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7:20 PM ET, April 14, 2025

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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here  —  Between the path of outright defiance of the Supreme Court and following its order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador's infamous Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), the Trump administration has chosen a third way …
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Washington Post:
Salvadoran president says he won't return wrongly deported man to U.S.  —  Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he did not plan to return to Kilmar Abrego García to the United States.  “How can I return him to the United States?”  Bukele asked Monday during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bukele's Offense Against the American People  —  Here's how I look at today's White House spectacle.  —  I don't really care what these two men say.  The only next step I'm focused on is the one that now faces the Supreme Court.  The White House is now brazenly ignoring the crystal clear import …
Discussion: Axios, NOTUS and The Atlantic
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Trump Administration Is Sticking to Its Gulag Plan in Defiance of the Supreme Court  —  The Trump administration escalated its defiance of federal court orders over the weekend, adamantly refusing to reverse its illegal deportation of a Maryland father, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, to an El Salvador prison.
Chris Van Hollen:
Van Hollen Requests Meeting with President Bukele to Discuss Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia; Announces Intent to Travel to El Salvador This Week if Abrego Garcia is Not Returned  —  U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) has requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters
Politico:
Trump's new favorite authoritarian is helping him sidestep court orders
Politico:
El Salvador won't return wrongly deported Maryland man
Vimal Patel / New York Times:
Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration's Demands  —  Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things.  Harvard called the demands unlawful.  —  Harvard University said on Monday that it had rejected policy changes requested …
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The Harvard Crimson:
Harvard Will Fight Trump's Demands  —  Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration's demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, University President Alan M. Garber '76 announced in a message to affiliates Monday afternoon.
Harvard University President:
The Promise of American Higher Education  —  For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that, along with investments by the universities themselves, has led to groundbreaking innovations across …
Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Harvard rejects Trump administration's demands with federal funding at risk
New York Times:
Inside Trump's Pressure Campaign on Universities
Discussion: The Daily Signal
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Despite a court order, White House bars AP from Oval Office event  —  Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
AP says journalists blocked from Oval Office after judge's order  —  The Associated Press on Monday said its journalists were barred from covering an Oval Office event featuring President Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in defiance of a court injunction.
Akela Lacy / The Intercept:
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE  —  Mohsen K. Mahdawi arrived at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont, on Monday.  A Palestinian student at Columbia University, he hoped that, after 10 years in the U.S. …
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New York Times:
White House to Ask Congress to Claw Back Funding From NPR and PBS  —  Trump administration officials want legislators to rescind $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some support for public media.  —  The White House is planning to ask Congress to claw …
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Politico:
White House to send Congress a formal request to nix $9.3B for PBS, State Department
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Suspect in arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's residence being treated at hospital, police say  —  A man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion where he set a fire is in police custody …
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Greene Bought Market Dip Before Trump Paused Tariffs, Profiting From the Rally  —  The Georgia congresswoman purchased at least tens of thousands of dollars in stock the day before and the day of President Trump's pause of a sweeping set of tariffs that sent the market soaring.
Discussion: Alternet.org
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Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump's tariff pause sent markets soaring
Discussion: USA Today
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump says CBS should lose license after ‘60 Minutes’ segments on Ukraine, Greenland  —  President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light.
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Joey Garrison / USA Today:
JD Vance drops Ohio State's national championship trophy at White House celebration  —  WASHINGTON ― It was nearly a disastrous late-game turnover.  —  JD Vance fumbled the college football National Championship Trophy as he tried to hoist it up during a White House celebration …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Republican attempt to steal a state supreme court election, explained  —  On Friday, four Republican members of the North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order attempting to disenfranchise more than 5,000 of the state's voters.  This order is part of an ongoing effort by Judge Jefferson Griffin …
Discussion: Slate
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Trump: “Home-growns are next”  —  Foreign gulags for US citizens  —  In his meeting with President Nayib Bukele today in the White House, President Donald Trump told his Salvadoran counterpart that “home-growns are next” and that El Salvador would “need to be build about five more places” to hold American citizens.
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CNN:
Ex-January 6 prosecutors urge attorney disciplinary board to investigate Trump's controversial pick to be DC's top prosecutor  —  Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington …
US Department of Justice:
Albuquerque Man Charged in Connection with Arson Attacks on Tesla Dealership and Republican Party of New Mexico Office  —  For Immediate Release  —  Note: View the criminal complaint.  —  Federal charges have been filed against Jamison Wagner, 40, an Albuquerque resident …
Washington Post:
Trump plan would slash State Dept. funding by nearly half, memo says  —  An internal document reviewed by The Post targets spending on humanitarian assistance, global health and international organizations such as the U.N. and NATO.  —  Just now  —  The Trump administration proposed to cut …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Just Defied the Supreme Court.  What Is John Roberts Going to Do About It?  —  Is he scared, deluded, or clever?  —  ∙ Paid  —  Quick note: Tomorrow I'll be doing a Substack Live with Paul Krugman at 12:30 p.m. Eastern.  It'll be here.  —  JVL + Krugman.  Tuesday.  12:30.
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Kleptocracy, Inc.  —  Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.  —  as the stock markets crashed on Friday, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. He did not go to New York to consult with Wall Street.  He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies …
James Carville / New York Times:
How to Turn Trump's Economic Chaos Against Him  —  In many ways, President Trump is a one-trick Shetland pony: He talks a big game, like building a border wall or ending Covid, and then tries to distract Americans when his promises go belly up.  Back in office this winter …
Zeyi Yang / Wired:
A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search.  His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’  —  The abrupt firing of Xiaofeng Wang and his wife from Indiana University last month shocked the academic community and is stoking fears that Chinese-born scholars are being targeted.
 
 
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