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Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
COURT: OBAMA APPOINTMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday. — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …
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Melanie Trottman / Wall Street Journal:
Court Rules Obama Recess Appointments Unconstitutional — A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board. — The three-judge panel said that as a result …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
DEVELOPING: Obama recess appointments unconstitutional, court — In a case freighted with major constitutional implications, a federal appeals court on Friday overturned President Obama's controversial recess appointments from last year, ruling he abused his powers and acted when the Senate was not actually in a recess.
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John Elwood / The Volokh Conspiracy:
DC Circuit Strikes Down President Obama's Recess Appointments
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Appeals court rules Obama recess appointments unconstitutional
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Jgalloway / Political Insider:
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss: Frustration with Washington drove him out — U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the leader of a bipartisan effort to address the federal deficit, this morning pointed to gridlock in Washington for his decision not to seek a third term in 2014. — A statement just released by his office includes this:
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Tina Moore / NY Daily News:
Is Hillary seeing double? Daily News analysis points out the Secretary of State may suffer from vision impairments following a concussion and blood clot near her brain — A close inspection of Hillary Clinton's glasses worn during her Wednesday testimony on Benghazi shows an adhesive Fresnel prism …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Jiltin' Joe? Obama does ‘60 minutes’ with Hillary — At the end of a week filled with talk about Joe Biden's presidential prospects, Barack Obama will sit down for a television interview with ... Hillary Clinton. — The joint interview Friday afternoon is set to air Sunday on CBS's “60 Minutes.”
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama, Clinton to appear in joint ‘60 Minutes’ interview
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Wall Street Journal:
Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick: Solving the Immigration Puzzle — Some want illegals to return to their native countries and ‘wait in line’ like everyone else. There is no line. — The nation's capital is awash with ideas about how to fix America's immigration policy.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to unveil immigration plan — President Obama will debut his plans for comprehensive immigration reform at an event Tuesday in Las Vegas, the White House said Friday. — In a statement, the White House said the president's proposal would call for legislation to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Full text: Bobby Jindal's dynamite speech to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte … Below is the text of Gov. Bobby Jindal's full speech to the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, N.C. delivered Thursday night. — Thank you all for having me here tonight.
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David Jackson / Associated Press:
Obama names McDonough chief of staff … Shaking up his executive team for the second term, President Obama on Friday named long-time aide and deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough to be his White House chief of staff. — The chief of staff's main task is “making sure we're …
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Caren Bohan / The Atlantic Online:
Who Is Denis McDonough, Obama's New Chief of Staff?
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Michael Sluss / Blue Ridge Caucus:
GOP Sen. Smith opposes bill to allocate presidential electoral votes by congressional district — If a bill to reapportion Virginia's presidential electoral votes by congressional district is a Republican plot, someone forgot to tell state Sen. Ralph Smith, R-Bedford County.
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Washington Post:
Republicans in Virginia, other states seeking electoral college changes
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Aaron Bycoffe / The Huffington Post:
What The 2012 Election Would Look Like Under The Republicans' Vote-Rigging Plan
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Filibuster Reform Ends With A Whimper: How It Fell Apart — For true believers, filibuster reform was about making it painful, if not impossible, for a Senate minority to obstruct governance by the majority. But it didn't come anywhere near that, leaving reformers deeply disappointed.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Three Winners And Three Losers In Today's Filibuster Deal
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Reaffirmed: 4 Pinocchios for a misleading Mitt Romney ad on Chrysler and China — “Who will do more for the auto industry? Not Barack Obama. Fact checkers confirm that his attacks on Mitt Romney are false. The truth? Mitt Romney has a plan to help the auto industry.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
My God, Could This Be True? — Much like with Mitt Romney, it seems that Benjamin Netanyahu had no idea of the electoral drubbing headed his way, despite the fact that independent pollsters very much did see it coming. Yes, you guessed it: Netanyahu's pollsters were apparently skewing his poll data.
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Steve Connor / The Independent:
Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science — Audit trail reveals that donors linked to fossil fuel industry are backing global warming sceptics — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Deficit Hawks Down — President Obama's second Inaugural Address offered a lot for progressives to like. There was the spirited defense of gay rights; there was the equally spirited defense of the role of government, and, in particular, of the safety net provided by Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
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Tom Wilkinson / The Independent:
Comic book hero Judge Dredd ‘might be gay’ — First picture of the latest edition of comic 2000 AD, titled Closet, shows Dredd kissing another man — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Mike Allen / Politico:
Mitt Romney in D.C. for weekend — Mitt Romney is in Washington for the weekend to attend a private luncheon with campaign supporters and the Alfalfa Club's annual dinner. — A senior aide from the campaign said: “Gov. Romney will attend a private lunch Friday at the J.W. Marriott co-hosted …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Ex-Officer for C.I.A. Sentenced to 30 Months in Leak Case — ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first Central Intelligence Agency officer to face prison for disclosing classified information, was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison by a judge at the federal courthouse here.
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The United States Department of Justice:
Morrison Man Arrested For Possession Of Improvised Explosive Devices — DENVER - Richard Lawrence Sandberg, age 35, of Morrison, Colorado, was arrested this morning by Special Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), United States Attorney John Walsh …
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