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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: A lift for the mandate? (FINAL UPDATE 5:12 pm) — 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 …
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Justices poised to strike down entire healthcare law — Demonstrators pray outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the third day of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / March 28, 2012)
Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
First severability argument update — Paul Clement is finished. The Court was skeptical that the whole act should fall if the individual mandate is invalid. But there wasn't any clear indication of how far the Court would go. It seemed like there wasn't much question …
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Althouse, Ezra Klein and aca litigation blog
David Frum / david-frum:
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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The New Republic, The Daily Beast and 2012 Decoded
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Dark Vision of Freedom — The court's conservatives apparently believe in the land of the free. Circa 1804. — The fight over Obamacare is about freedom. That's what we've been told since these lawsuits were filed two years ago and that's what we heard both inside and outside the Supreme Court this morning.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Ask if Health Law Is Viable Without Mandate — WASHINGTON — On the third day and final of Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of President Obama's health care overhaul law, the justices on Wednesday shifted their attention to a question with enormous practical implications …
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Power Line, CNN, Roll Call, Reuters, Politico, Los Angeles Times, Law Blog, CBS News, Ezra Klein, White House Dossier, Above the Law and Truthdig
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
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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CNN, Indecision Forever, Hot Air, National Review, iOwnTheWorld.com, Mother Jones and Mediaite
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
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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Firedoglake, New York Times and The Huffington Post
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision — Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision... And such a decision would have two consequences: 1) feed the perception that the Supreme Court is as partisan as the other branches, and 2) satisfy no one... Yesterday was a bad day for the mandate …
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The Caucus, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Campaign Stops, The Moderate Voice and Opinion L.A.
Washington Wire:
Live Blog: Obama Health Law at the Supreme Court, Day 3
Live Blog: Obama Health Law at the Supreme Court, Day 3
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SCOTUSblog, Washington Post, protein wisdom, National Review, The Enterprise Blog, Associated Press and Guardian
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: What will happen to the uninsured?
The Morning Plum: What will happen to the uninsured?
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msnbc.com, ABCNEWS, Salon, American Prospect, Daily Kos, The Maddow Blog, The Raw Story and The Stranger …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum uses Supreme Court oral arguments on Obama healthcare law to criticize Romney
Santorum uses Supreme Court oral arguments on Obama healthcare law to criticize Romney
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Obamacare's Supreme Court Disaster
Obamacare's Supreme Court Disaster
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Don Surber, The Moderate Voice, Hot Air, PJ Media, Wall Street Journal, SCOTUSblog, The BLT, Above the Law, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Scared Monkeys, Balkinization, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, Reason, Campaign 2012, Taylor Marsh, Slate, Townhall.com, The Atlantic Wire, ABCNEWS, RealClearPolitics Video Log, Mother Jones, Salon, Washington Post, National Review, Guardian, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com, Instapundit, Hullabaloo, Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, Lawyers, Guns & Money and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
John Roberts Court on trial
John Roberts Court on trial
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Erick's blog, New York Times, Right Wing News and msnbc.com
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Reactions: Lawmakers revert to talking points as Justices leave them in the dark
Reactions: Lawmakers revert to talking points as Justices leave them in the dark
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Politico
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
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Washington Post, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
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, Politico, The Democratic Daily, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and Naked Politics
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie For Trayvon
Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie For Trayvon
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Mediaite, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Hinterland Gazette, Taylor Marsh and Politico
Fox News:
Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there
Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there
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NO QUARTER, The Smoking Gun, Sister Toldjah, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America, The PJ Tatler, Moonbattery and JustOneMinute
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Rasmussen does a poll on whether Zimmerman is guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
Rasmussen does a poll on whether Zimmerman is guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
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Rasmussen Reports and Outside the Beltway
Corey Boles / Washington Wire:
Rep. Bobby Rush Is Scolded for Wearing a ‘Hoodie’ on House Floor
Rep. Bobby Rush Is Scolded for Wearing a ‘Hoodie’ on House Floor
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Hot Air
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Congressman Bobby Rush Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie
Congressman Bobby Rush Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie
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The Right Scoop and The Daily Caller
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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CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama leads Romney and Santorum in November showdowns — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama holds a double-digit lead over GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in hypothetical general election matchups, according to a new poll.
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Stephanie Cutter / CNN:
Top Obama aide calls GOP charges ‘despicable’
Top Obama aide calls GOP charges ‘despicable’
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Politico, New York Times, Taylor Marsh and The Hill
Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
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Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Vodkapundit, GOP 12 and Shakesville
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Plan U.S. Sports Network to Rival ESPN — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA) is taking steps to start a national U.S. sports network on cable television aimed at challenging Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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JSOnline:
Romney calls in to Wisconsin voters from Texas, embraces Walker and Ryan — MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 — <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true" — DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99" — <w:LsdException Locked="false" Priority="0" SemiHidden="false"
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Ballot Box and The New Republic
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
FBI Taught Agents They Could ‘Bend or Suspend the Law’ — The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals. Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training …
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Guardian, New York Times, Weasel Zippers, emptywheel, Hullabaloo and ACLU
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Stealing Christianity — TNR's Tim Noah wrote yesterday about one of my all-time biggest pet peeves: the constant appropriation of the word “Christian” by conservative evangelicals as exclusive to their distinctive and hardly uncontested point of view. What sent Noah off was an NPR story on …
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The New Republic and Mother Jones