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8:10 PM ET, April 4, 2016

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote  —  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote.  Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …
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Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Breaking/Analysis: Big Victory for Voting Rights as #SCOTUS Rejects Plaintiffs' Claim in Evenwel One Person, One Vote Case  —  A unanimous Supreme Court in Evenwel v. Abbott (with two Justices (Thomas and Alito) concurring in the judgment) has rejected the argument that states must draw district lines …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
New York Times:
Republicans and Voter Suppression
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Rewire
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
One Person, One Vote, Eight Justices
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’  —  Yesterday, Donald Trump gave an interview during which he called on John Kasich to drop out of the presidential race.  He pointed out that Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush all dropped out when they failed to do well …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:   Fox News town hall with Ted Cruz airs on MSNBC before Fox
Mike Allen / Politico:
Top Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee  —  On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic Cleveland convention.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Charles Koch Is Privately Committed To Getting Paul Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source  —  A major investor in the Republican Party sees a chance to snatch back the nomination.  —  Washington bureau chief for The Huffington Post  —  Charles Koch is confident House Speaker Paul Ryan …
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better  —  GOP insiders are fooling themselves into believing Paul Ryan is a viable alternative to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz  —  The enthusiasm bubbling around Ted Cruz's campaign to derail Donald Trump's surge …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Robby Mook:
To Hillary Clinton supporters: The facts on where the race stands  —  Thanks to nearly 9 million voters across the country and the support of people like you, Hillary Clinton has built a nearly insurmountable lead among both delegates and actual voters.  Contrary to the claims of the Sanders campaign …
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
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Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders's Campaign
Connor Lynch / Salon:   Hillary is sick of the left: Why Bernie's persistence is a powerful reminder of Clinton's troubling centrism
Reuters:
World figures deny wrongdoing as ‘Panama Papers’ turn spotlight on tax evasion  —  Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how clients avoided tax or laundered money.
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History
David Pegg / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
Ronald J. Sievert / USA Today:
Hillary's ‘classified’ smokescreen hides real crime: Column  —  Law makes clear DOJ should prosecute Clinton for mishandling ‘national defense information,’ classified or not.  —  Since the beginning of the Clinton email scandal, the nation has been subjected to a political and criminal defense generated smokescreen.
WATE-TV:
Pigeon Forge Police Chief: 5 dead in helicopter crash  —  PIGEON FORGE (WATE) - The Pigeon Forge Chief of Police Jack H. Baldwin confirms to WATE 6 On Your Side that five people were killed in a sightseeing helicopter that crashed.  —  “Apparently this helicopter came out some time around 3:30 p.m …
Discussion: WSLS-TV, WLNS-TV, WCDC-TV and WIAT-TV
David Siders / Sacramento Bee:
Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California  —  California and New York become first states to commit to $15 minimum wage  —  Bill expected to avert costly November ballot measure fight  —  Labor unions celebrate, while Republicans and business groups groan
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Tkurzweil / KTLA:
Governor Jerry Brown Set to Sign $15 Minimum Wage Law
Discussion: The Daily Caller and KFOR-TV
Oliver Darcy / TheBlaze.com:
Exclusive: Police Investigate Death Threats Made Against Michelle Fields — Listen to the Chilling Audio  —  Ex-Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields contacted authorities Friday after an individual made multiple death threats against her.  —  In audio obtained by TheBlaze …
Discussion: RedState, The Right Scoop and Mediaite
NBC Bay Area:
California Highway Patrol Officer Rescues Wayward Chihuahua After Chasing It Across Bay Bridge  —  Highway patrol officers noticed the small dog on the bridge's north side catwalk heading toward San Francisco  —  California Highway Patrol officers gave chase to an unlikely suspect early Sunday — a Chihuahua.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The GOP's (other) convention nightmare  —  Republicans, already girding for their most tumultuous convention in decades, now have another fight brewing: a divisive battle over gay marriage on the party's official national platform.  —  It's an issue that drives intense passion …
Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Yes, The Alt-Right Are Just a Bunch of Racists  —  Hey, lefties, we finally found your racists for you.  —  For as long as I can remember, people like me—by which I mean advocates of capitalism and free markets and freedom of speech—have been accused by the left of being secret racists …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics  —  Woodward on his ‘very unusual’ Trump interview What's at stake in the Wisconsin primary … In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates  —  Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight.  —  The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump  —  Republicans are expected to win the White House under two economic models that have accurately forecast presidential elections for decades.  —  A third model run by Moody's Analytics predicts Democrats will win the White House …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
The White House:
An update for your petition on Donald J. Trump:  —  Thank you for signing this We the People petition.  —  We decline to comment on the specific request raised in the petition, which falls outside the scope of the We the People Terms of Participation.  You can read the full Terms …
Discussion: ABC News, Mediaite and Yahoo Politics
Lisa Graves / PR Watch:
Breaking—New materials provided to the Center for Media and Democracy/PRWatch reveal that a top GOP polling firm instructed state Chamber of Commerce lobbyists how to try to defeat popular measures like increasing the minimum wage, despite polling data from business leaders that shows overwhelming support …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history.  —  On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump's campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire's private club in Palm Beach.
 
 
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Katherine Peralta / The Charlotte Observer:
NC LGBT law prompts Lionsgate to pull production of new Hulu show from Charlotte
Discussion: Daily Kos
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Donald Trump's Las Vegas Hotel Is Officially Unionized
John Sides / Washington Post:
Why are so many Democrats and Republicans pretending to be independents?
The Daily Beast:
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama's ISIS War
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Defense One
Kirstie McCrum / Mirror.co.uk:
Annual PENIS FESTIVAL held to celebrate male genitals includes huge steel phallus being carried …
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
‘Yeo-Person’? One Title Vexes Navy's Push for Gender Neutrality
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders leads Clinton by 8 points in Wisconsin
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