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6:50 PM ET, March 28, 2012

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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.
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 …
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 …
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
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.”
Los Angeles Times:
Justices suggest Medicaid expansion is unconstitutional
Peter Landers / Washington Wire:
A Medicaid Twist in Health-Law Arguments
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Law Blog
New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Momentous Test
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Will Medicaid be sacrificed?
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
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.
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
Dem pulled from House floor for Trayvon hoodie
Corey Boles / Washington Wire:
Rep. Bobby Rush Is Scolded for Wearing a ‘Hoodie’ on House Floor
Discussion: Hot Air
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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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.
Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
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 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Timothy Noah / The New Republic:
Language Cop: “Christian”
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Mother Jones and News Desk
 
 
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Chris Parsons / Daily Mail:
Former Pakistani dancing girl commits suicide 12 years after horrific acid attack which left her looking ‘not human’
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
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Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
House bill would ban bosses from asking for Facebook passwords
BBC:
New attacks target Jews in France
Discussion: Via Meadia and New York Times
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rubio: 'I'm not going to be the vice presidential nominee'
Discussion: GOP 12 and M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …
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Mj Lee / Politico:
John McCain: John Boehner's got it wrong on presidential travel
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Justifies Denying Health Care To People With Pre-Existing Conditions: 'We Can't Play The Game Like That'
Matt Bai / New York Times:
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