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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Trump's Immigration Crisis  —  Behind the flailing lies a potential disaster for immigration hawks.  —  Across the decade that preceded Donald Trump's election, American politicians of both parties consistently tried to pass big, sweeping immigration bills that would legalize …
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Vicki Divoll / New York Times:
Subpoena Isn't the Only Way to Get the Mueller Report  —  By law, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees should already have certain investigative materials relating to Russian election meddling.  —  PAUL KRUGMAN  —  Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed?  —  The tax cut fizzled; send in the clowns!
Axios:
Trump orders dramatic changes in immigration policy, aims to accelerate deportations
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump's Homeland Security Purge Is Destined to Fail
Discussion: Washington Post, ACLU and Vanity Fair
Washington Post:
Trump denies plan to separate migrant families, blames Obama for ‘cages’
Discussion: Shakesville, Raw Story and Denver Post
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Mnuchin reveals White House lawyers consulted Treasury on Trump tax returns, despite law meant to limit political involvement  —  Treasury Department lawyers consulted with the White House general counsel's office about the potential release of President Trump's tax returns …
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Arthur Delaney / HuffPost:
They Say It's Bad Now But Republicans Disclosed Private Tax Returns In 2014
ABC News:   As Democrats' deadline approaches for Trump's tax returns, Treasury secretary grilled on Capitol Hill
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Mnuchin Says White House and Treasury Discussed Trump Tax Return Request
Discussion: Vox and Daily Kos
New York Times:
The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate  —  A detailed look at the voters with the numbers to decide the 2020 Democratic nominee.  —  Democrats on social media  —  Progressive activists Other Democrats  —  The Democratic electorate off social media
Jonathan Broder / Newsweek:
How Ilhan Omar Is Changing the Conversation About Israel—and Upending the 2020 Campaign  —  In late March, some 18,000 people crowded into a grand ballroom the size of a commercial airline hangar in downtown Washington, D.C., for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee …
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-Semitism  —  Stephen Miller is personally responsible for the most xenophobic policies of the most xenophobic presidency in modern American history.  The senior White House adviser authored the travel ban that denied a wide variety …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Newly released testimony: Former top FBI lawyer says agency concerned Trump obstructed justice  —  James Baker, the former top lawyer of the FBI, told lawmakers last fall that there were widespread concerns inside the FBI that President Donald Trump had attempted to obstruct the bureau's investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Ex-FBI official says 2 Cabinet members were open to invoking 25th Amendment  —  Former FBI General Counsel James Baker told the House Judiciary Committee last October that it's his understanding that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said there were 2 members of President Trump's Cabinet …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Twitter Gets #YachtCocaineProstitutes Trending to Mock Republican Devin Nunes After He Files Lawsuit  —  California Representative Devin Nunes is being mocked on Twitter after filing a $150 million lawsuit over a May 2018 story featuring the headline: “A yacht, cocaine, prostitutes …
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Washington Post:
The full Mueller report could be released — if the House opens preliminary impeachment hearings  —  Philip Allen Lacovara was a counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor.  Laurence H. Tribe is a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School.  —  The uncertain prospect …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats plan to use hearing to press Barr on Mueller report
Asha Rangappa / Politico:
The Forgotten Reason Congress Needs to See the Mueller Report
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN
Brian Naylor / NPR:
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy  —  President Trump repeated a false claim to reporters Tuesday, wrongly blaming the Obama administration for instituting a policy in which children were separated from their parents at the southern border.
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says no plan to revive family separations, blames Obama for uproar
Discussion: Breitbart
J. Arthur Bloom / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Documents Detailing Google's ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation Of Special Search Results  —  Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company's official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and NB Blog
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Congress Is About to Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing.  Thank TurboTax.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom based in New York.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans press Trump to drop Herman Cain's Fed nomination  —  Herman Cain is in deep trouble.  And he hasn't even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve yet.  —  Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult …
Catherine Clifford / CNBC:
Billionaire Jack Dorsey's 11 ‘wellness’ habits: From no food all weekend to ice baths  —  The ancient philosophy of Stoicism - which teaches to be satisfied with what you have and includes practices like self-denial — has become a trend among Silicon Valley elites.
Discussion: Quartz and The Daily Caller
John Bresnahan / Politico:
House Dems cancel vote on budget plan amid internal revolt  —  House Democratic leaders on Tuesday abandoned plans to vote on a key budget measure this week in the face of sharp opposition from both progressives and moderates.  —  The revolt over legislation to set federal spending is a setback …
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Moderate Democrats Back Balanced-Budget Amendment, Countering Liberals
Discussion: Splinter
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
'We can't confirm him,' Pat Roberts warns of potential Kobach nomination for DHS  —  One of the GOP senators from Kris Kobach's home state said Tuesday that the Senate would not be able to confirm the Kansas Republican if President Donald Trump tapped him for a cabinet post.
Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends guest: Black families were better off as slaves  —  VIDEO ››› April 9, 2019 ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF  —  From the April 9 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:  —  Loading the player reg...  AINSLEY EARHARDT (CO-HOST): Larry, Cory Booker wants to be president.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump takes an honor of a lifetime and turns it into a black hole  —  The ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — the implementer of some of the most unjust immigration policies since the internment of citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II …
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Pew Research Center:
Race in America 2019  —  Public has negative views of the country's racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse  —  More than 150 years after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, most U.S. adults say the legacy of slavery continues …
John McWhorter / The Atlantic:
It Wasn't ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been accused of a lot, but the latest charge is especially piquant.  Apparently, the new representative of some of the most multiethnic neighborhoods in the United States has engaged in “verbal blackface.”
New York Times:
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.  —  An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.  —  President Trump has adopted a blunt new message in recent days for migrants seeking refuge …
 
 
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Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
Trump calls Egypt's Sissi a ‘great president’ as U.S. plays down human rights concerns
Ben Sales / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
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Jacob Holzman / Roll Call:
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Ruth Graham / Slate:
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Young Trump judge faces charges of conflict of interest and corporate favoritism
Steve Vladeck / Slate:
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