Action
- Families Belong Together: June 30 – Day of Action
- More than 700 anti-Trump protests planned across all 50 states by Joanna Walters (The Guardian)
- Thousands Are Expected to Attend the Families Belong Together Marches Across the U.S. Here’s What to Know by Gina Martinez (TIME)
Immigration / Border / Family Separation
- Top House Dem request broad investigations into Trump immigration policy by Nathaniel Weixel (The Hill)
- Hundreds Arrested While Protesting Trump’s Immigration Policies at the Capitol by Caitlin Wolper (Teen Vogue)
- The ‘Abolish ICE’ Movement Is Growing. Here’s Why the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Was Created by Olivia B. Waxman (TIME)
- Once again, Congress leaves town without an immigration solution by Lauren Fox (CNN)
- Trump Administration: Migrant Families Can Be Detained For More Than 20 Days by Tanya Ballard Brown (NPR)
- U.S. Government Says It Has Right To Detain Families For Months by Eric Beech (Huffington Post)
- Trump May Deport 1,200 People To Yemen As The U.S. Bombs The Country by Akbar Shahid Ahmed (Huffington Post)
- U.S. government says it will detain migrant children with parents (Reuters)
- Migrant children and families now face indefinite detention by US (The Guardian)
- Inside the Portland Occupy ICE Camp and Its Battle with the Feds by Donovan Farley (VICE)
- The list of Democrats calling to abolish ICE keeps growing by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
Supreme Court
- Trump’s Supreme Court Frontrunner Is the “Forrest Gump of Republican Politics” by Stephanie Mencimer (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Could Have a Dicey Task: Deciding Trump-Russia Cases by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- ‘The optics do matter’: Trump nudged to pick woman for Supreme Court by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Trump may nominate Supreme Court pick before July 10: White House official (Reuters)
- Democrats’ Options for Blocking a SCOTUS Nominee, Ranked From Least to Most Likely to Be Successful by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Opinion: Timing of Kennedy’s retirement only cements his right-wing legacy by Larry Beinhart (Al Jazeera)
- Donald Trump Made Justice Kennedy an Offer He Couldn’t Refuse by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Outside Groups, Democrats Form Ranks in Supreme Court Fight by Todd Ruger (Roll Call)
- Trump Says He Will Announce Supreme Court Pick On July 9 by Jessica Taylor (NPR)
- Top Supreme Court prospect has argued presidents should not be distracted by investigations and lawsuits by Michael Kranish and Ann E. Marimow (Washington Post)
- Analysis: What could happen if Roe v Wade gets struck down? by Joe Fox, Ann Gerhart, and Aaron Steckelberg (Washington Post)
Manafort / Russia Investigation / Mueller
- Manafort assistant gave FBI access to storage locker: testimony by Mark Hosenball, Nathan Layne (Reuters)
- Associated Press may have led FBI to Manafort storage locker by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
- Mueller prosecutors still not ready to see Flynn sentenced by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
IRS / Tax Law
- Trump’s New IRS ‘Postcard’ Is Not So Simple And Not Really A Postcard by Brian Naylor (NPR)
- Trump celebrates tax law’s six-month anniversary as IRS rolls out postcard-sized filing form by Naomi Jagoda (The Hill)
- Analysis: Top Brow-Furrowing Moments From Trump’s Tax Bash by John T.Bennett (Roll Cal)
Other News
- Trump telling officials he wants to withdraw US from World Trade Organization: report by Mallory Shelbourne (The Hill)
- Trump yanked around by Portuguese president during aggressive handshake by Chris Baynes (Independent)
- Donald Trump Responds To Annapolis Shooting by Willa Frej, Paige Lavender (Huffington Post)
- Trump: Journalists should be free from fear of violent attacks by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
- Canada hits back at U.S. on tariffs, says it will not back down by David Ljunggren (Reuters)
- White House scrambles to figure out how prankster got on the phone with Trump by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump reportedly wants to pull the US out of the WTO, a move that would wreck the international trade system by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- Judge strikes down Kentucky’s medicaid work rules by Abby Goodnough (The NY Times)
- U.S. intelligence believes North Korea making more nuclear bomb fuel despite talks: NBC (Reuters)
- US intel agencies believe North Korea has increased nuclear fuel production by John Bowden (The Hill)
Analysis
- How Trump Could Sell Out Syria to Putin by Frederic C. Hof (Atlantic)
- Trump’s top economic adviser says deficit ‘is coming down rapidly,’ contradicting virtually all available data by Jeff Stein (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump Is Cashing In on His Cult of Personality by Isobel Thompson (Vanity Fair)