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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 ruled Monday.  —  "To sanction such presidential authority to order …
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.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
President denied authority to detain civilians in U.S.  —  The Fourth Circuit Court, in a 2-1 ruling on Monday, declared that President Bush did not have the authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain a civilian who was taken from his home in Peoria …
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Retrocessive Intellectual Evolution
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.
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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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 …
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.
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Richard Rorty, 75; Leading U.S. Pragmatist Philosopher  —  Richard Rorty, 75, an intellectual whose often deeply unconventional approach to mainstream philosophic thought brought him wide public recognition as one of the leading thinkers of his era, died June 8 at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He had pancreatic cancer.
Discussion: The Huffington Post and normblog
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Richard Rorty, Philosopher, Dies at 75
Discussion: Power Line and Greg Mankiw's Blog
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.
Byron York / National Review:
The No-Confidence-in-Gonzales Vote  —  The Republican leadership in the Senate is confident it can win a planned preliminary vote on a resolution expressing no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.  A vote is scheduled later today on a Democratic attempt to end debate and move on to a vote on the resolution.
Discussion: Brian Beutler
Ian Traynor / Guardian:
Wealth gap grows across EU  —  From Antwerp to Milan, rich regions begin to resent continent's subsidy culture  —  A convinced "European" at ease in the globalised world of internet banking, Mark has just returned from Budapest and Bratislava and is preparing to travel to Prague.
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 …
 
 
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