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Scalia: Voting Rights Act Is ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’ — WASHINGTON, DC — There were audible gasps in the Supreme Court's lawyer's lounge, where audio of the oral argument is pumped in for members of the Supreme Court bar, when Justice Antonin Scalia offered his assessment of a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
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From the Shelby County argument — Following through on the deep constitutional concerns stated in its prior Northwest Austin decision, a majority of the Court seems committed to invalidating Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and requiring Congress to revisit the formula for requiring preclearance of voting changes.
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USA Today, msnbc.com, New York Times, Althouse and Austin American-Statesman


Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Voting Rights Act … Once again, race is front and center at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. And once again, the bull's eye is the 1965 Voting Rights Act, widely viewed as the most effective and successful civil rights legislation in American history.
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The Fix, msnbc.com, The Hinterland Gazette and Althouse

Supreme Court justices hint at striking Voting Rights Act provision
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CNN

Conservative Justices Voice Skepticism on Voting Law
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Washington Monthly


Conservative Justices Hammer The Voting Rights Act
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Little Green Footballs and Washington Examiner

Chief Justice Roberts' Long War Against the Voting Rights Act
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The Plum Line, Election Law Blog, The BRAD BLOG and ABCNEWS


Senate GOP ponders shifting power to Obama — Days before the March 1 deadline, Senate Republicans are circulating a draft bill that would cancel $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts and instead turn over authority to President Barack Obama to achieve the same level of savings under a plan to be filed by March 8.
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Roll Call, Yahoo! News, Business Insider, Hot Air and The Caucus
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Reason for mass release of illegal immigrants “hard to believe,” Boehner says — House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Tuesday in an interview with CBS News blasted the “outrageous” move by federal immigration officials to OK the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants as a way to save money ahead …
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protein wisdom, Washington Post, The Week, Politico and Booman Tribune


The Sequester Revelation — Obama has the legal power to avoid spending-cut damage.
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americanthinker.com and National Review

Congressional leaders invited to W.H. on spending cuts deadline day
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller

Sequester countdown: Obama summons Hill leaders
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CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Red Alert Politics

Leaders to meet with Obama on sequester deadline day
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The Maddow Blog and Taegan Goddard's …

President Obama to Meet Congressional Leaders Friday
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Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Hot Air


Republicans are losing the spending argument — For the past several years, congressional Republicans have focused relentlessly on a single message: Washington — led by President Obama — is spending too much money, and it needs to stop. — But according to new Washington Post-ABC News polling …
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CNN, Forbes, Daily Kos, NBCNews.com, Washington Times, Post Politics, BuzzFeed and The Week
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Annihilate! — Whoever could have imagined that Republicans could be such wussies?
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The Moderate Voice

Brief Supporting Same-Sex Marriage Gets More Republican Support — More than two dozen Republicans — including a top adviser to Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and a former congresswoman who made banning same-sex marriage her signature issue — have added their names …
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The Fix, Good As You, Towleroad News #gay, Equality On Trial, AMERICAblog and Bloomberg
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Marilyn Musgrave denies NYT report that she supports gay marriage
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Joe. My. God., Towleroad News #gay and Good As You

Dozens of big U.S. companies to back gay marriage
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News Desk, Advocate, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, AMERICAblog, emptywheel, Firedoglake, Taking Note and Joe. My. God.


The Establishment's Obama Derangement Syndrome — Others have done an excellent job explaining why so many pundits and news analysts are constitutionally unable to describe the impasse over sequestration as anything other than a bipartisan failure — while also revealing, perhaps unintentionally …
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Balloon Juice
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A political DUI — Some of us can recall the helpless feeling of being in a vehicle driven by someone who is intoxicated. If you're like me, you don't want to cause a scene unless the driving is really erratic. But there comes a moment when you need to say: Stop the car. You're going to hurt someone.
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Washington Monthly, Angry Bear and Mother Jones


The Real Reason Why Chris Christie Wasn't Invited to CPAC — ACU Chairman Al Cardenas criticizes New Jersey's Republican governor for supporting Sandy aid bill, Medicaid expansion. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was not invited to speak at the annual CPAC conference this year …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hot Air, Mediaite and American Power
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Charles Krauthammer: Chris Christie CPAC snub a mistake
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Taylor Marsh and Joe. My. God.

Christie's Honeymoon With Conservatives Is Over
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The Week, NationalJournal.com, Hot Air and National Review


U.P. State Senator Tom Casperson Is Some Kind Of Birther — State Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, was on Michael Patrick Shiels' Lansing radio program today and had some fun and interesting things to say about where President Obama was born. — Casperson, whose name might sound familiar …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Talking Points Memo, Progress Michigan, New York Magazine and Balloon Juice


As Budgets Face Cuts, Austerity Kills Government Jobs — WASHINGTON — The federal government, the nation's largest consumer and investor, is cutting back at a pace exceeded in the last half-century only by the military demobilizations after the Vietnam War and the cold war.
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Economix, Daniel W. Drezner, AEIdeas, The Week, Right Wing News, Brad DeLong, Marginal Revolution and Board of Governors …


This Charming Man: An Interview With Morrissey — I don't think I really need to introduce you guys to Morrissey, but just in case: He's been an icon for, oh, more than three decades now. He began his career in the early '80s as the frontman (and heart) of the Smiths before going solo in 1987 …
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Telegraph, Towleroad News #gay and PinkNews.co.uk


Sarah Palin: Feds ‘stockpiling bullets’ to use against us — Sarah Palin says America will eventually default on its debt and claims that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest” to prepare. — “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over .3% …
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Taylor Marsh


Hillary Clinton's Unwritten Memoir The Talk Of The Publishing World — As the former Secretary of State begins work on her third book, editors brace for a seven- or eight-figure deal. “A historic bidding war,” predicts one industry insider. — At a global townterview in Washington …
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Taylor Marsh