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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Appeals Court Orders Enemy Combatant Free by Military — In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration's central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism, a federal appeals court ordered the Pentagon to release a man being held as an enemy combatant.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
President denied authority to detain civilians in U.S. — UPDATE at 3:15 p.m. The Justice Department said on Monday that it will ask the full 12-member Fourth Circuit Court to reconsider en banc the panel decision in Al-Marri v. Wright (Circuit docket 06-7427).
Zinie Chen Sampson / Associated Press:
Court rules in favor of enemy combatant — RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot use new anti-terrorism laws to keep U.S. residents locked up indefinitely without charging them, a divided federal appeals court said Monday. — The ruling was a harsh rebuke of one of the central tools …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Federal Court Rules in Favor of 'Enemy Combatant' — A federal appeals court today ruled that the U.S. government cannot indefinitely imprison a U.S. resident on suspicion alone, and ordered the military to either charge Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri with his alleged terrorist crimes in a civilian court or release him.
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
al-Marri Reactions I — The Hidden Alternative Holding (Surprise …
al-Marri Reactions I — The Hidden Alternative Holding (Surprise …
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al Marri — Big News From the Fourth Circuit
al Marri — Big News From the Fourth Circuit
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Frank Newport / Gallup Poll:
Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution — More Americans accept theory of creationism than evolution — PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Dennis Miller goes nuclear on Harry Reid — The e-mails are flooding in. You want it? You got it. — If Rasmussen's right, this should resonate broadly. — Blowback
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Rasmussen Reports:
Harry Reid's Favorables Fall to 19% — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now viewed favorably by 19% of American voters and unfavorably by 45%. Just 3% have a Very Favorable opinion while 22% hold a Very Unfavorable views. — Reid has been very visible over the past week in the furor over immigration reform.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Vows to Get Immigration Bill Passed — As he heads home from an eight-day European swing to face a hostile Congress, President Bush today lashed out at Democrats for holding a vote of no confidence on his attorney general, and vowed to get his stalled immigration legislation passed, saying, "I'll see you at the bill signing."
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Mudcat / TIME: Swampland:
Go Ahead And Shoot At Me — I woke up this morning and was going to start my stint as a guest correspondent by trying to kick up a dialogue on how my people in rural America are getting screwed into the stone ages. As an inexperienced blogger (I think this is the third time I've posted anything) …
Don Frederick / Los Angeles Times:
New L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll — John McCain's presidential candidacy clearly is struggling, and a just-completed Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll is not going to buoy his camp's spirits. — We won't reveal the exact numbers here; for that, you can check The Times website later today for all the numbers and analysis.
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Richard Rorty, Philosopher, Dies at 75 — Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 75. — The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Mary Varney Rorty.
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Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:
THAAAT'S What We Were All Waiting For? Angry 'Sopranos' Fans Crash HBO Website — The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you're one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don't bother to read on.
Washington Times:
CAIR membership plummets — ONLINE EXCLUSIVE / DEVELOPING: — Membership in the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has declined more than 90 percent since the 2001 terrorist attacks, Audrey Hudson will report in Tuesday's editions of The Washington Times.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to hear crack vs. powder case; issues five unanimous rulings. — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take up at its next Term the long-standing dispute over the wide disparity in punishment for crack cocaine crimes than for offenses involving cocaine powder a 100 to 1 ratio.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Romney's Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny — LOGAN, Utah — In this wide valley where the twin spires of the Mormon temple dominate the landscape and some neighborhoods have a Mormon chapel every few blocks, Mitt Romney's bid for president is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.
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Matt / Think Progress:
Huckabee: 'Most' Prisoners In The U.S. 'Would Love' To Be In Guantanamo — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, calling it "a major problem for America's perception" and charging, "if it was up to me, I would close Guantanamo — not tomorrow, this afternoon."
Howard Berkes / NPR:
Poll: Rural Vote No Longer a Lock for Republicans — · A new national poll indicates rural Americans are no longer reliably Republican, and the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq seems mainly to blame. — People from the nation's smallest places had the biggest impact in the last two presidential elections.
CNN:
Appeal blocks release in teen sex case … ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — A judge on Monday threw out the 10-year sentence against a 21-year-old for a consensual sex encounter he had as a teenager. But the state attorney general quickly filed a notice of appeal, keeping Genarlow Wilson in prison for the time being.
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