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A federal appeals court handed President Trump a legal victory Tuesday when it ruled against labor unions representing government workers in their fight with the administration over workplace rules.

The unanimous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed a district court ruling last year that struck down key aspects of three executive orders. The provisions in question curtailed civil service protections and made it easier for employers to fire workers and weaken their union representation.

More than a dozen unions representing federal employees challenged the executive orders, which impact roughly 2.1 million civil servants, arguing they violated a 1978 law on collective bargaining.

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Less than two months after former special counsel Robert Mueller announced the end of his high-profile investigation of foreign influence on the Trump presidential campaign, his office’s work is facing one of its most notable courtroom tests as a former business partner of Gen. Michael Flynn fights foreign-agent-related charges stemming from Mueller’s probe.

Jury selection opened Monday morning in federal court in Alexandria, Va., for Bijan Rafiekian, an Iranian-American businessman facing two felony charges connected to a short-lived lobbying and public-relations campaign Flynn and Rafiekian undertook in 2016 that targeted a dissident Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania, Fethullah Gulen.

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North Carolina’s state legislative districts were unconstitutionally gerrymandered to entrench Republicans in power and must be thrown out, a lawyer for state Democrats and a good-government advocacy group told a panel of judges on Monday.

“Republicans in the General Assembly have manipulated the district lines to guarantee that their party will control both the state House and the state Senate, regardless of how people vote,” attorney R. Stanton Jones said as a civil trial began in state Superior Court in Raleigh. “This attack on representative democracy and voting rights is fundamentally unfair.”

But a lawyer for Republican legislative leaders, Phillip Strach, said the plaintiffs were seeking to use “judicial fiat” to sidestep the electoral and legislative processes.

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Donald Trump keeps trying to convince any disbelieving holdouts that he is a raging racist. At least, that’s how I imagine his motives. In truth, it is more likely that his truest nature is simply being revealed, again and again, and he is using his own racism to appeal to the racism in the people who support him.

On Sunday morning, the same day that the Trump administration earlier announced it would conduct raids to round up undocumented immigrants, Trump weighed in again on the conflict between four female freshmen congresswomen and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, tweeting a series of three of the most racist tweets he could produce:

So interesting to see “Progressive” Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly ...

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The Trump administration moved Monday to prevent most migrants from claiming political asylum in the United States, requiring them to make their claims in other countries first.

A new proposed rule will almost certainly be challenged in court. Previous administration attempts to restrict asylum claims have been struck down.

The current proposal "will decrease forum shopping by economic migrants and those who seek to exploit our asylum system to obtain entry to the United States," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement.