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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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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Supreme Court: Emanuel stays on ballot while his case is considered — The Illinois Supreme Court has ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to put Rahm Emanuel's name back on the mayoral ballot. — The court has not decided whether to hear Emanuel's appeal …
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Mary Ann Ahern / NBC Chicago:
Court Will Hear Rahm's Case — To view this video you must to have Flash Player 9.0 or later installed. Click to download the most recent version of Flash. — The Illinois Supreme Court will consider Rahm Emanuel's appeal. — Earlier today, the court granted Emanuel a partial stay, putting him back on the mayoral ballot.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: Rahm back on ballot
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Supreme Court will hear appeal of ruling knocking Emanuel off ballot
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Jess Bravin / Washington Wire:
Six on Supreme Court to Attend State of the Union
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Obama Nominates RIAA Lawyer for Solicitor General
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Thomas Cites Failure to Disclose Wife's Job
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Emanuel narcissistic, opponents tell court
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Ill. court issues stay; Rahm back on the ballot
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama to Propose Partial 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 a five year budget freeze …
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Ezra Klein:
What the speech has done already — The president won't give his annual State of the Union address until later tonight, but in an important way, the speech has already worked. For the past week or so, news report after news report has dutifully relayed the argument the president is planning …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Pelosi spurns Cantor on seating — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) invited Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sit next to him at the State of the Union address — but the former House Speaker says she's already committed. — “I thank @GOPLeader for his #SOTU offer …
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Pelosi not sitting with Cantor, despite his invitation
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New York Times:
Broad Protests Across Egypt Focus Fury on Mubarak — CAIRO — Thousands of people calling for the end of the 30-year rule of President Hosni Mubarak clashed with riot police in this Egyptian capital on Tuesday, on a day of some of the most serious civil unrest in recent memory here.
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Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Inspired by Tunisia, Egypt's protests appear unprecedented
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN justifies airing Bachmann speech: “Tea Party has become major force in American politics” — CNN, which is taking some criticism from both sides for agreeing to air Michele Bachmann's response to Obama's speech tonight, sends over a statement justifying the move:
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Michele Bachmann Not Doing Republicans A Favor By Giving Tea Party SOTU Response
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Lbentzterp / CNN:
Bachmann says she's “not in competition with Paul Ryan”
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Alex Wagner / Politics Daily:
House Approves Spending Cuts in Largely Symbolic Vote … In a highly partisan vote, the House passed 256 to 165 a nonbinding measure to block additional government spending and reduce the federal budget to pre-stimulus 2008 levels. — The bill also would give Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Barack Obama vs. Paul Ryan: Two Visions of America's Future
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O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa:
Gingrich attacks “big city” critics of ethanol — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich today dismissed the “big city” critics of corn-based ethanol and suggested the biofuels industry will be able to “stand on its own” without federal subsidies once all autos are “flexible-fuel” vehicles.
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Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Gingrich, Pence and Bachmann could beat history
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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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Various matters — (updated below) — The combination of a mild (I'm hoping) flu and the all-consuming fixation by many on Obama's speech tonight makes this a good time to raise several discrete matters worth noting: — (1) Last month, The New York Times' Charlie Savage reported that the DOJ …
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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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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“History tells us” something that history doesn't tell us, say sociologists stumbling to protect Frances Fox Piven. — Here's the expression of “outrage” by the officers of the American Sociological Association: … So vigorous debate about Piven's ideas is really important …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Poll: Unpopularity of reform jumps 9 points — Public opposition to the health care reform law spiked to a record high in a new poll out today — but Americans don't necessarily want Republicans to spend time trying to dismantle it. — Fifty percent of Americans have unfavorable views of the law …
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Matt Yglesias / Yglesias:
Breaking the News — The basic phenomenon is nothing new, but the only thing preventing me from saying that the ratio of articles about Rahm Emannuel's mayoral bid to information about Emannuel's views on urban policy is almost infinite is my strong suspicion that the denominator is actually zero.
David Catanese / The Politico:
Talent won't run for Senate in Missouri — Former Sen. Jim Talent is expected to announce in the coming days that he won't mount a comeback bid for Senate in Missouri, multiple Republicans tell POLITICO. — Talent's decision against a 2012 campaign was telegraphed in recent weeks with his lack …
New York Times:
'98 Embassy Bomber Is Given Life Without Parole — Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first former Guantánamo Bay camp detainee to be tried in the civilian court system, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for his role in the 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa.
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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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Oversight panel bickers over subpoenas — The House Oversight committee got off to a contentious start Tuesday morning as its organization meeting devolved into partisan sniping and accusations of hypocrisy. — Chairman Darell Issa (R-Calif.) has pledged to aggressively investigate …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
McConnell: Sure I'll Work With Obama, As Long As He ‘Is Willing To Do What I And My Members Would Do Anyway’ — Despite spending the past two years reflexively obstructing President Obama's agenda, in the wake last November's elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) …
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