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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sotomayor backers urge reporters to probe New Haven firefighter — WASHINGTON — Supporters of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor are quietly targeting the Connecticut firefighter who's at the center of Sotomayor's most controversial ruling. — On the eve of Sotomayor's Senate confirmation hearing …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The New Haven firefighter is no stranger to employment disputes. — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee have announced that Frank Ricci, the firefighter who recently prevailed in his “reverse discrimination” lawsuit against the city of New Haven, Conn., will testify at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings.
The Ninth Justice:
How Ricci Almost Disappeared — For all the publicity about the Supreme Court's 5-4 reversal of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's decision (with two colleagues) to reject a discrimination suit by a group of firefighters against New Haven, Conn., one curious aspect of the case has been largely overlooked.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Path to Court: Speak Capably but Say Little — WASHINGTON — On his first day at the Justice Department in 1981, a 26-year-old lawyer named John G. Roberts Jr. was handed a high-profile assignment: to help prepare Sandra Day O'Connor, then an Arizona judge, for her Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Leaders in House Seek to Tax Rich for Health Plan — WASHINGTON — House Democrats will ask the wealthiest Americans to help pay for overhauling the health care system with a $550 billion income tax increase, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee said Friday.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The new Report on illegal spying is not a real investigation — The Bush-era torture regime might have been that administration's most flamboyant act of criminality, but its illegal NSA warrantless eavesdropping program (and other still-unknown surveillance programs) has always been the clearest.
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Hullabaloo, Emptywheel, At-Largely, Balkinization, Obsidian Wings, The Washington Independent and The Confluence
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A.L. / The Anonymous Liberal:
The Case Against John Yoo — The OIG has finally released a declassified version of its report on the NSA surveillance program. Much of the information contained in the report has already been reported, but it still makes for an interesting read. I'm convinced that the Ashcroft/Comey hospital episode …
Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:CIA Played a Leading Role in Warrantless Surveillance
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
David Brooks Recounts GOP Senator Who “Had His Hand On My Inner Thigh” At Dinner Party — You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! — DOWNLOADS: (437) — PLAYS: (1140) — Think Progress has more: … This is one of those bizarre moments …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Weekly remarks: Obama still clearing wreckage; Cantor asks, where are the jobs? — This week's weekly remarks open with President Obama in Africa opening on foreign affairs. But by the second paragraph out of 20, he gets to what he really wants — needs — to talk about: domestic business in general and the economy specifically.
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Edwin Chen / Bloomberg:
Obama Says Economic Stimulus Plan Worked as Intended — President Barack Obama said his $787 billion stimulus bill “has worked as intended” as he pushed back against Republican criticism that his recovery program has failed to rescue the economy. — “It has already extended unemployment insurance …
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
The Stumbles That Led to an Ethics Blunder — The Washington Post's ill-fated plan to sell sponsorships of off-the-record “salons” was an ethical lapse of monumental proportions. — Publisher Katharine Weymouth and Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli have now taken full responsibility …
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New York Times, The Huffington Post, Michael Calderone's Blog, Emptywheel, Hot Air, Ombudsman Blog and Jay Bookman
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Ghana, Obama Preaches Tough Love — ACCRA, Ghana — President Obama traveled in his father's often-troubled home continent on Saturday as a potent symbol of a new era and the embodiment of hope but also as a messenger with a tough-love theme: American aid must be matched by African responsibility for its own problems.
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Adriel Bettelheim / Balance of Power:
Obama Diagrams Health-Care Strategy From Abroad — President Obama dropped a few hints about how he intends to lobby Congress on health care during a news conference Friday following the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy. And if we're parsing his remarks correctly, lawmakers can expect firm prodding through …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
What Would More Stimulus Look Like? — Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong both had good items yesterday discussing the desirability of additional stimulus. The politics still aren't there yet, but in the interests of moving the ball forward it's worth thinking about what additional stimulus might look like.
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Wall Street Journal:
Lender CIT Group Is Facing a Crunch — CIT Hires Bankruptcy Adviser as Payment Looms; Financier to 1 Million Businesses — CIT Group Inc., a lender to almost a million mostly small and midsize businesses across the country, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing after so far failing …
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