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11:55 AM ET, February 16, 2019

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New York Times:
Phony Wall, Phony Emergency  —  The president plans to manage the border crisis from the golf course at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Why Trump will win the wall fight  —  Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, “If my fellow citizens want to go to hell, I will help them.  It is my job.”  What he was expressing is the limited role of courts in challenges to federal law.  It is not their task as judges to sit …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump Isn't Just Defying the Constitution.  He's Undermining SCOTUS.  —  The president defended his national emergency by boasting that he'll win at the Supreme Court because it's full of his judges.  —  In a Rose Garden speech Friday morning announcing that he was declaring a national state …
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
Trump's National Emergency Just Got Its First Legal Challenge  —  Legal advocacy group Public Citizen filed suit on behalf of landowners in Texas and an environmental group.  More lawsuits are expected.  —  Reporting From  —  Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON - A consumer advocacy group filed …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Presidents Have Declared Dozens of Emergencies, but None Like Trump's  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday pointed to nearly five dozen previous instances in which presidents of both parties have declared emergencies as justification for his invocation of extraordinary powers to build his border wall.
Discussion: Althouse, Cronkite News, The New Neo, PRI and AAF
Denise Lu / New York Times:
Trump's Emergency Declaration Is the First Since 9/11 to Authorize Military Action
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Follows Familiar Playbook When Confronted by a Loss: Distract and Digress
Discussion: Toronto Star
David French / National Review:
Trump's Emergency Declaration Is Contemptuous of the Rule of Law
Chico Harlan / Washington Post:
Ex-cardinal McCarrick defrocked by Vatican for sexual abuse  —  ROME — The Vatican on Saturday said it had stripped ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the rights of the priesthood, leveling a historic penalty against a onetime church power broker and former archbishop of Washington who has been credibly accused of sexual abuse.
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Associated Press:
Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse  —  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
Michael Goodwin / Fox News:
Andrew McCabe is a national disgrace - and we owe him a big, fat thank you  —  Andrew McCabe is a national disgrace.  He was part of the most corrupt and most partisan leadership team in FBI history and was fired for being dishonest under oath.  —  And yet, America owes him a big thank-you.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   Collusion: The Criminalization of Policy Disputes
USA Today:
Mueller's office seeks prison sentence of 20 years or more for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Exclusive: WH press secretary Sarah Sanders interviewed by special counsel's office
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Mueller says Paul Manafort should serve 19-24 years in prison
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Dems prepare to force Trump to reveal private talks with Putin  —  House Democrats are taking their first real steps to force President Donald Trump to divulge information about his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, setting up an extraordinary clash with the White House over Congress' oversight authority.
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Special counsel prosecutors say they have communications of Stone with WikiLeaks  —  Washington (CNN)Prosecutors said for the first time that they have evidence of Roger Stone communicating with WikiLeaks, according to a new court filing from special counsel prosecutors.
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Fox News:
Judge imposes partial gag order in Roger Stone case
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Washington Post:
At least 5 civilians dead and 5 officers wounded in shooting in Aurora, Ill., officials say
Discussion: Splinter
Matt Stoller / The Guardian:
It's not enough to beat back Amazon from New York.  We must do more |  Matt Stoller  —  Simply saying ‘no’ to its headquarters isn't enough - Amazon should be investigated for abusing monopoly power  —  This week, Amazon abandoned a plan to open a second “headquarters” in New York City …
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
‘Never again?’  It's already happening.  —  Because I write books about Soviet history, and because I often speak about them to U.S. or European audiences, I am frequently forced to confront the problem of Western indifference.  Why, I am asked over and over, did British diplomats who knew …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?  —  The two hottest commodities in the Democratic Party are Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Earlier this week, Omar exhibited stunning ignorance in her hostile questioning of Elliott Abrams.  Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez has often displayed a surprising lack …
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New York Times:
Why the Amazon Deal Collapsed: A Tech Giant Stumbles in N.Y.'s Raucous Political Arena
Robyn Kanner / New York Times:
Esquire's Cover Boy and Our Culture of Shame  —  I'm a trans woman living in Brooklyn.  And I have tremendous empathy for the conservative teen in Wisconsin.  —  Ms. Kanner is a writer and designer living in Brooklyn.  —  I have an embarrassing secret.  One I have long feared the internet would out for me.
José Cárdenas / New York Post:
Omar's attack on Elliott Abrams was cribbed from the anti-American playbook  —  SEE ALSO  —  The House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Trump administration's policy toward Venezuela this week descended into farce when controversial freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) …
Washington Post:
‘A recipe for disaster’?  Trump's border emergency drags the GOP into a risky fight ahead of 2020.  —  President Trump's decision to unilaterally attempt to build his promised wall at the Mexico border is pulling his party into a tailspin of drama and unease — a move that could help …
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
House Judiciary to investigate Trump's emergency declaration
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
California's move to Super Tuesday hands Harris a big edge in 2020  —  Kamala Harris is building a wall around California.  —  The Democratic senator has been activating her forces on the home front since launching her White House bid last month — cornering some of the state's most prolific donors …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
N.C. election officials will consider fate of congressional seat at Monday hearing  —  Investigators on Monday will begin revealing the breadth of an alleged ballot-tampering scheme in North Carolina, launching a potentially bitter and partisan battle over how to fill a congressional seat that has remained vacant since January.
Discussion: Political Wire and WRAL-TV
 
 
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
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The Federal Debt Is Rising. Concern Is Not.
Lindsey Bever / Washington Post:
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CNN:
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
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Washington Post:
Angry over campus speech by Uighur activist, Chinese students in Canada contact their consulate, film presentation
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
Words are a president's strongest weapon. Trump is terrible at words.
Discussion: Raw Story
Katherine Tully-McManus / Roll Call:
Capitol Police crackdown on press escalates to physical altercation
Discussion: Common Dreams
Tim Mak / NPR:
Senate Panel Launches Bipartisan Probe Into Think Tank Linked To Butina, Torshin
Discussion: The Topline and Raw Story