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144. The Supreme Court's Late-Night Alien Enemy Act Intervention — Welcome back to “One First,” an (increasingly frequent) newsletter that aims to make the U.S. Supreme Court more accessible to all of us. If you're not already a subscriber, I hope you'll consider becoming one (and …
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Talking Points Memo, @amuse, To the Contrary, Reason and Adventus
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The Supreme Court's Late-Night Rebuke to Trump Is Extraordinary in More Ways Than One — Shortly before 1 a.m. on Saturday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order halting the Trump administration's reported efforts to fly Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison before they could challenge their deportation.
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New York Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Examiner, Adventus, Christian Science Monitor and New Republic


Supreme Court blocks Alien Enemies Act deportation of Venezuelan men — The Trump administration was planning to deport at least 30 Venezuelan men under a rarely invoked wartime statute before the court ruled to temporarily halt it. — The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration early Saturday …
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NPR, Politico, New York Times, KRDO, SCOTUSblog, PBS NewsHour, Vanity Fair, Townhall, RVM News, Truthout, The Daily Signal, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Rolling Stone, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Al Jazeera, The Independent, CBS News, Mother Jones, The Guardian, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press

Supreme Court blocks some Alien Enemies Act removals in Texas-based case
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The Root and Washington Times

The Supreme Court bestirs itself
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Must Read Alaska, Raw Story and NPR

Defying the Law and the Courts, Trump Seeks to Shift the Focus
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Mediaite, Washington Examiner, One America News Network, Twitchy, The Daily Wire and Fox News

Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now
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Bloomberg, Reuters, Twitchy, Mother Jones, New York Times, Shore News Network, The National Pulse, The Gateway Pundit, Rolling Stone, HuffPost, Hartford Courant, The Hill and IJR


The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can't Handle the Truth — For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on the theme of wisdom.
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Baltimore Sun
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White House solicits corporate sponsors for its Easter Egg Roll event — The White House is for the first time soliciting corporate sponsors for the annual Easter Egg Roll event to be held Monday on the South Lawn. This comes as billionaire tech executives have faced growing criticism for cozying up to the Trump administration.
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The Hill, Rolling Stone, The White House, CNN and RedState
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Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican — SUNDAY SCHOOL — Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said. — Pope Francis skipped the Vatican's official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday …
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Associated Press, Politico, Breitbart and Reuters
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Vance engages in ‘exchange of opinions’ with Vatican over immigration
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Bloomberg, Human Events, UPI, KDFX-TV, Associated Press, Raw Story, New York Post, Politico, Al Jazeera, CBS News, Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Caller, USA Today and Washington Post


Indonesian man details surprise ICE arrest in Minnesota hospital; judge denies release — Critics condemn the “silent” nature of his arrest as part of an aggressive new trend in immigration enforcement. … Eight-month-old Adalet Harsono listens to the voice of her father, Aditya Harsono …


Rampin' Up, Baby! That Thiel Start Up Hunting the Motherlode Contract is Inside Treasury … One of the most important stories in some time came out two days ago. But with so much else going it didn't get quite as much attention as it should have. It's from ProPublica.


FSU shooting suspect's complex past comes to light — yet motive remains a mystery — In recent years, Phoenix Ikner became known for far-right, white supremacist rhetoric, classmates said. It's unclear if that had any tie to the violence. — Years before he was named a suspect …
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HotAir, Associated Press, Hackwhackers, New York Post, FOX 35 Orlando, RVM News, Fox News, USA Today, ZeroHedge News and WUSA
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Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda — Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend's effort to ‘protect democracy’ — Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday …
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UPI, Forbes and New York Times
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Losing International Students Could Devastate Many Colleges — Students could bypass the United States for friendlier countries as the Trump administration attacks universities and revokes visas. Their loss could hurt schools and the economy. — Xiaofeng Wan, a former admissions officer …
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Mercury News, WTOP News, Asia Times and KDFX-TV
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Former Trump Staff Members Liken His Actions to Those of ‘Royal Despot’ — In an open letter, prominent Republicans criticized President Trump for using his power to punish two former administration officials who criticized him. — A number of prominent Republicans, including several former members …
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Raw Story


Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard — An official on the administration's antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization. — Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration …
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White House claims letter to Harvard with demands was an ‘unauthorized’ mistake: NYT
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Bloomberg


BYU doctorate student's visa reinstated after unexpected revocation — SALT LAKE CITY — A Japanese doctorate student at Brigham Young University will now be able to stay in the U.S. after his visa was revoked earlier this month. — BYU student Suguru Onda is a year away from finishing his doctorate.
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Deseret News


Crowds gather peacefully at 250th anniversary celebrations despite divided political climate — In a country deeply divided and increasingly angry about politics, tens of thousands of people gathered peacefully around the Lexington Green on Saturday morning to witness the reenactment …


The 40-something single dad shaping liberal media from his laptop — Acyn Torabi dominates the internet with fast-cut clips of political mayhem. Are they news, or something else? — The man behind the most influential progressive account on social media starts his days at 6 a.m. in front …


US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up’ — Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line - but must ‘stand together’ to resist — John Palfrey will not be obeying in advance. — At a moment when leaders of tech companies …


The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say — “You have to laugh to keep from crying,” one Republican pollster said about recent comments by the billionaires on the stock market, retirement funds and Social Security. — Sometimes the billionaires running …