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New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Plans to Press White House Over Deportation Flights — Where Things Stand — Deportation flights: A federal judge is set to press Trump administration lawyers at a 5 p.m. hearing about whether the White House had violated a court order in deporting migrants with little to no due process.
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Washington Post:
Trump officials test limits of courts' power to constrain their actions — Several legal experts said the deportation episode marks a dramatic — and troubling — escalation in the Trump administration's pushback against the courts. — The Trump administration is testing the limits …
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
The evil at your door — Individuals associated with the federal government have, in defiance of a court order and without a trial or any form of due process, deported hundreds of people from the territory of the United States to El Salvador, where they will be held indefinitely in a concentration camp.
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New York Post, Reason, Raw Story, Scripting News and Washington Examiner
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker pushes to impeach judge over order to halt deportations — Republican Rep. Brandon Gill (Texas) said he would be pushing to impeach the federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend.
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Slate:
We've Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump's Dictatorship Era
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Quinta Jurecic / The Atlantic:
The Ultimate Trump Story
The Ultimate Trump Story
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Politico:
Trump, already on a collision course with the courts, hits the gas
Trump, already on a collision course with the courts, hits the gas
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CNBC, Vox, New York Times, Vanity Fair and New Republic
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
Trump's Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
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The Mahablog
David J. Lynch / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan to remake the economy. But he's not explaining it very well. — President Donald Trump's economic plan is causing brief pain while the nation advances to a new “Golden Age.” But officials have been much less clear about what that destination will look like.
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Trump Says Biden's Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen — The use of the autopen, a device that reproduces signatures and is ubiquitous in government and business, is ordinarily uncontroversial. There is no power to undo a pardon in the Constitution or case law.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden — President asserts in social-media post that Biden's pardons were ‘void, vacant, and of no further force of effect’ — President Trump questioned the validity of pardons granted by President Joe Biden before he left office …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Dictator S**t’: Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Deported Brown University professor had ‘sympathetic photos’ of Hezbollah leaders on her phone, DOJ says — The government's explanation for Rasha Alawieh's deportation came before a judge postponed a hearing on whether it defied a judge's order that she not be deported without advance notice to the court.
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CBS News:
Judge cancels hearing for Brown University doctor deported to Lebanon despite his order
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CNN, Townhall, Bangor Daily News, Press Herald and Axios
Tom Mooney / The Providence Journal:
Documents shed light on why RI doctor was detained, deported. What we know.
Documents shed light on why RI doctor was detained, deported. What we know.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration — An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency …
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Kiplinger
Erin Alberty / Axios:
Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order — Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.” — Why it matters: From 1942 to 1945 …
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Townhall
Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Give back the Statue of Liberty, French MEP tells US — French Socialist MEP says Washington's embrace of dictators negates the values that led France to bestow the iconic statue some 140 years ago. — She's been covered by a glacier, smashed up by various giant monsters …
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Washington Examiner:
French politician demands US return the Statue of Liberty — A Member of the European Parliament thinks the U.S. should return the Statue of Liberty to France. — Raphael Glucksmann, a socialist and member of France's left-wing Place Publique party, made the demand while delivering …
Danny Nguyen / Politico:
White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France
White House says it will not return the Statue of Liberty to France
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New York Post, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer postpones book tour over security concerns — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was expected to face protests at some of the events. — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is postponing scheduled book tour events this week for “security reasons,” as he faces intense backlash …
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Schumer Postpones Book Tour Amid Backlash to Voting With Republicans
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Samuel Larreal / NOTUS:
Republicans See a Chance to Win In California — Maybe With Ric Grenell
Republicans See a Chance to Win In California — Maybe With Ric Grenell
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Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times and Politico
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
Trump Insists He Was Being “Sarcastic” About Major Campaign Promise — One month before the election, 70 percent of Americans felt that foreign affairs comprised either a “very important” or “extremely important” component of their vote. But as it turns out, Donald Trump's repeat campaign promises …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
Trump Discussion With Putin to Focus on What Ukraine Will Lose
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Cate Latimer / The Brown Daily Herald:
Brown advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel — The announcement comes after the deportation of Assistant Professor of Medicine Rasha Alawieh. — One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents …
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Reuters and The Guardian
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Lexi Lonas Cochran / The Hill:
Brown University tells international community to avoid foreign travel
Daniel W. Drezner / Drezner's World:
GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond. — Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university. — Everything that has been posted on Drezner's World over the past …
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Katherine Rosman / New York Times:
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding
Legal Experts Question Trump's Authority to Cancel Columbia's Funding
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masslive.com, The Washington Free Beacon and The Hill
Washington Post:
Trump administration plans 25 percent staff cut at IRS taxpayer help office — The Taxpayer Advocate Service, which operates as an internal watchdog, would see deeper workforce reductions than the agency overall. — Just now — The Trump administration is set to cut more than 20 percent …
New York Times:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts … Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The National Nuclear Safety Administration field office that oversees the lab lost nine staff members, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.The Albuquerque Journal, via Associated Press
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New Republic, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story
Paul Krugman:
Destroying America's Brand — Last week Mark Carney, having won the Liberal Party's leadership election, became Canada's Prime Minister. And it looks possible that he may hold that position for a while. Not long ago the Liberals seemed headed for an electoral wipeout, but they've seen an amazing surge in the polls:
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Raw Story
Yasmeen Hamadeh / The Daily Beast:
Commerce Department Director Leaves Job With a Scathing Musk Warning — A top director at the Commerce Department in charge of expanding internet access to rural areas claimed in a scathing email to colleagues that rural broadband funding may soon be funneled to Elon Musk's Starlink, despite its comparatively lower quality service.
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Ars Technica, Vanity Fair, New Republic, The Guardian, The Verge and Politico
William P. Davis / New York Times:
Introducing a New Project to Track Polls — The Times will aggregate public opinion surveys and produce new polling averages, starting with polls that ask about President Trump's job performance. And we will make the data available to everyone. — The New York Times has begun a new effort …
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The Western Journal
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Trump removes gun violence public health advisory — The advisory was issued by a Biden-nominated surgeon general last year. — The Department of Health and Human Services recently removed a former surgeon general's warning declaring gun violence a public health crisis to comply …
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump to release 80,000 pages of JFK files on Tuesday — President Trump announced he will release 80,000 pages of unredacted files Tuesday about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, after promising on the campaign trail to declassify the documents.
John Ganz / Unpopular Front:
There Was Never Any “Fascism Debate” — They Refused to Engage — A number of my interlocutors in the fascism debate have reversed their positions since witnessing the full extent of the Trump regime's willingness and ability to employ political repression against its enemies.

