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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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Associated Press:
Justices act in other health law mandate cases Associated Press 11 mins ago — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday confirmed that its decision a day earlier extending religious rights to closely held corporations applies broadly to the contraceptive coverage requirement …
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The Seattle Times, Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Sasha Volokh / Washington Post:
Is RFRA unconstitutional? — I basically agree with my co-bloggers' posts from yesterday about Hobby Lobby (see, e.g., Eugene's posts here and here): given RFRA, I think Hobby Lobby should have prevailed, as it did. In particular, I favor the idea that corporations should be able to assert rights under RFRA (see Ilya's post here).
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Bleeding Heart Libertarians, Outside the Beltway, The Dish and Alas, a Blog
Abby Haglage / The Daily Beast:
After Hobby Lobby, These 82 Corporations Could Drop Birth Control Coverage — From Notre Dame to manufacturers, dozens of companies were waiting for the Supreme Court's decision in order to opt-out of Obamacare's contraception mandate. — Hobby Lobby is about to get a lot more company.
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American Spectator, Jezebel, Daily Signal and Politico
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Wider impact of Hobby Lobby ruling? — The Supreme Court sent a fairly strong signal on Tuesday that its ruling giving some for-profit businesses a right not to provide birth control services to their female workers goes beyond the specific methods at issue in that decision.
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Balloon Juice and RH Reality Check
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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CNN, Politico, Hullabaloo and Weasel Zippers
Sandra Fluke / Washington Post:
The Hobby Lobby case is an attack on women
The Hobby Lobby case is an attack on women
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Daily Kos and Religion Dispatches
Patrick Brennan / National Review:
Hobby Lobby Actually Lavishes Contraception Coverage on Its Employees
Hobby Lobby Actually Lavishes Contraception Coverage on Its Employees
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NOLA River and Hit & Run
Elias Isquith / Salon:
John Roberts, abysmal failure: How his court was disgraced by corporations and theocrats
John Roberts, abysmal failure: How his court was disgraced by corporations and theocrats
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NewsBusters, Mediaite, Wall Street Journal, Balkinization, PoliticusUSA, Washington Post, Democratic Strategist and Associated Press
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
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The Mahablog, FIRST DRAFT and Washington Free Beacon
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Hobby Lobby Movie Already in the Works (Video)
Hobby Lobby Movie Already in the Works (Video)
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The Raw Story, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog and Talking Points Memo
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court uses a ‘fiction’
In Hobby Lobby ruling, the Supreme Court uses a ‘fiction’
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Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Jonathon M. Seidl / TheBlaze.com:
Wait Until You See the Picture Frame NBC's Cameras Found in Valerie Jarrett's Office — Editor's Note: — Be sure to read to the bottom to see Jarrett's explanation. — Don't blink or you might miss it. — Earlier this week during NBC's exclusive peek inside the world of Valerie Jarrett …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Truth Revolt and Business Insider
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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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Althouse
Jesse Watters / Fox News Insider:
WATCH: Police Kick Watters Out of NOW Conference — This weekend, Jesse Watters took a trip to a National Organization for Women conference at the Hyatt in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where an interesting turn of events took place. — Watters interviewed some of the attendees, asking questions like …
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
NM police boot Fox's Jesse Watters from women's conference after ‘sexist’ comments — Fox News reporter Jesse Watters said on Monday that Albuquerque police had escorted him out of the 2014 National Organization for Women (NOW) conference after he made sexist comments and failed to obtain a press pass.
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PoliticusUSA
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran campaign denies vote-buying reports — The U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran campaign is denying reports from a conservative blogger that it was trying to buy votes in Lauderdale County. — Blogger Charles C. Johnson of GotNews.com is reporting that Stevie Fielder says the Cochran campaign told …
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Little Green Footballs, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller and The Other McCain
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
McDaniel's Bizarre Plan To Challenge The Senate Race In Mississippi
McDaniel's Bizarre Plan To Challenge The Senate Race In Mississippi
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BarbWire.com, Fox News and RedState
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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Doug Ross, RedState, Rush Limbaugh, BarbWire.com, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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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Truth Revolt, AMERICAblog News, Daily Kos, Real Clear Politics, PoliticusUSA, Washington Post, Mediaite, Hot Air, Bloomberg View, The Verge, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
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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Hot Air, Jezebel, Outside the Beltway, AMERICAblog News, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, ACS Blog and Daily Kos
Jon Clifton / Gallup:
Americans Less Satisfied With Freedom — Perceived widespread corruption in U.S. government on the rise — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fewer Americans are satisfied with the freedom to choose what they do with their lives compared with seven years ago — dropping 12 percentage points from 91% in 2006 to 79% in 2013.
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Firedoglake, Hot Air, Washington Examiner, Real Clear Politics and The Federalist
Charles Murray / Wall Street Journal:
The Trouble Isn't Liberals. It's Progressives. — Not everyone on the left wants to quash dissent or indulge President Obama's abuses of executive power. — Social conservatives. Libertarians. Country-club conservatives. Tea party conservatives. Everybody in politics knows …
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Questions and Observations, National Review and Gawker
Phillip Longman / Washington Monthly:
Clueless or Craven? The White House Gets the VA Story Exactly Backwards — Sad to say, the Obama administration seems clueless about what might be broken at the VA and how to fix it. Either that, or it is just cravenly saying and doing whatever it thinks is necessary to make the story go away.
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POTUS Operandi
Chris Ritter / BuzzFeed:
What Happens When A Prep School's Black Student President Mocks Her White Male Classmates — An Instagram photo allegedly led the country's most expensive boarding school to strip its first black female student body president of her role. — One day last March, Lawrenceville School Student …
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Feministing, Jezebel, Hinterland Gazette and Gawker
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Clash in cabinet || Ya'alon proposes new settlement in memory of murdered teens — Defense minister's proposal part of larger plan to expand settlement construction; Livni threatens to vote against, says it would turn national tragedy into political issue.
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Israel Matzav, New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Gothamist, Guardian, The Moderate Voice and CNN
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