Mueller Report / Barr
- Top Democrat threatens to hold Attorney General Barr in contempt by William Roberts (Al Jazeera)
- Attorney General refuses House testimony on Mueller report (BBC)
- Pelosi Accuses Barr of Lying to Congress: “That’s a Crime” by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Barr Rigged Trump’s Acquittal by William Saletan (Slate)
- Pelosi accuses Barr of committing a crime by lying to Congress by Heather Caygle, Andrew Desidero (Politico)
- Opinion: Bill Barr’s Perverse Theory of Justice by Jamelle Bouie (NY Times)
- Democrats Threaten Barr With Contempt After He No-Shows House Hearing by Nicholas Fandos (NY Times)
- Trump says he’s gotten through ‘witch hunts’ by ‘thinking about God’ by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- House hearing on Mueller report devolves into a bizarre shouting match after Attorney General Barr refuses to show up by Joe Perticone (Business Insider)
- Mueller Can’t Get Away With Silence Anymore by Dahlia Lithwick (Slate)
- Analysis: The Catastrophic Performance of Bill Barr by Benjamin Wittes (The Atlantic)
- Barr refuses to testify before House as Justice Department rejects request for full Mueller report by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- Barr’s no-show triggers contempt threats, Nixon comparison and more impeachment talk by Rachael Bade, Mike DeBonis, and John Wagner (Washington Post)
- Trump finds in Barr the attorney general — and shield — he long sought by Matt Zapotosky, Josh Dawsey, Tom Hamburger, and Ashley Parker (Washington Post)
- Democrats channel their Trump outrage on Barr by Kyle Cheney, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- William Barr’s Justice Department Just Filed the Most Nakedly Political Brief in the Agency’s History by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- White House complained to Barr about contents of special counsel report after its release by Rosalind Helderman and Josh Dawsey (Washington Post)
Biden
- Team Trump Pressures Ukraine (and William Barr) to Investigate Joe Biden’s Son by Kevin Drum (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Biden Plan? It Could Get Dirty. by Peter Nicholas (The Atlantic)
- Even Jared Kushner Wants Trump to Chill Out About Biden by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
Stephen Moore
- Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore withdraws amid GOP opposition by Victoria Guida (Politico)
- Trump Says Stephen Moore No Longer Being Considered For Fed Post by Avie Schneider (NPR)
- Stephen Moore: Trump’s Federal Reserve pick withdraws nomination by Jon Swaine (The Guardian)
- Stephen Moore ends bid for Fed over ‘unrelenting attacks on my character’ by Sylvan Lane (The Hill)
- Analysis: Stephen Moore’s views are controversial. But polling shows they aren’t uncommon among Trump supporters. by Eugene Scott (Washington Post)
Healthcare / Religious Doctors
- Trump Administration Sues To Kill Obamacare by AP (Huffington Post)
- Trump strengthens protections for religious health workers by Dan Diamond (Politico)
- The Trump Administration Just Said Religious Doctors Can Refuse Medical Treatment for Patients by Olivia Ezstrum (Mother Jones)
- Trump Administration Finalizes New ‘Conscience Rule’ For Clinicians Who Oppose Abortion by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivr (TIME)
- Trump changes legal strategy, argues entire Obamacare law is unconstitutional by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- New Faith-Based Trump Rule Lets Doctors Refuse To Perform Abortions and Transitions by Sanjana Karanth (Huffington Post)
Other News
- Emails Show Trump Administration Had No Plan to Track and Reunite Separated Families by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Trump invites Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban to Washington by Kalina Oroschakoff (Politico)
- Trump’s new ambassador to Colombia was once expelled from Bolivia by Joe Parkin Daniels (The Guardian)
- Remaining SCOTUS rulings to address administrative state, stare decisis by Erwin Chemerinsky (ABA Journal)
- ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers by staff, agencies (The Guardian)
- Trump erases offshore drilling rules enacted after BP oil spill by Ben Lefebvre, Eric Wolff (Politico)
- Trump admin officially rolls back safety rules put in place after Deepwater Horizon by E.A. Crunden (ThinkProgress)
- Five leading Democrats would all beat Trump in 2020, poll says by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns by Rachel Frazin (The Hill)
- Trump Administration Targets Visa Overstays by Jackson Lewis (National Law Review)
- President Trump Is Spending $20 Billion on an Aircraft Carrier. The Navy Wanted That Money for Cybersecurity by John Walcott (TIME)
Opinion
- Despite Trump’s needling, the Fed stands its ground by Evan Kraft (The Hill)