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From The Reporter’s Notebook
As TPM’s Tierney Sneed reported, the Supreme Court’s tie vote on its major immigration case was a blow to the Obama administration, but likely not the last legal battle over the case. The district judge who placed the original injunction on Obama’s immigration actions that SCOTUS let stand Thursday has another hearing on the case scheduled for August 22. “It may be that he decides he want to move forward” with a full hearing on the merits, said Nina Perales, a MALDEF lawyer representing undocumented mothers who have intervened in the case. “I am not sure what August 22 is going to look like, I don’t know if he will have the case back by then, and yes the question of what’s going to be done with the information about the 2012 DACA recipients,” she said, referring to the judge’s order that he be provided the contact info of 10,000 undocumented immigrants, an order her team has appealed.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “The UK is no longer a great power. It is at severe disadvantages not being part of one of the very small number of global trading blocs or free trade zones. (The US is the only country with a large enough economy to function in effect as one of the global free trade zones.) What’s more, Britain already partakes of a totally on its own terms, a la carte EU. It has already kept out of the Euro and Schengen Agreement (intra-EU open borders), which has become so controversial both in terms of immigration and counter-terrorism. In other words, the big things that I could see the UK wanting out of it’s not even in.”
Say What?!
“He didn’t know what to do and he was getting kind of desperate.”
– Ben Carson, a Trump surrogate, took a new approach to defending Trump’s attacks on Hillary Clinton’s religious faith.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Now Bernie says ‘it doesn’t appear I’m going to be the nominee’ and I just have no idea what to think is going on. On one hand, since California, he’s stopped attacking Clinton, been more generally positive about the Democratic party, and seems more constructive in his efforts. Obviously he still has things he’s upset about, that I believe would be better let go of, but I understand it’s a tough process running for President, and Bernie has strong convictions, so I get the time to let things go. But saying it just appears he’s not going to be the nominee, when that has been clear since March 15th to most people, and really super clear after April 23rd, just leaves me stupefied. Who has been advising him?”
Related: Sanders says that he’ll vote for Clinton in November but still isn’t ready to drop out.
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What We’re Reading
Four months as a private prison guard. (Mother Jones)
An interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates. (Playboy)
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