memeorandum: Court rules in favor of enemy combatant (Zinie Chen Sampson/Associated Press)

2:25 PM ET, June 11, 2007

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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

Discussion: BLACKFIVE

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.

Zinie Chen Sampson / Associated Press:

Court rules in favor of enemy combatant — RICHMOND, Va. - The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. — "To sanction such presidential authority to order …

Discussion: Balkinization and The Anonymous Liberal

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Kiko's House and The Mahablog

Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:

Standing by the Wrong Guy — Just when it seemed George W. Bush's sinking prestige with his Republican base had bottomed out, his stock hit new lows. The president's seeming indifference to the sentencing of Scooter Libby was bad enough. But it coincided with Bush's apparent determination …

Discussion: The Caucus, Captain's Quarters, Los Angeles Times, DownWithTyranny!, Middle Earth Journal, Connecting.the.Dots, New Pairodimes and Brian Beutler

Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Bush Calls Vote on Attorney General `Meaningless' (Update1)

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Post and Michael P.F. van der Galiën

Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Democrats to Push Vote on Gonzales

Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Firedoglake and Macsmind

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.

Discussion: The Newshoggers, The Moderate Voice, The Carpetbagger Report, Vox Popoli and Amygdala

Washington Post:

Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling — U.S.-Backed Group Has Fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq — A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, The Strata-Sphere, Abu Aardvark, Jules Crittenden, The Mahablog and Watching Those We Chose

Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Tensions Within the Sunni Coalition Against al-Qaeda

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Atlantic Online and Brian Beutler

New York Times:
U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, The Carpetbagger Report, Think Progress, Counterterrorism Blog, The Reaction, Booman Tribune, Norwegianity, BuzzFlash.org, Comments From Left Field, KnoxViews, Blognonymous, politburo diktat 2.0, Brilliant at Breakfast, Outside The Beltway, Jihad Watch, The Heretik and BlueGrassRoots

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.

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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:

The Party of Economic Seriousness — The collapse of the immigration bill last week holds a political lesson. It isn't just Democrats who flunk Globalization 101. Indeed, Democrats may be supplanting Republicans as the grown-ups on this issue. — Anyone who understands Globalization 101 knows …

Discussion: Ezra Klein and Eschaton

Don Frederick / Los Angeles Times:
New L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll

Discussion: Associated Press

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."

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, My Two Sense, WorkingForChange, Confederate Yankee, Michael P.F. van der Galiën and Blognonymous

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, Burnt Orange Report and Daily Kos

Noam Cohen / New York Times:

Libby's Supporters Who Wrote to Judge Learn That Letters Take on New Life on the Web — In what may be a sign of things to come, the lawyers for I. Lewis Libby Jr. last month invoked the rarely used courtroom tactic: the "bloggers can be mean" defense. — The issue was whether to release …

Discussion: Washington Post, Crooks and Liars, CJR and Althouse

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.

Discussion: ACSBlog and Sentencing Law and Policy

ABCNEWS:

EXCLUSIVE: Hilton Calls Barbara Walters from Jail — She 'Was Severely Depressed and Felt as if I Was in a Cage,' but now Has 'New Chance' — In jail serving out the remainder of her sentence for violating parole on reckless driving charges, Paris Hilton phoned ABC News' Barbara Walters Sunday …

Discussion: Hot Air, Althouse and PerezHilton.com