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For SCOTUSblog, one goal: ‘Beat everybody’ and break news of health-care ruling — Linda Davidson/THE WASHINGTON POST - Lyle Denniston, 81, has covered the Supreme Court for nearly six decades. After working at several newspapers, he joined SCOTUSblog in 2004, though he says he has “no patience” for computers.
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Obama'S Legacy At Risk After Winning Health-Care Fight — The outcome of a 100-year fight for U.S. national health care rests on the verdict today of nine justices, who will emerge from behind a red velvet curtain. — Just four months before the presidential election …

Justice Scalia must resign — Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. — He'd have a lot of things to do. He's a fine public speaker and teacher. He'd be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician — and that's the problem.

Supreme Court to rule Thursday on health-care law — The Supreme Court is scheduled to rule on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care legislation Thursday morning, a potentially game-changing, election-year decision that would define the power of the national government …
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Obama Prepares Three Speeches Ahead of Health-Care Ruling — The White House has kept its preparations for the Supreme Court's decision on President Barack Obama's health care law close to the vest. Mr. Obama, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday, the West Wing is merely …
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Supreme Court upholds health care law — Supporters of the Affordable Healthcare Act gather in front of the Supreme Court before the court's announcement of the legality of the law in Washington. — In a dramatic victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld …
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Silver Linings & Golden Horseshoes — No matter how the Supreme Court rules today, Ann Romney's tap-dancing hobby horse will still get better health care than the majority of Americans and Ann will be able to write it off. — As far as comments that the Supreme Court will lose all credibility …
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Health care ruling: Individual mandate upheld by Supreme Court — The Supreme Court upheld most of President Barack Obama's health care law Thursday, ruling that Congress did not overstep its power by requiring nearly all Americans to buy health insurance. — Chief Justice John Roberts joined …
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Anticipating the health-care decision: In Plain English — Tomorrow morning at ten o'clock, the nine Justices of the Supreme Court will take the bench for the last time before their summer recess. Most will head out of town for the summer, leaving the rest of us to digest …
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Supreme Court health care ruling: Win-lose scenarios — As the climactic Supreme Court announcement nears, all of Washington is on the edge of their seats. — Will President Barack Obama's entire health law go down Thursday? Just the individual mandate? Will the whole thing be upheld?
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Supreme Court backs healthcare law in vindication for Obama
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Henninger: The President That Time Forgot
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Supreme Court upholds entire health care law
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A reader's guide to health care ruling
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Supreme Court: Health Care Mystery Unveiled
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Supreme Court Upholds Mandate as Tax
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Presidential Election Could Reshape an Aging Supreme Court
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Romney: 'My guess is they're not sleeping real well at the White House'
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Why Is Nobody Listening to Jimmy Carter's Searing Critique of America? — The former president accuses his post-9/11 successors of breaking the law and trampling on human rights. That should be a bigger deal. — If you told the average American that there was a very powerful politician who …
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JPMorgan Trading Loss May Reach $9 Billion — Losses on JPMorgan Chase's bungled trade could total as much as $9 billion, far exceeding earlier public estimates, according to people who have been briefed on the situation. — When Jamie Dimon, the bank's chief executive …
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Polls: Obama, Romney neck-and-neck in Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire — A new round of NBC News-Marist polls shows President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney running almost neck-and-neck in three key battleground states, with Obama holding a slight advantage in Michigan and North Carolina …


Do Republicans Really Want Universal Health Care? — In 2007, Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina sent a letter to President George W. Bush. — DeMint said he would like to work with Bush to pass legislation that would “ensure that all Americans would have affordable, quality …
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In 2006 Video, Romney Calls Health Care Mandate ‘Essential’
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Let them die! — Kevin Drum's favorite principled Hayekian …
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‘Today’ co-host Ann Curry will bid farewell today — Ann Curry's voice chokes when she talks about saying goodbye this morning on NBC's Today show, years earlier than she had hoped. — It's “going to be a bit of a tough day,” she told USA TODAY in a 40-minute phone interview Wednesday …
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News Corporation Announces Intent to Pursue Separation of Businesses to Enhance Strategic Alignment and Increase Operational Flexibility — Separation Would Create Two Category-Leading Public Companies — News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that it intends …
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News Corp. Board Approves Split in Principle
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The Left's effort to discredit all conservative thought … Popular in Politics — White House: ‘Millions and millions and millions of dollars’ of ads turned Americans against Obamacare — Closed-minded dismissal of opposing views has gone from being a bad habit of conservatives to a core strategy of the Left.
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