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3:15 PM ET, June 26, 2018

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New York Times:
Supreme Court Upholds Trump's Travel Ban, Delivering Endorsement of Presidential Power  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump's ban on travel from mostly-Muslim nations, delivering a robust endorsement of Mr. Trump's power to control the flow of immigration …
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Leah Litman / New York Times:
Unchecked Power Is Still Dangerous No Matter What the Court Says  —  Government officials cannot discriminate on the basis of race or religion.  Except when they can, as the Supreme Court reminded us today.  The court's decision to uphold the entry ban illustrates how immigration has become a …
Discussion: Take Care Blog
Eugene Volokh / Reason:
The “Travel Ban” Decision, in One (Non-Snarky) Sentence  —  The U.S. has nearly unlimited power to decide when foreigners are admitted to the country, even based on factors (such as ideology, religion, and likely race and sex) that would be unconstitutional as to people already in the country.
Sam Baker / Axios:
Go deeper: Supreme Court upholds Trump's travel ban  —  The Supreme Court upheld President Trump's most recent travel ban today in a 5-4 decision, ruling that it falls within the president's traditional power to control immigration policy.  —  The big picture: This is the court's first major ruling on a Trump policy — and it showed.
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:   A Decision That Will Live in Infamy
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court rules that Trump's travel ban is constitutional
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers
Sam Baker / Axios:
The big picture: Conservatives win big at Supreme Court
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Read: Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump's “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its follow­ers”
Discussion: HuffPost and The Root
Bloomberg:
Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations  — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry  — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …
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Lee Smith / RealClearInvestigations:
The Mysterious Seven Preludes of the FBI's Trump-Russia Probe  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened its probe of the Trump campaign after Western intelligence assets and Clinton-affiliated political operatives repeatedly approached the Trump team and evidently tried but failed to damage …
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Here's One Unverified File the Feds Won't Leak: About Loretta Lynch
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
YouTube:
Discussion: Vox and Taylor Marsh
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Trump turns on Harley-Davidson over offshoring  —  President Trump is going after Harley-Davidson — once one of his favorite companies — after the motorcycle maker announced it will move some production out of the U.S. to relieve the burden of the EU's retaliatory tariffs.
Discussion: Politico, Vox, The Atlantic and ABC News
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: A poll commissioned by Bush and Biden shows Americans losing confidence in democracy  —  THE BIG IDEA: Half of Americans think the United States is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.”  A majority, 55 percent, see democracy as “weak” - and 68 percent believe it is “getting weaker.”
Gabrielle Coppola / Bloomberg:
Trump Gets Harley Plans Wrong in Attack Over Trade War ‘Excuse’
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Trump threatens Harley-Davidson: If it moves operations overseas, ‘they will be taxed like never before!’
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners  —  Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi.  This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …
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Grabien News:
Montage: Media Turning Trump Voters into Public Enemy No. 1
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:   This Business Will Get Out of Control
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden: European leaders reeling from Trump's hostile behavior  —  COPENHAGEN — European leaders see President Trump as increasingly unpredictable, antagonistic and disrespectful, both in public and private, and that is having a devastating effect on the U.S.-European relationship …
Brian Faler / Politico:
Republican tax law hits churches  —  Some nonprofits could start paying taxes for the first time.  —  Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars.
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Sarah Ferris / Politico:
U.S. cruises toward record-breaking debt on Trump's watch
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:   Trump tax cuts carry a big price tag: Huge debt and risk of another financial crisis, budget office warns
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
GOP Trailing in CD10  —  Trump's unpopularity hurts House incumbent  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Virginia's 10th Congressional District starts out with the GOP Republican incumbent trailing by ten points according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Axios
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Did Justice Anthony Kennedy Just Signal His Retirement?  —  For Anthony Kennedy, America's most powerful jurist, this term has brought unexpected and surprising expressions of powerlessness.  After Tuesday's ruling in the Trump travel ban case, it's starting to feel like the end of his time on the court is near.
CBS New York:
Michael Bloomberg Considering 2020 Presidential Run, Sources Tell CBS2  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Maybe the fourth time is the charm.  —  Michael Bloomberg is revving up to run for president in 2020, making him both the oldest and richest person to seek the job.
Jeremy Redmon / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Reality Winner pleads guilty in NSA leak case  —  AUGUSTA - Reality Winner, the first person to be prosecuted by the Trump administration for leaking sensitive government information, pleaded guilty Tuesday to sending to the news media a top-secret National Security Agency report about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
DHS warns threats against staff are rising amid anger over Trump immigration policies  —  Employees of the Department of Homeland Security have been targeted by escalating online threats and harassment in their neighborhoods during the past week, officials say, with rancor …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Davis Richardson / The New York Observer:
Milo Yiannopoulos Encourages Vigilantes to Start ‘Gunning Journalists Down’  —  Milo Yiannopoulos has started issuing reporters threatening messages when asked to comment for stories.  —  “I can't wait for the vigilante squads to start gunning journalists down on sight,” …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Immigration Attorney Says ICE Broke Her Foot, Locked Her Up … An immigration attorney said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer broke her foot and locked her in a room early Tuesday morning in Kansas City, Missouri.  —  Andrea Martinez told The Daily Beast she was dropping off …
CBS News:
Experts say U.S. among 10 most dangerous nations for women  —  The United States has been ranked for the first time among the ten nations deemed to be the most dangerous for women by experts in the field.  A survey by the Thompson Reuters Foundation of about 550 experts in women's issues around …
Discussion: Shakesville, Townhall, CNN and twitchy.com
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Her son was killed — then came the Russian trolls  —  Videos produced by Samantha Guff, Julian Quinones and Margaret Dawson  —  (CNN)It was the height of presidential primary season, just a few weeks before the Republican and Democratic conventions, but on July 7, 2016 …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Wrong About Republicans.  Republicans Are Wrong About Democrats.  —  Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy.  —  The defining divide in American politics is probably between Republicans and Democrats.
Discussion: Breitbart
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
USA Today Network launches a conservative opinion newsletter for the heartland  —  Since its founding in 1982, USA Today has prided itself on a feel for all 50 states that eludes East Coast media.  Now its network is launching a new conservative opinion initiative aimed at Trump voters …
Washington Post:
Trump's VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views  —  Top Pentagon official Robert Wilkie has emerged as President Trump's safe pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs after the ugly firing of Trump's first VA secretary and the embarrassing withdrawal …
Discussion: CNN and Vox
Leinz Vales / CNN:
Woman cites Trump while calling man ‘rapist,’ ‘illegal’ in viral rant  —  Man berated in racist rant caught on camera  —  (CNN)A Latino man and his mother who were doing yard work in California were verbally attacked by a woman who called them “illegals” and “rapists,” and a video of the encounter has gone viral.
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
MSNBC Analyst Suggests U.S. Now Worse Than Venezuela and Cuba: They Don't Have ‘Internment Camps for Babies’  —  MSNBC analyst Steve Schmidt said Tuesday the difference now between the United States and the troubled nations of Venezuela and Cuba was that Venezuela and Cuba don't have “internment camps for babies and toddlers.”
Discussion: Rolling Stone and IJR
Ian Talley / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Signals Zero Tolerance on Future Iran Oil Exports  —  Senior official says any country that imports Iranian oil after November risks sanctions  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. expects all countries to cut oil imports from Iran to “zero” by Nov. 4 or risk sanctions, a senior U.S. State Department official …
 
 
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It
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Washington Post:
Q&A: Do migrants who enter illegally get ‘due process’?
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William Cummings / USA Today:
Iowa Rep. Steve King says America is heading toward another civil war
Discussion: Daily Wire
Politico:
White House eyes Helsinki for Trump-Putin sitdown
Discussion: Axios
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Russia and China See in Trump Era a Chance to Roll Back Human Rights Promotion at U.N.
Politico:
GOP flails ahead of immigration vote
Discussion: Vox
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
National Enquirer Boss Is Building a Tabloid Death Star to Do Trump's Bidding
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Faye Penn / InStyle.com:
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Discussion: twitchy.com
CBS Sacramento:
California Considers Creating A Fake News Advisory Group
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Daily Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Republican or Conservative, You Have to Choose
Discussion: Daily Wire
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired:
‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
Bethan McKernan / The Independent:
Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration