- US court rules Trump cannot block critics on Twitter (Al Jazeera)
- Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Federal Court Rules by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
- Appeals Court Confirms That Trump Can’t Block Critics on Twitter by April Glaser (Slate)
- U.S. Appeals Court: Trump Cannot Block Twitter Followers by Reuters (Huffington Post)
- U.S. Appeals Court Rules Trump Violated First Amendment By Blocking Twitter Followers by Vanessa Romo (NPR)
Epstein / Acosta
- Pelosi Calls on Trump’s Labor Secretary to Resign Amid Epstein Abuse Scandal by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump Praises “Excellent” Labor Secretary as Demands for Resignation Grow Louder by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Trump defends cabinet member Acosta embroiled in Epstein sex-abuse case by Roberta Rampton, Richard Cowan (Reuters)
- Trump Says He Feels ‘Badly’ For Alex Acosta Amid Jeffrey Epstein Uproar by Antonia Blumberg (Huffington Post)
- Trump Defends Labor Secretary Acosta But Will Look ‘Very Closely’ Into the Epstein Plea Deal by Jill Colvin, Alan Fram (TIME)
- Mulvaney presses Trump to dump Acosta amid mounting outrage by Eliana Johnson, Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Trump ‘feels badly’ for labor secretary amid calls for resignation over Epstein case by Tom McCarthy (The Guardian)
- Trump claims he had a falling out with Epstein ‘a long time ago’ by Melanie Schmitz (ThinkProgress)
- “He Said Not to Tell Anyone”: How Trump Kept Tabs on Jeffrey Epstein by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
Census
- Judge in census case denies DOJ motion to swap out lawyers by Ted Hesson (Politico)
- Judge Blocks DOJ Request To Switch Lawyers In Census Citizenship Case by Sam Levine (Huffington Post)
- Trump to ‘unlawfully’ demand citizenship question included on census despite Supreme Court ruling by Chris Baynes (Independent)
Other News
- Trump says he would ‘no longer deal’ with UK envoy (Al Jazeera)
- Affordable Care Act: US court to weigh its constitutionality (Al Jazeera)
- China demands US cancel proposed $2.2bn arms sale to Taiwan (Al Jazeera)
- ICE Just Quietly Opened Three New Detention Centers, Flouting Congress’ Limits by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- Trump administration sanctions Lebanese Parliament members over Hezbollah ties by Chris Mills Rodrigo (The Hill)
- For Donald Trump, Courts Are Another 2020 Battleground by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
- Lara Trump to launch ‘Women for Trump’ coalition by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
- Trump dossier author Steele gets 16-hour DOJ grilling by Natasha Bertrand (Politico)
- Trump’s attack on Obamacare goes critical: Surprisingly, it’s built on enormous lies by Bob Cesca (Salon)
- Trump rails against Obamacare as administration heads to court to scrap Affordable Care Act for millions of Americans by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Justice Department Watchdog Probes Trump Dossier Author by Mark Hosenball (Huffington Post)
- Bush’s EPA Chief Slams Trump’s Environment Speech: ‘He’s Living In His Own Reality’ by Alexander C. Kaufman (Huffington Post)
- Trump blasts McConnell’s Democratic challenger: She ‘compared my election to September 11th’ by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
- Trump the extremely stable genius? Former admissions officer reveals how president got into Ivy League school by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Pelosi: No plans to meet Trump budget negotiators by Heather Caygle, Burgess Everett (Politico)
- British ambassador, now target of Trump’s ire, has D.C. wired by Nahal Toosi, Daniel Lippman (Politico)
- Kudlow: Trump won’t submit trade bill until Pelosi gives ‘green light’ by Doug Palmer (Politico)
- Trump resort to host golf tournament organized by Florida strip club by John Bowden (The Hill)
- Trump defends Home Depot co-founder after shoppers threaten boycott by Tal Axelrod (The Hill)
- White House threatens to veto $733B defense policy bill by Rebecca Kheel (The Hill)
- Senate confirms Trump’s 9th Circuit pick despite missing blue slips by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Strip club to host golf tournament at Trump resort in South Florida by David A. Farenthold (Washington Post)
Analysis
- The Iran Hawks Are Circling by Kathy Gilsinan (The Atlantic)
- The War to Empower Rural White Voters Is Bigger Than Trump by Matt Ford (The New Republic)
- Another broken promise: Job creation under Trump trails Obama by 800,000 by Igor Derysh (Salon)
Opinion
- The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Trump’s New “Unalienable Rights” Panel by Robin Wright (New Yorker)
- Trump’s spat with the UK reveals the bottomless depths of his insecurities by Richard Wolffe (Guardian)