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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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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 …
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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 …
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Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
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One Person, One Vote, Eight Justices
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Opinion analysis: Leaving a constitutional ideal still undefined
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Supreme Court Rejects Challenge on ‘One Person One Vote’
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ncsl.org, Washington Post, The Atlantic and SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court Affirms ‘One-Person, One-Vote’ Standard
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Senate GOP files Supreme Court brief against Obama's immigration actions
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Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon and Independent Journal …


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 …
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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 …
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Washington Post and Politicus USA


Bernie Sanders: I Don't Want to Get Hillary Clinton More Nervous Than She Already Is
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Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California
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‘Our eyes connected and I thought “Wow”’: Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin gushes …
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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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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 …


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 …

House Speaker Paul Ryan Opens The New Hugh Hewitt Show — Following an encore bow from Bill Bennett, the new Hugh Hewitt Show opened its inaugural edition with House Speaker Paul Ryan, calling in from Israel: — Audio: — 04-04hhs-ryan — Transcript:
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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 …
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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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Trump: Acting more presidential would be ‘boring as hell’
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Kasich labels Cruz a ‘smear artist’ over Wisconsin spot
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Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling
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Yahoo Politics, abc7chicago.com and Politico


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.
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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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The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
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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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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 …


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.
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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 …
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The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, Rush Limbaugh, PinkNews, Joe.My.God. and Daily Kos


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 …
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Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit


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 …


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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