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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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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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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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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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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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The Hill:
Obama weighs executive hammer
Obama weighs executive hammer
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Wider impact of Hobby Lobby ruling?
Wider impact of Hobby Lobby ruling?
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Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
OTC Birth Control: Your Body, Your Choice, Your Responsibility
OTC Birth Control: Your Body, Your Choice, Your Responsibility
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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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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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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
Supreme Court Breakfast Table
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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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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
What's Going With This Photo In Valerie Jarrett's Office?
What's Going With This Photo In Valerie Jarrett's Office?
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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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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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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 …
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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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Chief Justice Courts Liberals In Search of Middle Ground — Supreme Court's Leader Joined Liberal Colleagues to Achieve Some Major Decisions This Term — WASHINGTON—In the Supreme Court term that just concluded, Chief Justice John Roberts joined with liberal colleagues to draw some of the court's major decisions toward the middle.
Fox News:
ObamaCare coverage for millions in jeopardy as watchdog finds widespread data flaws — The Obama administration is struggling to resolve data discrepancies over health insurance that could jeopardize coverage for millions, according to a watchdog report on the still-rocky implementation of ObamaCare.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Privacy board backs NSA's foreign spying — A federal privacy watchdog is largely putting its support behind a major pillar of the National Security Agency's foreign snooping. — A draft version of a new Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) report released late Tuesday …
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Al Jazeera America:
Japan relaxes pacifist constitution, will allow fighting overseas — Major policy shift from post-WWII charter has alarmed regional rival China — Japan's Cabinet has agreed on a proposal to end a ban on its military fighting abroad, a major shift away from the country's postwar pacifism and a move that is riling China.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
More on the IRS's Illegal Destruction of Evidence — Scott wrote earlier today about the motion that True the Vote is bringing against the IRS in the federal court in the District of Columbia. The motion asks for expedited discovery with respect to the IRS's destruction of evidence relevant …
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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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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Landrieu, Cassidy tied in runoff — PPP's newest Louisiana poll finds a race largely unchanged from February: Mary Landrieu and Bill Cassidy are likely to advance to a December runoff, and that match up is a toss up. Landrieu leads with 44% for the November election to 27% for Cassidy, 8% for Rob Maness, and 5% for Paul Hollis.
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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