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5:40 PM ET, June 30, 2018

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Washington Post:
‘We have to pick a great one’: Inside Trump's plan for a new Supreme Court justice  —  President Trump is driving to execute the same playbook in selecting a new Supreme Court nominee that last year delivered swift confirmation of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, following a methodical course in hopes …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
An explosion is coming  —  Eight years ago, when Congress was about to pass Obamacare, John A. Boehner, leader of a powerless Republican congressional minority, gave a passionate, prescient speech on the House floor.  —  “This is the People's House, and the moment a majority forgets this …
David Greenberg / Politico:
How Supreme Court Nominations Lost Their Apolitical Pretense  —  It used to be that nobody would admit to opposing a nominee for ideological reasons.  Should we be happy that illusion is over?  —  Sometimes what's remarkable is what goes unremarked upon.  In all the pieces already written …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:   The midterm elections shape up as a battle over intensity. Are Democrats ready?
Paul Schiff Berman / New York Times:
A Better Reason to Delay Kennedy's Replacement
Discussion: VTDigger
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘A political suicide march’: Trump aims to inflict political pain on Democrats over calls to abolish immigration enforcement agency  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump on Saturday opened a new front in the immigration debate, diverting attention away from his administration's treatment …
Discussion: CNN, KTLA and IJR
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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Warren: It's time to replace ICE
Axios:
Top Democrats see danger on sudden party push to abolish ICE
Rory Cooper / The Daily Beast:   A Lesson for Democrats From a Republican Dethroned by the Tea Party
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Conservative Hugh Hewitt makes surprise announcement MSNBC has pulled plug on his show  —  MSNBC has cancelled that weekly television show hosted by right-wing pundit Hugh Hewitt, the conservative explained at the end of his final show on Saturday.  —  “This has been the last Hugh Hewitt Show on Saturday mornings,” Hewitt explained.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Weaponizing the First Amendment: How Free Speech Became a Conservative Cudgel  —  WASHINGTON — On the final day of the Supreme Court term last week, Justice Elena Kagan sounded an alarm.  —  The court's five conservative members, citing the First Amendment, had just dealt public unions a devastating blow.
Discussion: Political Wire
Avery Anapol / The Hill:
Yelp reviewers give Canadian restaurant one-star reviews after it kicks out Trump supporter  —  Reviewers flooded the Yelp page of a Canadian restaurant with one-star reviews after a manager was fired for kicking out a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Toronto Star
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Jon Hernandez / CBC News:
Vancouver restaurant manager unrepentant after refusing Trump supporter
Discussion: TheBlaze, Raw Story and Mediaite
Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Reporter resigns after false tweet that Maryland shooting suspect had MAGA hat
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Other Russia Collusion Scandal Is Breaking Wide Open  —  In 2016, Vladimir Putin reaped two of his greatest foreign policy triumphs in quick succession.  The United Kingdom voted narrowly to exit the European Union, advancing a longstanding Russian goal of splitting Western allies that have long been united against it.
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Bloomberg:   Trump Leaves Door Open to U.S. Recognizing Russia's Crimea Grab
Ewen MacAskill / The Guardian:   Edward Snowden describes Russian government as corrupt
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
‘The Blue Wave Came’: G.O.P. Reels as Little Havana Picks a Non-Hispanic Democrat  —  MIAMI — Little Havana awoke recently to an unexpected new reality: The iconic neighborhood, the traditional heart of South Florida's proud Cuban exile community, would no longer be represented on the county commission by a Cuban-American Republican.
New York Times:
Protests Across U.S. Call for End to Migrant Family Separations  —  WASHINGTON — Protesters marched into Lafayette Square opposite the White House on Saturday and chanted “families belong together” to counter President Trump's “zero tolerance” immigration policy, and were joined in declaring …
Everton Bailey Jr / Oregonian:
Man killed by Portland State police was Navy vet trying to break up fight, friends say  —  A Portland man fatally shot early Friday outside a sports bar near Portland State University by campus police officers was a U.S. postal worker and father of three daughters who served in the Navy …
The Hill:
Authoritarian threats to American democracy demand urgent action  —  Two years after the Russian government attempted to undermine the 2016 presidential election, the United States still does not have a comprehensive strategy to address the threat posed by foreign interference in our democracy.
Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Giuliani Promises Exiles Trump Will Bring Down Iran Regime  — President's attorney speaks to resistance group in Paris  — Giuliani keeps up speaking engagements even after Trump hire  —  The collapse of Iran's Islamic regime “is around the corner,” and the U.S. will keep increasing sanctions until …
Washington Post:
With Corey Stewart atop the ticket, Virginia Republicans are in turmoil  —  Corey Stewart's Republican nomination for U.S. Senate from Virginia has prompted an identity crisis within the state GOP, with some donors and activists saying they are so turned off that they are willing to vote for his Democratic opponent, Sen. Tim Kaine.
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Thousands across U.S. join ‘Keep Families Together’ march to protest family separation  —  “I have literally never seen Americans show up for immigrants like this,” said Jess Morales Rocketto, who works for the National Domestic Workers Alliance.  —  WASHINGTON — Hundreds of marches took place across …
politics.myajc:
Black and Democratic voters gain on Republicans in Georgia  —  Turnout among black voters soared in last month's Georgia primary, a show of strength that could bode well for Democrats in this year's contests for governor and other statewide offices.  —  The number of black voters rose 43 percent …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
‘We care’: Family separation protests flood US cities  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — They wore white.  They shook their fists in the air.  They carried signs reading: “No more children in cages,” and “What's next?  Concentration Camps?”  —  In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands …
Discussion: Politico
Brendan Meyer / Dallas Morning News:
112-year-old Austin resident, our oldest living veteran, robbed of savings, identity  —  Someone is impersonating the oldest man in America.  —  Family members of Richard Overton, the 112-year-old World War II veteran who lives in Austin, learned that his personal bank account had been drained on Friday.
Discussion: Breitbart, TheBlaze, KXAN-TV, CNN, IJR and Daily Wire
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Government never had specific plan to reunify families, court testimony shows  —  2,000 children wait to be reunited with parents  —  Washington (CNN)In recent weeks, the government has stumbled trying to explain its plan for reunifying families in the wake of its much-criticized family separations policy at the border.
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Robert Moore / Texas Monthly:   An Immigrant Teen Describes Life in Detention After Being Separated From His Mother
 
 
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Trump May Deport 1,200 People To Yemen As The U.S. Bombs The Country
Sandra E. Garcia / New York Times:
3 Black U.S. Senators Introduce Bill to Make Lynching a Federal Hate Crime
Discussion: The Root and theGrio
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Boils Maine Lobstermen
Erin B. Logan / Washington Post:
White supremacist propaganda is inundating college campuses, civil rights group says
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Rewire.News
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
The Firebrand Leftist Far Ahead in Mexico's Presidential Polls
Marissa J. Lang / Washington Post:
Tens of thousands expected to protest Trump's immigration policy during Washington rally
Washington Post:
‘Not what we expected’: Trump's tax bill is losing popularity
Discussion: CNBC
 Earlier Items: 
Charles S. Clark / GovExec.com:
Former ICE General Counsel Heads to Prison for Identity Theft
Discussion: Splinter and Washington Post
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Special counsel's team pushes back on Paul Manafort leak claims
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
To Report or Resist? A Journalist's Struggles in the Age of Trump
Laura Lippman / New York Times:
At the Capital Gazette, the Death of a Reporter's Reporter
Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Ted Cruz: ‘Vote for the Democrat’ over the GOP Nazi
Discussion: KTLA and twitchy.com
Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Inconvenient Legal Troubles That Lie Ahead for the Trump Foundation