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3:25 PM ET, June 28, 2006

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Associated Press:
Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay but threw out part, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Decisions: No ruling on Hamdan; partisan gerrymander claim rejected  —  (NOTE: The Chief Justice announced that the Court will issue remaining decisions in the Term at 10 a.m. Thursday.  The two still-undecided cases are the war crimes tribunal case (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) …
Rick Hasen / Election Law:
INITIAL THOUGHTS ON THE TEXAS REDISTRICTING CASE
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
Aussie Dave / Israellycool:
Operation Summer Rains  —  Before dawn today, IDF tanks and troops went into Gaza.  Their mission is clear: to secure the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit.  As National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told Israel Radio: … According to an army source …
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Ibrahim Barzak / Associated Press:
Israelis keep pressure on Palestinians  —  RAFAH, Gaza Strip - Israel turned up the pressure on Palestinian militants to release a captive soldier Wednesday, sending its warplanes to bomb a Hamas training camp after knocking out electricity and water supplies for most of the 1.3 million residents of the Gaza Strip.
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF captures airstrip, gains foothold east of Rafah  —  Israeli fighter jets struck the northern Gaza Strip around 2 p.m. Wednesday, firing missiles at open areas.  The strike is part of the army's "pressure pot" tactic, meant to turn up pressure on Gaza by placement of troops and weapons fire with a minimum of casualties.
New York Times:
Israeli Troops Enter Gaza; Bridges Are Hit
Discussion: QandO, PoliBlog and FP Passport
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Piling On the New York Times With a Scoop  —  Story on Secret Program Further Rouses Critics  —  President Bush calls the conduct of the New York Times "disgraceful."  Vice President Cheney objects to the paper having won a Pulitzer Prize.  A Republican congressman wants the Times prosecuted.
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Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Terrorist funds-tracking no secret, some say  —  Cite White House boasts of tighter monitoring system  —  WASHINGTON — News reports disclosing the Bush administration's use of a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing spurred outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill …
The Hill:
GOP bill targets NY Times
David Espo / Associated Press:
Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people," and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans.
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Bush's Use of Authority Riles Senator  —  WASHINGTON, June 27 — Senators on the Judiciary Committee accused President Bush of an "unprecedented" and "astonishing" power grab on Tuesday for making use of a device that gave him the authority to revise or ignore more than 750 laws enacted since he became president.
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Charlie Savage / Boston Globe:
Senator considers suit over Bush law challenge
CNN:
Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes  —  Grassley: 'It's a no-brainer to have the IRS go after sex traffickers'  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa is hoping to stamp out the sex trade by taxing pimps and prostitutes, then jailing them when they don't pay.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment  —  The Senate rejected by a single vote yesterday an effort to amend the Constitution to allow Congress to ban desecration of the American flag, after a two-day debate freighted with political calculations and sharp disputes over the limits of free speech.
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Porkbusters:
we need to stop this... now  —  Guest Contributor: Sen. John McCain  —  Last week I had the honor of speaking to a group of my fellow Republicans at the presidential library of one of my heroes — President Ronald Reagan.  —  When I was first elected to Congress, I was one of many newly elected members …
Brock Vergakis / Associated Press:
U.S. Rep. Cannon wins Republican primary  —  SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Rep. Chris Cannon (news, bio, voting record) said his solid victory in Utah's Republican primary is good news for President Bush and those seeking a consensus on immigration policy this year.
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Tom Ferrick Jr. / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Indiana Jones?  No, it's Weldon  —  It's a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie - or an Indiana Jones parody:  —  A caravan of jeeps and heavy equipment crawls across the Iraqi desert, headed for a secret location on the banks of the Euphrates River.  —  Their mission: to dig 25 feet …
 
 
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USA Today:
Poll show Americans keeping an eye on Congress
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Dean: 'We're About to Enter the '60s Again'
Ezra HaLevi / Arutz Sheva:
Fatah Group Announces it Kidnapped 62-Year-Old Israeli
Josh Trevino / Enchiridion Militis · Culture …:
The enemy within.  —  [T]he true cause of our imminent danger …
Discussion: alicublog
Washington Post:
Poll Shows Ehrlich Lagging As He Opens Reelection Run
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
The Court's Remaining Opinions
Discussion: OrinKerr.com
Robert Pear / New York Times:
New Rules Force States to Curb Welfare Rolls
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Bush Calls on Senate to Pass Line-Item Veto
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
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A Single Person Could Swing an Election
Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush jogs with wounded soldier
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Democrats vow to block pay raises until minimum wage increased
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

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