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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court won't overturn health care law — President Barack Obama voiced confidence Monday that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law in his first public remarks on the issue since the three days of oral arguments last week. — In a rare instance of a president weighing …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
HEAVY BURDEN — It's well known by now that Donald Verrilli, Jr., the Solicitor General, had an off day at the Supreme Court last Tuesday, when he was called on to defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the part of the Affordable Care Act which requires people to buy health insurance.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
'A Conservative Coup d'Etat'
'A Conservative Coup d'Etat'
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Steve Senne / ABCNEWS:
Ann Romney Says Campaign Will ‘Unzip’ the Real Mitt — GREEN BAY, Wis. - Ann Romney defended her husband's sense of humor today during a radio interview, explaining that if people think the candidate seems too stiff at times as the host suggested, she thinks “we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”
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Lois Romano / Politico:
Ann Romney is the Romney Democrats fear most — Ann Romney's unexpected rock star status has the political arena buzzing about how her husband's campaign will leverage her popularity in an election in which Michelle Obama — one of the most admired first ladies in history — will have an outsized and substantive portfolio.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
‘Mad Men’ character knocks Mitt Romney's father as ‘a clown’ — Sunday's episode of “Mad Men” — the popular drama about an ad agency in the 1960s — gave a nod to the current political scene, with one character taking a not-so-subtle jab at the father of 2012 Republican front-runner Mitt Romney.
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
‘Mad Men’ Blasts Romney, Calls Him a ‘Clown’
‘Mad Men’ Blasts Romney, Calls Him a ‘Clown’
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney confronted over Mormon doctrines — HOWARD, Wis. - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was confronted at a town hall meeting here Monday by a young man who read from the Book of Mormon and asked Romney whether he agreed with his church's one-time belief that interracial marriage was a sin.
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The right's stealthy coup — Right before our eyes, American conservatism is becoming something very different from what it once was. Yet this transformation is happening by stealth because moderates are too afraid to acknowledge what all their senses tell them.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Pink Slime Economics — The big bad event of last week was, of course, the Supreme Court hearing on health reform. In the course of that hearing it became clear that several of the justices, and possibly a majority, are political creatures pure and simple, willing to embrace any argument …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Why Don't Black People Protest ‘Black-on-Black Violence’? — Juan Williams offers a meme that we are seeing repeated in response to the widespread protests around Trayvon Martin: … This is an interesting question. It's also one that Juan Williams, who's been writing about race for almost three decades, should be able to answer.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama 49%, Romney 45% Among Registered Voters Nationwide — Obama, Romney supporters equally enthusiastic about voting — PRINCETON, NJ — If asked to choose between them today, 49% of U.S. registered voters say they would vote for Barack Obama for president, while 45% would choose likely Republican opponent Mitt Romney.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney headed for double win Tuesday
Romney headed for double win Tuesday
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San Francisco Chronicle:
6 dead, 3 injured, gunman caught in college shooting — A gunman opened fire inside a private university in Oakland, killing six people, wounding three and setting off a manhunt that ended about an hour later with the suspected shooter's arrest. — The shooting at Oikos University …
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New York Post:
Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers — By EVAN SERPICK and WILLIAM FARRINGTON in Baltimore and BOB FREDERICKS in NY — Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald's into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.
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Darius Dixon / Politico:
Hillary Clinton slams Rush Limbaugh ‘verbal assault’ — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday called the controversial comments Rush Limbaugh made about Sandra Fluke in February a “verbal assault.” But she also said she was encouraged by the public rebuke of the radio host.
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Former President Clinton on Mitt Romney: Etch-a-Sketch “Is What He's Got to Do”
Former President Clinton on Mitt Romney: Etch-a-Sketch “Is What He's Got to Do”
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Bill Clinton: ‘Happy’ if Hillary Clinton runs in 2016
Bill Clinton: ‘Happy’ if Hillary Clinton runs in 2016
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Feds raid downtown Oaksterdam pot school — (04-02) 10:41 PDT Oakland — Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state's first cannabis industry training school. — Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration …
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Oaksterdam University Raided by Feds
Oaksterdam University Raided by Feds
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
For Kerrey, Terrain Old and New in Nebraska Senate Run — LINCOLN, Neb. — Bob Kerrey, the former governor and two-term senator from Nebraska, has returned to his native state after a decade in New York City to try to reclaim his Senate seat. — The state's once-favored son …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
As The Trayvon Martin Walkbacks Threaten To Become A Stampede — The media walkbacks in the Trayvon Martin shooting case are piling up. — ABC News has pulled the plug on its breakthrough video showing an uninjured Zimmerman being taken to the police station.; their new, enhanced video “Shows Injury”.
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Washington Examiner:
Shock Poll: Majority would recall Wis. Gov. Walker — A new Rasmussen poll finds that Republican Wisconsin Scott Walker is in trouble of being recalled June 5, with a majority, 52 percent, saying they will vote him out less than two years after he took office and immediately went to work to cut the power of public service unions.
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The Obama Jobs Gap is up to 15 million missing jobs — A much-needed reminder that despite the recent upturn in the jobs market, there is still an awfully big employment hole to fill, as JPMorgan economist James Glassman points out: … In other words, to restore the job market to the state …
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