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Wall Street Journal:
Obama vs. Marbury v. Madison — The President needs a remedial course in judicial review. — President Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review and famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But did he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?
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Outside the Beltway, Weekly Standard, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Betsy's Page and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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TPMDC — Top Legal Commentator Toobin Stands By Doomsday Prediction For Health Care Law — Hindsight hasn't changed Jeffrey Toobin's mind. — A week after oral arguments led him to predict that the Supreme Court will strike down a key piece of President Obama's health care law …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Talking Points Memo
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Obama's unsettling attack on the Supreme Court — There was something rather unsettling in President Obama's preemptive strike on the Supreme Court at Monday's news conference. — “I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench …
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MyFoxboston, USA Today, Mediaite, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Bloomberg and Firedoglake
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Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law — President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law — while repeatedly saying he's “confident” it will be upheld.
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Hot Air, BREITBART.COM, RedState, Wake up America, Don Surber, GOP 12, Questions and Observations, Fausta's Blog, americanthinker.com, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, Right Wing News, Reuters, Taylor Marsh, The Mental Recession, Althouse, National Review, nation.foxnews.com, Doug Ross and NO QUARTER
New York Sun:
Ex Parte Obama — It's been a long time since we've heard a presidential demarche as outrageous as President Obama's warning to the Supreme Court not to overturn Obamacare. The president made the remarks at a press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
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Instapundit, RedState, BizzyBlog, Outside the Beltway and neo-neocon
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Hearings Hurt Public Regard for both Health Care Law and Supreme Court — While most Americans say last week's Supreme Court hearings on the 2010 health care law did not change their views of the law or of the Court, they did more harm than good to the image of both.
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ThinkProgress, FiveThirtyEight, Patterico's Pontifications, A plain blog about politics, Politico and Guardian
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
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Booman Tribune
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
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National Review and ThinkProgress
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Wary of activist court, Obama defends health law
Wary of activist court, Obama defends health law
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Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla
New York Times:
Divide and Discriminate — When a light is shined into the dark corners of American politics, it's never pleasant to see what scurries away. Last week, a federal judge in Maine unsealed memos from the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most prominent groups fighting against same-sex marriage.
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Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Poliglot, NOM Blog and Human Rights Campaign
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Olympia Snowe: Birth Control Debate Is ‘Retro’ 1950s … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Michael Bloomberg, Emily's List, Heather Wilson, Lilly Ledbetter, Linda Lingle, Olympia Snowe, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Birth Control, Politics News
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ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog and Althouse
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A Women's Fund event sends off Olympia Snowe and launches Sandra Fluke — Bloomberg, Snowe and Taylor Dana Rubinstein — Some male politicians did show up to last night's Women's Campaign Fund reception at Christie's in Rockefeller Center, though they were solidly outnumbered by their female counterparts.
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Politico
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Sarah Palin pokes fun at herself on ‘Today’ — Kicking off the highly anticipated battle of Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric on the morning TV shows Tuesday, the former Alaska governor demonstrated that that she is more than comfortable poking fun of herself on national television.
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CNN, USA Today, The Week and No More Mister Nice Blog
Quinnipiac University:
Santorum Leads Romney In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; ‘etch A Sketch’ Rap Unfair To Romney, Republicans Say — Favorite Son Rick Santorum leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 41 - 35 percent among likely voters in Pennsylvania's Republican presidential primary …
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Mike Johnson / JSOnline:
Romney, Santorum campaign in final push
Romney, Santorum campaign in final push
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ABCNEWS, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Post
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
GOP Insiders Say Race Is Over, But Do Voters Agree? (The Note)
GOP Insiders Say Race Is Over, But Do Voters Agree? (The Note)
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Capital New York, LifeNews.com, The Other McCain and Swampland
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Obama: Paul Ryan budget plan is ‘Trojan horse’ — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will shred the House GOP budget as a “Trojan horse” built around radical right-wing, “thinly veiled social Darwinism” and the makings of a renewed recession. — That's the message he'll …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
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CNN
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Mitt Romney 'must watch “Mad Men” and think it's the evening news' — Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod mocked GOP front-runner Mitt Romney's economic policies on Tuesday, saying his ideas were from a “time warp.” — “He must watch ‘Mad Men’ and think it's the evening news …
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Josh Fatzick / Ballot Box:
RNC chief: Congress's approval rating would skyrocket if Pelosi quit — The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday said Congress's approval rating would jump 20 points if House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) resigned. — “If Nancy Pelosi would resign …
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HotAirPundit
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi wants Hillary Clinton to run in '16
Pelosi wants Hillary Clinton to run in '16
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CNN, Politico, BuzzFeed, Taylor Marsh and The Huffington Post
Dan Zimmerman / The Truth About Guns:
Quote of the Day: Narrative Destroying Edition — “You will recall the incident of the beating of the black homeless man Sherman Ware on December 4, 2010 by the son of a Sanford police officer. The beating sparked outrage in the community but there were very few that stepped up to do anything about it.
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Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Wall Street Journal:
GOP, Romney to Raise Funds Jointly — In a move that shows Republicans are coalescing around the party's front-runner, Mitt Romney plans to begin raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee this week as both the candidate and the GOP brace for an expensive general-election fight against President Barack Obama.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
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Washington Monthly
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Home Prices Seen Dropping 10% in U.S. on Foreclosures: Mortgages — As many as 1.25 million of America's least cared for homes are headed for auction after a year-long probe into foreclosure practices kept them off the market. — Sales of repossessed properties probably will rise 25 percent …
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naked capitalism and Calculated Risk
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands
Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands
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Firedoglake, Jared Bernstein, CARPE DIEM and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Narrow Escape For Taxpayers — The collapse of the “green” energy industry continued today, as Solar Trust of America LLC filed for bankruptcy. Solar Trust was, it claimed, carrying out the world's largest solar energy project in California. Two things make Solar Trust's bankruptcy especially newsworthy …
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National Review, Reuters, Sister Toldjah, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012, Wall Street Journal and Watts Up With That?
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Boston Herald:
Uncle Obama on the roads again — RMV approves ‘hardship license’ — Just a week after he copped a plea in a drunken-driving rap, President Obama's illegal-alien uncle has landed a hardship driver's license from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, making it perfectly legal for him to drive in Massachusetts …
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Weasel Zippers and National Review
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White House and the F.D.A. Often at Odds — Nancy-Ann DeParle, the whip-smart and sometimes caustic White House deputy chief of staff, picked up The Wall Street Journal one summer day in 2010 and got an unwelcome shock. The Food and Drug Administration was proposing as part of the new health care law …
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Firedoglake, Ezra Klein, Brad DeLong and News Desk
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Perry heard singing in bathroom pre-debate — President Obama sang Al Green at a fundraiser. And Mitt Romney belted out “America the Beautiful” on the trail. — As for Texas Gov Rick Perry, his 2012 musical moment took place in the bathroom, according to this excerpt from POLITICO's new e-book, Inside the Circus:
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Mock, Paper, Scissors, Gawker and New York Magazine