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Robert Reich | The Trump Takeover of the Courts

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Reich writes: "Trump's most lasting legacy might be his impact on the federal court system. It must be stopped."
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Recently arrived migrant families rest at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty)

ALSO SEE: Detained Immigrants Are Being Held in Cells for 22 Hours a Day in Federal Prisons

Members of Congress Are Worried the Administration Won't Be Able to Reunite Separated Families
Lissandra Villa, BuzzFeed
Villa writes: "Members of Congress are worried that the administration has no plan to reunite the children separated from their parents at the border."
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The Supreme Court rules police need warrants to gather phone location data as evidence for trials. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)

ALSO SEE: Defending Privacy, Supreme Court Says Warrants Generally Are Necessary to Collect Cell Phone Data

In Major Privacy Win, Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone
Nina Totenberg, NPR
Totenberg writes: "In a major win for privacy rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that police must obtain a search warrant in order to get access to cellphone location information."
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Zak Ringelstein, Democratic candidate for U.S. senator from Maine, tried to deliver toys and books children being held in detention in McAllen, Texas, on Friday before he was arrested. (photo: Zak Ringelstein)

ALSO SEE: Protesters Gather Outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's Home

Democratic Senate Candidate Arrested at Texas Detention Center While Trying to Deliver Toys and Food
Gideon Resnick, The Daily Beast
Resnick writes: "Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas."
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President Nixon and President Trump. (photo: Getty)

There's Nearly a Nixon '74 Level of Public Support for Impeaching Trump
Z. Byron Wolf, CNN
Wolf writes: "42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office."
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CODECA demands justice for the murder of Luis Arturo Marroquín, defender of Guatemalan rights. (photo: @GtCodeca)

Terror and Murder in Guatemala
Simon Granovsky-Larsen, NACLA
Granovsky-Larsen writes: "In the course of less than a month, seven campesino-Indigenous activists were murdered. What explains the onslaught?"
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A U.S. Geological Survey geologist inspects a recent lava flow from a Kilauea volcano fissure on Hawaii's Big Island on May 19, 2018, in Kapoho, Hawaii. (photo: Mario Tama/Getty)

Trump Administration Is Suppressing Media Access of Government Scientists
Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
Lin writes: "A new directive from the Trump administration instructs federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey to get approval from its parent agency before agreeing to most interview requests from reporters, according to employees and emails from officials with the Department of the Interior and USGS."
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