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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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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Eight Thoughts On Scalia — I'm still a little stunned by the news that Justice Antonin Scalia, perhaps the living public official I've most respected and admired in my adult life, has died. I respected Scalia for all the obvious reasons. As a legal thinker few could hold a candle to him …
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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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Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Who could replace Scalia? Here are 10 names — WASHINGTON — Who could replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia if Republicans don't block all of President Obama's nominees, as appears likely? Here are 10 possibilities: — Sri Srinivasan: The 48-year-old federal appeals court judge …
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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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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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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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Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
The Constitution Does Not Require the Senate to Vote on a Nomination
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Vulnerable Senate Republicans key to Supreme Court nominee's future
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP RESPONDS TO THE LIES OF SENATOR CRUZ AND WARNS OF LEGAL ACTION — Ted Cruz is a totally unstable individual. He is the single biggest liar I've ever come across, in politics or otherwise, and I have seen some of the best of them. His statements are totally untrue and completely outrageous.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz skewers Trump's sister in Supreme Court debate — AIKEN, S.C. —Ted Cruz on Monday pledged to make the presidential election a “referendum” on the U.S. Supreme Court, ramping up efforts to make that issue one more increasingly personal point of contention with Donald Trump …
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Andrew Shain / The State:
Trump: RNC breaking pledge, calls Cruz a ‘liar’ — GOP front-runner criticized rivals who came after him at debate Saturday — Trump said RNC stacked debate audience with foes who booed him — S.C Republican primary takes place Saturday — MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C.
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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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Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress, The Slot and CBS News
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Debate rips open GOP wounds, and party risks tearing itself apart
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Code Pink praises Donald Trump after debate
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
The Secret Army Stumping for Ted Cruz
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Washington Monthly and The Resurgent
Brad Mielke / ABC News:
Donald Trump Floats Idea of a Third-Party Run Again
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Ad Goes After Donald Trump's Stance on Planned Parenthood
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RedState
Columbia Missourian:
MU chancellor to confer with Board of Curators about body camera footage of Melissa Click — COLUMBIA — MU assistant professor of communication Melissa Click's interaction with a Columbia police officer during the university's Homecoming Parade on Oct. 10 warrants a conversation with the University …
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Committeewoman Says Cruz, Rubio Both Ineligible For Presidency — A Republican National committeewoman from Nevada said Monday that she believes both Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are ineligible to run for President. — Diana Orrock tweeted that “Rubio and Cruz are ineligible …
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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.
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CNN:
Bush family values: 43 comes to Jeb's rescue
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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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Brandon Griggs / CNN:
Kanye West drops album, says he's $53 million in debt
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Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Opening Shot In Rubio's “Morning Again In America” Ad Appears To Be Canada — (Ted Cruz plot?) — youtube.com — “It's morning again in America,” a calm narrator says as an idyllic scene of a boat crossing a harbor plays in Marco Rubio's latest ad — a darker riff on the classic Ronald Reagan ad.
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Alex Jaffe / NBC News:
Rubio: Gang of 8 Bill Never Intended to Become Law — ROCK HILL, SC — Marco Rubio on Monday insisted the immigration reform bill he helped spearhead through the Senate was never intended to become law and that the authors of the bill expected conservatives in the House to make it “even better.”
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