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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.
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Think Progress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Strikes Down Public School Desegregation Law — In the "biggest school desegregation ruling in more than a decade," the Supreme Court today ruled 5-4 to reject public school assignment plans "that take account of students' race." The AP reports:
Jason Harrow / SCOTUSblog:LiveBlog Of The Final Opinion Day - 10 AM Eastern
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Sidney Blumenthal / Salon:
The imperial vice presidency — New details about his secret mission to expand the power of the president show that Cheney, at the end of his career, refuses to loosen his grip. — Vice President Cheney speaks about the war in Iraq on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 24, 2007.
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Bruce Fein / Slate:
Impeach Cheney — THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS RUN UTTERLY AMOK AND MUST BE STOPPED. — Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak. In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability …
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:White House Drops Vice President's Dual-Role Argument as Moot
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Corrente, The Carpetbagger Report, Shakespeare's Sister, TPMmuckraker and TIME: Swampland
Scott Horton / Harper's:Cheney and the National Security Secrets Fraud
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The Moderate Voice
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush won't supply subpoenaed documents — WASHINGTON - President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
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James Risen / New York Times:
White House Is Subpoenaed on Wiretapping — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the Justice Department after what the panel's chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate …
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts — $2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million — The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.
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Heading Right, Captain's Quarters, The Next Hurrah, Norwegianity, Prairie Weather, On Deadline and Donklephant
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
House members seek $4,400 pay raise — WASHINGTON - Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.
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Ron Hutcheson / MiamiHerald.com:
'Black vote split' between Clinton, Obama — Though all Democratic candidates at tonight's debate will be looking for a share of the black vote, the spotlight is on the two favorites: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. — rhutcheson@mcclatchydc.com — WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates …
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Hal R. Varian / New York Times:
An iPod Has Global Value. Ask the (Many) Countries That Make It. — Who makes the Apple iPod? Here's a hint: It is not Apple. The company outsources the entire manufacture of the device to a number of Asian enterprises, among them Asustek, Inventec Appliances and Foxconn.
Robert M. Dunn Jr / TCS Daily:
How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself — As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration's reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Illegals bill loses support in Senate — The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog:
NBC's David Gregory thinks we just need to "strip away" Ann Coulter's inflammatory rhetoric to listen to her points — Not kidding. According to NBC's David Gregory we're all missing the very important points that Ann Coulter makes because we get caught up in her hate speech.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Immigration Bill Prompts Some Menacing Responses — The threat came in the weekend mail. — The recipient was Senator Mel Martinez, Republican of Florida, who has been a leading advocate of the proposed legislation for changing the immigration system. His offices in Washington …
Patrick O'Connor / The Politico:
Bush facing GOP mutiny over immigration — The bitter fight over a comprehensive immigration overhaul has pushed President Bush and his fellow Republicans to the brink of divorce — and, for the first time, the opportunities for reconciliation appear severely limited.
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USA Today:
Bloomberg: Neither party 'stands for anything' — NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who became an independent last week, showed his non-partisan colors Wednesday by criticizing both political parties. — Bloomberg, who left the GOP and is asked almost daily about running for president …
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