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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
House bill would force the Supreme Court to enroll in ObamaCare — A House Republican on Thursday proposed forcing the Supreme Court justices and their staff to enroll in ObamaCare. — Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) said that his SCOTUScare Act would make all nine justices and their employees join …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Conservatives steamed at Chief Justice Roberts' betrayal — They begrudgingly gave him a pass for the first Obamacare ruling. Not this time. — Conservatives were left baffled after Chief Justice John Roberts saved Obamacare three years ago. On Thursday, as the George W. Bush appointee …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hooray for Obamacare — Was I on the edge of my seat, waiting for the Supreme Court decision on Obamacare subsidies? No — I was pacing the room, too nervous to sit, worried that the court would use one sloppily worded sentence to deprive millions of health insurance …
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Roberts Court's Reality Check — Sometimes the Supreme Court moves in mysterious ways. The health care decision was not one of those times. — A case that six months ago seemed to offer the court's conservatives a low-risk opportunity to accomplish what they almost did in 2012 …
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Democratic Strategist and Prairie Weather
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
Doom for a Cynical Assault on Obamacare — Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, starting with President Barack Obama, have generally taken the high road in response to Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the heart of the law. Graciousness in victory is, perhaps, its own reward.
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The Huffington Post, SCOTUSblog, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality, Prairie Weather and ThinkProgress
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Yet Again, A Scalia Dissent Is Used Against Him — Justice Antonin Scalia strongly objected to Thursday's Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, so it was amusing to see Chief Justice John Roberts use Scalia's own dissent in the last major Obamacare case against him.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution
On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution
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Cafe Hayek, SCOTUSblog, Hit & Run, Advocate, RH Reality Check and New York Times
Wayne Root / TheBlaze.com:
Was Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Blackmailed?
Was Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Blackmailed?
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Washington Post, The Last Tradition, alicublog, The Week, The Daily Caller, Guardian, The PJ Tatler and US News
The Federalist:
‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’ And 20 Other Epic Scalia Burns
‘We Should Start Calling This Law SCOTUScare’ And 20 Other Epic Scalia Burns
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Erin Mershon / Politico:
Republican lawmaker introduces ‘SCOTUScare Act’
Republican lawmaker introduces ‘SCOTUScare Act’
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The New Republic, ACASignups.net, The PJ Tatler and Bloomberg Business
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Analysis Obamacare appears to be about as established as a law can be in divided U.S.
Analysis Obamacare appears to be about as established as a law can be in divided U.S.
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Reuters, Bloomberg View, The Hill, NBC News, USA Today and Bloomberg Business
Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Hollande: 1 dead in France terror attack, severed head found with message — Story highlights — London (CNN)[Latest developments] — • French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspect arrested had been under surveillance but was not previously involved in terrorist activities.
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Politico:
Hollande calls assault terrorism — A decapitated body found on the site of French gas plant explosion, and a suspect has been arrested. — President François Hollande called an assault Friday on a French gas canister factory a terrorist attack, resulting the arrest of a man …
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Daily Mail:
France terrorist attack leaves 1 dead as ISIS linked Yassine Salhi is caught … Emergency personnel work at the scene of a suspected Islamist attack, outside a factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southern France — Police officers search for the second terrorist, who is believed …
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Vox Popoli and The PJ Tatler
Bristol Palin:
Big News — I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant. — Honestly, I've been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one. — At the end of the day there's nothing I can't do with God by my side, and I know I am fully capable of handling anything that is put in front of me with dignity and grace.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Miss USA host quits, calls Trump a ‘clown’ — The Chilean actor scheduled to host this year's Miss USA pageant is quitting over GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump's remarks on Hispanic immigrants. — Cristian de la Fuente, who performs on the television series “Devious Maids,” …
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James Hibberd / EW.com:
NBC scolds Donald Trump: ‘We do not agree’
NBC scolds Donald Trump: ‘We do not agree’
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Politico:
GOP lawmakers: Time to move on from Obamacare repeal — But others say the party needs to keep fighting, to make the 2016 elections a referendum on the law. — Republicans have tried to kill the law twice at the Supreme Court, only to be rebuffed. They've held more than 50 repeal votes …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
State Dept. Gets Libya Emails That Hillary Clinton Didn't Hand Over — WASHINGTON — Despite claims by Hillary Rodham Clinton that she provided the State Department with all of her work-related emails from the personal account she used exclusively when she was in office …
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Ethan J. Kytle / The Atlantic:
Take Down the Confederate Flags, but Not the Monuments — In Charleston, a statue memorializing the Confederacy is taped off after police said someone spray-painted it with the words “Black Lives Matter.” ( David Goldman / AP ) — On Sunday, in Charleston, South Carolina's White Point Garden …
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Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple Removes Civil War Games From App Store Over Confederate Flag Usage [Updated]
Apple Removes Civil War Games From App Store Over Confederate Flag Usage [Updated]
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Fox News drops Bob Beckel — Fox News has officially dropped “The Five” co-host Bob Beckel from the network, saying the show could no longer be held “hostage” to his personal issues. — “We tried to work with Bob for months, but we couldn't hold The Five hostage to one man's personal issues …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Fox News Parts Ways with Bob Beckel
Fox News Parts Ways with Bob Beckel
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US Census / News Releases:
Millennials Outnumber Baby Boomers and Are Far More Diverse, Census Bureau Reports — JUNE 25, 2015 — Millennials, or America's youth born between 1982 and 2000, now number 83.1 million and represent more than one quarter of the nation's population. Their size exceeds that of the 75.4 …
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Jeb Bush and His Favorite Strategist Try to Win Without Speaking — The singular failure of Jeb Bush's political career was his 1994 loss in the Florida governor's race by less than two percentage points. The defeat cast Bush, a rising Republican star, into the political wilderness …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Terry McAuliffe's other job — The Virginia governor doesn't have any official responsibilities for Hillary Clinton's campaign. But he's carving out a significant behind-the-scenes role. — Terry McAuliffe tells political associates that he's focused on his day job as Virginia governor …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Ted Nugent: Thank you, Obama, for giving whites the go-ahead to say ‘n****r’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Ted Nugent finally found a reason to praise President Barack Obama. — The hard rocker-turned-conservative commentator suggested that Obama had finally given white people …
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