party on Saturday  — A brief encounter but no full meeting between Trump, attorney  — President also met in Florida with Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher  —  President Donald Trump spoke briefly with personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani …
Discussion: The Hill
Axios:
Scoop: Buttigieg fundraiser dangles influence for cash  —  In a recent email exchange with a wealthy prospective donor, a top fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg made an offer that was unusually blunt — even by modern pay-to-play standards.
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
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Colby Itkowitz / SFGATE:
Trump is remaking the federal judiciary
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FISA Judge Orders FBI To Identify All Cases Involving Lawyer Who Allegedly Altered Carter Page Email  — The top judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ordered the FBI to review cases involving a bureau attorney who allegedly altered an email regarding Carter Page.
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New York Post:   If FBI was routinely cutting corners on FISA warrants, Comey will look even worse
 
 
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Beth Baumann / Townhall:
Leave It to CNN to Flat Out Lie About the Booming Economy
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She Claimed Her Doctor Touched Her Breast During A Consultation. …
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The Year Socialism Became a Dirty Word—Again
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Help! I'm Being Held Prisoner...
Discussion: BBC, Breitbart and New York Post
Max Rivlin-Nadler / The Intercept:
How ICE Uses Social Media to Surveil and Arrest Immigrants
Wall Street Journal:
An $809 Car Payment, a $660 Income: How Dealers Make the Math Work
Associated Press:
Inside impeachment: How an ‘urgent’ tip became ‘high crimes’
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Donald Trump's 'they're after you' tweet says it all
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Associated Press:
GOP governors grapple with whether to accept refugees or not
HuffPost:
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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
Marcia Dunn / Associated Press:
Boeing capsule returns to Earth after aborted space mission
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Us vs. them: Trump aiming to use impeachment to rev up base
Wall Street Journal:
Pakistani Professor Sentenced to Death for Blasphemy on Social Media
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A US federal court allows The Intercept's claim that the DMCA stops OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but dismisses its claims against Microsoft

 
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