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12:15 AM ET, March 28, 2012

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: It is Kennedy's call (FINAL UPDATE 3:14 pm)  —  Analysis  —  If Justice Anthony M. Kennedy can locate a limiting principle in the federal government's defense of the new individual health insurance mandate, or can think of one on his own, the mandate may well survive.
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James Carville / CNN:
Carville: A Supreme Court loss will help Democrats  —  (CNN) - While the Obama administration fights to protect the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville said a Supreme Court overruling may not be such a bad thing for the president, politically.
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Obamacare's Supreme Court Disaster  —  Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because his defense of Obamacare on Tuesday may go down as one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the court.
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better  —  My first impression from day two at the Supreme Court: I was more confident yesterday than I am today.  With the caveat that I know health policy a lot better than I know law, I can still imagine the justices upholding the individual mandate.
Byron Tau / Politico:
Toobin: Health law 'looks like it's going to be struck down'  —  CNN's legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin reports that the court's conservative wing appeared skeptical of the Obama administration's arguments in favor of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Split in Questions on Insurance Requirement  —  WASHINGTON — With the fate of President Obama's health care law hanging in the balance, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage of skeptical questions on Tuesday from four of the Supreme Court's more conservative justices …
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  After Rough Day In Court, An Optimistic View For Supporters Of ‘Obamacare’  —  The snap reactions to today's Supreme Court arguments about the constitutionality of the health care law's individual mandate gave reform supporters a collective case of heartburn.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid slams Toobin, says justices' tough questions won't mean health law's demise
Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Los Angeles Times:
Skeptical Kennedy signals trouble for Obama's healthcare law
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Kennedy's “Heavy Burden of Justification” …
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin  —  Yes, they're at it again.  The denizens of the comment forums on Fox News are spewing almost unbelievable amounts of racist hatred and sick violent fantasies in yet another thread: House Democrats Call …
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet  —  Star erroneously linked Floridians to man who killed Trayvon Martin  —  With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Ed Driscoll
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Registered Dem Killed Trayvon  —  The individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting is a registered Democrat.  —  George Michael Zimmerman, born Oct. 5, 1983, registered as a Democrat in Seminole County, Fla., in August 2002, according to state voter registration documents.
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Racial-Relations Regression  —  The Trayvon Martin tragedy …
Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS:
Trayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughter Charge
Discussion: msnbc.com
CBS Miami:
NMB Students Turn Trayvon March Into Criminal Mischief Investigation
David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
The Daily Caller obtains Trayvon Martin's tweets
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney's 4-car fantasy home  —  SAN DIEGO — At Mitt Romney's proposed California beach house, the cars will have their own separate elevator.  —  There's also a planned outdoor shower and a 3,600-square foot basement — a room with more floor space than the existing home's entire living quarters.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Vetoed Human Elevator Bill  —  The former Massachusetts Governor vetoed a bill allocating money to improve elevators to comply with the American Disabilities Act.  —  What Romney's proposed car elevator might look like.  —  Source: dornob.com
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich cuts staff, aims at Tampa  —  Newt Gingrich is cutting back his campaign schedule, will lay off about a third of his cash-strapped campaign's full-time staff, and has replaced his manager as part of what aides are calling a “big-choice convention” strategy, communications director Joe DeSantis told POLITICO.
BuzzFeed:
Solicitor General Coughs, Stumbles, Stutters Through ObamaCare Defense  —  A tough day at the Supreme Court bar.  We edited together all of the painful moments.  —  by  —  Zeke Miller  · added an hour ago  · 11 responses
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama made the wrong World Bank call  —  Every now and then something crystallises how rapidly the world is changing.  Last week's nomination by President Barack Obama of Jim Yong Kim as the next president of the World Bank presents one such moment.  The story ought to proceed by tradition …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Greg Lukianoff / The Huffington Post:
The 12 Worst Schools For Free Speech In 2012  —  Free exchange of ideas is the lifeblood of any university, and for the second year in a row my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), presents its list of the worst colleges and universities for freedom of speech.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Using a Light Touch to Attack a Dark Subject  —  Bolstered by a $50 million grant from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City, the Sierra Club is introducing its first major national video campaign to promote its Beyond Coal initiative.  —  The campaign features five videos …
Discussion: Grist and ThinkProgress
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Rand Paul: When Big Oil Screws Americans At The Gas Pump, ‘You Should Want To Encourage Them’
New York Times:
Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out
Discussion: Philly.com
Jeff Greenfield / Associated Press:
Will Santorum and Gingrich ever bow out? History suggests odds of winning are very low
Discussion: Hot Air
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP scraps planned highway vote for a second day in a row
Discussion: Politico
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority in GOP say Gingrich and Paul should end bids
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bruning strong favorite in NE-Senate
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
New Andrew Breitbart chapter tells Anthony Weiner tale
Discussion: Wonkette
Chicago Sun Times:
Elderly man arrested after shooting home intruder
Discussion: National Review
William Happer / Wall Street Journal:
Global Warming Models Are Wrong Again
Jonathan Karl / Reuters:
Frustrated Senator Olympia Snowe Gives Obama an ‘F’
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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