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Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
The Real John Roberts Emerges — This time a year ago, the conservative chief justice whose vote saved President Obama's health care law was a figure of mystery. In fact, “The Mystery of John Roberts” was the title I gave to one of my Opinionator columns for The New York Times last summer.
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Washington Monthly
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
Emergency stay of California same-sex marriages sought (updated 6:05pm) — Attorneys for the parties who sought to defend Proposition 8 in federal court have filed an emergency motion in the Supreme Court seeking to block same-sex marriages from proceeding in California. The filing (via Jess Bravin) is available here.
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Hot Air, The Volokh Conspiracy, his vorpal sword, AMERICAblog, Joe. My. God., Outside the Beltway and American Power
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Democrats Get a Gift From the Roberts Court — BACK in the days when Republicans were reading polls through rose-colored glasses and imagining a Mitt Romney landslide, one of their most plausible arguments was that many pollsters were simply misreading the likely composition of the electorate.
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Booman Tribune and Election Law Blog
Spiegel Online:
NSA Spied on European Union Offices — America's NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network.
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CNN, Guardian, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette, NPR, The Agonist, Informed Comment, Balloon Juice and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Guardian:
Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations — Reports in Der Spiegel that US agencies bugged European council building ‘reminiscent of cold war’, says German minister — The prospects for a new trade pact between the US and the European Union worth hundreds …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Privacy Surgeon, The Agonist and Vox Popoli
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Schumer: Russia ‘should pay a price’ for harboring NSA leaker Snowden — Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) both urged a strong response to Russia's refusal to extradite National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. — “They should pay a price, either diplomatic, economic, geopolitical, for doing what they did.
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Politico
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Claims Immigration Bill Will ‘Force’ Immigrants To Become Citizens — A Republican Congressman argued that the immigration measures making their way through the House of Representatives won't include a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants because many don't want to achieve legal status.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Sens. Schumer, McCain optimistic House will pass immigration bill
Sens. Schumer, McCain optimistic House will pass immigration bill
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Politico
CNN:
Obama unveils $7 billion power initiative for Africa — (CNN) — U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $7 billion Sunday to help combat frequent power blackouts in sub-Saharan Africa. — Funds from the initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will be distributed over the next five years.
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The Hinterland Gazette, Via Meadia, LewRockwell.com Blog, NPR and New York Times
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Obama Compares Nelson Mandela to George Washington
Obama Compares Nelson Mandela to George Washington
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Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Booman Tribune and ABC News
Gil Hamer / TheTower.org:
The Gezi Diaries: Can We Still Call Turkey Civilized? — Some see it as a modern democracy with an Islamic tint, an improving, reforming country. But if you were in Istanbul during the last month and a half, you'd have seen something completely different: a violent, authoritarian, increasingly suppressive and brutal regime.
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Agence France Presse and Power Line
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Associated Press:
Atheists unveil Fla monument near Ten Commandments — STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government — Recent leaks of classified documents have pointed to the role of a special court in enabling the government's secret surveillance programs, but members of the court are chafing at the suggestion that they were collaborating with the executive branch.
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Prairie Weather and Althouse
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Sarah Palin floats idea of leaving the Republican Party [VIDEO] … Palin suggested she is open to the idea and said that if the GOP continues to abandon its conservative principles, other would follow suit. — “I love the name of that party — the ‘Freedom Party,’” Palin said.
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Scared Monkeys, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Conservatives4Palin and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Sarah Palin · 3,552,984 like this — Please take a look at the article linked below to understand how the amnesty bill the Senate passed yesterday is a sad betrayal of working class Americans of every ethnicity who will see their wages lowered and their upward mobility lowered too.