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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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Politics Daily, Mediaite, Lez Get Real, TPMDC, Swampland, Political Byline, Election Law, Daily Kos and Clout St
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Supreme Court will hear appeal of ruling knocking Emanuel off ballot — The Illinois Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear the appeal of a court decision that knocked Rahm Emanuel out of the mayoral race. — Earlier Tuesday, the Supreme Court ordered the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners …
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Firedoglake and Weasel Zippers
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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Michelle Malkin
David Kidwell / Chicago Tribune:
Judges who ruled against Emanuel once slated by pol backing Chico
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Guardian
First Read / msnbc.com:
Ill. court issues stay; Rahm back on the ballot
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The Atlantic Online
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Emanuel takes steps to stay in Chicago mayoral race
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Ben Smith's Blog, CNN and TPMDC
Jess Bravin / Washington Wire:
Six on Supreme Court to Attend State of the Union
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Taegan Goddard's … and Hit & Run
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
Illinois Supreme Court will hear Emanuel's case
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Chicago Tribune, Indecision Forever and PostPartisan
Chicago Tribune:
Emanuel scrambles to get back on ballot
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Clout St, George's Bottom Line, The Note, Mediaite, Election Law, msnbc.com and TalkLeft
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Emanuel narcissistic, opponents tell court
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The Politico and Ben Smith's Blog
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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Blue Virginia
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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Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Michele Bachmann Not Doing Republicans A Favor By Giving Tea Party SOTU Response
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The Plum Line, Little Green Footballs, The Fix and Weigel
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Pelosi not sitting with Cantor, despite his invitation
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The Hill, The Note, The Politico, James Pethokoukis and The Political Carnival
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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BBC:
Cairo protest: Clashes on Egypt's ‘day of revolt’
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Weasel Zippers, Little Green Footballs, Informed Comment and The Awl
Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
Inspired by Tunisia, Egypt's protests appear unprecedented
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Telegraph, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, BlogPost and AmSpecBlog
Lbentzterp / CNN:
Bachmann says she's “not in competition with Paul Ryan” — Washington (CNN) - Representative Michele Bachmann tells CNN at the top of her post State of the Union speech she will announce that her remarks are not the official Republican response. — She says she's spoken with Representative Paul Ryan …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CNN justifies airing Bachmann speech: “Tea Party has become major …
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GOP 12, Politics Daily, Weigel, Daily Kos and The Hill
Simmi Aujla / The Politico:
Bachmann: SOTU rebuttal is not a ‘competition’ with Ryan
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Cubachi, Crooks and Liars, USA Today, Washington Monthly, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Plum Line and Pajamas Media
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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New York Times:
'98 Embassy Bomber Is Sentenced to 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.
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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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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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The Hill and The Daily Caller
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Republicans wrestle with dissent on budget cuts
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The Agonist
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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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
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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The Daily Caller and JammieWearingFool
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 …
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.
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