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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Why blocking Obama's pick to replace Scalia could cost Republicans their Senate majority — THE BIG IDEA: — Mitch McConnell has decided to wager the Republican majority in the Senate on blocking Barack Obama's pick for the Supreme Court. — It's a bold and understandable …
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CNN, Guardian, Townhall.com, The Huffington Post, Liberal Values, Daily Kos, RedState and New York Times
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How America Was Lost — Once upon a time, the death of a Supreme Court justice wouldn't have brought America to the edge of constitutional crisis. But that was a different country, with a very different Republican Party. In today's America, with today's G.O.P., the passing of Antonin Scalia has opened the doors to chaos.
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Prairie Weather, The Grumpy Economist, The Moderate Voice and Hullabaloo
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
The GOP's Worst Nightmare SCOTUS Nominee — Tino Cuellar. California judge. Mexican-American. Harvard. Yale. Stanford. How many Latino votes you think the GOP'd get if they block him? — Here's a name you need to get to know: Tino Cuellar. Who is Tino Cuellar?
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Washington Monthly, Feministing and Politico
Richard L. Hasen / Washington Post:
The battle over replacing Justice Scalia is just the start of a war over the Supreme Court — Richard L. Hasen, a professor of law and political science at University of California, Irvine, is the author of Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections.
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Bush: 'There shouldn't be deference' on nominee — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush in an interview Monday morning urged Senate Republicans to block President Obama from nominating a Supreme Court justice, taking a harder stance than during the latest GOP debate.
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Politico and Washington Post
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Mitch McConnell's Stance in Confirmation Fight Could Help and Hurt G.O.P.
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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ThinkProgress, abc11.com and The Daily Signal
ABC News:
Supreme Court Vacancy Highlights Stakes in Presidential Race
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Politico, Associated Press and abc11.com
Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
How the politics of the next nomination will play out
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Common Dreams, No More Mister Nice Blog, NBC News, Slantpoint, The Week, addictinginfo.org, Above the Law and Washington Monthly
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Debate rips open GOP wounds, and party risks tearing itself apart — GREENVILLE, S.C. — In an election that Republicans have long seen as a chance to put forward new stars with a fresh and broadly appealing conservative vision, the GOP is instead at risk of tearing itself apart over its past …
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The Moderate Voice, Booman Tribune, Politico, Friendly Atheist, BloombergView.com and New York Times
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Cruz: Trump will get rid of the Second Amendment — Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz on Sunday said primary rival Donald Trump will erase the Second Amendment if he is elected. — “And if Donald Trump becomes president, the Second Amendment will be written out of the Constitution …
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ThinkProgress, The Slot and CBS News
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Code Pink praises Donald Trump after debate — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is being praised by Code Pink, a group working to end U.S. wars and militarism that has protested the Iraq War. — Trump garnered support from the organization during the GOP debate Saturday night …
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The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, The Huffington Post, Infowars and New York Magazine
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP Iraq battle shines new spotlight on Jeb Bush weakness — It's entirely reasonable to say the war in Iraq was a disaster. Maybe you disagree, or maybe you think that's too harsh, but it's an arguable proposition. — To Jeb Bush, though, it's an attack on his family, and therefore out of bounds.
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Graham calls Trump the GOP's ‘Michael Moore candidate’
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Raw Story
Annie Karni / Politico:
Harry Reid allies to Team Clinton: Don't slam Nevada's caucus — With five days to go until the Nevada caucuses — once viewed as Hillary Clinton's Western firewall — Sen. Harry Reid and his allies are incensed at the wounded Democratic front-runner. — The reason: the Clinton campaign's attempt …
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Reno Gazette-Journal and Hot Air
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders supporters revolt against superdelegates
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Common Dreams, naked capitalism, Salon and Power Line
The College Fix:
Mizzou's Melissa Click told police ‘get your f**king hand off me’ at previous racial protest — New revelations will factor into her employment review, chancellor says — The University of Missouri professor who called for “some muscle” to remove a student journalist from a racial protest …
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Power Line
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Dan Greenwald / KMOV-TV:
New video shows MU professor Click allegedly cursing at, confronting officers
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The Gateway Pundit, Campus Reform and The Daily Caller
William Schmitt / Columbia Missourian:
Melissa Click says she'll fight to restore her reputation, keep job
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Mediaite, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Caller, Slantpoint and FOX2now.com
Guardian:
Kanye West claims to be $53m in debt, and asks Mark Zuckerberg for help — West says tech entrepreneurs Zuckerberg and Larry Page listen to hip-hop, but are more interested in opening schools in Africa than helping celebrity rappers — It was a busy weekend for Kanye West …
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Mother Jones, KTLA, AOL, CBS Philly and Observer
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Secret Army Stumping for Ted Cruz — The senator's super PACs have launched an unprecedented ground effort in South Carolina and seem intent on going where few super PACs have gone before—door knocking. — We all know super PACs have permanently changed the face of American politics.
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The Resurgent
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Reuters:
23 dead as missiles hit three hospitals, school in Syrian towns — At least 23 civilians were killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns on Monday, residents said, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Médecins Sans …, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, NPR and Yahoo! News
Phyllis Korkki / New York Times:
Fired for Cursing on the Job, Testing the Limits of Labor Law — Little did the managers of a Hooters restaurant realize that a bikini contest they sponsored in 2013 would end up testing the limits of labor law. — When a group of waitresses participated in the contest, held at a Hooters in Ontario …
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Eater
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
The Post wins two Polk Awards, for series on ‘settlements’ industry and police shootings — Washington Post reporter Terrence McCoy was looking into the troubled life and premature death of Freddie Gray last year when he noticed something curious: Before his death, Gray …
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