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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Plans to Press White House Over Deportation Flights  —  Where Things Stand  — Deportation flights: A federal judge is set to press Trump administration lawyers at a 5 p.m. hearing about whether the White House had violated a court order in deporting migrants with little to no due process.
Discussion: HotAir, Axios, Reason and Robert Reich
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door  —  Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker pushes to impeach judge over order to halt deportations  —  Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (Texas) said he would be pushing to impeach the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend.
Slate:
We've Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump's Dictatorship Era  —  The Trump administration pushed forward into a new phase of the rolling national constitutional crisis over the weekend, reportedly defying two different federal court orders imposing limits on its deportation of immigrants without due process.
Ivana Saric / Axios:
Trump's border czar: “I don't care what the judges think”
Washington Post:
Trump escalates fight with federal judge over deportation authority
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
Discussion: The Mahablog
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration  —  An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …
Discussion: New Republic and Kiplinger
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Emily Peck / Axios:
Leaked memo: DOGE plots to cut Social Security phone support  —  An internal memo from the Social Security Administration proposes changes to its phone service that could derail the benefits application process for many Americans.  —  Why it matters: The Trump administration has repeatedly …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says  —  The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
What can be done if Trump is openly defying the courts?
Tom Mooney / The Providence Journal:
Documents shed light on why RI doctor was detained, deported. What we know.
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy.  But he's not explaining it very well.  —  President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.”  But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
Discussion: CBS News and Raw Story
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Erin Alberty / Axios:
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order  —  Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.”  —  Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …
Discussion: NPR and Townhall
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US  —  French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago.  —  She's been covered by a glacier, smashed up by various giant monsters …
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Washington Examiner:
French politician demands US return the Statue of Liberty
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden  —  President asserts in social-media post that Biden's pardons were ‘void, vacant, and of no further force of effect’  —  President Trump questioned the validity of pardons granted by President Joe Biden before he left office …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Insists He Was Being “Sarcastic” About Major Campaign Promise  —  One month before the election, 70 percent of Americans felt that foreign affairs comprised either a “very important” or “extremely important” component of their vote.  But as it turns out, Donald Trump's repeat campaign promises …
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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
Trump weighs recognizing Crimea as Russian territory in bid to end war
Discussion: CNN and Raw Story
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was expected to face protests at some of the events.  —  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing scheduled book tour events this week for “security reasons,” as he faces intense backlash …
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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Crockett on possibly supporting Ocasio-Cortez over Schumer: US may not even ‘have elections’ by then
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia.  Here is How We Would Respond.  —  Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.  —  Everything that has been posted on Drezner's World over the past …
Cate Latimer / The Brown Daily Herald:
Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel  —  The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh.  —  One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …
New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand  —  Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister.  And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while.  Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:
Discussion: Raw Story
Devlin Barrett / New York Times:
Anti-Abortion Lawyer Pushed Out of F.D.A. After Republican Senator's Pressure Campaign  —  Hilary Perkins, a career lawyer and a conservative, was targeted by Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri for defending the Biden administration's position on the abortion pill.
William P. Davis / New York Times:
Introducing a New Project to Track Polls  —  The Times will aggregate public opinion surveys and produce new polling averages, starting with polls that ask about President Trump's job performance.  And we will make the data available to everyone.  —  The New York Times has begun a new effort …
Discussion: The Western Journal
Politico:
Eric Adams won't rule out running for reelection as an independent  —  The New York City mayor remains a registered Democrat but has distanced himself from his party amid his embrace of President Donald Trump.  —  NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams remains a registered Democrat …
Discussion: New York Daily News
Yasmeen Hamadeh / The Daily Beast:
Commerce Department Director Leaves Job With a Scathing Musk Warning  —  A top director at the Commerce Department in charge of expanding internet access to rural areas claimed in a scathing email to colleagues that rural broadband funding may soon be funneled to Elon Musk's Starlink, despite its comparatively lower quality service.
New York Times:
Trump Visits Kennedy Center for First Time Since Taking It Over  —  The president, who ousted Democrats from the board of the once-bipartisan institution and had himself elected chairman, planned to preside over a meeting of its trustees.  —  President Trump visited the John F. Kennedy Center …
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump to release 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday  —  President Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files Tuesday about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after promising on the campaign trail to declassify the documents.
 
 
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Washington Post:
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NRCC:
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NBC News:
The Trump administration axed Voice of America, and China's state media are delighted
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
We Are Living Through Moral Collapse. How Democrats Can Strike Back
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There Was Never Any “Fascism Debate”
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ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
Discussion: New Republic
 

 
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David Roeder / Chicago Sun Times:
Around 20% of Chicago Sun-Times staff, or 30 employees, took buyouts and have resigned, including most of the editorial board; 5 WBEZ workers also took buyouts

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
RFE/RL sues USAGM and its officials Kari Lake and Victor Morales, arguing they acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally in blocking funds allocated by Congress

Danielle Kaye / New York Times:
The US DOJ charges film director Carl Erik Rinsch for allegedly defrauding a “streaming platform” for $11M; an arbitrator ruled in May that he owed Netflix ~$9M

 
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