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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)
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.
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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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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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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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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
White House defends embattled solicitor general
White House defends embattled solicitor general
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision
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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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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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Los Angeles Times:
Justices suggest Medicaid expansion is unconstitutional
Justices suggest Medicaid expansion is unconstitutional
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Peter Landers / Washington Wire:
A Medicaid Twist in Health-Law Arguments
A Medicaid Twist in Health-Law Arguments
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Will Medicaid be sacrificed?
Argument recap: Will Medicaid be sacrificed?
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Place Your Bets on Obamacare
Place Your Bets on Obamacare
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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
John Roberts Court on trial
John Roberts Court on trial
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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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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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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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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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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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Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Dem pulled from House floor for Trayvon hoodie
Dem pulled from House floor for Trayvon hoodie
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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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Paul D. Shinkman / WTOP.com:
Gingrich: Like a struggling sports team, I'm not quitting — WASHINGTON - Less than a day after announcing he was cutting a third of his campaign staff and asking his campaign manager to resign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told WTOP Wednesday he has no intention of dropping out of the GOP primary race.
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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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Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
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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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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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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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Reid Cherlin / GQ:
Take It From Me: Defending Obamacare is Super-Hard — It so happens that I'm packing up my apartment and moving out of Washington today after eight years of residence, most of which were spent in politics and government. One of the items I just bubble-wrapped is a framed copy of The L …
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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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Michael Wilson / City Room:
On ‘Mad Men,’ an Opening Scene Straight From Page 1 — The opening scenes of Sunday's season five premiere of “Mad Men,” set in 1966, depicted a sort of knucklehead-racism at work, when young men from the ad agency Young & Rubicam dropped bags filled with water on protesters picketing on the Madison Avenue sidewalk below.
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