Juan Cole | A Crisis of Democracy: Trump's Block of Dem Response to Nunes





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Juan Cole | A Crisis of Democracy: Trump's Block of Dem Response to Nunes 
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) speaks with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House following a meeting with President Trump on March 22. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP) 
Juan Cole, Informed Comment 
Cole writes: "There is a problem with our declining democracy in the United States: classified documents are inherently undemocratic and should be rare." 
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Mark Joseph Stern | How to Kill Partisan Gerrymandering 
Mark Joseph Stern, Slate 
Stern writes: "The Pennsylvania Supreme Court just gave state courts a blueprint to strike down political redistricting." 
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Judges Across US Are Halting Trump's Mass Deportations and Ruling Immigrants Have Due Process Rights 
Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "A federal judge temporarily stayed the deportation order for New Sanctuary Coalition executive director Ravi Ragbir on Friday, only one day before he was scheduled to be deported. He's one of a growing number of immigrants whose scheduled deportations - both individual or en masse - have been halted by federal judges in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan and Florida." 
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Trump Proposes Eliminating Federal Funding for PBS, NPR 
Joe Concha, The Hill 
Concha writes: "President Trump's newly proposed budget includes a proposal to end federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), part of a package that includes $300 billion in new spending overall." 
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Nazis in Your Neighborhood: New Website Tracks Neo-Nazis in the US 
Patrick Strickland, Al Jazeera 
Strickland writes: "A new anti-fascist website tracks the location and activities of people affiliated with Daily Stormer, one of the largest neo-Nazi websites in the United States." 
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Egypt and Dissidence: A Revolution of the Mind 
Elle Kurancid and Mostafa Bossim, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "Seven years after Hosni Mubarak was forced from office, Egypt is in the middle of an ugly counterrevolution. Here are the voices of its victims." 
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Is Trump's EPA Chief Bluffing? Or Will He Gut California's Tough Emissions Standards? 
Stuart Leavenworth, McClatchy DC 
Leavenworth writes: "California officials and clean air advocates are increasingly concerned the Trump administration may attempt to unravel a key program to drive down greenhouse gas emissions from automobile fleets while also jeopardizing the ability of California and other states to set pollution standards stronger than federal rules." 
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