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7:10 AM ET, June 4, 2013

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Accuse first and ask questions later  —  A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.
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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.
Associated Press:
IRS victims testify as new agency scandal emerges  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative groups who were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service are getting their say on Capitol Hill just as the details of another IRS controversy are being made public.  —  The leaders of six conservative groups …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Sen. Cruz accuses DOJ of targeting reporters critical of the White House
Discussion: Politico, CNN and Wake up America
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / New York Post:
Scandalpalooza  —  Is Team O trying to tire us out?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
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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Nina Totenberg / Law:
Supreme Court Rules DNA Can Be Taken After Arrest … The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime, and see if the DNA matches any samples from unsolved crimes in a national database.
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 …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court upholds Maryland law, says police may take DNA samples from arrestees
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Mark Memmott / NPR:
Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Collection Of DNA
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Christie Can Maximize the G.O.P.'s Chances in New Jersey  —  The death of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, creates a confusing electoral situation in the state.  There are conflicting interpretations of exactly what New Jersey's law requires — whether a special election …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Lautenberg's Death Adds to Democrats' Legislative Difficulties
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
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
Kirby Dick / New York Times:
Don't Trust the Pentagon to End Rape  —  LOS ANGELES — THE Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing today on sexual assault in the military.  This comes after months of revelations of rapes and other violent attacks at military bases and academies.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Fans resent lack of public Obama events … No free events since '08 … Contrasted with Clinton … State a model for health care
Discussion: Politico
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 …
Discussion: The Verge
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.
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
 
 
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