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6:10 PM ET, July 9, 2018

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Narrows Supreme Court Field as Advice Pours In  —  Signaling he has not yet settled on his pick for the Supreme Court, President Trump on Monday morning worked the phones primarily seeking input about two judges who are apparently the finalists, Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas Hardiman, people familiar with the discussions said.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's delusions are about to blow up in his own voters' faces  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  With the exception of the big, beautiful wall that is already being built on the southern border (in President Trump's mind, anyway), the issue that taps most directly into the most visceral strains …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The Supreme Court vs. democracy  —  Even those most invested in the Court's grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality.  —  Tonight, at 9 pm Eastern, President Donald Trump will announce his pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
Michael Graham / CBS News:
Commentary: Don't destroy the Supreme Court to save it from Trump
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Be Smart About Trump's Supreme Court Pick
Washington Post:
‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president's policies  —  Just after arriving in Washington to work for President Trump, Kellyanne Conway found herself in a downtown supermarket, where a man rushing by with his shopping cart sneered, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
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Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet: Yes, We Did Too Many Alan Dershowitz Stories … Even publicity-savvy, Alan Dershowitz is astonished at the flood-the-zone coverage that The New York Times has been devoting to his social sufferings on Martha's Vineyard.
BuzzFeed:
Pregnant Women Say They Are Being Mistreated In Immigration Detention, Despite The Administration's Claims  —  Pregnant women in immigration detention under the Trump administration say they have been denied medical care, shackled around the stomach, and abused.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Christie Smythe / Bloomberg:
Trump's Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime  — Noel Cintron says he's owed 3,300 hours in back pay for years  — Wage bump in 2010 came with a catch, loss of health insurance  —  Donald Trump's personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer …
BBC:
Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit  —  Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy.  —  He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why does Michael Cohen keep publicly hinting that he'll flip on Trump?  —  There have been some reports that Cohen wants Trump to pay his legal fees.  —  Michael Cohen really, really wants everyone to know that he's willing to flip on President Donald Trump.
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump's about to miss a court-ordered deadline to reunite young immigrant kids with their parents  —  But in a twist, the ACLU is working with the government to try to reunify families as quickly as possible.  —  The federal government is definitely not going to meet a court-imposed July 10 deadline …
Discussion: ABC News, Bustle and New York Times
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Claire Parker / The Texas Tribune:   Facing a Tuesday deadline to reunite about 100 migrant toddlers with their parents, feds say they've reunited 2
Alice Ollstein / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Admin Tells Court It Has Only Returned 2 Out Of 102 Immigrant Kids Under 5 Years Old
Jane Coaston / Vox:
Nazis and white supremacists are running as Republicans across the country.  The GOP is terrified.  —  The racist candidates are expected to lose, but they could drag their party down with them.  —  In at least five state and national races across the country, the Republican Party is dealing with an uncomfortable problem.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker rejects racism charge: ‘My son is named after a black guy’
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Nancy Pelosi: 'They Come After Me Because I'm Effective'  —  The House Minority Leader on the midterms, impeachment, her own party, sexism and the sexist-in-chief  —  As the countdown to November commences, with Democrats desperate for a moonshot, Nancy Pelosi sits atop a three-stage rocket, full of possibility and danger.
BuzzFeed:
Some Members Of Trump's Exclusive Clubs Appear To Have Been Invited To An Air Force One Tour  —  The invitations would raise more questions about the overlap between Trump's administration and his family's private businesses.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Adiel Kaplan / miamiherald:
Miami grandma targeted as U.S. takes aim at naturalized immigrants with prior offenses  —  The United States government has long reserved its power to revoke citizenship for the rarest of cases, going after the likes of war criminals, child rapists and terrorist funders.  —  Norma Borgono is none of those.
Discussion: Law & Crime
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump's Supreme Court Pick … When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely conservative Catholic activists already responsible …
Wall Street Journal:
Uber Hires Former Top Justice Department Lawyer for Compliance Post  —  Scott Schools joins Uber as it prepares for 2019 IPO  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has tapped a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department to be its first chief compliance officer, as the ride-hailing giant seeks …
Discussion: BloombergQuint
Rachel Frazin / The Daily Beast:
Journalist Held by ICE Speaks: ‘Without a Doubt’ I Was Targeted for My Work … What started out as a “just another day” in Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran's life ended in his arrest by local police and transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  The arrest, Duran claims …
Luke Henriques-Gomes / The Guardian:
Scientists discover world's oldest colour - bright pink  —  Pigments found in 1.1bn-year-old rocks beneath the Sahara desert shed light on ‘major puzzle’ about early life  —  Scientists have discovered what they say are the world's oldest colours - and they are bright pink.
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?  —  On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump.  A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Michelle Wolf Gets Patriotic For a Red, White, and Blue Salute to Abortion  —  With the country more polarized than ever, it's been hard for Americans to find common ground this Fourth of July.  As columnist Megan McArdle recently argued in the Washington Post, to find our way back, we'll need …
Antonio García Martínez / Wired:
How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System  —  CALIFORNIA IS THE future of the United States, goes the oft-cited cliché.  What the US is doing now, Europe will be doing in five years, goes another.  Given those truthy maxims, let's examine the socioeconomics of the “City by the Bay” as a harbinger of what's to come.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow  —  The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit.  —  Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted …
Discussion: Splinter
Mary Papenfuss / HuffPost:
Trump Tariffs Spare Clothing Industry — Including Ivanka's Chinese-Made Products  —  The first daughter doesn't appear to believe in “made in America.”  —  President Donald Trump enacted tariffs Friday morning on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods, affecting hundreds of products from boats to medical devices and auto parts.
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: How an ordinary ICE raid left behind a crisis  —  COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, a steady job and five American-born children.  It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken away.
Nacha Cattan / Bloomberg:
Mexico's Next President Plans His Own Border Police Force  — Lopez Obrador's security chief Durazo to create border force  — Humanitarian, development program to be big part of policy  —  After months of Donald Trump's controversial clampdown on immigration, Mexico's President …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Wilbur Ross admits to another tardy stock sale  —  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross last week disclosed a tardy sale of stock he had pledged to divest, saying he had overlooked the shares because they were held in a separate account.  —  Ross told the Office of Government Ethics that on June 11 …
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
San Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future  —  “A major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle.  It's a loss of approximately $40 million dollars for the city and a warning …
Discussion: Instapundit and Breitbart
CBS News:
Thai cave rescue: Four more boys pulled from flooded cave — live updates  —  Four more members of a youth soccer team were pulled from a flooded cave in a second round of rescue operations in Thailand on Monday.  The 12 boys and their coach were trapped in the cave for two weeks.
Discussion: The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, AOL and Daily Wire
Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
Donald Trump to face ‘carnival of resistance’  —  Dozens of groups and thousands of individuals will try to make US president's visit uncomfortable  —  The organisers of anti-Donald Trump protests have promised a “carnival of resistance” that will begin as soon as the US president lands in the UK on Thursday.
 
 
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Jessica Kramer / The Daily Caller:
Protests Already Planned For Trump's SCOTUS Nominee
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page to Face Questioning About Anti-Trump Texts
Discussion: CNN and Talking Points Memo
Laura Pitel / Financial Times:
Erdogan names son-in-law to lead Turkey's finance ministry
The Babylon Bee:
Resistance Movement Vows To Do Anything To Stop Trump Short Of Treating Other Half Of Country With Respect
Daily Mail:
Police chiefs are looking at recording misogyny as a hate crime …
Discussion: Daily Wire
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Trump Is Never Going To Be Reagan
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:
MJ Hegar raised $750,000 off her viral ad, one of a few Texas Democrats boasting big numbers
Discussion: Political Wire
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Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online:
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Discussion: The Root and ThinkProgress
Christopher Roach / American Greatness:
What Does the Democratic Party Stand For?
Brian K. Sullivan / BloombergQuint:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Beto-mania Sweeps Texas
Discussion: Breitbart
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
The Liberal Backlash Is Coming