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10:50 AM ET, December 14, 2019

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Melania Trump's indefensible defense of her bully husband  —  There is a classic dodge that bullies can be relied to fall back on when they abuse someone who is smaller and weaker than they are.  —  He (or she) asked for it.  —  First lady Melania Trump, it appears, subscribes to that defense of the indefensible as well.
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James Mills / Daily Mail:
Greta Thunberg tells cheering crowd ‘we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall’ if they do not tackle global warming as she attends climate protest in Turin  —  Greta Thunberg told cheering protesters today ‘we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall’ if they fail to take urgent action on climate change.
Discussion: Breitbart
Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Melania Trump Thinks Greta Thunberg Had POTUS Attack Coming  —  Apparently speaking out against climate change means the 16 year-old should expect to be mocked by world leaders.  —  Earlier this week, Donald Trump, who is very busy and important, took some time out of his schedule to attack a 16-year-old girl.
Discussion: KTLA, Sputnik News and Associated Press
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Melania justifies Trump's bullying of Greta Thunberg: She's ‘an activist who travels the globe’  —  Responding to climate activist Greta Thunberg being named TIME's Person of the Year this week, President Trump lashed out with his usual vindictiveness, this time directed at a 16-year-old.
Washington Post:
On impeachment, Democrats can put Republicans on defense.  Here's how.  —  When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blithely suggested on Fox News that he will conduct the Senate impeachment trial in full collusion with President Trump's legal team, he handed Democrats a big opening.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
McConnell, Coordinating With White House, Lays Plans for Impeachment Trial  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said he was taking his cues from the White House.  Democrats are outraged.  —  WASHINGTON — With the House headed to a vote to impeach President Trump next week …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:   Hidden by impeachment: One of Trump's ‘best weeks yet’
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
What the U.K. Election Does (and Doesn't) Teach Democrats  —  A small island nation governed by a constitutional monarchy — where voters consider the concept of government mail delivery borderline communistic, and socialized medicine common sense — held an election on Thursday.
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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
Et Tu, U.K.?  —  Labour's wipeout in yesterday's British election highlights the transnational defection of the white working class and deepens the global crisis of the social democratic left.  —  Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses with workers during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services …
New York Times:
Labour's Crushing Loss in Britain Adds to ‘Too Far Left?’  Debate in U.S.  —  Centrist Democrats portrayed Boris Johnson's victory as a warning sign for the American election.  Progressives said there were few similarities between the two political races.  —  Former Vice President Joseph …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, Commentary and NBC News
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Judge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls … (Photo: Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)  —  PORT WASHINGTON - An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.
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New York Times:
Wisconsin Judge Says State Must Purge 200,000 Voter Registrations  —  The decision, which was derided by Democrats, comes in a fight to win Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election.  —  Three years ago, fewer than 23,000 votes handed Donald J. Trump a crucial victory in Wisconsin …
Discussion: WILL vs Wisconsin …
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin judge: 234K voter registrations should be tossed
Discussion: The Hill
CNN:
Former Breitbart Editor: Stephen Miller is a white supremacist.  I know, I was one too.  —  (CNN)She was already a racist when she took a publishing job in Washington, DC.  But when she became a reporter for Breitbart News, Katie McHugh says she was taken to new depths of hate with the help of Stephen Miller.
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Supreme Court agrees to consider whether Trump's tax records should be released  —  By granting review of these cases now, the justices made it possible for them to be heard during the current court term.  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear President Donald Trump's appeal …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court will take up Trump's broad claims of protection from investigation
New York Times:
A Great Big Gift Not on Trump's Disclosure Form: Giuliani's Legal Advice  —  For the past 20 months, President Trump has received free personal legal services from one of America's highest-paid lawyers, who has traveled around the country and across the ocean to defend him in the special counsel's inquiry …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Hullabaloo
CarolineGlick.com:
It's only fair to share...  The past week has clarified a lot of things about the state of the American Jewish community — and its antagonists.  —  The two assailants who walked into the kosher supermarket in Jersey City Tuesday and opened fire intentionally targeted the Jews.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:   It's Only Democracy If They Win
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
The Breach Widens as Congress Nears a Partisan Impeachment  —  Fleeting efforts at persuasion by members of the Judiciary Committee gave way to disputes over basic facts during a marathon debate over articles of impeachment.  —  WASHINGTON — It was the rarest of moments in the nation's capital …
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Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:   Fact-based impeachment can't penetrate the pro-Trump Web
Hayley Richardson / Daily Mail:
What is the secret of Hillary Clinton's strangely plumped-up-cheeks?  Fillers could be behind more youthful look  —  Hillary Clinton looked wonderfully youthful at an event on Broadway in New York last night - and aesthetic experts suggest it could be down to regular ‘tweakments’ and cosmetic procedures.
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
Democrats plan ‘unprecedented’ effort to flip state legislative chambers in 2020 state races  —  National Democratic leaders, backed by activist groups formed in response to President Trump's election, are planning an unprecedented push to flip legislative chambers in at least seven states next year …
Discussion: Axios and The Hill
William Saletan / Slate:
Barr Is Trying to Erase the Truth  —  In December 2018, President Donald Trump nominated William Barr to be his attorney general.  Trump wanted Barr to bury the Russia investigation, and in April, Barr did just that.  Brushing aside the evidence compiled by special counsel Robert Mueller …
Dave Goldiner / New York Daily News:
Staten Island Rep. Max Rose backs impeachment of Trump  —  Rep. Max Rose (D-Staten Island) announced Friday he will vote to impeach President Trump.  —  The moderate first-term Democrat, who had resisted backing the impeachment investigation, said he has seen enough evidence to support impeaching Trump.
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Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
One House Democrat goes on record opposing Trump impeachment
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
Dear Mitch, here is how the president's impeachment trial should go  —  Thank you so much for being so extremely willing to coordinate with us here at the President's Team!  Whatever it is that has made you entirely alter your position about how much power the Senate has to check the president since, uh, 2016, we appreciate you!
New York Times:
‘Mayors for Mike’: How Bloomberg's Money Built a 2020 Political Network  —  Michael Bloomberg is relying on powerful city leaders as allies in his presidential campaign.  Several have received grants, training and support packages totaling millions from his foundation.
Kim Tong-hyung / Associated Press:
North Korea conducts another test at long-range rocket site  —  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Saturday that it successfully performed another “crucial test” at its long-range rocket launch site that will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent.
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: China tightens up on info after Xinjiang leaks  —  The Xinjiang regional government in China's far west is deleting data, destroying documents, tightening controls on information and has held high-level meetings in response to leaks of classified papers on its mass detention camps …
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
How is Devin Nunes paying for his many lawsuits?  —  Rep. Devin Nunes' critics have obsessed over how he is paying for the six lawsuits he filed this year, but there are no public records showing how he has paid his Virginia lawyer.  —  That means Nunes is either paying for the lawsuits …
Discussion: Raw Story
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Icy silence, frayed connections: Impeachment takes a toll  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The most raucous committee in Congress sat stone-faced, barely speaking.  —  One by one, the members around the Judiciary Committee dais voted on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Discussion: The Hill
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
High court fallout  —  It wasn't always so easy for county governments to make electoral changes that reduced voting access.  —  In 2013, the Supreme Court split 5-4 along ideological lines, ruling that Georgia and eight other states with a history of discrimination no longer …
Keith Griffith / Daily Mail:
Shocking moment school bus bullies pummel 14-year-old boy leaving him hospitalized with head injuries 'because he'd worn a Trump 2020 hat'  —  Shocking video has emerged showing a 14-year-old boy being attacked on a school bus, allegedly because he'd previously worn a hat supporting President Donald Trump.
Discussion: BizPac Review and Disrn
 
 
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Biden confronted on Ukraine but doesn't answer, later links Trump to El Paso massacre
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Barbara Rodriguez / Des Moines Register:
DOJ investigating allegations of ‘sexual arousal studies’ at Iowa facility for people with disabilities
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Marty Johnson / The Hill:
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Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee:
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Dana R. Fisher / TIME:
Protests in the Trump Era Have Been Mostly Peaceful. Here's How the 2020 Election Could Change That
Discussion: Power Line
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Turf war derails bipartisan push on surprise medical bills
Tampa Bay Times:
The case for impeachment  —  The House has enough reason …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘The story stands’: McClatchy won't back off its Michael Cohen-Prague reporting
Ryan Parry West / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden to be a daddy for the FIFTH time! …