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11:55 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 …
New York Times:
Republicans and Voter Suppression  —  It's become an accepted truth of modern politics that Republican electoral prospects go up as the number of voters goes down.  Conservatives have known this for a long time, which helps explain their intensifying efforts to make it harder to vote …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Rewire
Matt Ford / The Atlantic:
One Person, One Vote, Eight Justices
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Affirms ‘One-Person, One-Vote’ Standard
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: CNN, Mediaite, Washington Post and Politico
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Clinton, Sanders to meet for Brooklyn debate  —  (CNN)Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have agreed to meet for a Democratic debate on CNN and NY1 on April 14, five days before a crucial primary election in New York state.  —  The debate will take place in Brooklyn and will be moderated …
Bloomberg.com:
Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is  —  At a campaign event in Wisconsin, Bernie Sanders said he thinks he'll win the state's primary if there is a high voter turnout.  While not wanting to “get Hillary Clinton more nervous than she already is …
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Connor Lynch / Salon:
Hillary is sick of the left: Why Bernie's persistence is a powerful reminder of Clinton's troubling centrism
Discussion: Liberal Values
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’  —  Donald Trump could be a more presidential candidate as the leader in the Republican primary.  But that Trump “would be boring as hell,” he said Monday.  —  “I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Donald Trump's Struggle in Wisconsin Is About Demographics, Not Momentum
Lindsey Ellefson / Mediaite:
Trump: Having to Get 1,237 Delegates For the Nomination Is ‘Very Unfair’
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
Kelsey Sutton / Politico:   Fox News town hall with Ted Cruz airs on MSNBC before Fox
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
Discussion: Politico and abc7chicago.com
Michael Walsh / Yahoo Politics:
Ted Cruz to Megyn Kelly: Donald Trump has a ‘problem with strong women’
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
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 …
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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.
Donovan Slack / USA Today:
Paul Ryan running out of ways to say he's not a presidential candidate  —  1.1k Shares  —  How many times does saying ‘no’ actually mean ‘no’?  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has said dozens of times that he won't seek or accept the GOP presidential nomination, but Republicans unhappy …
Simon Maloy / Salon:
The “Draft Paul Ryan” fantasy: A soothing fiction to make donor-class Republicans feel better
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: KLFY-TV, WSLS-TV, WJTV, WLNS-TV, WCDC-TV and WIAT-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 …
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Andy Greenberg / Wired:
How Reporters Pulled Off the Panama Papers, the Biggest Leak in Whistleblower History
The Daily Beast:
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama's ISIS War  —  The growing scandal over cooked ISIS intelligence just got much worse.  Now, analysts are saying they're being forced out for not toeing the Obama administration's line on the war.
Chris Spargo For / Daily Mail:
'Our eyes connected and I thought “Wow“': Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin gushes about presidential hopeful and describes the moment they first met  — Huma Abedin spoke about her boss Hillary Clinton and the moment the two first met in a recent interview
Discussion: NewsBusters
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 …
Katherine Peralta / The Charlotte Observer:
NC LGBT law prompts Lionsgate to pull production of new Hulu show from Charlotte  —  The studio had intended to shoot the pilot in the Charlotte area of a new TV show called ‘Crushed’  —  Lionsgate has called the new LGBT law ‘deplorable and discriminatory’
Discussion: Daily Kos
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.
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 …
 
 
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Jerusalem Post:
Amid ballistics test, Iran officer says missiles designed to reach Israel
Alice Ollstein / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Donald Trump's Las Vegas Hotel Is Officially Unionized
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Sides / Washington Post:
Why are so many Democrats and Republicans pretending to be independents?
Kirstie McCrum / Mirror.co.uk:
Annual PENIS FESTIVAL held to celebrate male genitals includes huge steel phallus being carried …
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic models predict GOP White House, even with Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Hot Air
Gina Loudon / WND:
Is Trump right about abortion?
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Sandra A. Arnold / New York Times:
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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Yes, The Alt-Right Are Just a Bunch of Racists
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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

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

Mia Sato / The Verge:
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