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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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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 …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked — Enforcing its edict against execution of the insane, a split United States Supreme Court today overturned the death sentence of a delusional Texas murderer who insisted he was being punished for preaching the gospel.
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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.
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration — With competing blocs of justices claiming the mantle of Brown v. Board of Education, a bitterly divided Supreme Court declared Thursday that public school systems cannot seek to achieve or maintain integration through measures …
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Los Angeles Times:Supreme Court strikes down school integration policies
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:Court Limits Use of Race to Achieve Diversity in Schools
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Adam B / Daily Kos:SCOTUS: Segregation Now, Segregation Forever?
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John Edwards responds.... John Edwards followed Coulter a day later and said that we need to fight back against attacks like Ann's on Hardball. — Download (1593) | Play (1881) Download (856) | Play (1246) … MATTHEWS: OK. Yes, Senator Edwards now, I guess the question last night …
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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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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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Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington? — I don't blame any American for wondering. Did you see the NYTimes picture of the illegal immigrants immigration-bill proponents brought to the Senate?? — As a Senate friend said to me about it: "all they did was remind people what the problem is.
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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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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.
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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The Parents Involved decision— Swann Song or Bakke for our times? — Justice Kennedy's limiting concurrence in Parents Involved (the school desegregation cases) will be the object of much study in the days to come. It is important to note that no matter how strident or uncompromising …
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