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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 and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
New same-sex marriage challenge fails — Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy turned down at midday Sunday a request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in California. Without comment, and without seeking views from the other side, Kennedy rejected a challenge to action …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Ted Olson: GOP moving toward backing same-sex marriage — The attorney and former George W. Bush administration official who helped defeat California's ban on gay marriage said the Republican Party is moving toward embracing the right of same-sex couples to wed. — “Republicans are changing.
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Politico, Associated Press and CNN
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Supreme Court rejects bid to halt same-sex marriages in California — The Supreme Court rejected an emergency request to stop same-sex marriages in California, a lawyer for the gay couples who sued said Sunday. — Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., one of the lawyers who challenged Proposition 8 …
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Joe. My. God.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: High court rejects petition to halt gay marriages in Calif.
Report: High court rejects petition to halt gay marriages in Calif.
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Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and American Power
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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ABC News, The Hinterland Gazette, Reuters and NPR
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Julian Assange Praises ‘Hero’ Snowden, Rebukes U.S. ‘Disgraceful’ Treatment On ABC This Week
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The Raw Story
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Assange: US decision to cancel Snowden's passport is a ‘disgrace’
Assange: US decision to cancel Snowden's passport is a ‘disgrace’
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Politico
Business Insider:
Russian Lawmaker: ‘Morally Impermissible’ To Hand Over Snowden
Russian Lawmaker: ‘Morally Impermissible’ To Hand Over Snowden
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The Hinterland Gazette
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Pelosi: Snowden no hero
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Schulz on alleged bugging of EU office by the US authorities — Brussels - — Foreign Affairs - Internal Policies and EU Institutions — The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz made the following statement on reports that EU offices have allegedly been bugged by the US authorities:
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Guardian, TechCrunch, BBC and The Verge
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Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations
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The Privacy Surgeon, Vox Popoli, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Hill
Josh Levs / CNN:
Europe furious, ‘shocked’ by report of U.S. spying
Europe furious, ‘shocked’ by report of U.S. spying
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NPR, Power Line and The Agonist
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Gutierrez: Boehner's majority plan could doom immigration reform — A House Democrat seeking to forge an immigration deal warned Sunday that Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) pledge to only move a bill that a majority of his conference supports could create a “stalemate.”
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Congressman Claims Immigration Bill Will ‘Force’ Immigrants To Become Citizens
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
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
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Republicans Paint Clinton as Old News for 2016 Presidential Election — WASHINGTON — Stuart Stevens, the top strategist for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, declared to an audience of reporters at a breakfast last month that electing Hillary Rodham Clinton would be like going back in time.
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Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice, Yahoo! News, Fast Company, No More Mister Nice Blog and New York Times
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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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An Unstoppable Climb in C.E.O. Pay — WHEN we made our annual foray into the executive pay gold mine in April, chief executives' earnings for 2012 showed what appeared to be muted growth on the year. The $14 million in median overall compensation received by the top 100 C.E.O.'s …
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VentureBeat
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.
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Weasel Zippers
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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Business Insider, NPR, Via Meadia, The Hinterland Gazette, LewRockwell.com Blog and New York Times