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11:00 PM ET, June 27, 2018

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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Republican Court and the Era of Minority Rule  —  Democrats have won the national vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, which, with the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, will have resulted in the appointment of eight of its nine justices.  And yet four of those justices …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Why Anthony Kennedy Gave Up  —  In his last year on the bench, the lifelong devotee of dignity and the rule of law joined Team Trump.  What happened?  —  It was always more fan fiction than reality that Justice Anthony Kennedy was a moderate centrist.  Democrats liked to soothe themselves …
Discussion: Bloomberg and Above the Law
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Justice Kennedy deserves this nasty, unflinching sendoff  —  One of my favorite genres of writing is the charitable obituary written about a political opponent.  My remembrance of Judge Robert Bork, the conservative icon President Ronald Reagan tried and failed to put on the Supreme Court …
Politico:
GOP plans to steamroll Dems on Supreme Court pick  —  Senate Republicans will move quickly to replace Anthony Kennedy before the midterm elections.  —  Senate Republicans plan to confirm a new Supreme Court justice to replace retiring Anthony Kennedy before the midterm elections …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Only Thing That Might Stop Trump From Replacing Kennedy With a Scalia Clone  —  Buckle up, folks.  If you did not like what the Supreme Court has done in the last few weeks on voting rights, public-sector unions, and Trump's travel ban, things are going to get a whole lot worse …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Chris Matthews: ‘Hell to Pay’ If Democrats Don't Block Anthony Kennedy Replacement … MSNBC's Chris Matthews did not mince words in reacting to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's surprise retirement announcement on Wednesday.  —  “I don't think the Democrats should allow meetings …
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, RedState and Breitbart
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Anthony Kennedy Just Destroyed His Legacy as a Gay Rights Hero  —  It's no secret that Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his imminent retirement on Wednesday, always had an eye toward his legacy.  During this 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court, Kennedy often wrote grandiose opinions …
Joshua Matz / Washington Post:
The Supreme Court will now fall to chaos  —  Joshua Matz, publisher of the Take Care legal blog, was a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy from 2014 to 2015.  —  The Supreme Court teaches us about liberty, dignity and democracy.  It safeguards those principles and helps make the Constitution real in our lives.
Discussion: Politico, USA Today and Daily Kos
Jeffrey Rosen / The Atlantic:
The Justice Who Believed in America  —  Like everyone who follows the Supreme Court, I've been trying to read Justice Anthony Kennedy's mind for more than thirty years.  I was an intern for Senator Joe Biden on the judiciary Committee the summer that Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court …
Discussion: CNN, The Daily Signal and Refinery29
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Mitch McConnell's politics of shamelessness have won
Stephanie Ebbs / ABC News:
Here are 25 names Trump could nominate to replace Justice Kennedy
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
LIST: Dem Senators Call On GOP To Wait Until After Election To Fill Kennedy Seat
Discussion: Axios, CNN and Balloon Juice
Bill Hutchinson / ABC News:
Anthony Kennedy, crucial Supreme Court swing vote, retiring after 3 decades
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Justice Kennedy, the pivotal swing vote on the Supreme Court, announces retirement
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Announces Retirement
Discussion: Vox and Mother Jones
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Will Retire
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming  —  It was less than three weeks until Primary Day and, on first blush, the poll that Representative Joseph Crowley had been shown by his team of advisers was encouraging: He led his upstart rival, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by 36 percentage points.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / americamagazine.org:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform  —  Christ came to me emblazoned on the upper arm of my beloved cousin Marc.  The blue-black ink danced between the bullet scars and stretch marks that graced my cousin's upper body.
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’
Discussion: Mediaite
Vivian Wang / New York Times:
Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A 28-Year-Old Democratic Giant Slayer
Reuters:
Manafort had $10 million loan from Russian oligarch: court filing  —  (Reuters) - A search warrant application unsealed on Wednesday revealed closer links than previously known between President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and a Russian oligarch with close ties to the Kremlin.
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Bill Shine Likely as Next White House Communications Director  —  WASHINGTON — Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who was close to Roger E. Ailes, the network's ousted chairman, is expected to be offered the job of White House communications director, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The Hill:
HHS watchdog launches probe into conditions at child detention centers  —  The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) inspector general is launching a review of the conditions at the agency's shelters for unaccompanied migrant children.  —  The probe will only focus on safety and health concerns …
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Elizabeth Tyree / WSET-TV:
West Virginia man charged after police said he threw chicken feces at the Red Hen  —  Reginald Scott See, 51, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was arrested and charged with littering and disorderly conduct after throwing feces toward the Red Hen Tuesday afternoon (Rockbridge Regional Jail)
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Rasmussen Reports:
31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon  —  Most voters fear that political violence is coming from opponents of the president's policies, just as they did in the second year of Barack Obama's presidency, and nearly one-in-three think a civil war is next.  —  Thirty-one percent (31%) …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
92% of Republicans think media intentionally reports fake news  —  Nearly all Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (92%) say that traditional news outlets knowingly report false or misleading stories at least sometimes, according to a new Axios/SurveyMonkey poll.
Will Oremus / Slate:
The Great Facebook Crash  —  The social giant is retreating from the news business.  It's been a painful transition for publications that had come to depend on it—including Slate.  —  The first months of Donald Trump's presidency were a fraught and chaotic time in American politics.
more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Man accused of driving into crowd at ‘Unite the Right’ rally charged with federal hate crimes  —  The Justice Department charged James Alex Fields Jr, the driver accused of murdering a counterprotester at last year's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, with multiple hate crime counts Wednesday.
Discussion: USA Today, IJR, The Root, Mediaite and Axios
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Harron Walker / Jezebel:
Private Messages Reveal the Cis Journalist Groupthink Behind Trans Media Narratives  —  Over the past few years, Jesse Singal has become a leading public intellectual and one of the most prominent journalists covering trans issues, including but not limited to adolescent transition.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Emma Anderson / Politico:
Greece open to migrants deal with Germany  —  Athens is open to a deal with Angela Merkel to take back asylum seekers who head to Germany from Greece, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said.  —  Ahead of Thursday's summit of EU leaders, the Greek leader told the Financial Times …
Brent Solomon / WWBT-TV:
‘Go back to Africa’: Business owner criticized over Facebook post  —  A Chesterfield business is under a cloud of criticism after a restaurant owner is accused of posting a racist message on her personal Facebook Page.  —  The comment on Judy Maxie's page told Congresswoman Maxine Waters …
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and CNN
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Inside Facebook and Twitter's secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased  —  Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters — with accusations that the country's tech giants are censoring right-leaning posts, tweets and news.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Some rules of civility for the Trump era  —  “Now, it is well known,” Sir Walter Scott observed, “that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.”
Heather Murphy / New York Times:
Genealogists Turn to Cousins' DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases  —  Police arrested a D.J. in Pennsylvania and a nurse in Washington State this week, the latest examples of the use of an open-source ancestry site since the break in the Golden State killer case.
Meena Venkataramanan / ABC News:
Trump is the ‘most effective uprooter of liberalism’: Newt Gingrich talks GOP, midterms, space  —  Asked about criticism that President Donald Trump has a tendency to mislead, former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich acknowledged that the president “often says things you can catch him on” …
Discussion: Politico and Mediaite
Stuart Williams / Yahoo:
Turkey frees journalist Mehmet Altan after almost 2 years jail  —  Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish journalist Mehmet Altan was Wednesday freed after almost two years in jail in a case that intensified concerns about freedom of expression under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
 
 
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Jason Schwartz / Politico:
New Fox chief cracks down on inflammatory statements
CNN:
Mexico goes to the polls this weekend.  132 candidates have been killed since campaigning began, per one count
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Obama expected to hit the campaign trail for Democrats with help from Pelosi and Schumer
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Officer who fatally shot East Pittsburgh teen Antwon Rose charged with criminal homicide
Michael R. Pompeo / US Department of State:
Recent Protests in Iran
Discussion: Breitbart and Weekly Standard
David Siders / Politico:
DNC fight over superdelegates nears resolution
Discussion: Washington Times
Robert Clark / Light Reading:
Huawei Boss Slams ‘Ignorant’ Rubio on Research Restrictions
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Post dismisses reporter for lax attribution in ‘aggregated’ news stories
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Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Head of prominent charity that campaigns against child abuse is arrested for 'trying to arrange …
Discussion: RedState
David Sivak / checkyourfact.com:
FACT CHECK: ‘Wages Are Growing At Their Fastest Rate Since 2008’
Discussion: RedState
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic:
Is This the End of Public-Sector Unions in America?
Discussion: Chalkbeat
Kyle Sammin / The Federalist:
The Four Dissenting Votes In The Travel Ban Ruling Are A Dangerous Sign
Discussion: Lawfare
Sean Murphy / Associated Press:
GOP incumbents ousted in Oklahoma amid teacher challenges
Discussion: Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Publisher to Feature Ex-Playmate After Allegation It Buried Trump Affair Story
Discussion: Raw Story
ProPublica:
We've Found $16.1 Million in Political and Taxpayer Spending at Trump Properties
Discussion: Shakesville
 

 
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Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns

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