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2:00 PM ET, April 18, 2007

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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Backs Ban on Abortion Procedure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.  —  The 5-4 ruling said the Partial …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court upholds federal abortion ban  —  Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a sweeping — and only barely qualified — victory to the federal government and to other opponents of abortion, upholding the 2003 law that banned what are often called "partial-birth abortions."
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
`Partial Birth' Abortion Ban Upheld by Top U.S. Court (Update2)  —  A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on ``partial birth'' abortion, marking a shift on the issue and underscoring the impact of President George W. Bush's two high court appointments.
Washington Post:
Court Backs Ban on Late-Term Abortion Procedure  —  The Supreme Court today narrowly upheld a nationwide ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure, voting for the first time to restrict abortion rights and handing a major victory to President Bush and his social conservative allies.
Discussion: Political Animal
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:   PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN UPHELD, BUT ON NARROW GROUND: The opinions are here.
Bean / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Oh Justice Kennedy, How You Have Failed Us.
Glenn Reynolds / NY Daily News:
People don't stop killers.  People with guns do  —  On Monday, as the news of the Virginia Tech shootings was unfolding, I went into my advanced constitutional law seminar to find one of my students upset.  My student, Tara Wyllie, has a permit to carry a gun in Tennessee, but she isn't allowed to have a weapon on campus.
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New York Times:
Two-Hour Delay Is Linked to Bad Lead  —  The police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student, as the killer of 32 people in the shooting rampage at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, releasing new information on Tuesday about the troubled mind of a young man few people on campus knew.
Jules Crittenden:
Killer Reax  —  People with guns stop killers."  —  Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom: "Nanny-Statism — in its efforts to protect — succeeds only in infantilizing the culture."  —  Harry Reid, rare moment of clarity, warns against a rush to gun control.
James Fallows:
Virginia Tech shooting: one American woman terrifies China  —  It was Tuesday night China time when the authorities in Blacksburg, Virginia, identified the gunman as a young Korean.  For the previous 12 hours, the worst traits in the Chinese media had been brought out by an even-worse lapse by part of the U.S. media.
Discussion: Political Animal
Washington Post:
Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers, But No One Imagined …
Discussion: The Corner and Political Animal
David B. Kopel / Wall Street Journal:   'Gun-Free Zones'  —  The bucolic campus of Virginia Tech …
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos:   Kossack Gun Poll
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Democratic Race Tightens as Views of Clinton Become More Negative  —  Forty-five percent favorable rating one of lowest ever for Clinton  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans have an unfavorable image of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: On Politics
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
For Clinton, Even Presidential Politics Is Local
Discussion: The Caucus and On Politics
Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation blogs:
Who Placed a Secret Hold on Sunlight?  —  Yet again an anonymous Senator has placed a secret hold on legislation that would increase transparency.  This time a secret hold has been placed on a bill, S. 223, that would mandate that Senators file their campaign finance reports electronically.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Associated Press:
N.J. Gov.'s SUV Went 91 Mph Before Crash  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The SUV carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said Tuesday.  —  The governor was critically injured when the vehicle crashed …
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Radley Balko / The Agitator:
Corzine  —  As you might guess, I'm not going to criticize …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Tammy Bruce exposes far-left outlets' hit list on everyone to their right  —  If you're a center-left, centrist, center-right or conservative and you've uttered an opinion in public, chances are far far left loss leaders Media Matters and Air America have a dossier on you.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
No Offense Intended With This Year's Choice of Entertainer, but Still an Outcry  —  After more than 40 years in show business, Rich Little is still a working comedian, doing his well-practiced impersonations from Las Vegas to Granite Falls, Minn. He is even available for corporate retreats and weddings.
 
 
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Amanda / Think Progress:
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
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Michael Agger / Slate:
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Discussion: Blog P.I.
CNN:
Police: Cho taken to mental health center in 2005
Margaret Talev / Real Cities:
White House seeks to review GOP e-mails
Matthew Keenan / Bloomberg:
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