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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 …
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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.
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Cheney and the National Security Secrets Fraud — Aristotle, writing in his Politics, spends a good bit of papyrus on the question of tyranny. What exactly makes a leader a tyrant, he asks. And right at the core of that discussion, he comes to the role of secrets.
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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 …
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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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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.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court strikes down school integration plans — 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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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Nearly 250,000 open wallets for Obama — WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has improved on his stunning support in the race for campaign cash, raising his total number of donors to nearly 250,000 people in the first six months of the year.
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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 …
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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Lois Romano / Washington Post:
House Grudgingly Accepts a Pay Raise, as Usual — Democrats have for weeks been privately wringing their hands over whether to accept an automatic 2.5 percent pay increase, fretting that the raise may appear inconsistent with their campaign promises. — But last night, the House made its peace …
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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.
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Today's Must Read — No other agency in the government has as much power over the lives of citizens as the Justice Department. That's what has made the U.S. attorney firings scandal so urgent. — And time and time again, the scandal has provided dispiriting glimpses …
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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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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.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Immigration Stance Is Costly for McCain — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is not wavering on immigration. This week, he continued to stand firm with President Bush in seeking a Senate compromise on the issue in the face of intense opposition from core activists in the Republican Party.
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Day of Campaigning for a G.O.P. Noncandidate — Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee delivered a pep talk to his fellow Republicans here Wednesday, reminding voters in this early primary state about what he called the virtue of conservative ideals. — Over lunch in a hotel ballroom …