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John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump to enforce the Alien Enemies Act for now, handing the White House a significant victory that will let immigration officials rely …
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Steve Vladeck / One First:
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.  —  In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case.  But these aren't normal times.  —  Welcome back to “One First,” an …
Discussion: Reason and Talking Points Memo
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The Supreme Court's New 5-4 Bailout for Trump Couldn't Be More Ominous  —  The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory on Monday night, lifting a restraining order that had prevented the mass deportation of migrants to an El Salvador prison under an 18th century wartime law.
Discussion: Daily Kos and CBS News
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court's Block on Venezuelan Deportations  —  The Trump administration asked the justices to weigh in after a federal judge paused the president's use of a wartime powers law to deport Venezuelans it accused of being gang members.
Discussion: Breitbart and HotAir
Politico:
Trump asks Supreme Court to block judge's order requiring US to bring back man who was wrongly deported  —  The Trump administration has described Abrego Garcia's deportation both as an “administrative error” and a “clerical error.”  —  The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Reuters:
US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 law, with limits
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Chief Justice Pauses Order to Return Wrongfully Deported Man
Peter Navarro / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's tariffs will fix a broken system  —  Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports  —  The writer is President Trump's senior counsellor for trade and manufacturing  —  The international trade system is broken — and Donald Trump's reciprocal tariff doctrine will fix it.
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Washington Post:
Musk made direct appeals to Trump to reverse sweeping new tariffs  —  The world's richest person, a key Trump adviser and political donor, was ultimately unsuccessful.  —  Just now  —  Over the weekend, as Elon Musk launched into a barrage of social media posts criticizing …
Josh Dawsey / Wall Street Journal:
Lutnick's Strategy Flummoxes Business Leaders and White House Aides  —  Some executives have come away from meetings with the commerce secretary confused and exasperated  —  WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has tried to sell President Trump's trade agenda to American companies for months.
Politico:
‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
Discussion: NOTUS
Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain
Discussion: New York Times and The Hill
Annie Karni / New York Times:
Johnson Reaches Agreement to Kill Proxy Voting Proposal in the House
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family  — Dearborn attorney Amir Makled was detained and questioned at Detroit Metro Airport about his clients and asked to surrender his cellphone.  — Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stated …
CNN:
How actual ‘fake news’ caused a market whiplash  —  New York CNN —  An errant post on X may have just shaken the stock market, showing how influential — and unreliable — the social media platform can be.  —  Unsourced “headlines” about a potential “90-day pause in tariffs” …
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Wall Street Journal:
The False Tariff Headline That Sent Stocks on a $2 Trillion Ride  —  Misinformation on a White House official's remarks triggers a short-lived rally  —  A wild stock-market swing based on false information added $2.4 trillion in value and erased it almost as quickly Monday morning.
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony, letter shows  —  The U.S. Justice Department sent armed U.S. Marshals to deliver a letter warning a fired career pardon attorney about testifying to congressional Democrats, her lawyer said in a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Wausau
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Elijah Westbrook / CBS News:
MTA, feds reach agreement that could keep NYC congestion pricing tolls in place into the fall  —  The MTA and the Trump administration have reached an agreement that could keep New York City congestion pricing in place into the fall.  —  Once the agreed-to timeline expires …
Axios:
1 big thing: 🥵 Scoop: New donor plea  —  Republicans admit President Trump's tariffs are spiking their blood pressure.  Their Wall Street donors are feeling it too, with some giving top GOP lawmakers an earful this weekend.  —  Why it matters: Trump is making it clear he won't tolerate …
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Case of Wrongful Migrant Deportation  —  The Trump Administration fights to keep a man falsely expelled in a Salvadoran hellhole.  —  Click for Sound  —  The Trump Administration's never-back-down style is becoming a governance problem with overtones of cruelty.
Discussion: Raw Story and Reason
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Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
RFK's Anti-Vax Flock Turns on Him  —  RFK's biggest fans turn on him  —  For vaccine opponents, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appointment as secretary of health and human services represented something close to nirvana.  It was a chance, finally, to take on Big Pharma and to bring …
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Geoff Brumfiel / NPR:
Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters
Robert Tait / The Guardian:
Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs  —  New Civil Liberties Alliance says president's invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful  —  A libertarian group that has been funded by Leonard Leo and Charles Koch has mounted a legal challenge …
Discussion: Washington Post
NPS.gov:
What is the Underground Railroad?  —  I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.  —  The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight …
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led 2020 election probe agrees to surrender law license  —  A former Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracies and led an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 loss in the swing state agreed Monday to surrender …
Discussion: WPR and WisPolitics
Samantha Michaels / Mother Jones:
Elon Musk's Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service  —  “The risk to people's civil rights is enormous.”  —  As if Elon Musk didn't already have enough advantages, between his billions and his leverage over President Donald Trump, he appears to have another ace up his sleeve: the US Marshals Service.
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneal Patterson / The Daily Beast:
DOGE Goons Cause Major Crash to Social Security Site  —  TECH SUPPORT NEEDED  —  Elon Musk's crew of young goons have caused a massive cyber disruption.  —  Elon Musk's DOGE goons crashed the Social Security Administration website Monday when an apparent “anti-fraud upgrade” went badly wrong.
New York Times:
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention  —  A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.  —  The Trump administration is seeking …
 
 
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NBC News:
Pentagon considering proposal to cut thousands of troops from Europe, officials say
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Gil Duran / The Nerd Reich:
Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Flopping
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump to undergo annual physical exam on Friday
Discussion: The Independent, Raw Story and Fox News
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump Administration to Roll Back Array of Gun Control Measures
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