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Marc Caputo / Axios:
Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights  —  The Trump administration says it ignored a Saturday court order to turn around two planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members because the flights were over international waters and therefore the ruling didn't apply …
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Washington Post:
Trump sends more than 200 alleged gang members to prison in El Salvador  —  The administration won't identify those moved — or say whether the Alien Enemies Act, which briefly sped up some deportations, played any role.  —  Over a weekend when President Donald Trump secretly invoked …
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Week Ahead  —  It's going to be an eventful week.  That's already clear.
Discussion: Forbes and ACLU
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Playbook: The ‘law and order’ presidency
Discussion: PBS NewsHour
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Doctor and Professor Is Deported Despite a Judge's Order  —  Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.  —  A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University's medical school …
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Mattathias Schwartz / New York Times:
With Deportations, Trump Steps Closer to Showdown With Judicial Branch
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump administration ignores judge's order to turn deportation planes around: Sources
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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.
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Avery Lotz / Axios:
Trump says autopen use makes Biden's pardons for Jan. 6 panel “VOID”
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed
Arthur Allen / KFF Health News:
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants  —  National Institutes of Health officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications, two researchers said, in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research.
Punchbowl News:
3/17/25 ☀️ AM:  —  Schumer and Jeffries huddle after Democratic implosion  —  The list: The 26 House Dems the NRCC is targeting  —  A sneak peek at the House GOP agenda for the next few weeks  —  Schumer and Jeffries huddle after Democratic implosion … The House and Senate are out this week.
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Melissa Weiss / Jewish Insider:
Schumer conversation on antisemitism with Ritchie Torres postponed  —  The event in New York City, to promote Schumer's new book ‘Antisemitism in America,’ was postponed without explanation  —  A book event for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) moderated by Rep. Ritchie Torres …
Discussion: New York Post
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
Discussion: Raw Story
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE  —  Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency's ability to serve the public.  —  When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration …
Discussion: Raw Story, Kiplinger and Fortune
Sara Randazzo / Wall Street Journal:
The Competition to Get Into Law School Is Brutal This Year  —  Applications are surging as students seek stability in a difficult job market  —  A weakening white-collar job market and a contentious political climate are fueling interest in law school, leading to one of the most competitive years …
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 …
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread  —  Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog trainers, remain out of work, leaving food to rot in ports and pests to proliferate.
Gloria Pazmino / CNN:
Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn't involved in protests on the night of her arrest  —  Days after federal immigration agents showed up to Ranjani Srinivasan's apartment - prompting her to leave the country out of fear she would be taken into custody …
Phoebe Petrovic / ProPublica:
How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power  —  A draft lawsuit being floated to attorneys general in several states argues Congress must call a convention over the national debt.  But the legal theory mixes and matches petitions from states dating back to 1789.
Discussion: LifeSite
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:
Tal Axelrod / Axios:
MAGA figures start chatter over Derek Chauvin pardon  —  Prominent supporters of President Trump — led by podcaster Ben Shapiro — are fueling a major push to pardon Derek Chauvin, the white former Minnesota police officer convicted of killing George Floyd in 2020.
Jenny Goldsberry / Washington Examiner:
Hegseth pledges strikes at Houthis won't be a ‘one-night thing’  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified that the recent strikes in Yemen against the Houthis are in defense of U.S. assets and not to advance either side of the Yemeni civil war.  —  The strikes represent …
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Iran rejects Trump's ‘bullying’ on nuclear talks, as threats ratchet up
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.
Discussion: Reason
Toby Buckle / Liberal Currents:
Most Men Don't Want To Be Heroes (And That's Okay)  —  Despite the self-pity of some, there has never been a better time to be a man.  —  We are continually being asked to feel sorry for men, to understand that there is some significant sense in which we men are being poorly served by a liberal society.
Norman Ornstein / The Contrarian:
Schumer's Specter of a Shutdown  —  Not long after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer engineered enough of his party's votes to smooth passage of the partisan Republican “Continuing Resolution” to avoid a government shutdown, he made sure that his rationale made it into a sympathetic piece in the New York Times.
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Krisztina Than / Reuters:
Hungary's ruling party submits bill to ban Pride march
Discussion: Associated Press
Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump Declares Biden's J6 Pardons ‘Void’ in Late-Night Truth Social Meltdown
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption
Discussion: CBS News
Joshua Keating / Vox:
Has Trump already killed NATO?
Madeleine Ngo / New York Times:
Some Federal Office Leases Restored After Pushback to Musk Team's Cuts
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
‘Stagflation’ risk puts Federal Reserve in tricky spot as it meets this week
Discussion: New York Times
ProPublica:
Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.
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Trump's historic test of immigrants' speech rights
New York Times:
Trump Administration Revives Detention of Immigrant Families
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Giorgio Leali / Politico:
Macron to EU colleagues: Stop buying American, buy European
Discussion: The Kyiv Independent
New York Times:
The Budget Trick the G.O.P. Might Use to Make a $4 Trillion Tax Cut Look Free
Reuters:
Trump says he will be speaking with Russia's Putin on Tuesday
David Enrich / New York Times:
As Voice of America Goes Dark, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced by Music
Associated Press:
Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts