Top Items:

Federal Judge Rules Health Law Violates Constitution — A second federal judge ruled on Monday that it was unconstitutional for Congress to enact a health care law that requires Americans to obtain commercial insurance, evening the score at two-to-two in the lower courts as the conflicting opinions begin …
Discussion:
Cato @ Liberty, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, theblogprof, The Moderate Voice, ACS Blog, Gawker, The New Republic, Blogcritics, Balkinization, The Volokh Conspiracy, Questions and Observations, Outside the Beltway, WyBlog, The Atlantic Online, Blue Crab Boulevard, Scared Monkeys, Althouse, AMERICAblog News, Right Turn and The Political Carnival
RELATED:

GOP judge rules against Affordable Care Act — Roger Vinson, the second Republican judge to rule on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, has, as expected, ruled against it. More surprising is that he's decided that the presence of the mandate means the rest of the law must be overturned …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Hit & Run, AmSpecBlog, Hullabaloo and Pajamas Media

The Extreme Activism Of Judge Vinson — For most people, an “activist judge” is one whose opinions they don't agree with. But Judge Vinson's ruling today — that the entire health care law must be voided because he found one provision unconstitutional — really meets an indisputable definition of “activist.”
Discussion:
Balkinization, Booman Tribune and AOL News


Florida Judge Voids Entire Health Care Law — A federal district court judge in Florida ruled today that a key provision in the new health care law is unconstitutional, and that the entire law must be voided. — Roger Vinson, a Ronald Reagan appointee, agreed with the 26 state-government plaintiffs …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, No More Mister Nice Blog, The New Republic, AOL News and Raw Story

Judicial Activism and the Affordable Care Act — Today, a judge in Florida issued a decision in a case filed by 25 Republican Attorneys General and Governors striking down the Affordable Care Act. This ruling is well out of the mainstream of judicial opinion.
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, Health Dollars, Online NewsHour, The Daily Caller and TPMDC

Judge uses Obama's words against him — **FILE** President Obama talks about his health care plan, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, at Portsmouth High School in Portsmouth, N.H.(Associated Press) — In ruling against President Obama's health care law, federal Judge Roger Vinson used Mr. Obama's own position …
Discussion:
The Powers That Be


Unconstitutional: Florida judge strikes down Obamacare mandate; full decision embedded; all 47 GOP Senators sign on to DeMint repeal bill; White House reax: ruling is “odd,” “overreaching” “activism;” DOJ readies appeal — Hey, remember when conservatives objected to the Obamacare federal individual mandate …
Discussion:
The Foundry, The Blast, HillBuzz.org and The Gateway Pundit

Yes, but what will Anthony Kennedy say?
Discussion:
Virginia Politics Blog


Florida Judge Rules Against ObamaCare, Calls Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, Reaganite Republican and The Gateway Pundit

Judge rules health law unconstitutional
Discussion:
ABCNEWS, The Note and Maggie's Farm

Unconstitutional: Federal Judge Rules Against Health Reform …
Discussion:
Ben Smith's Blog and Right Pundits

Judge strikes down healthcare reform law
Discussion:
Pajamas Media, SGP Action, American Glob and Sense of Events

Health Care Reform Struck Down in Florida District Court
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Ezra Klein, POWIP, Patterico's Pontifications, Wonkette and Pirate's Cove

Obama Health-Care Reform Act Ruled Unconstitutional
Discussion:
Reuters, msnbc.com, Sky Dancing, Wake up America and FrumForum


Barack Obama braces for Jon Huntsman 2012 bid — The White House expects Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to China, to resign his post this spring to explore a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, top Democrats said. — GOP allies of Huntsman have already begun laying plans …
Discussion:
CNN, Weigel, PostPartisan, Marbury, The Fix, Eunomia, Althouse, Democratic Strategist, Hotline On Call, Gawker, The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, HillBuzz.org, Weasel Zippers, Stateline.org, Outside the Beltway, Wonkette, Ezra Klein, Hot Air, Online NewsHour, GOP 12, The Right Sphere and FrumForum
RELATED:


Jon Huntsman resigns; may run — Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the U.S. ambassador to China, sent a resignation letter to President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House said. Huntsman and now is likely to explore a Republican presidential bid, according to supporters.
Discussion:
Politics Daily, Conservatives4Palin and TPMDC


White House prepares for life after Mubarak
Discussion:
News Desk, About.com US Liberal Politics, POMED and American Power

Huntsman to Step Down, Fueling Speculation About Presidential Bid
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway and FrumForum

The Latest Huntsman 2012 News
Discussion:
CNN, Political Punch, Politics Daily, TPMDC, Balloon Juice and Ben Smith's Blog


Government Offers Talks With Protesters After Army Says It Will Not Fire — CAIRO — The political forces aligned against President Hosni Mubarak appeared to strengthen sharply Monday when the Army said for the first time that it would not fire on the protesters who have convulsed Egypt for a week demanding his resignation.
RELATED:


Muslim Brotherhood Wants War With Israel — Mohamed Ghanem, one of the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, calls Egypt to stop pumping gas to Israel and prepare the Egyptian army for a war with it's eastern neighbor. — Speaking with Iranian television station Al-Alam …
Discussion:
Telegraph, Hot Air, Atlas Shrugs, American Power, The Other McCain, Reaganite Republican, Weasel Zippers, Israpundit and Jihad Watch


Income Inequality In The U.S. Is Worse Than In Egypt — Protests in Egypt continued for a seventh day today, and pro-democracy demonstrators are organizing a “march of millions” to take place tomorrow. As financial markets dip across the Middle East, financial prognosticators are trying …
Discussion:
New York Times, The Nation, Political Language, Left Coast Rebel, Questions and Observations and Guardian


Israel urges world to curb criticism of Egypt's Mubarak
Discussion:
FaithWorld, News: News blog, Firedoglake, World Policy Institute, Guardian, BBC, American Prospect, Mondoweiss, New York Times, Babylon & Beyond, CNN, Wonk Room, Raw Story, Booman Tribune, Informed Comment, Sky Dancing, EA WorldView, Daniel W. Drezner, The Atlantic Online, POMED, The Mahablog, Israel Matzav, The Reality-Based Community and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

Poll: Egyptian Public's Views Toward United States Are Much Improved
Discussion:
Raw Story, New York Times, The Daily Dish, Plunderbund, The Daily Beast and The Huffington Post

Mike Huckabee speaks “very Zionistically” …
Discussion:
Ynetnews, Guardian, Raw Story, Salon and Mondoweiss

Key points — Egyptians are holding a seventh day of mass demonstrations calling for President Mubarak to step down. — Military helicopters continue to circle over Cairo's central Tahrir Square where crowds of people defied an overnight curfew. — Police in Egypt are returning …
Discussion:
Aljazeera, Danger Room, Open Left, The Daily Dish, Runnin' Scared, Middle East, msnbc.com, EA WorldView and New York Times
RELATED:

Egypt says it's shutting down mobile phone networks
Discussion:
CNN, Weasel Zippers, Fox Nation, Aljazeera, ReadWriteWeb and Parker Spitzer, more at Mediagazer »

Inside the White House-Egypt experts meeting
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Right Turn, Commentary, FiveThirtyEight, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America and POMED


‘Shift work’ — The BBC's Jim Muir in Cairo says the military …
Discussion:
Washington Post, Hot Air, CNN, Weasel Zippers, Online NewsHour and Wall Street Journal

Mubarak ‘will have to leave,’ says Carter
Discussion:
Reuters, The Politico, The Note, Examiner, neo-neocon, Yahoo! News, Left Coast Rebel and ThinkProgress, more at Mediagazer »

Fear the Muslim Brotherhood
Discussion:
Big Peace, Washington Post, The Greenroom, RubinReports, Cato @ Liberty, Sister Toldjah and Wall Street Journal

Liberals and the Koch Brothers. — I don't begrudge liberals who want to protest the Koch Foundation, or who feel that it has undue influence on the conduct of politics. But, for my part, I don't see the big deal. Which is to say that this seems like a little much:
Discussion:
New York Times, The New Republic and The Impolitic
RELATED:


The uncivil left — Showing no concern for the new civility push …
Discussion:
Hot Air and Commentary

Koch meeting draws protests
Discussion:
American Prospect, Washington Examiner, Los Angeles Times, AFL-CIO NOW BLOG, Weigel, Climate Progress and ThinkProgress

Big Law Firm Takes Down Big Conservative Blogger — I'm late to this, but the story has not received a lot of coverage in the conservative blogosphere. Paul Mirengoff of Power Line blog no longer is of Power Line blog. — Mirengoff is an attorney at Akin Gump, a big law firm …

Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard — Like many people we've been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground. Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service …
Discussion:
Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Runnin' Scared, TechCrunch, The Daily Dish and msnbc.com, more at Techmeme »


Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List — In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure. — But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle …
Discussion:
ECHIDNE of the snakes, Swords Crossed, Runnin' Scared and Mother Jones, more at Techmeme »

What happens if conservatives succeed in undermining the ACA? — The legal theory currently in vogue in conservative circles holds that the Constitution's vision of “a central government with limited power” — to use Judge Vinson's phrase — permits the government to establish …