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2:45 PM ET, June 8, 2015

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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:

Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare — The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling. By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …

Discussion: CNN, Guardian, Politico, Daily Kos and Bloomberg Business

Cliff Owen / Associated Press:

Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned down another National Rifle Association-led appeal aimed at loosening gun restrictions and instead left in place two San Francisco gun laws.

Discussion: Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Backs White House on Jerusalem Passport Dispute

Discussion: Washington Monthly, SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway

Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?

Discussion: US News and ABC News

Kenneth Jost / Jost On Justice: Counting Everyone for ‘One Person, One Vote’

Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:

Kalief Browder, 1993-2015 — Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Common Dreams, Hit & Run, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and The Week

Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:

Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide — Kalief Browder, whose three years in jail without trial inspired calls for reform in New York, has committed suicide at age 22, his attorney said Sunday. — Browder was 16 when he was arrested on suspicion …

Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC

Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder

Discussion: Common Dreams

Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:

McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools — A woman swims in a pool in Tampa, Florida. (Shaun Best / AP) — On Friday, a large group of teens gathered for a pool party in the city of McKinney, Texas. Shortly thereafter, someone called the police.

Discussion: WFAA-TV, New York Times, Washington Post, NBC News, CNN, The Week, Crime Blog, Daily Mail, CBS Dallas, ThinkProgress, Hit & Run, Fusion, The Huffington Post, WQAD-TV and Mediaite

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party — The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage. The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …

Discussion: Vox, Raw Story, Daily Kos, The Moderate Voice, Shakesville, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post and Hinterland Gazette

Bob Price / BREITBART.COM:
Video Emerges of Violence at ‘Innocent Pool Party’ in McKinney, Texas

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Crime Blog, TPNN, BuzzFeed and McKinney Police Department

Peter Holley / Washington Post:
New video shows Texas police officer pulling gun on teenagers at pool party

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams, NPR, Raw Story, BizPac Review, WREG-TV, Hinterland Gazette and Mashable

Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:

Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her — A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …

Discussion: Politico, Twitchy, Hot Air, American Spectator, Moe Lane, Ed Driscoll, Bloomberg Business, Patterico's Pontifications, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Fire Andrea Mitchell!, more at Mediagazer »

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08 — Bill and Hillary Clinton's Family Foundation gave $100,000 to a New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year that the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in the hotly contested Democratic presidential primary, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

Vanity Fair:
The War on the Times — The Sulzberger family would never let go of The New York Times.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and Hot Air

New York Post:

Employee probed as possible accomplice in jailbreak — A female prison worker was interrogated Sunday as a possible accomplice in the Hollywood-style escape of two killers from an upstate penitentiary, sources told The Post. — “It's an employee being questioned,” a high-level source said …

Discussion: Fox News, CNN, ABC News, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Daily Mail, Gothamist, NY State of Politics and Capital New York

Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Gov. Cuomo on escaped murderers: ‘They definitely had help’

Discussion: USA Today, The Huffington Post, NBC News, The Week, CBS New York and Washington Post

Rick Rojas / New York Times:
A Convicted Murderer's Escape Alarms Investigators From His Past

Discussion: Daily Mail, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Reuters, Business Insider and Gothamist

Jonathan Topaz / Politico:

Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win — Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote. — Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Common Dreams, Mediaite, The Week, WisPolitics.com and Radio Or Not

Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Scott Walker Said In Iowa

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos and Hot Air

Michael Kruse / Politico:

On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves — Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.” He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.

Discussion: Liberaland, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Reaction and The Week

Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:

Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager — Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign. — The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Political Wire

NBC News:

This Is the Way to Win Elections (But It Makes Governing Harder) — First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter — This is how you win elections. But it makes governing harder

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NBC News and Advocate

Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:

Box Office: FIFA Movie ‘United Passions’ Bombs in U.S. — Even bad publicity is usually good publicity — except in the case of the FIFA-financed film United Passions, which was quickly red-carded at the U.S. box office this weekend. — Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed …

Discussion: Guardian, Washingtonian, Fusion, The Big Lead, The Week and NBC News

Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:

Support for Same-Sex Marriage at Record High, but Key Segments Remain Opposed — 72% Say Legal Recognition is ‘Inevitable’ — As the Supreme Court prepares to decide a key case involving states' requirements to recognize same-sex marriage, public support for allowing gays and lesbians …

Discussion: New York Times, Politico and Advocate

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Santorum: Climate change about ‘political science’ — Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said on Sunday science behind climate change arguments is far from settled. — “This is what bothers me about this debate - the idea that the science is settled,” he told host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: Political Wire

Sarah Kliff / Vox:

The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess. — Republicans might have a new Obamacare problem: what to do if they win at the Supreme Court later this month. — The justices are about to decide the legality of Obamacare's insurance subsidies …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple To Launch New Flipboard-Like App, While Newsstand Goes Away — Apple plans to announce a free, Flipboard-like product that will show consumers samplings of content from big media partners including ESPN, the New York Times, Conde Nast and Hearst, sources say.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Capital New York and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »

FIRE:

College Declares Haymarket Riot Reference a Violent Threat to College President — Oakton Community College (OCC) is insisting that a one-sentence “May Day” email referencing the Haymarket Riot sent by a faculty member to several colleagues constituted a “true threat” to the college president.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hit & Run