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1:15 AM ET, June 29, 2007

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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.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court strikes down school integration plans, ends Term  —  UPDATED to 11 a.m.  —  Concluding its current Term with a historic ruling on race in public policy, the Supreme Court divided 5-4 on Thursday in striking down voluntary integration plans in the public schools of Seattle and Louisville.
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked
Discussion: TalkLeft
Bill Schneider / CNN:   Rulings reflect Bush's conservative stamp on high court
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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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John Edwards responds....
Discussion: MSNBC and The Impolitic
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Press Release by C&L concerning Brent Bozell's attack on Elizabeth Edwards
Discussion: The Radio Equalizer and The Fix
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 …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House votes to ban FCC on 'fairness'  —  The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday 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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Washington Post:
President Asserts Executive Privilege  —  The White House invoked executive privilege yesterday in withholding subpoenaed documents on fired U.S. attorneys out of confidence that it can prevail in court and weather a political storm by blaming Congress for overreaching, administration officials said yesterday.
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Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents
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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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.
Michelle Malkin:
A new attack ad: Meet Senator Switchback  —  Bryan and I cooked up another Kaus-inspired shamnesty Hot Air ad just for Senator Switchback.  Thanks to Allahpundit for clipping the switchback moments that will live in infamy.  Enjoy:  —  Script:
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads?
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 …
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.
The Politico:
Around the filter Mitt goes  —  Hillary has her Hub and now Mitt has his MittTV.  —  This is what Ben Smith wrote in describing Clinton's efforts to get out her message via her own internal news, well, hub: … Romney is taking similar, if for now less ambitious, steps with his own internal video network.
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini
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 …
 
 
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington?
Discussion: alicublog and TBogg
BBC:
Cynon Valley soldier killed in Iraq
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Fred File:
A Good Day
Discussion: IMAO, Instapundit.com and Hot Air
Atrios / Eschaton:
Friedman Forever
Discussion: Time and WorkingForChange
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Imagines Cuba After Castro's Death
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
Fox Poll: More Americans Trust Dems to Handle World War III Against Islamofascists!
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
BROWNBACK'S VOTE SWITCH
Discussion: TIME
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Europe's Beleaguered Drug Companies
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and The RBC
Paul Kane / Capitol Briefing:
Defiant Byrd, 89, Says He Will Continue To Serve
National Review:
Today in History  —  Today's defeat of the Senate amnesty bill …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
HillaryClinton.com:
A Strong Second Quarter
Discussion: MSNBC and MyDD