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New York Times:
Limiting Rights: Imposing Religion on Workers — The Supreme Court's deeply dismaying decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case swept aside accepted principles of corporate law and religious liberty to grant owners of closely held, for-profit companies an unprecedented right to impose their religious views on employees.
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The Hill:
Obama weighs executive hammer — President Obama is weighing executive actions after the Supreme Court ruled against ObamaCare's contraception mandate. — The White House swiftly called on Congress to enact a legislative fix but realistically knows lawmakers aren't about to act.
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Weasel Zippers, The Federalist and Hot Air
Patrick Brennan / National Review:
Hobby Lobby Actually Lavishes Contraception Coverage on Its Employees — The Left is foaming at the mouth over the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision this morning. — “This is going to turn the dial back,” Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz warned on MSNBC.
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The Hill, NOLA River, alicublog, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Supreme Court Isn't Waging a War on Women in Hobby Lobby — Responses to the Supreme Court's ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby are a study in contradictions. It's “a landmark victory for religious liberty” that gives bosses “license to harm their female employees in the name of religion.”
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Becket Fund, Brookings Institute, Twitchy and The Dish
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court uses a ‘fiction’ — Mitt Romney said it, and on Monday the Supreme Court upheld it: Corporations are people, my friend. — The 2012 Republican presidential nominee was jeered when he made the claim in 2011 at the Iowa State Fair.
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
Chris Christie Doesn't Have An Opinion On Hobby Lobby: ‘Who Knows?’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie isn't sure whether the U.S. Supreme Court was right in its Monday “Hobby Lobby” ruling limiting the scope of the federal government's contraception coverage mandate. — “Who knows?”
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post and Mediaite
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
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The Mahablog, FIRST DRAFT and Washington Free Beacon
law.cornell.edu:
BURWELL V. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC.
BURWELL V. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC.
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Althouse, susiemadrak.com, National Review, Booman Tribune, Daily Kos, Religion Dispatches and Balkinization
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Ginsberg's Epic Dissent In Hobby Lobby Is Already A Song
Ginsberg's Epic Dissent In Hobby Lobby Is Already A Song
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Jezebel, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Shakesville and Mother Jones
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
White House Chooses Congressional Fight Over Hobby Lobby Decision
White House Chooses Congressional Fight Over Hobby Lobby Decision
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Rush Limbaugh, RedState, National Review, Politico, CNN, Hot Air, RealClearPolitics Video Log, ThinkProgress and The Federalist
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: Hobby Lobby Ruling “Deeply Disturbing”
Hillary Clinton: Hobby Lobby Ruling “Deeply Disturbing”
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NO QUARTER USA NET, Townhall.com, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, Weasel Zippers and Weekly Standard
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Christie gives no opinion on Hobby Lobby case
Christie gives no opinion on Hobby Lobby case
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State of the Union and Scared Monkeys
New York Times:
Hobby Lobby Decision Highlights Parties' Divide
Hobby Lobby Decision Highlights Parties' Divide
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Daily Kos and Prairie Weather
Michael Scherer / TIME:
Supreme Court Rules Government Can't Make Some Employers Cover Contraception
Supreme Court Rules Government Can't Make Some Employers Cover Contraception
Discussion:
Hit & Run and Conservatives4Palin
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
McDaniel's Bizarre Plan To Challenge The Senate Race In Mississippi — Supporters of Mississippi state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R) are hinting at a specific plan to cast doubt about the results of the primary runoff election in which he lost to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
DEMOCRAT PASTOR ACCUSES THAD COCHRAN CAMPAIGN OF VOTE-FOR-PAY SCHEME
DEMOCRAT PASTOR ACCUSES THAD COCHRAN CAMPAIGN OF VOTE-FOR-PAY SCHEME
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BarbWire.com and The Gateway Pundit
Aaron Gardner / RedState:
BREAKING: New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign in Mississippi Senate Vote Buying Scandal
BREAKING: New Allegations Point to Cochran Campaign in Mississippi Senate Vote Buying Scandal
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The Daily Caller and The Other McCain
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take — House Ethics reverses decades of precedent as lobbyist-sponsored lawmaker travel expands. — It's going to be a little more difficult to ferret out which members of Congress are lavished with all-expenses-paid trips around …
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Talking Points Memo, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg View, Fox News and Washington Post
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Officer's Conviction in Cannibalism Case Overturned — The 2013 conviction of a former New York City police officer in a plot to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women was overturned late Monday by a federal judge who said there was not sufficient evidence to support it.
Andrew Wolfson / Courier-Journal:
Gays have right to marry in Kentucky, judge rules — A federal judge today ruled that same-sex couples have a right to marry in Kentucky. — “In America, even sincere and long-hold religious beliefs do not trump the constitutional rights of those who happen to have been out-voted,” …
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ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News
Sarah Smith / Politico:
Megyn Kelly to Bill Ayers: Sounds like bin Laden — Fox News host Megyn Kelly had a heated interview with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers about his past actions as part of the radical group. — “You sound like — with respect — Osama bin Laden,” Kelly said to Ayers …
Discussion:
Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
What's Going With This Photo In Valerie Jarrett's Office? — An NBC package over the weekend shows an odd display. — “Our Cynthia McFadden was granted unique access and spent a day behind the scenes with Valerie Jarrett at the White House,” host David Gregory said introducing the segment.
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Business Insider and Althouse
Rod Nordland / New York Times:
For Iraq, Potential Leader With a Tarnished Past — BAGHDAD — He took millions of dollars from the C.I.A., founded and was accused of defrauding the second-biggest bank in Jordan and sold the Bush administration a bill of goods on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Outside the Beltway, Hot Air and Hit & Run
Pew Research Center:
Americans show modest interest in Iraq news, less interest in World Cup — So far, the growing crisis in Iraq has not drawn strong interest from the American public. As Sunni militants extend their control of large swaths of Iraq, 25% say they are paying very close attention to the growing violence and political instability in Iraq.
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Washington Post, Red Alert Politics, Mediaite, The Federalist, The Huffington Post and Poynter
The Times of Israel:
What happened on the night of the kidnapping — The teenagers were shot dead in the backseat of the car within minutes of the abduction; the killers believed, erroneously, that the security forces were on their trail — Eyal Yifrach, 19, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Gil-ad Shaar, 16 …
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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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Front Page Magazine, Israpundit, Truth Revolt, The Muqata, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers