Impeachment
- House Democrats To Begin Amending Impeachment Articles Wednesday Evening by Philip Ewing (NPR)
- Opinion: Impeachment Articles’ Simplicity Is Their Strength by Renato Mariotti (Politico)
- Impeachment live updates: House Judiciary panel poised to debate articles of impeachment against Trump tonight by John Wagner and Elise Viebeck (Washington Post)
- Senate could start Trump impeachment trial in January: McConnell (Al Jazeera)
- White House budget office asserts in new legal memo that delaying Ukraine aid was routine by Rebecca Klar (The Hill)
- White House Budget Office Defends Delay Of Ukraine Aid, Says Such Freezes Are Routine by Dominique Mosbergen (Huffington Post)
- Pence rejects calls to declassify new impeachment testimony by Kyle Cheney, Andrew Desidero (Politico)
- Parties clash as impeachment articles move closer to House vote by Olivia Beavers, Mike Lillis (The Hill)
Judaism
- Trump to target anti-Semitism on US colleges campuses (Al Jazeera)
- President Donald Trump to Sign Executive Order Redefining Judaism as Ethnicity or Nationality by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Trump to sign executive order defining Judaism as a nationality by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
- Trump Signs Order Against Anti-Semitism At Colleges, Worrying Free Speech Advocates by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
- ‘A dangerous move to silence free speech’: Jewish groups react to Trump’s plan to designate Judaism as a nationality by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- American Jews Are Terrified by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- No, the Trump Administration Is Not Redefining Judaism as a Nationality by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
- Trump’s executive order on campus anti-Semitism, explained by Zack Beauchamp, Ian Millhiser (Vox)
Border Wall
- Judge Permanently Blocks Trump From Using Military Funding to Build Border Wall by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Federal Judge Blocks Diversion Of Military Construction Money For Border Wall by Richard Gonzales, Mark Katkov (NPR)
- Judge Permanently Blocks Trump From Using Military Funding to Build Border Wall by Elliot Hannon (Slate)
- Second Federal Judge Blocks Plan To Use Pentagon Funds For Border Wall by Richard Gonzales (NPR)
Barr / DOJ’s IG Report / FBI / Russia / Horowitz
- Trump warns Russia not to meddle in US elections: White House (Al Jazeera)\
- Ex-Ethics Chief Walter Shaub Warns William Barr Will Try To Interfere In 2020 Election by Lee MOran (Huffington Post)
- READ: Horowitz opening statement to Senate panel (The Hill)
- Inspector general says Barr’s handpicked prosecutor failed to convince him FBI was wrong to open Trump campaign investigation by Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, and Karoun Demirjian (Washington Post)
- Horowitz pushes back at Barr over basis for Trump-Russia probe by Josh Gerstein, Natasha Hertrand (Politico)
- Watchdog report a ‘roadmap’ for Russian spooks, intel vets say by Natasha Bertrand (Politico)
- Senate Republicans defend FBI director after Trump lashes out by Marianne Levine, Burgess Everett (Politico)
- DOJ Watchdog Tells Congress FBI’s Russia Probe Marred by ‘Basic and Fundamental Errors’ by Eric Tucker, Mike Balsamo (TIME)
- DOJ’s IG report debunked Trump’s FBI bias claims — but found anti-Hillary texts from FBI agent by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- Ivanka met Trump dossier author Christopher Steele to discuss expanding business into Russia: report by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- DOJ Watchdog Says He’s Still Investigating How FBI Agents Helped Trump in 2016 by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
- Could an independent watchdog’s FBI report banish Trump’s conspiracy theories? No chance by Andrew Feinberg (Independent)
- Trump’s FBI ‘deep state’ conspiracy not backed by evidence, watchdog tells Senate by Alex Woodward (Independent)
- Convicted former Trump aide Rick Gates was offered cash to stonewall Mueller probe: prosecutors by Igor Derysh (Salon)
- Horowitz offers troubling picture of FBI’s Trump campaign probe by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- Horowitz to appear before second Senate panel next week by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
Other News
- Trump blocks UN from scrutinising North Korea human rights record for second year in a row by Kate Ng (Independent)
- Donald Trump Jr. Went to Mongolia, Got Special Treatment From the Government and Killed an Endangered Sheep by JakePearson, AnandTumurtogoo (ProPublica)
- Trump Is Still Going After Lisa Page, This Time With a Lie About a Restraining Order by Tim Marcin (VICE)
- Trump forced to pay $2m over misuse of charity money by Alex Woodward (Independent)
- How Giuliani’s Indicted Pals Tried to Score a Ukrainian Gas Deal at Trump’s DC Hotel by Greg Walters (VICE)
- Trump’s speech in Hershey revealed a presidency off the rails by Aaron Rupar (Vox)
- Trump appears to admit he doesn’t know the Bible ‘very well at all’ by Alex Woodward (Independent)
- House approves $738bn military bill with money for Trump’s Space Force (The Guardian)
- Senate confirms Trump’s 50th circuit judge, despite ‘not qualified’ rating by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
- ICE Increased Deportations Of Family Members And Unaccompanied Minors In 2019 by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman (Huffington Post)
Analysis
- The border ‘emergency’ has faded, but the wall is still going up. Why? by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- 6 takeaways from the Michael Horowitz hearing by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
- Trump promised to eliminate America’s budget deficit. But government spending just pushed the 12-month total past $1 trillion for a 2nd straight month. by Gina Heeb (Business Insider)
- Devin Nunes’ Cow Has a First Amendment Right to Call Rep. Nunes a ‘Treasonous Cowpoke’ by Brian Hauss (ACLU.org)