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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Hobby Lobby Is Already Creating New Religious Demands on Obama — This week, in the Hobby Lobby case, the Supreme Court ruled that a religious employer could not be required to provide employees with certain types of contraception. That decision is beginning to reverberate …
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ThinkProgress:
The Most Partisan Supreme Court Justice Of All — In mid-November of 2012, hundreds of tuxedo-clad Republican lawyers gathered at a hotel ballroom in Washington, DC. They were a mix of heads hung in dejection and chests puffed out in compensatory bluster.
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Paul Horwitz / New York Times:
Hobby Lobby Is Only the Beginning — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — THE United States Constitution speaks of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over “cases” and “controversies.” But when social controversies do come before the court, its powers are limited. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Floodgates — A lot of us gabbers suggested yesterday that the Hobby Lobby decision might open the “floodgates” to new legal claims of “religious liberty” exemptions from various federal laws by “closely-held” for-profit corporations. But even as lawyers scurry to think about suits …
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Post-Hobby Lobby, Religious Orgs Want Exemption From LGBT Hiring Order — The day after the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, a group of religious leaders sent a letter to President Barack Obama asking that he exempt them from a forthcoming executive order that would prohibit federal contractors …
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Last Time the Supreme Court Meddled in Women's Health, It Was a Big Setback for the GOP — By ruling that family-owned businesses can deny contraceptive coverage to their employees, the Supreme Court handed a victory to a handful of businesses whose owners equate contraception with abortion.
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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Exclusive: A Liberal Organization's Post-Hobby Lobby Battle Plan
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Emily Rudisill / A Bullseye View:
Target Addresses Firearms in Stores — Every day at Target, in everything we do, we ask ourselves what is right for our guests? We make all of our decisions with that question in mind. Questions have circulated in recent weeks around Target's policy on the “open carry” of firearms in its stores.
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Charts: The Clintons' Well-Oiled Fundraising Machine — The Clintons may have been “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001, but their well-oiled fundraising machine has churned out a steady flow of money since Bill Clinton first ran for president in 1992.
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Dean Poling / Valdosta Daily Times:
First day of new gun law leads to arrest — On the first day of the new Georgia Safe Carry Protection Act, a misunderstanding between two armed men in a convenience store Tuesday led to a drawn firearm and a man's arrest.
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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Two Guys With Guns Have Showdown On First Day Of Georgia's New ‘Guns Everywhere’ Law — A “misunderstanding” between two armed men in a Georgia convenience store led to an arrest on the very day that the state's new expansive gun rights law went into effect, according to The Valdosta Daily Times.
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Sarah Smith / Politico:
‘House of Cards’ United Nations request denied
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True The Vote:
TRUE THE VOTE FILES SUIT AGAINST MISSISSIPPI, STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY — REQUESTS IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO ELECTION RECORDS AHEAD OF CERTIFICATION DEADLINE — True the Vote (TTV), the nation's leading voters' rights and election integrity organization, today filed suit in federal court …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Will Chris McDaniel and his Tea Party army sue to overturn Thad Cochran's Senate victory?
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Sam R. Hall / The Clarion-Ledger:
McDaniel says Cochran stole election in fundraising email
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Poll: Obama worst president since WWII — A plurality of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, a new poll says. — According to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, 33 percent of voters think the current president is the worst since 1945.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Hands down Obama is the worst president since WWII: poll
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Male-female pay gap remains entrenched at White House — The White House has not narrowed the gap between the average pay of male and female employees since President Obama's first year in office, according to a Washington Post analysis of new salary data. — The average male White House …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rand Paul rebukes White House in pro-Israel column — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul blasted the White House's response to a kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers in a strongly worded column designed to highlight his pro-Israel credentials. — Paul, a potential GOP presidential contender …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: No regrets on waiting for GOP
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Los Angeles Times:
Murrieta protesters turn back Border Patrol detainees — Amid rising concern over a surge of young immigrants crossing the border illegally, flag-waving protesters blocked three busloads of detainees in Riverside County on Tuesday, preventing them from reaching a Border Patrol processing station in Murrieta.
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Bagels And Cream Cheese And A Million Of His Own Dollars Won't Win Sean Eldridge A Seat In Congress — Poor Sean Eldridge! Well, not really... he's very rich. He married Chris Hughes, the former Harvard roommate of Mark Zuckerberg and the ultimate example of being in the right place at the right time.
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Justin Huggler / Telegraph:
Nazi ‘perfect Aryan’ poster child was Jewish — Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish — When Hessy Taft was six months old, she was a poster child for the Nazis.
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Charles Murray / Salon:
Charles Murray's new disgrace: “Bell Curve” author has a “liberal” obsession — But here's what's really behind the disingenuous game — There was a time in the not so distant past when the “L” word ("liberal") was so toxic that only the most die-hard, Birkenstock-shod, soy latte swillers would even dare to identify as such.
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