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Chicago Tribune:
Judicial arrogance — With startling arrogance and audaciously twisted reasoning, two appellate judges ignored more than 100 years of legal precedent, invented a new definition of “residency” and ordered Rahm Emanuel off the Feb. 22 mayoral ballot. — With the election just four weeks away …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Emanuel takes steps to stay in Chicago mayoral race — Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's legal team has begun an eleventh-hour blitz to keep the candidate on the mayoral ballot in Chicago after an appellate court ruled he is ineligible. — Lawyers for Emanuel filed a motion …
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Jennifer Epstein / Reuters:
Obama wants Rahm Emanuel back on the Chicago mayor ballot — President Barack Obama wants former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to stay on the Chicago mayoral ballot, a top presidential confidante said Tuesday. — “I think that [Obama] believes that [Emanuel] is eligible …
David Kidwell / Chicago Tribune:
Judges who ruled against Emanuel once slated by pol backing Chico
Judges who ruled against Emanuel once slated by pol backing Chico
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Guardian
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Let Rahm Run! — The Illinois courts should let the voters …
Let Rahm Run! — The Illinois courts should let the voters …
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msnbc.com and Election Law
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Scalia: No plans to attend Obama's State of the Union address — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told The Hill on Monday evening that he does not plan on attending the State of the Union address on Tuesday. — The conservative-leaning jurist said that he hasn't “gone to the State …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
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JONATHAN TURLEY and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Post-State of Union Obama Approval Uptick Would Be Atypical
Post-State of Union Obama Approval Uptick Would Be Atypical
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The Huffington Post
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court won't be fully represented at State of the Union
Supreme Court won't be fully represented at State of the Union
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The Huffington Post, Sister Toldjah, The Hill, ACS Blog and Salon
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Clarence Thomas revises disclosure forms
Clarence Thomas revises disclosure forms
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Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, ABCNEWS and Politics Daily
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Exclusive: President Obama to Propose Budget Freeze and Earmark Ban Tonight — Pursuing a path of deficit reduction and government reform, President Obama will tonight in his State of the Union address call for a ban on earmarks and he will propose an overall budget freeze, ABC News has learned.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Rep. Eric Cantor: ‘No bailout of the states’ — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) issued a new threat against a federal bailout for ailing state governments Monday as GOP leaders girded for a confrontation with President Obama over spending. — Heading into Tuesday's State of the Union address …
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
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The Agonist
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Obama won't endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits
Obama won't endorse raising retirement age or reducing Social Security benefits
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Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said her rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address tomorrow isn't a “competition” with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who's delivering the official Republican response. — “This is not a competition,” Bachmann said.
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USA Today:
Tea Party fave defends Bachmann's response to Obama
Tea Party fave defends Bachmann's response to Obama
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Politics Daily, The Nation, The Daily Caller, driftglass and White House.gov Blog
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DUELING SOTU RESPONSES, CONT'D.... Late last week, after New Jersey …
DUELING SOTU RESPONSES, CONT'D.... Late last week, after New Jersey …
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The Fix, The Plum Line and Prairie Weather
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Eric Cantor: Paul Ryan, not Michele Bachmann, delivering official …
Eric Cantor: Paul Ryan, not Michele Bachmann, delivering official …
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The Hill, The Hill, Guardian, The Nation, Minneapolis Star Tribune and TPMDC
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
White House Says Chinese Folk Song Played During State Dinner Was Not An Insult; Experts Divided — Ivories that were tickled last Wednesday night at the White House are, to some conservative media, no laughing matter. — At the White House State Dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Carol Browner to leave White House
Carol Browner to leave White House
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The Hill, Hot Air, The Caucus, Michelle Malkin, Grist, Wall Street Journal, Wonkette, Political Punch, Politics Daily, Washington Post and The Hill
John M. Broder / New York Times:
Director of Policy on Climate Will Leave, Her Goal Unmet
Director of Policy on Climate Will Leave, Her Goal Unmet
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Firedoglake, Ben Smith's Blog, The Caucus and Hotline On Call
Evan Perez / Wall Street Journal:
White House Lawyer Tapped for Solicitor General
White House Lawyer Tapped for Solicitor General
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Weekly Standard and The Fix
National Archives and Records Administration:
National Archives Discovers Date Change on Lincoln Record — Thomas Lowry Confesses to Altering Lincoln Pardon to April 14, 1865 — Washington, DC...Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced today that Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, VA …
The Hill:
GOP to push for D.C. gay marriage ban — House conservatives say they will pursue legislation that would ban gay marriage in the nation's capital. — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Bush White House Broke Elections Law, Report Says — WASHINGTON — The Bush White House, particularly before the 2006 midterm elections, routinely violated a federal law that prohibits use of federal tax dollars to pay for political activities by creating a “political boiler room” …
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Ross McGuinness / Metro.co.uk:
Dentist uses sexy dresses to distract patients — Advanced drugs can cure many ills, new technology can revolutionise surgery but sometimes a low-cut, sorry lo-tech, solution is all you need - one dentist has bought herself and her ten nurses tight-fitting, cleavage-maximising dresses to distract worried patients while they work.
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Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
NBC: U.S. can't link accused Army private to Assange — Military also denies allegations that Bradley Manning is being mistreated — Below: — U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected …
Teri Buhl / The Atlantic Online:
E-mails Show Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out of Billions — Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America …
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The Big Picture
Reuters:
Financial Crisis Commission Finds Cause For Prosecution Of Wall Street — The bipartisan panel appointed by Congress to investigate the financial crisis has concluded that several financial industry figures appear to have broken the law and has referred multiple cases to state or federal authorities …
Gustavo Valdes / CNN:
Critics slam Georgia paper for doctored photo of governor as Nazi — Atlanta (CNN) — A Spanish-language newspaper in Georgia has drawn bipartisan criticism for publishing a doctored photograph depicting the state's new governor as a Nazi. — El Nuevo Georgia Editor Rafael Navarro …
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Politics Daily and iOwnTheWorld.com
Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
Foley already is eyeing a 2014 rematch with Malloy — Tom Foley, the Republican businessman who narrowly lost a bitterly contested race for governor last fall, is positioning himself for a rematch with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy in 2014, not a run for Connecticut's open U.S. Senate seat in 2012.
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Amy Forliti / Associated Press:
Ventura sues over body scans, pat-downs — Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures.
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