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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments  —  Live oral arguments from the Supreme Court of the United States as justices hear arguments over President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship and its compatibility with Constitution's 14th Amendment.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Live Updates: Supreme Court Hears Landmark Challenge to Birthright Citizenship  —  President Trump attended the arguments but left after the government presented its case.  Multiple justices seemed skeptical of his efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants or temporary residents from automatically being Americans.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Birthright Con  —  On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, the case that will decide the fate of the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.  —  On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order that tried …
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Justices Express Skepticism Over Birthright Citizenship Case They Never Should Have Taken in the First Place  —  The conservative justices on Wednesday were, at times, appropriately skeptical of the Trump administration's patched-together attempt to undermine birthright citizenship, a bedrock of American life for well over a century.
Rachel Treisman / NPR:
Trump attends Supreme Court arguments over his executive order, a presidential first
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Disproportionately Affect Asian Legal Immigrants
Discussion: Newsweek and Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Trump plans to attend Wednesday's Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
Trump interview: I am strongly considering pulling out of Nato  —  Exclusive: US president tells The Telegraph alliance is a ‘paper tiger’ and claims UK does not even have a navy  —  Donald Trump has told The Telegraph he is strongly considering pulling the United States out of Nato after it failed to join his war on Iran.
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Financial Times:
Trump threatened to stop weapons for Ukraine unless Europe joined Hormuz coalition  —  Nato's top official urged key alliance members to offer help to US to reopen key waterway  —  Donald Trump threatened to stop supplying weapons for Ukraine in order to pressure European allies to join a …
Politico:
Trump says war in Iran will not end until Strait of Hormuz is reopened
Washington Post:
Risky commando plan to seize Iran's uranium came at Trump's request  —  A plan briefed to Trump last week to insert ground forces to remove Iran's nuclear material would be a very difficult endeavor of a type never before attempted in wartime.  —  The U.S. military has given the president …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
'I Don't Care About That': Trump Says Iran's Enriched Uranium Is Not a Concern  —  President Trump's statement was the second time in 24 hours that he had declared that the nuclear problem with Iran had been solved, despite all evidence to the contrary.  —  For more than a decade President Trump …
The Atlantic:
Trump's Fateful Choice  —  The military is waiting for the president's go-ahead for high-risk ground operations in Iran.  —  As thousands of additional U.S. troops arrive in the Persian Gulf, military officials are planning for two potential ground assaults in Iran: one on Kharg Island …
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Steve Holland / Reuters:
US to leave Iran ‘pretty quickly’ and return if needed, Trump tells Reuters
Politico:
House GOP relents on DHS funding plan after Trump weighs in … A White House official, granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, said the administration supports the GOP leaders' plan.  The White House and congressional Republican leadership have been working since late last week …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:   Senate and House Republicans Strike Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Trump, GOP leaders unveil plan to end DHS shutdown through Senate bill and reconciliation
Discussion: Townhall
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP sources see Trump shifting to back Senate bill funding most of DHS
Discussion: RedState and NewsMax.com
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported  —  The top official in charge of the federal government's disaster response has taken to social media to double down on his claim that he's experienced “teleportation” - an experience he insists was real …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Border Patrol chief Michael Banks hit with prostitution allegations by agents  —  EXCLUSIVE — The national chief of the Border Patrol, Michael Banks, was known among colleagues for taking regular trips abroad to engage in sex with prostitutes, according to six current and former Border Patrol employees …
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Raw Story
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
The Actual Danger of Trump's Phony Vote-by-Mail Executive Order  —  Sometimes it's the chaos, not the cruelty, that's the point.  —  That certainly seems true of President Donald Trump's second executive order on elections, issued on Tuesday.  The order purports, among other things …
Nick Turse / The Intercept:
“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East  —  The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran war, resulting in undercounts. … But the Pentagon won't acknowledge it.
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff / New York Times:   Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War
Milena Wälde / Politico:
Spain hits back at Trump in escalating row over euthanasia  —  Madrid is irked by the State Department's move to investigate the assisted suicide of a 25-year-old Spanish woman.  —  Spain blasted the U.S. government on Wednesday for probing a high-profile euthanasia case in Barcelona …
Riley Rogerson / Politico:
Hill staffers brace for their boss's ‘TMZ moment’ … Staffers whose bosses end up splashed across the infamous website are likely feeling less stoked about the spottings.  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was seen by a TMZ tipster at Disney World over the weekend, and Rep. Robert Garcia …
Keith E. Whittington / Reason:
On the Original Legal Meaning of “Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof”  —  There has been some originalist debate of late about the proper reading of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.  The fate of the Trump administration's executive order excluding new categories of individuals …
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
Big tech is coming for the midterms  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🤖 Subscribe to PN 🤖  —  It wasn't that long ago that the prevailing view in Silicon Valley was that politics is both grubby and boring, not worth the time and money …
Discussion: Axios
Paul Krugman:
$4 Gasoline is Less Than Half the Story  —  The biggest losers from the Iran War are buyers of diesel, jet fuel, chemicals and fertilizer  —  Although I expected the war on Iran to be a disaster, I didn't expect the Trump administration to be implicitly conceding defeat after barely a month.
Discussion: Raw Story and MercoPress
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Now Plans to Gut, but Not Close, Consumer Protection Agency  —  What We're Covering Today  — Consumer Protection: The Trump administration has scaled back its plans to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but it still needs …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers  —  How MAGA influencers became part of the mass deportation campaign.  —  As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed Eydarus was out with his mom, shoveling snow.
New York Times:
Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go  —  Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.  —  When Israel and Hezbollah last went to war two years ago …
Discussion: RNS, NPR and France 24
Jennifer Agiesta / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump's approval rating on the economy hits a new low  —  Donald Trump Election polls Corporate news US shutdown  —  President Donald Trump's approval rating for handling the economy has fallen to a new career low of 31%, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Hill and Newsweek
 
 
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
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New York Times:
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Financial Times:
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