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CBS News poll: Trump maintains commanding lead over GOP field — Donald Trump (35 percent) continues to hold a commanding lead over the rest of the field, with a 17 point lead over his closest rival, Texas Senator Ted Cruz (18 percent). John Kasich (11 percent) has now risen to a virtual third-place tie with Marco Rubio (12 percent).
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
MSNBC's Town Hall With Donald Trump Was Disgraceful — The media's coverage of Trump has been soft, insufficient, and without substance. — Is Donald Trump in trouble? After facing hostile questions from Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Wednesday night—they comprehensively laid out his flip-flops …
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CBS News poll: The next Supreme Court justice, Obama, and the economy — The U.S. Supreme Court — With an unexpected vacancy on the Supreme Court as a result of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, it's unclear if he will be replaced before the November election.
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Donald Trump Falls Behind Ted Cruz in National NBC/WSJ Poll — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has fallen behind Ted Cruz in the national GOP horserace, according to a brand-new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. — In the poll, Cruz is the first choice of 28 percent …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump leads Republican field nationally by more than 20 points: poll — Donald Trump has taken a more than 20-point lead over U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas in the Republican race for the presidential nomination, bolstering his position ahead of the party's primary in South Carolina on Saturday …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll be ‘neutral’ on Israel and Palestine — GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to pick sides in the conflict between Israel and Palestine. — “You know, I don't want to get into it,” he told hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski during a MSNBC town hall in Charleston, S.C.
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Hot Air
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Mistakenly Thinks Description Of Sanders Is About Himself (VIDEO) — During a Wednesday night town hall moderated by MSNBC's “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski described a “political outsider” candidate, and Donald Trump incorrectly guessed that she was describing himself.
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz Overtakes Donald Trump in Latest Republican Presidential Poll
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Mike Zapler / Politico:
Rubio holds ‘town halls’ — with no audience questions
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Andrew Shain / The State:
Haley endorses Rubio for president
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Bush struggles to mask mounting frustration
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David Lat / Above the Law:
Controversy Erupts At A T14 Law School Over How (Or Even Whether) To Mourn Justice Scalia — How should one respond to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, a controversial figure within the law? One can imagine a range of possible reactions, from mourning and tributes to criticism …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House: Obama ‘regrets’ his filibuster of Supreme Court nominee — President Obama “regrets” filibustering the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2006, his top spokesman said Wednesday, though he maintains that the Republican opposition to his effort to replace Justice Antonin Scalia is unprecedented.
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Garrett Epps / The Atlantic:
The Republicans' Scalia Hysteria — A half-century ago, the brilliant British comedy troupe Beyond the Fringe produced “The End of the World,” a skit in which a group of cultists gather atop a mountain to greet the Apocalypse, prophesied for that very day. “Now is the end!” they chant.
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Summing Up Scalia — Getting right to the point:
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Balkinization
Kate Hudson / CBS News:
Ranch owner clarifies how he found Scalia amid conspiracy theories
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Literal Holy Crap: Glenn Beck Says Scalia's Death Part of God's Plan to Elect Ted Cruz
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Sandra Day O'Connor: Obama should name Scalia's replacement
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addictinginfo.org, Slantpoint and The Week
Scott Greer / The Daily Caller:
Glenn Beck: God Brought About Scalia's Death So America Would Vote For Ted Cruz
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Betsy's Page, The Last Refuge, Mediaite and Washington Post
Washington Post:
Why Justice Scalia was staying for free at a Texas resort
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Political Wire, The Hill, New York Magazine, Above the Law, Business Insider, Prairie Weather and The Week
Jamiles Lartey / Guardian:
Call for Obama to delay supreme court nomination is ‘absurd’, say legal scholars
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Raw Story, New York Times and Refinery29
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Supreme Court Vacancy Has Left and Right Ready to Pounce
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Salon, ABC News, Common Dreams, Toledo Blade and Daily Kos
Dan Guido / Trail of Bits Blog:
Apple can comply with the FBI court order — Earlier today, a federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBI's request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen's iPhone 5C. Since then, many have argued whether these requests from the FBI are technically feasible given …
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Shane Harris / The Daily Beast:
Apple Unlocked iPhones for the Feds 70 Times Before
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Mainstream G.O.P. Field of Three Faces Brutal Delegate Math — If the Republican Party remains divided for much longer, it will start getting more difficult for a mainstream candidate to win the nomination. — Yet Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and John Kasich all have incentives to stay in the race …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
'Don't f-k with me': Hear Kanye's uncensored ‘SNL’ meltdown — Kanye West blasted Taylor Swift as a “fake ass” and called NBC staffers “white m— s” during his epic meltdown backstage at “Saturday Night Live. In an audio clip exclusively obtained by Page Six, Kanye can be heard repeatedly yelling at …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Obama ‘Hope’ designer endorses Sanders — Artist and activist Shepard Fairey, who designed the iconic “Hope” poster during then-Sen. Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, is backing Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. — “I'm supporting Bernie Sanders …
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Outside the Beltway
Ben Shapiro / Breitbart:
Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, American Immigration Policy at Mexican Border — Pope Francis, apparently desperate to reach out to the Catholic Church's growing base in Latin America, spent the day slapping Americans in the face from across the US-Mexico border.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Graham: GOP will get ‘slaughtered’ if Trump nominee — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) argued Wednesday that if Donald Trump is the GOP nominee, Republicans will get “slaughtered” in the November election. — Lambasting the outspoken Republican front-runner as an “opportunist,” …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Lindsey Graham a ‘disgrace,’ ‘nut job,’ ‘one of the dumbest human beings’
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Crank of the Far Right? — I have been vaguely aware of Milo Yiannopoulos for a while. He is a gay Brit who works for Breitbart News. Lately he has been embroiled in controversy on Twitter and on college campuses, but I hadn't paid enough attention to know what the fuss was about.
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