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Matt Apuzzo / Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Don't quote Sotomayor on that, Senator — WASHINGTON (AP) - In endorsing Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy did some creative rewriting of history. And he put quote marks around it. — Trying to head off criticism …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Sotomayor Leaves Passion Behind in Her Testimony — WASHINGTON — During her enforced silence, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has been portrayed as a woman of passion. Her speeches, endlessly dissected in the weeks since President Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court, reveal a fiery Latino pride.
Eva Rodriguez / PostPartisan:
Sotomayor's Unconvincing Backpedaling — I'm surprised and disturbed by how many times today Sonia Sotomayor has backed off of or provided less-than-convincing explanations for some of her more controversial speeches about the role of gender and ethnicity in judicial decision-making.
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Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
Smiling GOPers Ought to be Frowning — Watching Lindsey Graham's gotcha grin as he needled Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor with disingenuous and rhetorical questions you had to wonder what was so funny. — Does the Republican senator think it is amusing that he and his party's …
Randy Barnett / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Mike Seidman on Sotomayor: On the Federalist Society Online Debate on the Sotomayor hearings (click here and scroll down), my Georgetown Law colleague Mike Seidman—a cofounder and intellectual leader of the Critical Legal Studies movement in the 1980s—is brutally candid in his opinion of Judge Sotomayor's testimony today:
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Bench Memos
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Respecting Precedent, or Settled Law, Unless It's Not Settled
Respecting Precedent, or Settled Law, Unless It's Not Settled
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The Politico
Gateway Pundit:
OBAMA BOOED IN ST. LOUIS!... And Throws a Sissy Pitch (Video) — Barack Obama Booed at the All-Star Game in St. Louis On Tuesday! — And, he threw a sissy pitch: — It's going to be a rough 4 years. He's only been in office 5 months and he's already getting booed. — ...And protested.
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Duk / Yahoo! Sports:
Obama reps Chicago's South Side, delivers All-Star first pitch — ST LOUIS — Where did it land? Was it a strike or wasn't it? Why didn't the network choose a better camera to shoot from? Those were the questions that viewers of baseball's All-Star Game were asking themselves at home …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Even All-Star Game not safe from gratuitous Obama photo ops
Video: Even All-Star Game not safe from gratuitous Obama photo ops
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The Pink Flamingo
edlabor.house.gov:
America's Affordable Health Choices Act — The Chairmen of the three Committees with jurisdiction over health policy in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced comprehensive health care reform legislation on July 14 that will reduce out-of-control costs, encourage competition among insurance plans …
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Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
House Democrats' Health Reform Proposal: Preliminary Analysis of Major Provisions Related to Insurance Coverage — CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) worked together to produce a preliminary analysis of the major provisions related to health insurance coverage …
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, AmSpecBlog, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Politics Daily, YID With LID, Paul Krugman and TPMDC
Ezra Klein:
The House Releases Its Health-Care Reform Bill — On first glance, it looks good. A few thoughts: — The Process Is the Message: Three separate committees — Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Education and Labor — have come together on one bill. This is an incredible achievement.
New York Times:
House Health Plan Outlines Higher Taxes on Rich — WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders took a big step toward guaranteeing health insurance for most Americans on Tuesday as they introduced a bill that would expand coverage, rein in the growth of Medicare and raise taxes on high-income people.
Dan / Riehl World View:
Meet Political Pundit, Mr. Ricky Hollywood — A reliable source confirms that when you call Levi Johnston's phone number, you're now officially greeted by his new marketing identity in long, loud, boldly-exaggerated phrasing, YOU'VE REACHED R-I-C-K-Y ... H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D!!!
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Pilgrim / Say Anything:
Hilarious: HuffPo Says Sarah Palin Had No Authority To Write An Op-Ed In The Washington Post — My, my, my. — In what is without a doubt the best foot stomping, squealing, hold-your-breath-until-you-turn- purple fit I've seen in quite some time, and it's all because Sarah Palin had the gall …
CNN:
Palin becomes MoveOn target as SarahPAC cash haul surges — (CNN) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee is confirming a flood of new donations that push her cash haul close to the million-dollar mark, as one of the nation's largest liberal PACs announced an ad targeting the former GOP vice presidential candidate.
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Weasel Zippers
Washington Post:
Transcript of Sen. Feinstein Questioning at Judge Sotomayor Confirmation Hearing — FEINSTEIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. — I'm puzzled why Mr. Estrada keeps coming up. Mr. Estrada had no judicial experience. The nominee before us has considerable judicial experience.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Isaac Chotiner Gets Jonah Goldberg Wrong — So Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently said this in an interview with Emily Bazelon: … Ginsburg is saying that her perception of the situation in 1980 is that there was a lot of concern on the right about Bell Curve-style dysgenics and that, therefore …
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Fox News:
Upcoming Military Robot Could Feed on Dead Bodies — It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. — A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling …
The State:
Sanford's office couldn't locate missing governor — E-mails, phone calls outline efforts to contact, cover for AWOL leader — Gov. Mark Sanford's chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor's cell phones 15 times during the governor's secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last month.
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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Great Call: In Emails To Sanford's Office, Right-Wing Media …
Great Call: In Emails To Sanford's Office, Right-Wing Media …
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Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
CFJ: Obama Is Putting a Terrorist On The Bench! — Yesterday, we noticed that the Committee for Justice had just unveiled two ads calling for Sonia Sotomayor's defeat - one contrasting her to Martin Luther King and the other claiming she wants to “take away your guns.”
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Washington Monthly, Salon, Pam's House Blend, Think Progress and Committee for Justice Blog
Bil Browning / The Huffington Post:
Steele: GOP woos blacks with “fried chicken and potato salad” — The Young Republicans convention was held in Indianapolis last weekend and their election of a racist, middle-aged woman as President isn't the only controversial item to come out of the GOP gathering.
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Rachel Slajda / Talking Points Memo:
Steele Says He'll Attract Diversity to GOP With “Fried Chicken and Potato Salad”
Steele Says He'll Attract Diversity to GOP With “Fried Chicken and Potato Salad”
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Zandar Versus The Stupid
Wall Street Journal:
CIT, Regulators Negotiate Aid Details — CIT Group Inc. and federal regulators were working to iron out details of an aid package Tuesday night after customers drained hundreds of millions of dollars from the lender, according to people familiar with the matter.
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DailyFinance
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Obama's Chutzpah. Sorry, Only Israelis Have Chutzpah. So It's Obama's Haughty Condescension. — Frankly, I am sick and tired of President Obama's eldering—more accurately, hectoring—Israel's leaders. It is, after all, they whose country is the target of an armed and ideological cyclone …