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8:05 AM ET, December 23, 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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Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
If Trump's Impeached, Then Why Can't a Senate Trial Start Now?
Robert Costa / Washington Post:   Key Democratic senator remains undecided on whether Trump should be removed from office
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Sen. Roy Blunt: Impeachment trial is “not a trial in any classic sense”
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:   Pence chief of staff not worried about Pelosi impeachment tactics: ‘She will yield’
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.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
How ‘Centrist Bias’ Hurts Sanders and Warren  —  The media has a bigger problem than liberal bias.  —  John F. Harris is about as mainstream as the mainstream media gets.  He spent 21 years at The Washington Post, including as its political editor.  Then he became the founding editor of Politico, where he is now a columnist.
Discussion: Althouse
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.
Associated Press:
Saudi sentences 5 to death for Jamal Khashoggi's killing  —  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death on Monday for the killing of Washington Post columnist and royal family critic Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents.
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
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 …
Cissy Zhou / South China Morning Post:
Chinese researcher accused of trying to smuggle vials of ‘biological material’ out of US hidden in a sock  —  An affidavit from an FBI agent says Zheng Zaosong was detained at Boston Airport after vials containing a ‘brown liquid’ were found in his checked baggage The doctoral student …
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
‘Star Wars’ Leads Box Office With Disappointing $175.5 Million  —  Final installment of Skywalker trilogy opens down 20% from ‘Last Jedi’ debut  —  LOS ANGELES—Not even the Force can withstand withering reviews.  —  After mixed fan reaction and thumbs-down from most critics, “Star Wars …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Judge changes mind in important First Amendment case  —  Last week, I wrote about a case in which the Fifth Circuit, in a unanimous decision, ruled that a suit could proceed against a Black Lives Matter activist for violence he didn't commit or encourage.  The police officer who brought …
Discussion: Washington Times
Susan Page / USA Today:
Exclusive: With 218 foreign policy endorsements, Buttigieg targets a big Biden asset  —  More than 200 foreign policy and national security professionals, including dozens of veterans of the Obama administration, on Monday are endorsing Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg for president.
Discussion: Axios
Beth Baumann / Townhall:
Leave It to CNN to Flat Out Lie About the Booming Economy  —  The economy is booming.  We have the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.  Unemployment is at a historic low for Hispanics and African Americans.  People are working.  Their taxes were reduced thanks to President Donald Trump's tax cuts.
Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
Nancy Pelosi: the woman who stood up to Trump  —  The veteran Democrat began 2019 by being elected speaker of the House for a second, historic time and ended it by leading the president's impeachment  —  In December 2018, weeks after the Democrats' conquest of the House …
 
 
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