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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors — Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled today that it is no longer automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on setting minimum retail prices. — The decision will give producers …
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New York Times:
Resegregation Now — The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation's schools to integrate. Yesterday, the court switched sides and told two cities that they cannot take modest steps …
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Reject Diversity Plans in Two Districts — In a decision of sweeping importance to educators, parents and schoolchildren across the country, the Supreme Court today sharply limited the ability of school districts to manage the racial makeup of the student bodies in their schools.
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Court Limits Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Schools
Court Limits Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Schools
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Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court strikes down school integration policies
Supreme Court strikes down school integration policies
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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan" — Boy, it looks like the pressure from Elizabeth Edwards is really getting to Ann Coulter. Seems to be really rattling her badly. Give this a watch, from MSNBC this morning: — Woah. — Incidentally, the Coulter column …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Fairness Doctrine hammered 309-115 — The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
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Michelle Malkin:
Fairness Doctrine Watch: Pence on the House floor...amendment accepted...Rep. Obey derides talk radio and "yap-yap TV;" "Let right-wing talk radio go on just as it is now. Rush and Sean are just about as important in the scheme of things as Paris Hilton." Update: Amendment passes!
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi, Reid plan new push to end war — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads? Update: WSJ issues correction — It's come to this, my friends. Having been routed this morning on the Senate floor, the open-borders shills at the WSJ turn, as they must, to vengeful, vintage-nutroots conspiracy smears.
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The Raw Story:
'I assume Cheney will get a Katrina trailer,' Republican mocks — A group of Democrats made their case Thursday afternoon to cut all funding for the executive branch office of Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives. The move prompted a Republican Congressman …
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
BROWNBACK'S VOTE SWITCH — From NBC's Carrie Dann — GOP presidential hopeful Sam Brownback was very nervous for 11 minutes this morning. That's the time that elapsed between his initial "Aye" vote for cloture on the Senate's immigration bill today — essentially an expression of support …
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Jim Romenesko / Poynter Online:
Why WSJ reporters didn't show up for work Thursday — A statement from Wall Street Journal reporters: — Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning. — We did so for two reasons. — First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence …
Media Matters for America:
Smiley confirms that Luntz — and only Luntz — will provide analysis of PBS' Democratic presidential forum — On the June 28 edition of New York Public Radio station WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, PBS host Tavis Smiley, who was scheduled to moderate a Democratic presidential forum later that day …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low — NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around. President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president's job performance.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Immigration Bill Dies in Senate — Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left — The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise …