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Nancy Pelosi Slams Contempt Vote: 'I Could Have Arrested Karl Rove ... But We Didn't' … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Darrell Issa, Eric Holder, Karl Rove, Nancy Pelosi, Elections 2012, Video, Darrell Issa Contempt, Eric Holder Contempt, Fast And Furious, Holder Fast And Furious, Issa Fast And Furious, Politics News

David Nakamura / Washington Post:

Executive privilege poses tricky situation for Obama — View Photo Gallery — Eric Holder isn't the first: Other high-profile officials held in contempt: Eric Holder isn't the first government official who has been found in contempt of Congress. Congressional Research Service compiled …

Discussion: Washington Wire, New York Times, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove, The PJ Tatler, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Wall Street Journal

Mark Levin / Facebook:

Executive Privilege and how the House should move forward legally — As the Supreme Court recognized in US v. Nixon, the Executive Branch has a legitimate interest in confidentiality of communications among high officials so that the President can have the benefit of candid advice.

Discussion: National Review, JOSHUAPUNDIT and Ricochet Conversations Feed

Investor's Business Daily:

Obama's Executive Privilege Has The Stench Of Cover-Up — Scandal: The president illegally asserts executive privilege to protect an attorney general who's either a clueless political hack, malevolent or both, withholding answers of who is responsible for a Border Patrol agent's death.

Discussion: Shot in the Dark

Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:

Those Fast and Furious documents must be dynamite — My friend Bill Otis was a Justice Department lawyer for many years. He spent a good portion of those years as a prosecutor. He also served as an attorney in the White House Counsel's shop, so he knows all about dealing …

Discussion: Questions and Observations, Ordered Liberty, Pundit & Pundette, Hot Air, American Glob, 2012 Decoded, Fox News and Washington Examiner

David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Is President Obama's assertion of executive privilege valid?

Discussion: Power Line, The Heritage Foundation, The Monkey Cage, Betsy's Page and Outside the Beltway

Politico:
Fast and Furious brawl blows up

Discussion: CNN, Power Line, Reuters, The Heritage Foundation and ThinkProgress

Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Murdered Border Agent's Family Says President Obama ‘Compounding This Tragedy’ with Executive Privilege Assertion

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers and Scared Monkeys

Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: Grayson: Fast and Furious ‘circus’ will backfire on Republicans

Shannen W. Coffin / National Review:
Obama Invokes Executive Privilege

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs

Todd Gaziano / The Heritage Foundation:
Fast And Furious: Executive Privilege Is Illegitimate to Shield Wrongdoing

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, About.com Conservative …, Doug Ross, New York Times, Fox News Insider, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Des Moines Register, Politico and The Daily Caller

Jordy Yager / The Hill:
House panel votes to place Holder in contempt of Congress

Discussion: Politico, And So it Goes in Shreveport, The Strata-Sphere, Hot Air, Mediaite, BREITBART.COM, Independent Journal Review, Washington Examiner, CQ.com, Ballot Box, PJ Media, The Powers That Be, Scared Monkeys, Fox News Insider, Ricochet Conversations Feed and Michelle Malkin

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Another retraction: Holder withdraws claim that Bush's attorney general knew about gunwalking

Discussion: Right Wing News

Michael C. Bender / Bloomberg:

Romney Campaign Said To Ask Scott To Downplay Job Gains — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign asked Florida Governor Rick Scott to tone down his statements heralding improvements in the state's economy because they clash with the presumptive Republican nominee's message that the nation …

Discussion: American Prospect, ThinkProgress, The Hill, ABCNEWS, GOP 12, msnbc.com and Eclectablog

Susanne Craig / DealBook:

Bosses Rein In Banker Who Golfs With Obama — One of the biggest banks in the world wants the president's favorite banker muzzled. — The banker, Robert Wolf, a top UBS executive in New York, is among President Obama's leading fund-raisers, building more than more than $500,000 for his re-election so far this year.

Discussion: New York Magazine and Business Insider

Odarcy / d-umn.campusreform.org:

University sponsors campaign to undermine ‘white privilege’ — The University of Minnesota - Duluth (UMD) is now sponsoring an ad-campaign designed to achieve “racial justice” by raising awareness of “white privilege.” — The project disseminates its message, that “society was setup for us …

Discussion: protein wisdom and The Gateway Pundit

Barbara Liston / Reuters:

Florida police chief embroiled in Trayvon Martin scandal fired — (Reuters) - The Florida police chief whose department failed to arrest neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the February shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin was fired on Wednesday, the city of Sanford said.

Discussion: Business Insider

CNN:
Sanford police chief fired in wake of Trayvon Martin case

Discussion: Shakesville, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Scared Monkeys and New York Magazine

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Bias Against a Mormon Presidential Candidate Same as in 1967 — Four in 10 Americans do not know that Mitt Romney is a Mormon — PRINCETON, NJ — Eighteen percent of Americans say they would not vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who happens to be a Mormon, virtually the same as the 17% who held this attitude in 1967.

Discussion: The Political Carnival, Politico, Business Insider and Outside the Beltway

Elise Viebeck / The Hill:

HHS touts health law for creating jobs, expanding care — Federal health officials announced that new grants under the the healthcare reform law will expand clinic access to more than 1.25 million Americans and create roughly 5,640 jobs. — The grants were awarded Wednesday to 219 local health centers.

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Abby Goodnough / New York Times:
Distaste for Health Care Law Reflects Spending on Ads

Discussion: Prairie Weather and Mother Jones

Chris Geidner / Poliglot:

BREAKING: House GOP Leaders Will Ask Supreme Court By the End of June to Take DOMA Appeal — Lawyers for the House Republican leadership today told a federal court that the House Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling …

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement and Towleroad News #gay

Sam Baker / The Hill:
Court's decision on healthcare law could put progressives back at ‘square one’

Discussion: Pirate's Cove

Newt Gingrich / CNN:

Miriam Adelson gets a refund — Washington (CNN) - It is not your typical refund. — Miriam Adelson, the wife of Nevada casino mogul and major GOP donor Sheldon Adelson, got a $5 million refund for one of her contributions to Winning Our Future, the super PAC that almost single-handedly …

Discussion: Inside Missouri Politics, Politico and Ballot Box

Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Obama campaign holds $110 million in cash

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Reuters, Politico, CNN and Washington Post

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

NBC Prepares to Replace Ann Curry on ‘Today’ — NBC executives are readying a plan to replace Ann Curry on the “Today” show, only a year after she became the co-host of the iconic franchise. — The planning — which is taking place in secret and has not been finalized …

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Beast, New York Magazine, TVNewser, Mediaite, Gawker and Inside TV, more at Mediagazer »

Alexander Burns / Politico:

AP poll: Obama 47, Romney 44 — The latest Associated Press-GfK poll shows a close race that hasn't changed much since Mitt Romney rallied GOP support after the end of the primaries. The debate over which candidate is better equipped to turn around the economy remains competitive:

Discussion: Associated Press, The Right Scoop and The Reaction

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Jersey Boys — The governor and the Boss—a tale of politics, rock and roll, and unrequited love — CHRIS CHRISTIE IS, even in moments of tranquility—of which, in his life, there seem to be none—a torqued-up, joyously belligerent, easily baited, and preternaturally exuberant son of New Jersey …

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:

4 Pinocchios for Obama's newest anti-Romney ad — “Running for governor, Mitt Romney campaigned as a job creator. But as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to China and Mexico. As governor, he did the same thing: Outsourcing state jobs to India.” — The Obama campaign apparently loves …

Discussion: GOP 12, Weasel Zippers and ABCNEWS

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Romney faces immigration test in speech to Fla. crowd — Mitt Romney faces a crucial test Thursday, when he must lay out his immigration policy in order to deny President Obama a potent campaign weapon. — Romney's momentum has stalled since Obama announced his administration …