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Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
The 8 Best Lines From Ginsburg's Dissent on the Hobby Lobby Contraception Decision — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Charlie Neuman/ZUMA — On Monday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg penned a blistering dissent to the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling that the government can't require certain employers …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: Hobby Lobby Ruling “Deeply Disturbing” — Clinton's comments drew applause from the audience. — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday called the Supreme Court's ruling that employers with religious objections can refuse to pay for insurance coverage for contraception “deeply disturbing.”
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Hillary Clinton blasts Hobby Lobby ruling — Hillary Clinton on Monday called the Supreme Court's ruling in the contraception-related Hobby Lobby case “deeply disturbing.” — The former secretary of state and possible Democratic front-runner skewered the decision during an appearance …
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Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:
Court rulings: It's GOP v. Democrats — Editor's note: Jeffrey Toobin is CNN senior legal analyst and author of “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. — (CNN) — Elections have consequences.
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
6 Stupid Arguments About Hobby Lobby From Dumb Liberals — The Supreme Court's decision today affirming the right of business owners to run their businesses in accordance with their religious beliefs has caused no small amount of consternation among the anti-science, functionally illiterate Left.
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Misstripleem / Twitchy:
‘Fu*k you:’ Left-wingers want to ‘burn down’ Hobby Lobby after SCOTUS win … Let it all out. Exhale. … Stay classy. And peaceful:
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The Hobby Lobby Case Shows Why Private Companies Shouldn't Provide Insurance. The Government Should. — In one sense, the Supreme Court's decision in Hobby Lobby seems less awful than many liberals feared it would be. The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito …
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Hobby Lobby: Supreme Court Declares Itself to Be High Priest — In a huge shift, the Supreme Court evaluated whether a religious belief is valid to let a corporation be exempt from contraception coverage. — Today's Hobby Lobby ruling may be a setback, in the long run, to the conservative crusade for “religious liberty.”
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
JUSTICES: CAN'T MAKE EMPLOYERS COVER CONTRACEPTION — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that some corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
Abby Ohlheiser / The Wire:
Read Justice Ginsburg's Passionate 35-Page Dissent of Hobby Lobby Decision — On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with Hobby Lobby on the company's challenge to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate, ruling that the mandate, as applied to “closely held” businesses, violates the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Do Democrats win by losing Obamacare decision? — Washington (CNN) - At first glance, Monday's Supreme Court ruling that closely held companies cannot be required to cover some types of contraceptives for their employees appears to be a defeat for the White House, Democrats and the health care reform measure they pushed into law.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Calls SCOTUS's Hobby Lobby Ruling ‘Deeply Disturbing’
Hillary Clinton Calls SCOTUS's Hobby Lobby Ruling ‘Deeply Disturbing’
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Adam Winkler / The Huffington Post:
Corporations Are People, And They Have More Rights Than You
Corporations Are People, And They Have More Rights Than You
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Rush Limbaugh:
The Supreme Court Defended Religious Liberty in the Hobby Lobby Case; It Didn't Ban Birth Control
The Supreme Court Defended Religious Liberty in the Hobby Lobby Case; It Didn't Ban Birth Control
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
5 Major Takeaways From The Hobby Lobby Decision
5 Major Takeaways From The Hobby Lobby Decision
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. justices uphold firms' religious objections to contraception
U.S. justices uphold firms' religious objections to contraception
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ThinkProgress:
Why Today's Hobby Lobby Decision Actually Hurts People Of Faith
Why Today's Hobby Lobby Decision Actually Hurts People Of Faith
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Conservative Supreme Court Majority Prevails In Two Key Cases [UPDATE: Is Hobby Lobby So Narrow As To Be “Meaningless”?]
Conservative Supreme Court Majority Prevails In Two Key Cases [UPDATE: Is Hobby Lobby So Narrow As To Be “Meaningless”?]
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters:
Eugene Robinson: Hobby Lobby Sort of Like Segregationists
Eugene Robinson: Hobby Lobby Sort of Like Segregationists
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations
Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations
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New York Times:
Israel's Search for 3 Teenagers Ends in Grief — JERUSALEM — Israel's intense 18-day search for three abducted teenagers ended Monday when their bodies were found buried under a pile of rocks in an open field about 15 miles from where the youths were last seen in the occupied West Bank.
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Shiryn Ghermezian / Algemeiner.com:
Report: Arabs Attacked IDF Ambulance Transporting Bodies of Murdered Israeli Teens (PHOTO)
Report: Arabs Attacked IDF Ambulance Transporting Bodies of Murdered Israeli Teens (PHOTO)
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The Times of Israel:
What happened on the night of the kidnapping
What happened on the night of the kidnapping
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Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
College GOP chairman resigns, joining Democrats — The chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans has resigned his post and “will be changing my party affiliation to Democrat in the next few days.” — Evan Alvarez resigned his post this morning, which was made public …
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Rebecca Kaplan / CBS News:
Blaming Congress, Obama readies unilateral action on immigration — Shares - — After waiting more than a year for the House to take up an immigration overhaul passed by the Senate, President Obama is moving ahead with a series of executive-level actions he says will improve the system …
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Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
Obama To Move Toward Reducing Deportations Without Congress
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Americans Losing Confidence in All Branches of U.S. Gov't — Confidence hits six-year low for presidency; record lows for Supreme Court, Congress — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' confidence in all three branches of the U.S. government has fallen, reaching record lows for the Supreme Court …
Glenn Coin / Syracuse Post-Standard:
New York Court of Appeals upholds rights of towns to ban natural gas drilling — Fracking opponents in DeWitt gathered for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's visit on March 25. New York's Court of Appeals upheld the right of towns to ban fracking and other natural gas drilling. (Photo courtesy of Emily Bishop)
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Boy Dies of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound at Boy Scout Camp: SDPD — A 12-year-old Boy Scout shot himself in the head at the Fiesta Island Youth Camp in Mission Bay — A boy has died after shooting himself in the head Monday at a Boy Scout camp in San Diego, officials confirmed.
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Guttmacher Institute / New from the Guttmacher …:
Contraceptive Use in the United States — WHO NEEDS CONTRACEPTIVES? — • There are 62 million U.S. women in their childbearing years (15-44). [1] About 43 million of them (70%) are at risk of unintended pregnancy—that is, they are sexually active and do not want to become pregnant …
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