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Howard Bashman / How Appealing:
BREAKING NEWS — Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights: You can access today's lengthy D.C. Circuit ruling at this link. — According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people …
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
TIMETABLE ON SUPREME COURT REVIEW OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT CASE, AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Say that the D.C. Circuit decides not to rehear the case en banc; that probably means the en banc petition will be denied within several months. Assume that it's denied by late June …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
D.C. CIRCUIT STRIKES DOWN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GUN CONTROL LAW as a violation of the Second Amendment, adopts individual rights view. Howard Bashman has more, and the opinion is here. This is a very important development. — Some additional background on the Second Amendment can be found here, here and here.
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Cary O'Reilly / Bloomberg:
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down D.C. Handgun Ban (Update2) — A U.S. appeals court struck down a three-decade-old District of Columbia law that bans residents from keeping a handgun in their homes, saying the Constitution's Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy: D.C. CIRCUIT ACCEPTS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS VIEW OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The FBI's lawbreaking is tied directly to President Bush — Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain …
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New York Times:U.S. Report to Fault F.B.I. on Subpoenas
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John Solomon / Washington Post:Lawmakers Vow Hearings on FBI Errors
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Brian / TVNewser:
RTNDF 1st Amendment Awards: Transcript Of Roger Ailes' Acceptance Speech — Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes accepted the RTNDF's 2007 First Amendment Leadership Award tonight. In a wide-ranging speech, he thanked reporters like Steve Centanni who "faced death for a single reason — they're journalists."
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Hugh Jackson / Joomla! powered Site:Reid: "I had nothing to do with choosing FOX"
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Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Insurgent leader nabbed in Iraq raid — BAGHDAD - The leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq was captured Friday in a raid west of Baghdad — his identity revealed by a fellow insurgent detained with him, an Iraqi military spokesman said. — Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was captured …
The Hill:
Obey berates woman over war funding, later apologizes — House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) berated a woman who approached him in a Congressional corridor, claiming that "idiot liberals" don't understand the war supplemental spending bill process.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Another Hollywood star steps forward for GOP — Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).
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Shane Harris / National Journal:
Rolling Back Pentagon Spies — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering a plan to curtail the Pentagon's clandestine spying activities, which were expanded by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, after the 9/11 attacks. The undercover work allowed military personnel to collect intelligence …
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Fred Langan / Telegraph:
Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up' — Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study. — A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed …
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David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules — The Internal Revenue Service is asking tax lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes to take the lead in writing some of its new tax rules. — The pilot project represents a further expansion of the increasingly common …
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