memeorandum: Obama's healthcare legacy sealed (Sarah Wheaton/Politico)

12:05 PM ET, June 25, 2015

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Sarah Wheaton / Politico:

Obama's healthcare legacy sealed — The Supreme Court cemented President Barack Obama's signature achievement on Thursday by affirming that the Affordable Care Act intended to help all Americans who need help paying for their insurance. — In their 6-3 majority in King v. Burwell …

Discussion: Yahoo Politics and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Amy Fried / Talking Points Memo:

What A Maine Tea Party Battle Tells Us About Obamacare's Future — If you want a glimpse of what may happen when the Supreme Court decides the big Obamacare case of the year, King v. Burwell, you might want to take a look up to America's Northeastern corner. Mainers like to say “As Maine goes, so goes the nation.”

Discussion: Pew Research Center and ACASignups.net

Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:

Supreme Court Rejects Obamacare Lawsuit, Preserving Insurance For Millions — WASHINGTON — The latest and possibly the last serious effort to cripple Obamacare through the courts has just failed. — On Thursday, for the second time in three years, the Supreme Court rejected a major lawsuit …

Discussion: Slantpoint and Taylor Marsh

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:

BREAKING: Supreme Court Upholds Nationwide Obamacare Subsidies — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, in a ruling that preserves health insurance for millions of Americans.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Mock Paper Scissors

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

The Supreme Court's Obamacare Decision Is The Biggest Possible Win For The Obama Administration — The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in King v. Burwell is not simply a victory for the Obama administration — and for the millions of Americans who depend upon the Affordable Care Act for their health coverage.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Dan Mangan / CNBC:

Supreme Court approves Obamacare subsidies on HealthCare.gov — High court backs White House on health law — CNBC's Bertha Coombs reports the latest developments and action in the health care space after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Obamacare subsidies are legal.

Discussion: ACASignups.net and EconLog

Politico:

Anti-Obamacare senator braces for court ruling — The Supreme Court may give Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson more than he bargained for. — Ron Johnson won his Senate seat in 2010 on an anti-Obamacare campaign, railing against the law as “the greatest assault on our freedoms in my lifetime.”

Discussion: Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Washington Post, ACASignups.net and CNN

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Scalia Lashes Out: ‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’ — In his dissent from the Supreme Court's decision upholding Obamacare subsidies in 34 states, Justice Antonin Scalia accused the six-vote majority of engaging in “interpretive jiggery-pokery.”

Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:

Obamacare Ruling May Have Just Killed State-Based Exchanges — Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that health insurance consumers can receive federal subsidies regardless of their state's role in running their insurance market, fewer states may stay in the game.

Discussion: Reuters, Liberaland, The Last Tradition, The Daily Caller and Shakesville

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Affordable Care Act survives Supreme Court challenge

Discussion: Progress Pond

Associated Press: Supreme Court upholds key tool for fighting housing bias

Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
A Big Victory for Obamacare

Discussion: Off the Kuff

New York Times:
Measuring Health Insurance Subsidies' Success

Discussion: Common Dreams, NBC News and Reuters

Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Guide: Six Big Decisions Remain

Discussion: Slate, Fox News, Slantpoint, Hullabaloo, SCOTUSblog and Washington Post

Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:

A Welcome Tipping Point for Republicans and the Confederate Flag — As everyone knows by now, in the wake of the massacre at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina lasted week, allegedly perpetrated by a racist, Dylann Roof, there have been renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from state grounds.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo

Tasos Lazarides / Touch Arcade:
Apple Removes All American Civil War Games From the App Store Because of the Confederate Flag

Discussion: Business Insider

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Tearing Down the Confederate Flag Is Just a Start

Discussion: Washington Post, Power Line and Eschaton

105.9 FM and AM 630:
Louis Farrakhan : “They Don't Give a Damn About Them 9″

Discussion: Scared Monkeys and RedState

Lou Lumenick / New York Post:
‘Gone with the Wind’ should go the way of the Confederate flag

Discussion: Mediaite, BREITBART.COM, Guardian, TIME, Hot Air and Instapundit

Ian Hanchett / BREITBART.COM:
Farrakhan: I Don't Get Debate Over Confederate Flag, ‘We Need to Put the American Flag Down’

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
We Have Officially Reached Peak Leftism

Discussion: American Spectator, RedState, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, USA Today, Mediaite, Pirate's Cove, Fox News, Hot Air, The Mahablog, Bloomberg View, Raw Story and Washington Monthly

John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:

Bernie Sanders Gains on Hillary Clinton in Bloomberg Early-State Polling — Bernie Sanders is gaining on Hillary Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire, with an appeal as an issue-oriented protest vehicle potentially capable of slowing any coronation of the popular front-runner.

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Hot Air, Common Dreams and Washington Free Beacon

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

Former Advisers Caution Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks — Five former members of President Obama's inner circle of Iran advisers have written an open letter expressing concern that a pending accord to stem Iran's nuclear program “may fall short of meeting the administration's own standard of a ‘good’ agreement” …

Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
Public Statement on U.S. Policy Toward the Iran Nuclear Negotiations

Discussion: Power Line, Business Insider and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

John Koblin / New York Times:

Citing Ben Affleck's ‘Improper Influence,’ PBS Suspends ‘Finding Your Roots’ — PBS said on Wednesday that it was postponing a future season of “Finding Your Roots” after an investigation revealed that the actor Ben Affleck pressured producers into leaving out details about an ancestor of his who owned slaves.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Poynter. and The PJ Tatler, more at Mediagazer »

Daily Mail:
Harvard professor who covered up Ben Affleck's slave roots could be dropped from PBS …

Discussion: Althouse, Instapundit and American Power

Detroit Free Press:

Last Slide — Famed street artist Shepard Fairey, who visited Detroit last month to create the largest mural of his career, now faces felony charges that he tagged other properties across the city on his own time. — A warrant for his arrest was filed in 36th District Court on Friday.

Discussion: Politico, NBC News, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler

#Not1More Deportation:

Undocumented Transgender Woman Who Interrupted President at White House Pride Event Calls to End Deportation — There is no Pride as long as LGBTQ Immigrants are being imprisoned, she says. — WASHINGTON, DC — Just moments ago, Jennicet Gutiérrez interrupted the President during …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, reported.ly, Patterico's Pontifications, NPR and Advocate

CNN:
Obama shuts down White House heckler: 'You're in my house!'

Discussion: The Hill, Addicting Info, Talking Points Memo, Vox, theGrio, UPROXX and WGN-TV

Business Wire:

Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes Signs New Multi-Year Contract with 21st Century Fox — Mr. Ailes to Continue Leading America's Most Successful and Most-Watched News Channel … NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—21st Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOXA, FOX) today announced that Roger Ailes has signed …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Poynter.

Jack Shafer / Politico:
Sarah Palin is the REO Speedwagon of Politics

Discussion: Guardian, Bloomberg Business and CNNMoney

The Hill:

Boehner doles out new punishment — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his allies are charging ahead with their effort to punish conservatives who have been a thorn in leadership's side — a purge that is roiling the GOP conference. — The latest victim is Colorado Rep. Ken Buck …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post and Instapundit

Amber Phillips / Washington Post:

The story of Bobby Jindal and an apparent exorcism you probably haven't heard — On Wednesday, Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to be a serious candidate for president. — The Louisiana Republican governor's bid also adds another little-known first: He's the first presidential candidate …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, RedState, Slantpoint and Guardian