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Jennifer Epstein / Bloomberg Business:
The Hillary Camp's Rationale for Staying Quiet — Hillary Clinton won't be presiding over a soul-searching press conference or sitting down for a come-clean interview about her use of a private email address any time soon — at least if everything goes according to her team's plan.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
‘Who knows? She could implode totally’ — Clinton email scandal alarms Democrats. — Three days into the rolling controversy over Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email address as Secretary of State, Democrats are showing signs of stress. — In interviews with more than three dozen …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
GOP giddy over Hillary's problems
GOP giddy over Hillary's problems
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James Hohmann / Politico:
The POLITICO Caucus: Dems fret over toll of Clinton email stories
The POLITICO Caucus: Dems fret over toll of Clinton email stories
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Washington Monthly and Bloomberg Business
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
Just got this document from FNC's Catherine Herridge about Secretary Clinton and personal emails
Just got this document from FNC's Catherine Herridge about Secretary Clinton and personal emails
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, ABC News, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Power Line and National Review
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup — Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker. — And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.
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Politico:
GOP leaders to skip Selma event — 'They've lost an opportunity to show the American people that they care,' one black lawmaker says. — Getty — Scores of U.S. lawmakers are converging on tiny Selma, Alabama, for a large commemoration of a civil rights anniversary.
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Washington Post, Daily Kos, The PJ Tatler and Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
As Supreme Court Weighs Health Law, G.O.P. Plans to Replace It — WASHINGTON — The legal campaign to destroy President Obama's health care law may be nearing its conclusion, but as the Supreme Court deliberates over the law's fate, the search for a replacement by Republican lawmakers is finally gaining momentum.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Conservative Justices: If we gut Obamacare, Republicans will fix it! (No, they won't.) — At oral arguments before the Supreme Court yesterday, two of the conservative justices — Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia — both floated versions of the idea that, if the Court does strike …
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
More Than 300 Republicans Call on Supreme Court to Recognize Gay Marriage Nationally — Signers include former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sens. Susan Collins and Mark Kirk and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker — More than 300 veteran Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants …
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OnPolitics, Political Insider blog, Wall Street Journal, Joe. My. God., LGBTQ Nation and Chicago
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama: Ferguson ‘not an isolated incident’ — The work of the civil rights movement remains unfinished, President Obama said ahead of his trip to Alabama to mark the 50th anniversary of the march from Selma to Montgomery. — “I think that the generation that has followed the civil rights generation …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Lawmakers, Obama, civil rights leaders to honor Selma's ‘Bloody Sunday’ this weekend
Lawmakers, Obama, civil rights leaders to honor Selma's ‘Bloody Sunday’ this weekend
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Facing South, Bloomberg View and BillMoyers.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
The Gangsters of Ferguson — Yesterday the Justice Department released …
The Gangsters of Ferguson — Yesterday the Justice Department released …
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
What Obama's trip to Selma means
What Obama's trip to Selma means
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Bloomberg Business and Hinterland Gazette
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
In U.C.L.A. Debate Over Jewish Student, Echoes on Campus of Old Biases — LOS ANGELES — It seemed like routine business for the student council at the University of California, Los Angeles: confirming the nomination of Rachel Beyda, a second-year economics major who wants to be a lawyer someday, to the council's Judicial Board.
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Oliver Roeder / FiveThirtyEight:
Obamacare's Chances Of Survival Are Looking Better And Better — Solicitor General Donald Verrilli won Wednesday's oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Or at least that's what the wisdom of the crowd is telling us.
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Abbe R. Gluck / Politico:
How States' Rights Shapes King v. Burwell
How States' Rights Shapes King v. Burwell
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Wall Street Journal:
How America Was Misled on al Qaeda's Demise — The White House portrait of a crumbling terror group is contradicted by documents seized in the bin Laden raid. — By — In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside …
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Power Line and Weekly Standard
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Fox News Pundit: Muslim Holidays Discriminate Against Christians — Fox News pundit Todd Starnes appeared on the Family Research Council's “Washington Watch” program yesterday to chat with Tony Perkins about what they perceive as growing anti-Christian persecution in America …
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Raw Story and Joe. My. God.
CNN:
Jeb Bush aides used private domain for public business — Photos: Political families 28 photos — Photos: Political families - Debbie Dingell announced Friday, February 28, that she would run for the seat held for 58 years by her husband, Rep. John Dingell, D-Michigan, who announced earlier that he was retiring.
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David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Danforth Aide Says Missouri Auditor Shot Himself After Call — An aide to former U.S. Sen. John Danforth said Thursday that she was on the phone with Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich — discussing his angst over perceived rumors about his religion — just moments before he killed himself.
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New York Times:
States Weigh Legislation to Let Businesses Refuse to Serve Gay Couples — ATLANTA — As it looks increasingly likely that the Supreme Court will establish a nationwide right to same-sex marriage later this year, state legislatures across the country are taking up bills that would make it easier …
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Did Jeb Bush Go Far Enough to Try to Save Terri Schiavo to Save His Iowa Chances? — Standing at the pulpit of his Sioux City, Iowa, mega-churche a decade ago, Reverend Cary Gordon wept over the death of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who had her feeding tubes removed more than 1,500 miles away in Florida.
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TMZ.com:
Harrison Ford — Plane Crashes ... Actor Seriously Injured (VIDEO UPDATE: Paramedics Treat Harrison) — PLANE CRASHES — [Video Update: Paramedics Treat Harrison] — 6:20 PM PT — A rep for Ford says, “Harrison was flying a WW2 vintage plane today which stalled upon takeoff.”
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