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9:45 AM ET, March 17, 2016

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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Why Would Obama Nominate an Old White Guy to the Supreme Court?  —  There are a few reasons.  Political calculation isn't one of them.  —  President Barack Obama's decision to nominate Merrick Garland, a 63-year-old white moderate and perennial short-lister, to the Supreme Court …
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Associated Press:
Analysis: Obama Dares GOP to Let Clinton, Trump Pick Justice  —  By nominating an uncontroversial 63-year-old judge, President Barack Obama handed Republicans an unwelcome election-year proposition: Give in or risk letting Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump pick a Supreme Court justice the GOP might like even less.
Discussion: Politico, abc13.com and ABC News
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
No hearing for Obama's Supreme Court nominee, McConnell says
Sarah Almukhtar / New York Times:
Why Obama Nominated Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court
Rose Garden / The White House:
Remarks by the President Announcing Judge Merrick Garland as his Nominee to the Supreme Court
Chuck Grassley:
Grassley Statement on the President's Nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Garland's lack of standout opinions a boon in confirmation fight
Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post and The Hill
A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
GOP reality check: Trump or convention fight  —  In a crushing rout in the Florida primary Tuesday, Donald Trump  —  , the candidate who once symbolized the future of the GOP.  Trump notched wins in five of six states voting that night, securing a more direct path to the nomination …
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Paul Watson / Infowars:
How the GOP Elite Plan To Rob Donald Trump  —  Cleveland, ladies and gentlemen, won't be for the faint of heart  —  Shhhh.  I've just come from a meeting of the Republican Establishment.  You know, those guys who want to replace what the voters want with what they want.  That Republican Establishment.
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Wild card for Trump: Who gets to be a convention delegate?
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Republicans Enter a Shadow Campaign to Sew Up Delegates
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Harper Neidig / The Hill:   GOP official: The party chooses the nominee, not the voters
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Donald Trump Warns of ‘Riots’ if Party Blocks Him at Convention
Discussion: AOL and American Prospect
David Montgomery / Twin Cities:
Candid Marco Rubio blasts Trump and media, calls Cruz ‘only conservative left in the race’  —  Former presidential candidate Marco Rubio told a group of Minnesota supporters Wednesday he is hoping one of the remaining candidates for president will stop Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination.
Discussion: RedState
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New York Times:
With Marco Rubio Out, Ted Cruz Confronts a New Foe in John Kasich  —  HOUSTON — After months squaring off against Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, presuming him to be the chief obstacle to a one-on-one showdown with Donald J. Trump, Senator Ted Cruz on Wednesday emerged from the latest Republican primaries …
Matt Bai / Yahoo Politics:
How Kasich became National Republican Grownup
Gavin Jackson / Post and Courier:
Gov. Nikki Haley siding with Ted Cruz in GOP race
Joel Manby / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program.  Here's why.  —  A killer whale raises its head out of the water during the first show since an orca killed a trainer at the SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 27, 2010.  —  Americans' attitudes about orcas have changed dramatically.
news.nike.com:
NIKE HYPERADAPT 1.0 MANIFESTS THE UNIMAGINABLE  —  “Innovation at Nike is not about dreaming of tomorrow.  It's about accelerating toward it,” says Tinker Hatfield.  “We're able to anticipate the needs of athletes because we know them better than anybody.  Sometimes, we deliver a reality before others have even begun to imagine it.”
Danielle Kreutter / KKTV-TV:
Facebook Post Leads To Police Ticket  —  An important lesson to be careful about what you post on Facebook and other public sites.  One local man ended up getting a ticket after a video he posted on Facebook was viewed by police.  —  Michael Dalton told 11 News he loves making Facebook videos in his free time.
Discussion: WNEP-TV
Michael R. Bloomberg / BloombergView.com:
Canada's New Hope  —  The value of the Canadian dollar and the price of oil, one of the nation's top exports, have both tumbled to near record lows.  But those details — and the apparent demise of the Keystone XL pipeline — don't begin to tell the story of what lies ahead for the economy of Canada …
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
What We Missed About Rubio  —  In February 2013, Senator Marco Rubio let me sit in on the politics course he taught part time at Florida International University.  He knew I was writing a cover story about him for Time magazine, but he still gave his students a master class in self-promotion in my presence …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Democrats sound alarm against Trump  —  PHOENIX — Leading liberals and progressive groups are turning their gaze away from the Democratic primary and toward efforts to unite the left against Donald Trump, framing him as a dangerous and unprecedented candidate who poses an existential threat to the progressive movement and the nation.
Jordan Sargent / Gawker:
PBS News Story on First-Time Trump Voters Prominently Displays Longtime White Power Tattoos  —  Last night, PBS NewsHour ran a story on the Tilly family of Fayetteville, North Carolina.  The Tillys do not have a history of being active in politics, but various members of the family …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
Stop “helping” Hillary: Sorry, guys, but Clinton doesn't need to smile, whisper, or have John Kasich as her running mate  —  Instructions to Clinton to smile more or pick Kasich as her VP are just sexism disguised as advice  —  Tuesday night, those who were lucky enough to be watching …
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Trump Appears To Have Heavily Plagiarized Op-Ed From Carson  —  An op-ed penned this month by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and published online appears to be blatantly plagiarized from an article written days earlier under former rival Ben Carson's name, The Daily Caller has determined.
 
 
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Daniel Woodruff / KUTV-TV:
New book details LDS teen's ‘humiliating’ gay conversion therapy in Utah
Discussion: Towleroad and Raw Story
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
How Trump Can Be Stopped  —  With Donald Trump's defeat in Ohio …
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
To defend our democracy against Trump, the GOP must aim for a brokered convention
Donald Trump / Syracuse Post-Standard:
A 2nd New York congressman endorses Donald Trump for president
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Why Rubio Lost
 Earlier Items: 
Kristin Salaky / Talking Points Memo:
Carson: You Have To Admit Trump Calling Me A Child Molester ‘Did Work’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump Campaign Manager Denies Blacklisting Reporters
Andrew Rosati / Bloomberg Business:
Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis
Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Fox News
Daily Mail:
Dear Harry, If you are really thinking about going to Yale, you must be nuts. …
Discussion: Power Line
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Mia Sato / The Verge:
Facebook makes Views its primary metric for content, bringing it in line with Instagram; each time a piece of content appears on a screen, it counts as a View

Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
On Fox News, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong discussed his new approach to publish “views from both sides”, and said the paper had conflated news and opinion

 
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