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2:48 AM ET, June 4, 2013

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Politico:
Chris Christie has broad sway over Frank Lautenberg succession  —  Within hours of Sen. Frank Lautenberg's passing, Democrats, Republicans and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's office were poring over the state's labyrinthian election laws to figure out what comes next.  —  The short answer?
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Herb Jackson / NorthJersey.com:
US Sen. Frank Lautenberg dies at 89  —  Frank R. Lautenberg, who rose from a poor Paterson boyhood to become a multimillionaire businessman and New Jersey's longest-serving U.S.senator, died Monday at 89 of viral pneumonia, his office said.  —  The oldest member of the Senate …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Lautenberg's Death Adds to Democrats' Legislative Difficulties
Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
Christie faces key decision over appointment to Lautenberg seat
Yahoo! News:
Sen. Lautenberg dies, Christie expected to name successor
Adam Clymer / New York Times:
Frank R. Lautenberg, 5-Term Senator From New Jersey, Dies at 89
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday became the latest Republican to reject Darrell Issa's comments that White House press secretary Jay Carney is a “paid liar” in relation to the IRS controversy.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
Walter Shapiro / Yahoo! News:   The fierce urgency of $$$: Obama aides cash in
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Scandalpalooza  —  Is Team O trying to tire us out?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Carney seeks to cool fight with Rep. Issa
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Scalia Gets It Right  —  The collection of DNA evidence is a powerful crime-control tool, but it also has the potential to lead to greater invasions of privacy.  Today, a bare majority of the Supreme Court held in Maryland v. King that the former considerations should outweigh the latter.
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term  —  After hearing about today's 5-4 decision in Maryland v. King, holding (as Jonathan notes below) that the government can collect and analyze DNA incident to arrest without a warrant, some might be surprised that conservative Justice Scalia voted …
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court allows police to obtain DNA samples without warrant
Discussion: CNN, Reuters and The Impolitic
David Frum / david-frum:
All Good Things...  So it's been a rough month for my family and me.  It's been a rough month for the blog too.  I'm well aware that people come here to read about public affairs, not personal losses.  —  Unfortunately, family and personal matters must claim my attention for some time to come.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Frum's Conservative Reform Checklist  —  As you may have heard, the conservative commentator David Frum (one of the “remormish conservative” writers profiled by Ryan Cooper in the May/June issue of the Washington Monthly) is shutting down his Daily Beast-hosted blog for a variety of family reasons.
Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
Anatomy of a Bogus Obamacare Argument  —  If you want to know why we can't have an honest debate about Obamacare, all you have to do is pay attention to some recent news from California—and the way a highly distorted version of it, by one irresponsible writer, has rippled through the conservative press.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Flashback: Obama Promised Lower Health Care Insurance Premiums For Everyone
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Democrats' New Argument: It's A Good Thing That Obamacare Doubles Individual Health Insurance Premiums
Discussion: Business Insider and Wonkblog
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Woman embroiled in Petraeus scandal sues gov't agencies  —  (CNN) - Jill Kelley, the woman described as a “Tampa socialite” who became enmeshed in last year's scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging employees of government agencies violated her privacy.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
McCarthy diagnosed with lung cancer  —  “There will be some tough days ahead and I will have to miss activities in Washington during my treatment in New York, but I will continue to be a strong advocate for the 4th Congressional District — and I remain committed to improving Long Island's schools …
Discussion: Politico
Fox News:
Sen. Ted Cruz leading the charge on abolishing the IRS  —  Also in this playlist...  Editor's Picks  —  This transcript is automatically generated  —  Senator thank you for joining us we go way back — the old days of Texas solicitor general days if I'm not mistaken.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sen. Cruz accuses DOJ of targeting reporters critical of the White House
Discussion: CNN
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
On the Brink of a Feud With Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly Backed Down  —  A new book claims he did so on orders from Roger Ailes.  Are conservative critiques of talk radio suppressed?  —  Almost no one remembers Bill O'Reilly's searing attack on Rush Limbaugh-style talk radio hosts in 2008.
Discussion: Riehl World News
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Report Warns Of Party's Apocalypse With Young Voters  —  The Republican Party's troubles with young voters are well known.  But a new internal report virtually elevates the threat level to apocalyptic, declaring that the GOP needs a “fundamental re-thinking” of its approach in order to remain viable with the younger generation.
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans to Take Action Against Patent-Holding Firms  —  WASHINGTON—The White House on Tuesday plans to announce a set of executive actions President Barack Obama will take that are aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as “patent trolls” to their detractors …
TIME:
The Dirtiest, Nastiest, Low-Down Campaign In America: Cuccinelli vs. McAuliffe  —  The campaigns of Republican Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe, the two major candidates for Governor in Virginia this year, both claim to be focused on positive messages about growing the economy and creating jobs in the Old Dominion.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trial Portrays Two Sides Private in WikiLeaks Case  —  FORT MEADE, Md. — The court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose secret release of a vast archive of military and diplomatic materials put WikiLeaks into an international spotlight, opened here Monday with dueling portrayals of a traitor …
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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Government: Bradley Manning ‘Dumped Information on the Internet Into the Hands of the Enemy’
Discussion: emptywheel
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Study: Medicaid expansion a good deal for states  —  States would save money by accepting the Medicaid expansion in President Obama's healthcare law, according to a new study.  —  The research, published in the journal Health Affairs, said states that reject the Medicaid expansion will end …
 
 
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House panel seeks to boost Pentagon war spending by $5B
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Interior to unveil plans for offshore wind leases
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Former RNC chairman Steele mulls Maryland gubernatorial bid
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