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ThinkProgress:
The Supreme Court Just Made It Harder For Women To Exercise Their Right To Choose — The Supreme Court unanimously struck down Massachusetts' abortion buffer zone law on Thursday, ruling in favor of anti-choice protesters who argued that being required to stay 35 feet away from clinic entrances …
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Politico:
Supreme Court strikes down Obama recess appointments — In a rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court struck down three of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board as unconstitutional. — The decision Thursday gives the Senate broad power …
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The Political Insider and BizPac Review
John Fund / National Review:
Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against Obama for 12th and 13th Time Since 2012 — Did you know the Obama administration's position has been defeated in at least 13 - thirteen — cases before the Supreme Court since January 2012 that were unanimous decisions?
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Washington Post and Cato Institute
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Curbs President's Power to Make Recess Appointments — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Obama had violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to appoint officials to the National Labor Relations Board during a brief break in the Senate's work.
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New York Times:
A More Nuanced Breakdown of the Supreme Court — This is the time of year that the news media roll out a familiar graphic: Nine head shots of Supreme Court justices, arrayed from most liberal to most conservative. — In spacing the head shots at equal intervals, the graphics suggest a steady procession from left to right.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Clinic Buffer Zones
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National Review, SCOTUSblog, ACS Blog, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Richard Wolf / Associated Press:
Supreme Court strikes down abortion clinic buffer zone
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USA Today, BillMoyers.com and The PJ Tatler
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
The survivor — Why the hell is Eric Holder still around?
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Hot Air, National Review and Washington Post
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
President's Recess-Appointment Power Cut by High Court
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Bloomberg View and The Gateway Pundit
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology — Even in an increasingly Red vs. Blue nation, the public's political attitudes and values come in many shades and hues. — Partisan polarization - the vast and growing gap between Republicans and Democrats - is a defining feature of politics today.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Proud to be an American? You're probably not a true liberal. — Michelle Obama took some heat in 2008 for saying that, “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country...” — As it turns out, that sentiment isn't all that unusual on the far left of American politics.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Red vs. Blue: The Political Typology
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CNN
Washington Post:
Immigration reform effectively dead until after Obama leaves office, both sides say — The two-year attempt to push immigration reform through Congress is effectively dead and unlikely to be revived until after President Obama leaves office, numerous lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue said this week.
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
In Dramatic Pointless Gesture, Boehner to Sue Obama
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
McDaniel Goes Over the Brink — A lot of us spent a good part of yesterday wondering what the basis might be of some Chris McDaniel challenge to the results in Mississippi on Tuesday night. Would Team McDaniel stick to investigating clear and provable violations of state law (e.g. …
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Sam Levine / The Huffington Post:
NAACP Wants Thad Cochran To ‘Show Some Reciprocity’
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The Hill:
Odds tilt toward GOP Senate — Republicans are in the strongest position to win back the Senate since losing it eight years ago. — Over several months, the party has expanded its range of targeted seats, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has helped defeat insurgents …
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Hot Air, The Moderate Voice, SCOTUSblog, Politico and Taylor Marsh
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
The staggering price of crushing the tea party
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Hot Air, Weekly Standard and WJLA-TV
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
New York's Ban on Big Sodas Is Rejected by Final Court — The Bloomberg big-soda ban is officially dead. — The state's highest court on Thursday refused to reinstate New York City's controversial limits on sales of jumbo sugary drinks, exhausting the city's final appeal and handing …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Panelist: World Cup Is A Way For Obama To ‘Distract People’ (VIDEO) — It was only a matter of time before a Fox News panelist suggested the FIFA World Cup presented a convenient distraction from the problems facing President Barack Obama. — “I'm suspect,” Dr. Keith Ablow said Thursday on …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Sales of Hillary Clinton's New Memoir Drop Sharply in 2nd Week — Sales of Hillary Rodham Clinton's new memoir, “Hard Choices,” declined 43.5 percent to 48,000 copies in its second week on the shelves, according to Nielsen BookScan. — The sales figures put pressure on the publisher …
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / The Week:
Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left — Talk about an epistemic closure problem — This wunderkind is now presiding over an empire of derp. — S — everal long winters ago, when President Obama was thunderously elected amid Messianic fervor, and much of the right …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Ed Driscoll and Hot Air
Nick Hanauer / Politico:
The Pitchforks Are Coming? For Us Plutocrats — To: My Fellow Zillionaires — You probably don't know me, but like you I am one of those .01%ers, a proud and unapologetic capitalist. I have founded, co-founded and funded more than 30 companies across a range of industries …
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Scott Walker / CNN:
Walker not focus of fundraising probe, prosecutor says — (CNN) - Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not currently the focus of an investigation into allegations of illegally coordinated fundraising efforts between the governor's campaign and outside conservative groups in the midst …
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Politico
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Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
The Investigation Into Scott Walker Could Be Way, Way Bigger Than Scott Walker
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David Stout / New York Times:
Howard H. Baker Jr., ‘Great Conciliator’ of Senate, Dies at 88 — Howard H. Baker Jr., a soft-spoken Tennessee lawyer who served three terms in the Senate and became known as “the great conciliator” in his eight years as the chamber's Republican leader, died on Thursday at his home in Tennessee.
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James Gerstenzang / Washington Post:
Sen. Howard Baker, majority leader and Reagan's chief of staff, dies at 88
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Outside the Beltway
Lanhee Chen / Bloomberg View:
Obamacare's Prognosis Grows Dimmer — A nightmare for Affordable Care Act supporters has been the possibility that only the sick would be left to purchase insurance through its exchanges, driving premiums up and insurers out. While the law's boosters have been quick to dismiss the possibility …
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