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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.
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White House defends embattled solicitor general — The White House is coming to the defense of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, whose efforts to defend the president's health care law Tuesday are under attack as a “train wreck” and “The Worst Supreme Court Argument of All Time.”
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National Review, Weasel Zippers, Mother Jones and The Hill
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Supremes Won't Save GOP From Itself on Obamacare — A supporter of President Barack Obama's health care reforms(R) argues with several elderly women who are against the reforms in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC after the morning session March 27, 2012, KAREN BLEIER / AFP / Getty Images
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John Roberts Court on trial — John Roberts is having his Bush v. Gore moment. — If the wily chief justice felt squeamish about leading the Supreme Court into an election-year political maelstrom, that was nowhere on display Tuesday, when the Roberts-led conservative majority signaled …
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Right Wing News, msnbc.com, CNN and ABCNEWS
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: A lift for the mandate? — Analysis — The Supreme Court spent 91 minutes Wednesday operating on the assumption that it would strike down the key feature of the new health care law, but may have convinced itself in the end not to do that because of just how hard it would be to decide what to do after that.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: What will happen to the uninsured? — If you want to understand what's really at stake in the battle over Obamacare — as it's playing out before the Supreme Court and in the presidential race, where the GOP contenders are all vowing to repeal it — you need to watch Mitt Romney's appearance on Jay Leno last night.
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American Prospect, ABCNEWS, The Raw Story, Campaign Stops and Mother Jones
Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
First severability argument update
First severability argument update
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Althouse and aca litigation blog
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision
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The Moderate Voice, The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots and Opinion L.A.
New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Momentous Test
The Supreme Court's Momentous Test
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Greg's Opinion, Business Insider, JustOneMinute, The Volokh Conspiracy, Economix and Althouse
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Place Your Bets on Obamacare
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Democracy in America, SCOTUSblog, USA Today, Mother Jones, Reuters, The Huffington Post and Ezra Klein
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Roberts will likely vote to strike down Obamacare
Roberts will likely vote to strike down Obamacare
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Hot Air, The Spectacle Blog and The Volokh Conspiracy
Emily Ekins / Reason:
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate
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seattlepi.com, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and Reuters
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Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie For Trayvon — Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) donned a hoodie and took to the House floor this morning to speak out against the murder of Travyon Martin, but was shouted down and removed from the floor by the Republican speaker pro tem …
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Mediaite and The Hinterland Gazette
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Dem kicked off House floor for ‘hoodie’ in Trayvon Martin protest — Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday morning was asked to leave the House floor after removing his suit jacket to reveal a “hoodie,” then putting the hood of his sweatshirt on his head to protest the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
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Campaign 2012, Outside the Beltway and Naked Politics
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Waters: ‘Stiff evidence’ death of Trayvon Martin a hate crime
Rep. Waters: ‘Stiff evidence’ death of Trayvon Martin a hate crime
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Weasel Zippers and Rush Limbaugh
WHP-TV:
Man leaves rally for peace and assaults his girlfriend on campus
Man leaves rally for peace and assaults his girlfriend on campus
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The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and Weasel Zippers
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
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Booman Tribune, American Prospect, alicublog and Human Events
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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.
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Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds — Rick Santorum appeared to be the Republican presidential candidate to beat in Pennsylvania a month ago. — With the state primary four weeks away, Santorum now finds himself nearly tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among …
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The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, msnbc.com and GOP 12
NBC's Garrett Haake / msnbc.com:
Romney cracks jokes, talks policy with Jay Leno
Romney cracks jokes, talks policy with Jay Leno
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The Maddow Blog, New York Times, US Politics and Washington Post
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Romney Justifies Denying Health Care To People With Pre-Existing Conditions: 'We Can't Play The Game Like That' — As Mitt Romney tries to distance himself from Obamacare, he ran into some trouble last night when he got stumped by comedian Jay Leno. Leno asked Romney what he would do to help people …
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On health-care hearing's last day, court weighs severability, Medicaid expansion
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Firedoglake, New York Times, news@JAMA and Hot Air
Brookings Institute:
The Second Day of the Supreme Court's Hearing on the Health Care Law
The Second Day of the Supreme Court's Hearing on the Health Care Law
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The New Republic, Paul Krugman and Firedoglake
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Media Matters writer ‘sorry’ after blasting Drudge for Martin photo — A senior analyst with the liberal activist group Media Matters tweeted an apology on Tuesday after calling journalist Matt Drudge a racist and accusing him of using a phony photo of Trayvon Martin.
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Belmont Club, americanthinker.com and Mediaite
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Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there
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Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers and JustOneMinute
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Last week, the famously cool-headed and contemplative writer …
Last week, the famously cool-headed and contemplative writer …
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Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com and Daily Mail
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity — Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall.
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Americans angry with Obama over gas prices — (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Tuesday.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama receives low marks on efforts to reduce gas prices
Poll: Obama receives low marks on efforts to reduce gas prices
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Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
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German town fears loss of U.S. Army base — BAUMHOLDER, Germany — For more than half a century, this garrison town in the rolling hills of southwest Germany has been a small version of America, with Ford Mustangs and pickup trucks from the U.S. Army base next door threading through its medieval streets.
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The Enterprise Blog and Washington Free Beacon
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Why Republicans Aren't Rushing To Endorse Romney — Propriety, apathy, and fear. — (Reuters / MIKE BLAKE) — Observers of the Republican presidential primary have begun to ask a simple question: Why is this taking so long? With Mitt Romney the virtually certain nominee of his party …
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