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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 …
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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.
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.
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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.
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Hit & Run, Salon, Hullabaloo, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic Online
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.
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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 …
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law
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The White House:
Statement by the President on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Arizona v. the United States
Statement by the President on the Supreme Court's Ruling on Arizona v. the United States
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Politico, Law Blog, The Caucus, Washington Wire, Mediaite, ImmigrationProf Blog, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, The Raw Story and americanthinker.com
Associated Press:
Federal hotline set up on Arizona immigration
Federal hotline set up on Arizona immigration
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protein wisdom and Weasel Zippers
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Supreme Court Strikes Most of Arizona Immigration Law, Making Scalia Very Angry
Supreme Court Strikes Most of Arizona Immigration Law, Making Scalia Very Angry
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Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Salon
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics
5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics
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Rachel Leven / The Hill:
Supreme Court summarily reverses Montana's Citizens United case
Supreme Court summarily reverses Montana's Citizens United case
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Politico, Election Law Blog, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, CNN, Ballot Box, Indecision Forever and ABCNEWS
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Justice Scalia rips Obama's deportation directive in dissent on Arizona case
Justice Scalia rips Obama's deportation directive in dissent on Arizona case
Fox News:
States face uphill climb on immigration enforcement after court ruling, DHS policy change
States face uphill climb on immigration enforcement after court ruling, DHS policy change
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Rush Limbaugh, Babalú Blog, NewsBusters.org blogs and The Spectacle Blog
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Supreme Court upholds key plank of Arizona immigration law
Supreme Court upholds key plank of Arizona immigration law
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CBS DC, Wizbang and The Lonely Conservative
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 …
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Facebook's Lame Attempt To Force Its Email Service On You — Please don't email me here. — You may or may not realize that you have a Facebook email address. It's an @facebook.com address you can use to correspond with people on external email accounts from your Facebook inbox.
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Guardian, The Daily Caller, TPM IdeaLab, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, Mashable! and New York Magazine
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Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to @Facebook.com; Here's How to Fix Yours — Facebook just removed everyone's email address from their profile and replaced it with an @facebook.com email address without asking you. Here's how to easily fix the problem. — Facebook launched …
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Miranda Leitsinger / msnbc.com:
Teen lesbian couple found shot in Texas park — Police are investing the shooting of two teenage girls in a small Texas community along the Gulf of Mexico. KRIS reporter Lindsay Curtis has the story. — Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park …
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Talking Points Memo, Towleroad News #gay and The Raw Story
NY Daily News:
Elmo imposter hassles tourists for money and gets booted from Central Park Zoo — Man dressed up as furry Sesame Street Muppet gets taken away on ambulance — An emotionally disturbed man dressed as Elmo is taken away by ambulance after hassling tourists for money and shouting obscenties at Central Park Zoo.
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Garth Johnston / Gothamist:
Crazy Anti-Semitic Elmo Captured In Central Park
Crazy Anti-Semitic Elmo Captured In Central Park
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A.W. / Allergic to Bull:
An Important Victory For Freedom of Expression — First, dear readers, you should expect this post to change radically—or perhaps I will start a new post. I just wanted to get this off my chest immediately. — I am free once again to do something very simple. I am allowed to say the name Brett Kimberlin again.
Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WHITEWASH OF ELIZABETH WARREN SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT CHARGE ENTANGLES UVA, UC PRESIDENTS — (Second in a four-part series) When Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan, and Jay Westbrook, co-authors of the 1989 book As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
BuzzFeed:
Romney Bus Circles, Honks Obama — Again Mitt Romney's campaign bus circled President Barack Obama's fundraiser tonight in Boston, the second time they've pulled the stunt in two weeks. — BOSTON — For the second time in as many weeks, Mitt Romney's campaign taunted President Barack Obama outside a speech.
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nation.foxnews.com and Daily Kos
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 …
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CNN
Steve Beck / CBS Philly:
Plane Tows Swastika Banner, Startles New Jersey Beachgoers — LONG BEACH, N.J. (CBS/AP) — New Jersey beachgoers were startled over the weekend to see a small plane flying overhead pulling a swastika banner. — VIEW: Photo Plane Towing Swastika Banner — Twitter was abuzz with tweets …
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New York Magazine
Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem — Nobody wants to pay for their products. — The smut business just isn't what it used to be. — The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant …
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Tami Luhby / CNNMoney.com:
Government wants more people on food stamps — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — More than one in seven Americans are on food stamps, but the federal government wants even more people to sign up for the safety net program. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been running radio ads …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Cato Institute:
Cato Institute and Shareholders Reach Agreement in Principle — The Cato Institute and its shareholders have reached an agreement in principle that would resolve pending lawsuits filed by Charles Koch and David Koch against Cato, its CEO, and several of its directors.
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Los Angeles Times, Balloon Juice and The Volokh Conspiracy
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian pair face death penalty after third alcohol offence — Two people previously lashed 160 times for consuming alcohol, which is forbidden under Islamic Sharia law — Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for persistent consumption of alcohol under the country's Islamic Sharia law …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Lewis Page / The Register:
Antarctic ice shelves not melting at all, new field data show — Crafty boffins got elephant seals to survey for them — Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong …
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