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10:20 AM ET, July 3, 2018

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Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Here's who Trump should pick for the Supreme Court  —  The search for Gorsuch 2.0 is underway at the White House.  The best choice for the opening is Judge Raymond Kethledge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.  The 51-year-old judge from central casting …
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and ABC News
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Trump Isn't Remaking The Supreme Court.  Leonard Leo Is.  —  The Federalist Society leader has helped put three conservative justices onto the court.  He's about to get a fourth.  —  WASHINGTON For the second time in less than two years, President Donald Trump is poised to fill a Supreme Court vacancy.
Discussion: BloombergQuint and Common Dreams
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
NBC News poll: Most want vote on Trump Supreme Court nominee before midterms  —  The survey also found most Democrats and independents said the next justice should be moderate, while 65 percent of Republicans want a conservative.  —  A majority of Americans believe the Republican-led Senate …
Michelle Hackman / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration to Rescind Obama Guidelines on Race in College Admissions  —  Legal opinions from the former administration sought to help colleges consider race to promote diversity  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is planning to rescind Tuesday a set of Obama-era policies …
Discussion: CNBC
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Poll: Voters Want Trump's Supreme Court Pick to Limit Corporate Money in Politics, Not Abortion
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Pruitt aides reveal new details of his spending and management at EPA  —  Two of Scott Pruitt's top aides provided fresh details to congressional investigators in recent days about some of his most controversial spending and management decisions, including his push to find a six-figure job …
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Kristin Mink:
EPA head Scott Pruitt was 3 tables away as I ate lunch with my child.  I had to say something.  This man is directly and significantly harming my child's — and every child's — health and future with decisions to roll back environmental regulations for the benefit of big corporations …
CNN:
Whistleblower: EPA's Pruitt kept secret calendar to hide meetings  —  (CNN)EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his aides have kept “secret” calendars and schedules to overtly hide controversial meetings or calls with industry representatives and others, according to a former EPA official who is expected to soon testify before Congress.
Jessica Sidman / Washingtonian:
Mother With Her 2-Year-Old Confronts Scott Pruitt at a DC Restaurant  —  “I would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out,” Kristin Mink told the EPA chief at Teaism.  —  Kristin Mink saw protesters confront Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at a DC Mexican restaurant.
Discussion: twitchy.com
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: ‘If not for me,’ United States would be at war with North Korea  —  President Trump said Tuesday that the United States would be at war with North Korea without his efforts and that conversations with the nation's leaders are “going well” — an assessment at odds with recent reports …
BuzzFeed:
Here Are The Documents Recovered From Michael Cohen's Shredder  —  “NEVER MET: Donald Trump, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg, Michael Jackson, The Jackson's family, Sony.”  —  When the Department of Justice announced this month that investigators had pieced together records found …
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump Warns NATO Allies to Spend More on Defense, or Else  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has written sharply worded letters to the leaders of several NATO allies — including Germany, Belgium, Norway and Canada — taking them to task for spending too little on their own defense and warning …
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The White House:
Remarks by President Trump and Prime Minister Rutte of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Before Bilateral Meeting
Discussion: Mother Jones and HuffPost
Danielle Ohl / Baltimore Sun:
Trump declines request to lower flags in memory of Capital Gazette shooting victims  —  Mourners gathered in Annapolis to honor the five employees who were killed Thursday in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom.  Their names are Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
emptywheel:
Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller Investigation  —  I'd like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.  —  Sometime last year, I went to the FBI and provided information on a person whom I had come …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'I'd like to kill ‘em’: GOP takes on Trump tariffs  —  Republican lawmakers are losing their patience with the president's trade war, saying it's hurting their states and the party's chances in the midterms.  —  Republican senators are at their breaking point with Donald Trump's protectionist trade blitz.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Politico
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Congressman denied entry to California detention facility for children under age 14  —  PLEASANT HILL  —  The cry of a child could be heard just inside the nondescript, brown detention facility in Pleasant Hill, California, a San Francisco suburb, and Rep. Jeff Denham wanted to see for himself what was inside.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Osita Nwanevu / Slate:
Why Did the Rhode Island Democratic Party Endorse an Alt-Right Supporter Over a Progressive Incumbent?  —  Moira Jayne Walsh, a 27-year-old former waitress and labor organizer, captured a bit of national attention after she won a seat in the Rhode Island House in 2016.
Discussion: Uprise RI, RI Future and Splinter
CNN:
Thailand cave rescue: Search teams unsure how to free trapped boys  —  Chiang Rai, Thailand (CNN)The initial relief that greeted the dramatic discovery of the trapped Thai soccer team has given way to questions over why the boys are still inside the flooded cave network and not on their way to the surface and their waiting families.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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BBC:
Thailand cave rescue: Rescuers weigh boys' escape options
Discussion: NPR and Thai NavySEAL
Diana Stancy Correll / Washington Examiner:
Louie Gohmert suspects Rod Rosenstein's staff may be spying on him  —  Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, says it's possible that staff for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein are monitoring his actions.  —  “I've been told in the past there's been great concern about who I saw …
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Another Top Justice Department Lawyer Steps Down Following Earlier Departures  —  Scott Schools, a top aide to the deputy attorney general, is planning to leave the Justice Department, according to two people familiar with his decision.  —  The job title for Schools — associate deputy attorney general …
Amy Graff / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘20 pounds of human waste’ dropped on San Francisco street corner  —  A foul odor permeated from a massive bag of human excrement sludge left on a street corner in San Francisco's Tenderloin district Saturday.  —  The horrendous smell and sight quickly gained notoriety when a Reddit user posted …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Nailed It  —  Speaking of conspiracy theories, I love this tweet from Dan Rather:  —  We know LeBron James has been outspoken about Trump.  So it makes sense to head to California, the heartland of the #resistance.  The fact that he will be trying to resist the dominance of the Warriors is an added plot twist.
Discussion: Power Line
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Women Might Save America Yet  —  Erin Gabriel was already pretty busy before Donald Trump was elected president.  All three of her children are autistic, and her youngest, an 8-year-old girl named Abby, is also deaf, blind and nonverbal, and suffers from seizures.  “She has like 17 specialists,” Gabriel, 39, told me.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
How Trump is changing the face of legal immigration  —  As the national immigration debate swirls around the effort to discourage illegal immigration by separating families at the border, the Trump administration is making inroads into another longtime priority: reducing legal immigration.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Another Lazy ‘Never Trump’ Screed  —  Emerald Robinson's ‘Never Trump’ analysis is equally deficient in fact and seriousness.  —  There's always a trade-off in calling attention to trollish, attention-seeking writers who don't deserve a response on the merits.
Alyssa Fisher / The Forward:
Alan Dershowitz ‘Shunned’ By Friends In Martha's Vineyard For Defending Trump  —  Lawyer Alan Dershowitz is afraid that America is growing increasingly intolerant toward opposing views.  His proof, according to his recent op-ed in The Hill: Friends are ostracizing him in Martha's Vineyard.
Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Ron Paul Becomes Latest Republican to Post Literal Nazi Content  —  Monday morning, former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul posted a tweet about “cultural Marxism.”  Cultural Marxism is not an unusual topic in right-wing circles, but the illustration that went with the tweet was …
Discussion: HuffPost, CBS Los Angeles and Hit & Run
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Trump's Taking Us From Temper Tantrum to Trade War  —  In one way, Donald Trump's attack on our foreign trade partners resembles his attack on immigrants: in each case, the attack is framed as a response to evildoing that exists only in his imagination.  No, there isn't a wave of violent crime …
Wall Street Journal:
The Abortion Scare Campaign  —  Why Roe v. Wade and same-sex marriage are likely to survive after Kennedy.  —  Some things in politics are predictable—a New Jersey tax increase, a “no” vote by Senator Rand Paul, and an abortion-rights scare campaign every time a Republican President makes a Supreme Court nomination.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
‘Tormented and traumatized’: Rage toward women fuels mass shooters  —  The alleged mass shooter's rage began — as it has so often before — with a woman.  —  Years before Jarrod Ramos sued the Capital Gazette for defamation, before he targeted a specific columnist at the Capital …
Discussion: New York Times
Dan Zak / Washington Post:
‘This is not a normal time’: A mad hot summer in the capital of the resistance  —  Her Mexican father had raised her to abide by the law.  Her Guatemalan mother told her that she was crazy to go.  But there was Maritza Solano, sitting on the cool marble floor of the Hart Senate Office Building …
Chris Irvine / Fox News:
Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal: Iran official  —  The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed.
 
 
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Dem generation gap widens
Discussion: The Daily Caller
HuffPost:
Abolishing ICE Isn't Very Popular (Yet)
ABC News:
US-China tariffs: What's behind them, who stands to be hurt?
New York Times:
What if Trump's Nativism Actually Hurts Him?
Discussion: Washington Post and Splinter
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Trump Judicial Pick Who Blogged Favorably About the KKK Had to Withdraw.  Now He's at the Justice Department.
Discussion: MSNBC, Splinter and Daily Kos
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge's order could undercut Trump's immigrant detention plan
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Sad Delusion of Anthony Kennedy Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: National Review, Salon and POLITICUSUSA
 Earlier Items: 
Martin E. Comas / Orlando Sentinel:
Lake deputy shoots gator with AR-15, freeing girl trapped in tree — ‘please hurry!’ mom pleads to 911 operator
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judge sets hearing in Flynn case
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump White House sets turnover records, analysis shows
Discussion: Axios and Splinter
Politico:
The top Democratic Senate recruit who's ditching Chuck Schumer
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Record-Low 47% Extremely Proud to Be Americans