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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: What Happened in the Room

A secretive organization spending millions on Facebook political ads, the Trump tell-all that wasn’t, immigration courts, and more
Source: Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters

What We’re Following

On the Court: Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been quietly reshaping U.S. immigration courts, showing a hiring preference for judges with certain backgrounds and pushing them to hear more cases. And as the nation’s highest court moves on from a divisive confirmation process, here are several ideas for reforming that system.

, and now a mere three weeks out from the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, we still don’t know much about where this big spender came from

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