memeorandum: The Rise of Popularism — TRAVELING in Europe last week … (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)

11:45 AM ET, June 25, 2012

Top Items:

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.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs, Brad DeLong, New York Magazine, Washington Examiner, Business Insider, Althouse, Washington Post, Balloon Juice and Jammie Wearing Fools

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: New York Times, Salon, Law Blog, americanthinker.com, Sister Toldjah and The Raw Story

New York Post:

Slapping a friend — For the past couple of months, Democrats and their pundit allies — apparently expecting to lose on ObamaCare in the Supreme Court — have been engaged in a campaign to delegitimize the high court in the eyes of the public. In a related development …

Associated Press:

High Court Rejects Part of Arizona Immigration Law — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on immigrants. — But the court said Monday that one much-debated part of the law could go forward — the portion requiring police to check …

Discussion: American Spectator, Globe and Mail, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, AEIdeas and NO QUARTER

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To ‘Show Me Your Papers,’ Strikes Down Part Of Arizona Immigration Law — The Supreme Court just announced that parts of Arizona's harsh immigration law, SB 1070, are preempted by federal immigration law. Significantly, however …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN and The Political Carnival

CNN:

Supreme Court: Key parts of immigration law rejected — Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled largely in favor of the federal government Monday in a case involving Arizona's immigration law, but it upheld the most controversial provision involving police checks on people's immigration status while enforcing other laws.

Rachel Leven / The Hill:

Court affirms Citizens United ruling — The Supreme Court summarily reaffirmed the Citizens United case on Monday and ruled that the decision applies to the states as well in a 5-4 vote reversing a Montana court ruling that allowed restrictions on campaign expenditures.

Discussion: CNN

Associated Press:
Court Rejects Corporate Campaign Spending Limits

Discussion: Election Law Blog and Outside the Beltway

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
For Obama, Supreme Court health-care, immigration rulings to close a tough term

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, americanthinker.com, Jammie Wearing Fools and Outside the Beltway

James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
SCOTUS Update: La Loi, C'est Moi

Discussion: Firedoglake, American Prospect, Washington Post, The New Republic, Daily Kos, The Volokh Conspiracy, Hot Air, Balloon Juice and New York Times

Jonathan Turley / Washington Post:
The fate of health care shouldn't come down to 9 justices. Try 19.

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Althouse, Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway, neo-neocon, Ezra Klein, The Moderate Voice and Prairie Weather

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking Fast and Furious docs — A clear majority of likely voters believes President Obama has exercised his executive power inappropriately — particularly in blocking the release of documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious, according to a new poll for The Hill.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Jammie Wearing Fools

First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: All eyes on the Supreme Court

Discussion: The Maddow Blog, Hot Air and Taegan Goddard's …

Politico: ‘A hugely consequential week’

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: Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com, UrbanGrounds, The Daily Caller and Jammie Wearing Fools

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: GOP 12, Univision News Tumblr, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, New York Magazine, Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers and The Page

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

Discussion: Washington Wire, ABCNEWS and Outside the Beltway

Congressman Allen West / Facebook:

The Muslim B'Hood takeover in Egypt shows Arab Spring is radical Islamic nightmare. — A year ago there were those of us who warned the Obama Administration of a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt. We were castigated as alarmists and loose cannons. Today our predictions have come …

Discussion: Mediaite, Scared Monkeys, Jihad Watch, The Gateway Pundit, Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, American Power, Israel Matzav, RADAMISTO, Politico and The Right Scoop

Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Obama's Reversals on Executive Power

Discussion: Hot Air

Ross Douthat / New York Times:
All the President's Privileges — WHEN George W. Bush …

Discussion: The Monkey Cage, Outside the Beltway, Sense of Events and neo-neocon

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
White House offers praise of Egypt's election of Muslim Brotherhood president

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Scared Monkeys

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: Firedoglake and Business Insider

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, National Review, LewRockwell.com Blog and naked capitalism

Washington Post:

Lawmakers reworked financial portfolios after talks with Fed, Treasury officials — In January 2008, President George W. Bush was scrambling to bolster the American economy. The subprime mortgage industry was collapsing, and the Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than 2,000 points in less than three months.

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …