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Top CNS stories for today including a group of 58 former national security officials issued a statement saying there is no factual basis for President Donald Trump’s invocation of emergency powers to build a wall along the southern border; A former campaign worker for President Trump filed a federal lawsuit claiming he kissed her without her consent before a 2016 campaign rally in Florida; The International Court of Justice held that the United Kingdom’s Cold War move to separate a collection of atolls from the rest of Mauritius was unlawful, and more.

/ February 25, 2019

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Top CNS stories for today including a group of 58 former national security officials issued a statement saying there is no factual basis for President Donald Trump’s invocation of emergency powers to build a wall along the southern border; A former campaign worker for President Trump filed a federal lawsuit claiming he kissed her without her consent before a 2016 campaign rally in Florida; The International Court of Justice held that the United Kingdom’s Cold War move to separate a collection of atolls from the rest of Mauritius was unlawful, and more.

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National

In this Jan. 9, 2019, file photo, a woman walks on the beach next to a border wall topped with razor wire in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

1.) A group of 58 former national security officials issued a statement Monday saying there is no factual basis for President Donald Trump’s invocation of emergency powers to build a wall along the southern border, a day before the House of Representatives is expected to vote to terminate the declaration.

In this Aug. 24, 2016 photo, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump meets with supporters before a rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa. Alva Johnson, who can be seen in the background of this photo on the left wearing a Trump shirt and a hat, claims Trump kissed her without consent in the pictured RV. (Loren Elliott/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

2.) A former campaign worker for President Donald Trump filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming he kissed her without her consent before a 2016 campaign rally in Florida.

U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt listens to Sept. 8, 2014, arguments in San Francisco on gay marriage bans. Judge Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, has died in Los Angeles. He was 87. Court spokesman David Madden says Reinhardt died on March 29, 2018, of a heart attack during a visit to a dermatologist. Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Sidney Thomas called Reinhardt a deeply principled jurist who will be remembered as one of the giants of the federal bench. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, Pool, File)

3.) Noting that “federal judges are appointed for life, not for eternity,” the Supreme Court vacated an opinion Monday where the Ninth Circuit counted the vote of U.S. Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt after his death. 

4.) In a scorching sentencing memo that describes Paul Manafort as an unrepentant serial liar who “presents a grave risk of recidivism,” Special Counsel Robert Mueller told a federal judge that he sees no reason to tread lightly on President Trump’s former campaign chairman.

Regional

Secretary of State David Whitley, left, testifies at his confirmation hearing, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019, in Austin, Texas, where he addressed the backlash surrounding Texas' efforts to find noncitizen voters on voter rolls. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

5.) The confirmation of Texas’ interim election chief appears doomed as all 12 Democrats in the Texas Senate will vote against him due to the embarrassing release of a flawed voter fraud list that resulted in three civil rights lawsuits and accusations of voter suppression.

The Chicago skyline.

6.) Just a day before the election, the Chicago mayor’s race is a toss-up, with no dominant candidate leading the 14-person pack and the scent of corruption trailing the establishment candidates.

(AP Photo)

7.) Votes counted over the weekend showed 97 percent of Denver Classroom Teachers Association members support the contract reached with the school district in which the average teacher will see an 11.7 percent raise.

International

8.) In its first advisory opinion in seven years, the International Court of Justice held Monday that the United Kingdom’s Cold War move to separate a collection of atolls from the rest of Mauritius was “unlawful.”

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