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8:50 PM ET, April 3, 2006

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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Padilla Case  —  Bush Stance on Enemy Combatants to Remain Unchallenged  —  A divided Supreme Court handed the Bush administration a significant victory today when it decided not to review, for now, the federal government's powers to detain U.S. citizens as enemy combatants.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal  —  The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an "enemy combatant."  The Court, however, declined to dismiss the case as moot, as the Bush Administration had urged.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Anthony Kennedy Is Ready for His Close-Up
Discussion: Althouse
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Capitol police ask for arrest warrant for McKinney  —  Black leaders say McKinney victim of racial profiling  —  WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney for her role in a scuffle with a police officer last week, the prosecutor's office confirmed.
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Dwight Meredith / Wampum:
2005 Koufax Awards —The Winners  —  I apologize for the delay in posting the winners.  We had a big turn out both in comments and in emails and a number of the categories had excruciatingly close races (one category had an exact tie, more on that below).  The voting was roughly evenly split between comments and email.
New York Times:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible for Execution  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 3 — A federal jury found today that Zacarias Moussaoui was responsible for at least some of the deaths that occurred in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, meaning that he could be subject to the death penalty.
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Washington Post:
Jury Finds Moussaoui Eligible to Die  —  A federal jury today found Zacarias Moussaoui eligible to die for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, concluding that Moussaoui's lies to federal agents paved the way for the deadliest terrorist strike in U.S. history.
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and News Hounds
Fred Hiatt:
Democrats' Narrow Vision  —  You can look at the Democrats' national security plan, released last week, as simply a political shield, akin to the upgraded body armor they promise for U.S. troops.  —  The party remains traumatized by the failure of biography to protect Vietnam veterans Max Cleland …
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Greg Sargent / TAPPED:   HIATT TARS DEMS.  Fred Hiatt's Washington Post column today slams …
Reuel Marc Gerecht / Opinion Journal:
Can the Shiite Center Hold?  —  The unanticipated consequences of "Iraqification."  —  The Shiites of Iraq who want representative government, and who look to the resolutely moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani for religious and political guidance, have endured Baathists, Sunni supremacists and holy warriors.
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
U.S. Announces Deaths of 9 American Troops
Discussion: american footprints
Jamie Mobley / story.seguingazette.com:
UT professor says death is imminent  —  AUSTIN — A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.  —  Â"Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,Â" Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. EdwardÂ's University on Friday.
Suzanne Malveaux / CNN:
White House shake-up to continue?  —  Sources: Press spokesman, treasury chief may be next  —  CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) — Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Prosecution of Midwife Casts Light on Home Births  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 29 — Angela Hendrix-Petry gave birth to her daughter Chloe by candlelight in her bedroom here in the early morning of March 12, with a thunderstorm raging outside and her family and midwife huddled around her.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Frist Is Treading a Perilous Path Leading to 2008  —  WASHINGTON, April 2 — History does not bode well for Bill Frist, and he knows it.  —  "Coming into this job, everybody said if you, in your future, ever want to consider running for president of the United States, people said, 'Do not do it …
Media Matters for America:
Limbaugh called alleged Duke rape victim a "ho[ ]" … During the March 31 broadcast of his national syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh referred to the alleged victim of a rape by members of the Duke University lacrosse team as a "ho[]."  During an on-air discussion with a caller …
MSNBC:
Transcript for April 2  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issue this Sunday: He ran for president in 2000 as the anti-Bush.  —  (Videotape):  —  SEN. JOHN McCAIN, (R-Ariz.): Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.  —  MR. RUSSERT: He has now become one of the president's closest allies.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Gadfly With Buzz  —  MSNBC's Olbermann, Exercising the Right  —  Night after night, President Bush is being kicked, punched, slapped, poked, stomped and otherwise disrespected in one small corner of the cable television world.  —  And Keith Olbermann doesn't deny it has been good for ratings.
Discussion: UNCoRRELATED and State of the Day
Ryan Lizza / New York Magazine:
The Bush-Cheney Era Ends Here  —  If Chuck Schumer can make his dream of a Democratic-controlled senate come true.  —  D  —  emocrats have a dream.  They dream that they will wake up on November 8 and that West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, the 88-year-old antiwar firebrand …
 
 
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