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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Will Hear Four Cases Challenging Same-Sex Marriage Bans — A decision in the Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee cases, expected by late June, could lead to the end of such bans across the country. [Update: The Obama administration will “urge the Supreme Court to make marriage equality a reality for all Americans."]
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court will rule on same-sex marriage (UPDATED) — UPDATE 7:51 p.m. The Obama administration will file a brief in the same-sex marriage cases, supporting equal access to marital rights in all of the states, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement. — Taking on a historic …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Decide Marriage Rights for Gay Couples Nationwide — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether all 50 states must allow gay and lesbian couples to marry, positioning it to resolve one of the great civil rights questions in a generation before its current term ends in June.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Administration Will Ask SCOTUS To Rule For Marriage Equality — The Obama administration will formally ask the Supreme Court to “make marriage equality a reality for all Americans” in a landmark case. — In a statement issued on Friday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder …
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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court agrees to rule on gay marriage
Supreme Court agrees to rule on gay marriage
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Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without evidence that a crime occurred.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Analysis: CBO contradicted the latest case against Obamacare 68 different times — The Congressional Budget Office wrote 68 reports about the Affordable Care Act during the session that Congress debated the law. Not one of them, a new analysis from Harvard University's Theda Skocpol …
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Sam Brownback reverses course, proposes new taxes — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, whose massive tax cuts became a cause célèbre for conservatives but threw his state's budget into disarray, announced Friday that he would pursue tax increases. — In a stark turnaround …
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Bryan Lowryeagle Topeka / Wichita Eagle:
Gov. Sam Brownback's proposed budget fix slows income tax cuts, hikes taxes on liquor, tobacco
Luke Brinker / Salon:
Defiant Sam Brownback vows to move toward zero income tax — and make Kansas even more unequal
Defiant Sam Brownback vows to move toward zero income tax — and make Kansas even more unequal
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Jonathan Shorman / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Brownback promises income taxes will continue to fall
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
French Prime Minister: ‘I Refuse to Use This Term Islamophobia’ — Manuel Valls argues that the charge of ‘Islamophobia’ is often used to silence critics of Islamism. — The prime minister of France, Manuel Valls, has emerged over the past tumultuous week as one of the West's most vocal foes of Islamism …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The racial politics of seating white sex offender in state legislature — Last month, Joseph Morrissey was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a 17-year-old girl with whom he had a sexual relationship. The girl worked as a receptionist in Morrissey's law office.
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Paul Singer / USA Today:
Jindal doubles down on Muslim ‘no-go zones’ in Europe — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a potential candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, will give a speech Monday in London and reiterate the disputed claim that Muslim immigrants have created “no-go zones” in Europe where non-Muslims are not welcome.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News to correct guest's misstatements on Birmingham, ‘no-go zones’
Fox News to correct guest's misstatements on Birmingham, ‘no-go zones’
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Stephen Moore / Fox News:
2015: It's time to fire the IRS — Imagine what would happen if a retail store or company like Best Buy or Home Depot announced it has plans to slash customer service, that it will make people stand in lines for at least a half hour, and that any customer due a refund will have to wait several weeks.
Tim Worstall / Forbes:
Trying To Understand Why Marc Andreessen And Larry Summers Disagree Using Facebook — I was a little puzzled to see that Larry Summers and Marc Andreessen were disagreeing. Not over something as trivial as politics or anything, they can disagree all they like on that, of course.
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12 Taylor Swift GIFs for you — 1. Last week, President Obama announced his latest idea to provide “free” community college to millions of Americans. It sounded exciting at first... 2. But then, we got to thinking... 3. Free?! Is he using magic money? Nothing is free. So we did a little math.
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty — For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.
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Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
VIDEO: Men Apologize To Women Who've Had Abortions: Sorry ‘This Is Available’ — In a video entitled “The Apology,” three Christian men apologize to women for allowing them to have an abortion and for not putting up a fight “for the opportunity to save a child.”
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
RNC's Priebus looks at 2016 as ‘do or die’ — The GOP chairman was reelected to a third term on Friday. — Getty — After four years spent rebuilding and rebranding the GOP — and on the eve of a modern-record third term — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus …
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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
2014 Was Hottest Year on Record, Surpassing 2010 — Last year was the hottest in earth's recorded history, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped.
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Chris Mooney / Washington Post:
It's official: 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history
It's official: 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history
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