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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court says detainees have rights, bucking Bush — WASHINGTON - In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court gives detainees habeas rights — UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. The District Court judges in Washington who will hear the detaineees' habeas challenges mandated by the Supreme Court will meet soon to decide how to proceed, that Court announced shortly after the Supreme Court ruled.
Associated Press:
Supreme Court backs Guantanamo detainees — In rebuke to administration, suspects may appeal in U.S. civilian courts — WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts — WASHINGTON — Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part of Military Commissions Act — (updated below) — In a major rebuke to the Bush administration's theories of presidential power — and in an equally stinging rebuke to the bipartisan political class which has supported …
Jnessel / Center for Constitutional Rights:LANDMARK WIN FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEES!
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:KEY QUOTES FROM BOUMEDIENE V. BUSH: In this post, I want to excerpt …
Kos / Daily Kos:
Obama's birth certificate — The National Review's Jim Geraghty, who (ironically) helped debunk the “Michelle Obama railing against ‘whitey’” video rumors, recently wrote about a new set of rumors: … Those rumors include the claim that Obama was born in Kenya, that his middle name isn't …
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Flip / Suitably Flip:
Kos Tries To Pass Off Obama's Birth Certification As Birth Certificate — ... without any attribution or mention of how it came into his possession, it should be noted. He divulges only that it is a scanned image, the edges of which he trimmed. — Unfortunately, he's more careful with document grooming than with authentication.
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
The Smear Page Smears the Smearmaster — Obama's campaign has launched a website meant to push back against the viral campaign against him called “Fight the Smears.” The fact hub, replete with a Truth Bird, includes this: … But Stone, while absolutely spreading rumor of the tape, didn't say he had evidence.
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Karen Tumulty / Time:Exclusive: Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PUTTING OBAMA'S LEAD INTO PERSPECTIVE — From NBC's Mark Murray — In the latest NBC/WSJ poll, Obama leads McCain by six points (47%-41%) among registered voters. While polls can't accurately gauge an election five months out — after all, so much can still happen …
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Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Ron Paul to End Campaign, Launches New Effort — Supporters Plot Shadow Convention, More Revolution — Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday …
Tax Policy Center home:
A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans — The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Comparison of the McCain and Obama Tax Plans — The Tax Policy Center has published A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans. Here is the abstract: … Here is the bottom line: … Joe Kristan wryly observes on Roth & Co.:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama moves DNC operations to Chicago — In a major shakeup at the Democratic National Committee — and a departure from tradition — large parts of the committee's operations are relocating to Chicago to be fully integrated with the Obama campaign. — The DNC's political department …
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Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
CNN host lets talk go on of a possible run — Dobbs for N.J. governor? — It's a hot topic in Republican political and fundraising circles: CNN's Lou Dobbs is thinking of running for governor of New Jersey. — Several well-connected Republicans say they've heard the buzz that Dobbs …
Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Friends of Barack — It turns out that Jim Johnson was not the man Barack Obama thought he knew. The presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee threw the former Fannie Mae CEO over the side as his Vice Presidential vetter yesterday, only a day after he'd said that Mr. Johnson was only …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:Barack's Bad Day — Everybody knows that the very first rule …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Rezko: Feds pushed for dirt on Obama — Imprisoned Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko has accused federal prosecutors of improperly pressuring him to implicate Barack Obama in a corruption case. — In a letter to the U.S. District judge who presided over his trial, Rezko …
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Fox News:
McConnell Continues Assault on Obama Over ‘Gradual’ Gas Hike Statement — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell launched day two of his attacks on Barack Obama on Thursday, calling out the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for saying he was bothered by how fast gas prices have risen.
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Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Fox addresses baby mama drama: Producer used ‘poor judgment’ — Since Salon's Alex Koppelman caught Fox News characterizing Michelle Obama as “Obama's Baby Mama,” there's been an uproar over use of such an offensive term. — “A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using …
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The Trail:
Huckaboom Hits TV — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, pictured at a taping of “Meet the Press” in May 2008, will be a commentator for Fox News. (Getty Images) — MIKE HUCKABEE — Huckaboom Hits TV — By Howard Kurtz Mike Huckabee may have flamed out as a presidential candidate …
Justin Rose / Times of London:
Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent's wife alive — The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.
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