memeorandum: The Marionettes Remain Uncut (Erick Erickson/RedState)

3:35 PM ET, June 25, 2014

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Anna Palmer / Politico:

Defiant Chris McDaniel declines to concede in speech to supporters — HATTIESBURG, MISS. — A defiant Chris McDaniel walked up to the podium at his election night headquarters here after the Republican runoff was called for his opponent Sen. Thad Cochran — and then he didn't concede.

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Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:

It Looks Like African-Americans Really Did Help Thad Cochran Win — Tuesday night, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran defied the polls and defeated tea party challenger Chris McDaniel in the Mississippi Senate primary runoff by a 51 percent to 49 percent margin. Cochran couldn't have done …

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Erick Erickson / RedState:

The Marionettes Remain Uncut — “At some point there will be more people with knives out to cut the strings than there will be puppeteers with checkbooks.” — Having been an elected Republican and someone who routinely takes the position of supporting conservatives in primaries and Republicans …

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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:

CHRIS MCDANIEL TO CHALLENGE ELECTION RESULTS — HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election where 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, he announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party …

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David Weigel / Slate:

Thad Cochran Defeats the Tea Party — And So Does Everyone Else — Reporters: Please adjust your narratives. If your narrative is in the locked position, please apply the Smart Take solution that you have been provided. — Well, the Great Tea Party Comeback of 2014 lasted no longer than the Great Tea Party Implosion of 2014.

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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Sarah Palin hits Thad Cochran ‘shenanigans’

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Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Cochran's Secret Weapon: Democratic Voters

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Domenico Montanaro / PBS:
Establishment order restored in midterm elections

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Alexander Burns / Politico:
How Cochran bounced back from disaster

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Patrick Brennan / National Review:
The Flier That Got Thad Cochran Elected?

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James Hohmann / Politico:
Takeaways from a wild primary night

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court Says Phones Can't Be Searched Without a Warrant — WASHINGTON — In a major statement on privacy rights in the digital age, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ruled that the police need warrants to search the cellphones of people they arrest.

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:

Opinion analysis: Broad cloak of privacy for cellphones — Analysis — Treating modern cellphones as gaping windows into nearly all aspects of the user's life and private conduct, the Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously ordered police to get a search warrant before examining the contents …

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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:

The significance of Riley — I've been mulling over the Supreme Court's new decision on cell phone searches, Riley v. California. Here are six insta-thoughts on its likely significance. — 1) The Court's opinion offers a major endorsement of treating computer searches differently than physical searches.

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Politico:
SCOTUS rules warrants needed for cell phone search

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Katy Bachman / Politico: Aereo loses copyright fight at Supreme Court

ThinkProgress:
Supreme Court Issues Bold Decision On Cell Phone Privacy

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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court limits police searches of cellphones

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Sean Davis / The Federalist:

The Economy Tanked Last Quarter And It's Everybody's Fault But Obama's — The U.S. economy shrank at an annual rate of 2.9 percent during the first three months of 2014, government bean counters announced this morning. That matches the worst non-recession contraction of the U.S. economy in over 40 years.

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Jeanna Smialek / Bloomberg:
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter by Most in Five Years

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Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
3 reasons not to freak out about -2.9% GDP

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jaredbernsteinblog.com:
Whoa! Whassup With That Big Negative Q1 GDP Revision?

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Danny Vinik / The New Republic: Today's GDP Number Is Not as Bad as it Sounds. But the Recovery Is Still Weak.

The Indianapolis Star, Indystar:

Judge throws out Indiana ban on same-sex marriage — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Indiana's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, immediately allowing same-sex couples across the state to receive marriage licenses. — U.S. District Judge Richard Young did not issue a stay on his ruling.

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:

Federal Appeals Court Says Utah Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is Unconstitutional — “A state may not deny the issuance of a marriage license to two persons, or refuse to recognize their marriage, based solely upon the sex of the persons in the marriage union,” the court concludes.

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Jessica Miller / Salt Lake Tribune:
10th Circuit Court upholds same-sex marriage

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Markos Moulitsas / The Hill:

Koch owned and operated — If you want to know who each of our two major parties represent, simply look at their donors. — According to data compiled by OpenSecrets.org, Democratic Party committees, on both the federal and state levels, have dramatically outraised their Republican counterparts …

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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:

Boehner eyes lawsuit against Obama on executive orders — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is considering bringing a lawsuit against President Obama for the executive orders the president has issued, Boehner's spokesman confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. — Press secretary Michael Steel provided …

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Eric Katz / Government Executive:

EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway — Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently. — Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent …

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Robert Berkvist / New York Times:

Eli Wallach, Multifaceted Actor, Dies at 98 — Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation's most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday. He was 98. — His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.

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Mario Trujillo / The Hill:

Cheney: Next attack ‘likely’ deadlier than 9/11 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday predicted the United States would not make it out of the next decade without another terrorist attack, likely much bigger than 9/11. — Cheney, who has made a similar warning a number of times before …

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