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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a major campaign finance decision, striking down limits on federal campaign contributions for the first time. The ruling, issued near the start of a campaign season …
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Die Another Day — The Supreme Court takes a big step closer to gutting the last bits of campaign finance reform. — Back when Justice Elena Kagan was Solicitor General Kagan, she argued to the Supreme Court in favor of the ban on corporate spending in the Citizens United case.
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Bradley A. Smith / National Review:
Free Speech at Last: McCutcheon Decision Just Right — The Supreme Court took another step toward protecting political speech Tuesday by rejecting arbitrary campaign-finance restrictions. In McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the Court struck down an aggregate limit Americans …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Freeing more political money — Analysis — The Supreme Court pressed ahead on Wednesday with the majority's constitutional view that more money flowing into politics is a good thing — even if much of it comes from rich donors. By a five-to-four vote …
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Shaun McCutcheon / Politico:
I fought the law and I won
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democrats bash SCOTUS ruling
Democrats bash SCOTUS ruling
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Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
The Supreme Court's Ideology: More Money, Less Voting
The Supreme Court's Ideology: More Money, Less Voting
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
SCOTUS on money and politics: A reader's guide
SCOTUS on money and politics: A reader's guide
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How The Supreme Court Just Legalized Money Laundering By Rich Campaign Donors
How The Supreme Court Just Legalized Money Laundering By Rich Campaign Donors
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Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:
In 5-4 Decision, SCOTUS Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Finance Limits
In 5-4 Decision, SCOTUS Strikes Down Aggregate Campaign Finance Limits
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CNN:
Court tweaks donor limits
Court tweaks donor limits
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CBS News:
At least 4 killed in shooting at Fort Hood; gunman among dead — Fort Hood on Google Earth CBS/GOOGLE EARTH — Shares - — FORT HOOD, Texas - A soldier opened fire Wednesday at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding several others before taking his own life, law enforcement sources told CBS News.
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KWTX-TV:
One Death Confirmed In Fort Hood Shooting — At least one person is dead after a shooting late Wednesday afternoon on Fort Hood, a post spokesman confirmed. — Others were injured in the shooting, but the spokesman didn't say how many. — The gunman is still at large and the spokesman …
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KCEN-TV:
Reports of a Shooting on Fort Hood — (KCEN) — We have reports of an active shooter on Fort Hood. — We have reports that there are several injuries from this shooting. There is at least one patient being transported to the hospital. — We are also getting reports of victims …
Recent Updates for Fort Hood Press Center:
Shooting incident at Fort Hood — UPDATE: Fort Hood's Directorate of Emergency Services has an initial report that a shooter is dead but this is unconfirmed. — The injured personnel are being transported to Carl R. Darnall Medical Center and other local hospitals.
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Dana Ford / CNN:
Fatalities reported in Fort Hood shooting — (CNN) — Multiple people were killed and others injured Wednesday when a shooter opened fire at Fort Hood, Texas, a senior military official and law enforcement official told CNN. — The officials said the suspected shooter was among the dead.
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New York Times:
Iraq Veteran at Fort Hood Kills 3 and Himself — KILLEEN, Tex. — A soldier who was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder opened fire at Fort Hood on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 16 before killing himself, the authorities said. The shooting set off …
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Phil Berger:
Tillis, Berger Issue Joint Statement On Newly Discovered, Alarming Evidence Of Voter Error And Fraud — Raleigh, N.C. - House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued a joint statement Wednesday in response to more alarming evidence of voter error …
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Laura Leslie / WRAL-TV:
State elections officials seek tighter security — RALEIGH, N.C. — State elections officials said Wednesday that they're investigating hundreds of cases of voters who appear to have voted in two states and several dozen who appear to have voted after their deaths.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Is it mission accomplished for ObamaCare? — “This is President Obama's Mission Accomplished moment,” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas tells Time.com. “Jimmy Fallon Mocks ObamaCare's ‘Mission Accomplished’ Charade,” according to a Breitbart.com headline. While the host of “The Tonight Show” …
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Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act
Remarks by the President on the Affordable Care Act
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Katie Thomas / New York Times:
Newly Enrolled, but Not Counted by Insurance Exchanges
Newly Enrolled, but Not Counted by Insurance Exchanges
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Arielle Duhaime-Ross / The Verge:
Breaking: NASA suspends contact with Russia over Ukraine crisis — Work on International Space Station will continue — Citing Russia's ongoing violations of Ukraine's sovereign and territorial integrity, NASA announced today that it is suspending all contact with Russian government representatives.
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ThinkProgress:
UPS Fires 250 Drivers After They Protested A Coworker's Firing — Two hundred fifty employees of the United Parcel Service (UPS) walked off the job for 90 minutes in February to protest the firing of one of their coworkers, Jairo Reyes. Reyes had driven for the company for over 20 years …
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Tom Williams / Roll Call:
Intelligence Director Appears to Concede NSA Searched Communications (Video) — The National Security Agency may have read your communications, albeit under limited circumstances. — That seems to be the takeaway of a newly-released letter from Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Harry Reid Now Spreading Baseless Claim that Koch Brothers Don't Pay Corporate Taxes — Senate majority leader Harry Reid has a whole page on his official Senate.gov website devoted to revealing “THE FACTS ABOUT THE KOCH BROTHERS.” One of the alleged facts promoted on Reid's website is that the Kochs do not pay any corporate taxes:
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Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Dem senator tells gay colleague to ‘act more gay’ — Sen. Olivia Cajero Bedford questioned Sen. Steve Gallardo's honesty in regards to his sexual orientation in a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday and said Gallardo should “act more gay.” — Gallardo told Arizona Capitol Times that Cajero Bedford …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Another Data Point For Greater Nationalization of Election Administration — WaPo put up a fascinating timeline from last night which shows the bizarre series of events, non-events, announcements, and non-announcements from the incredibly slow count of yesterday's D.C. party primaries.
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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
America's New Drug Policy Landscape — Two-Thirds Favor Treatment, Not Jail, for Use of Heroin, Cocaine — The public appears ready for a truce in the long-running war on drugs. A national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that 67% of Americans say that the government should focus …
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