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8:20 PM ET, June 25, 2012

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5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics — (Midnight update: This item went up three hours ago with a more blunt-instrument headline than it should ever have had: “5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup.” I used the word “coup” in a particular way in the longer item this was drawn from.

Alexander Burns / Politico:

The Romney camp's line on Arizona (Updated) — Mitt Romney released a statement earlier today emphasizing the right of states to enact immigration policies, but not actually commenting directly on the substance of today's Supreme Court decision on the Arizona immigration law.

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, New York Magazine, Guardian, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Post, Hit & Run, Mediaite, Business Insider, American Spectator, The Maddow Blog, The Spectacle Blog and Balloon Juice

Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:

Court strikes down much of Arizona immigration law — This morning, the Court handed down its decision in Arizona v. United States, the case involving Arizona's attempt to supplement federal immigration enforcement through several state law measures. The Court reviewed four provisions of the statute …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America, Associated Press, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Crooks and Liars, NewsBusters.org, Washington Monthly, neo-neocon, Examiner, Taylor Marsh, Booman Tribune, GayPatriot, iOwnTheWorld.com and ImmigrationProf Blog

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Homeland Security suspends immigration agreements with Arizona police — The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline …

Discussion: CNN, The Huffington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Pirate's Cove, Mediaite, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Wake up America, Clayton Cramer's Blog, Riehl World View and The Lonely Conservative

Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:

TPMDC — Justice Scalia Rages Against Obama On Immigration — In his aggressive defense of Arizona's immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia pointedly went after President Obama's recent immigration policy shift and accused him of deliberately refusing to enforce immigration statutes.

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, Little Green Footballs, Firedoglake, Riehl World View, Dave Winer, The Maddow Blog, Talking Points Memo and INSTAPUTZ

Ezra Klein / Washington Post:

How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the mandate — It wasn't easy for Barack Obama to persuade David Axelrod to take him on as a client. It took years, actually. But there was a reason Obama wanted Axelord to be the one to run his campaigns.

Discussion: Salon, Hit & Run, Hullabaloo, Hot Air and Balloon Juice

Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:

Scalia's Anger at Obama on Immigration — Isn't it time to ask the real, lingering question? — Isn't it about time for Justice Antonin Scalia to get his own show on Fox News? Talking Points Memo: … We really have to run a lot of this post here to take it all in.

Discussion: American Power

Gail Sheehy / The Daily Beast:

Bill Clinton Warns About Supreme Court Ruling Against Obamacare — As America awaits the Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare, Clinton spells out the dire consequences of the law being struck down—and talks about the prospects for Hillary being president and Chelsea giving him a grandchild.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Political Carnival and Addicting Info

Wall Street Journal:

Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law — The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's tough immigration law but struck down others as intrusions on federal sovereignty, in a ruling that gave both sides something to cheer in advance of November elections where immigration is a major issue.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Los Angeles Times, ThinkProgress, Washington Wire, Law Blog, Washington Post, Sister Toldjah, The Raw Story, Hit & Run, Wake up America, The PJ Tatler, JustOneMinute, americanthinker.com, American Power, Little Green Footballs and The Right Scoop

New York Times:

Blocking Parts of Arizona Law, Justices Allow Its Centerpiece — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a split decision on Arizona's tough 2010 immigration law, upholding its most controversial provision but blocking the implementation of others.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, msnbc.com, The Caucus, ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, The New Republic, Guardian, The Moderate Voice, American Prospect and Washington Examiner

The White House:
Statement by the President on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Arizona v. the United States

Discussion: Politico, Mediaite, The Caucus, New York Magazine, Washington Wire, ImmigrationProf Blog, Law Blog, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice and The Raw Story

Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Supreme Court Strikes Most of Arizona Immigration Law, Making Scalia Very Angry

Discussion: Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Salon

Rachel Leven / The Hill:
Supreme Court summarily reverses Montana's Citizens United case

Discussion: Ballot Box, CNN, Election Law Blog, ABCNEWS, Washington Post, Indecision Forever, Rush Limbaugh and ABCNEWS

BuzzFeed:
Romney Criticizes Immigration Ruling

Discussion: New York Times

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Citizens United

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Election Law Blog, Los Angeles Times, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, Taking Note and Philly.com

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Justice Scalia rips Obama's deportation directive in dissent on Arizona case

Discussion: CNN, Hot Air and The Hill

Fox News:
States face uphill climb on immigration enforcement after court ruling, DHS policy change

Discussion: Rush Limbaugh, Babalú Blog, The Spectacle Blog and NewsBusters.org blogs

CNN:
Health care ruling looms

Discussion: Liberal Values and PoliticsPA

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court Arizona immigration ruling: Justices clear key part

Discussion: CNN, Fox News, News Desk, Taegan Goddard's Wonk Wire, Hit & Run, Michelle Malkin, Wake up America, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Gateway Pundit

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Four Takeaways From Today's Arizona Immigration Decision

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, Feministing and The Political Carnival

Kelly Cernetich / PoliticsPA:

Turzai: Voter ID Law Means Romney Can Win PA — House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) told the Republican State Committee that Voter ID will allow Romney to win PA. — State Treasurer candidate Diana Irey Vaughan may have stolen the show at the Republican State Committee meeting …

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …, ThinkProgress, Wake up America, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, The Raw Story, The Maddow Blog, The Impolitic, Colorlines, Hullabaloo and Mother Jones

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

Eric Holder ‘Fast and Furious’ contempt vote to be held Thursday — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) The House is scheduled to vote on recommendations that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. be held in contempt of Congress on Thursday, according to House Republican aides.

Discussion: Hot Air, Taegan Goddard's … and ABCNEWS

Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking ‘Fast and Furious’ docs

Discussion: Speaker.gov, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys, Outside the Beltway, Ed Driscoll, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Issa: Fast and Furious might have been a political operation to push for gun control

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, The PJ Tatler, Babalú Blog, The Maddow Blog, ABCNEWS and Business Insider

Garth Johnston / Gothamist:

Crazy Anti-Semitic Elmo Captured In Central Park — Elmo gets carried away on a stretcher (@Kathleen_Loftus's twitter). — Could Shackle Me Elmo—"press his belly and he spews anti-Semitic vitriol!"—be the next big thing? We ask because not everyone was happy in yesterday's beautiful weather …

Discussion: City Room, Gawker, The Daily What and nation.foxnews.com

NY Daily News:
Elmo imposter hassles tourists for money and gets booted from Central Park Zoo

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine

Jimmy Carter / New York Times:

A Cruel and Unusual Record — THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights. — Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.

Discussion: Guardian, Salon, Taylor Marsh, Firedoglake, Riehl World View, Hit & Run, ABCNEWS, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, LewRockwell.com Blog and The Agonist

Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:

DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted — Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman. We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.

Discussion: Doug Ross, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, Sister Toldjah, Weasel Zippers, Moe Lane, UrbanGrounds, The Daily Caller, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Lonely Conservative

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Hispanic Voters Put Other Issues Before Immigration — Healthcare, unemployment are tops among six issues tested — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. Hispanics prioritize immigration, healthcare, and unemployment to equal degrees, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll asking about the importance of six national policy issues.

Discussion: American Prospect, Ballot Box, CNN, Washington Post, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, Business Insider, Weekly Standard, Univision News Tumblr, Pirate's Cove, New York Magazine, GOP 12 and The Page

Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY/Gallup Poll: Latinos strongly backing Obama

Discussion: Washington Post, Guardian, ABCNEWS, Washington Wire and Outside the Beltway

Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:

GOProud Is A Bunch Of Jewish Nazis — Ever since the conservative gay group GOProud backed Mitt Romney for President last week—albeit by a very slim margin—the epithets and insults have been hurling at them like taunts at a gay kid. — But this time, the outrage is justified.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Jawa Report, Advocate, Mediaite and New York Magazine

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. treated for exhaustion, takes medical leave — Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) has taken a medical leave of absence because he is being treated for exhaustion, according to his office. — In a brief statement released Monday, Jackson's staff disclosed that the lawmaker …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Republicans support Obama's health reforms — as long as his name isn't on them — The new Reuters-Ipsos poll finds that Obamacare remains deeply unpopular; 56 percent of Americans oppose the law, versus only 44 percent who favor it. The poll also finds that strong majorities of Americans favor …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Great Abdication — Among economists who know their history, the mere mention of certain years evokes shivers. For example, three years ago Christina Romer, then the head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, warned politicians not to re-enact 1937 — the year F.D.R. shifted …

Discussion: Viking Pundit, The Monkey Cage, Business Insider, Firedoglake and News Desk