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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Will Hear Travel Ban Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would decide whether President Trump's revised travel ban was lawful, setting the stage for a major decision on the scope of presidential power. — Mr. Trump's revised executive order …
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Mark Sherman / AP News:
Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
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Shakesville and Fusion
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow a limited version of President Trump's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect and will consider in the fall …
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ABC News, Little Green Footballs, Axios, National Review, Politico, TheBlaze and Balloon Juice
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices — There was a lot of dissembling when Justice Gorsuch was nominated to the Supreme Court, that he was some kind of blank slate, without preconceived ideas about how he would rule as a Supreme Court Justice.
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RedState and Above the Law
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision — The Supreme Court concluded its work for this session on Monday siding with religious institutions in a major church-state decision. — The court ruled 7-2 that religious institutions may not be excluded …
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Power Line, ABC News, SCOTUSblog, Outside the Beltway and Politico
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect
Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect
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Washington Post, ABC News and Axios
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
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Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, RedState, Mother Jones, Slate, ThinkProgress and 24Ahead
The White House:
Statement from President Donald J. Trump
Statement from President Donald J. Trump
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New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, SARAH PALIN, The Week, Judicial Watch, Fox News Insider and Vox Popoli
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
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The Daily Caller, ABC News, No More Mister Nice Blog and Political Wire
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Justices agree to weigh in on travel ban, allow parts of it to go into effect
Justices agree to weigh in on travel ban, allow parts of it to go into effect
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Washington Post and The Mahablog
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
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NPR, IJR and Washington Free Beacon
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court declines to review California concealed-weapon law
Supreme Court declines to review California concealed-weapon law
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Outside the Beltway
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
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Lawfare, Just Security and electionlawblog.org
Ron Johnson / New York Times:
Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails — Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.” As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
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Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon — CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation expect to release an estimate of the Senate health care plan later this afternoon. The estimate will be published on CBO's website. — Deborah Kilroe is CBO's Associate Director for Communications.
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Politico and Shakesville
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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Axios and Media Matters for America
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The cruel reality of high-speed health care legislating
The cruel reality of high-speed health care legislating
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, ABC News, TheStreet and Daily Wire
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Democrats' Last Best Chance to Rescue Obamacare
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Center on Budget … and Hullabaloo
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals — When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. Yet according to a major new study …
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Weekly Standard, National Review, The Daily Caller, CityLab and The Week
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FiveThirtyEight:
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far — As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high? — Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.
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Marginal REVOLUTION
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) on Monday questioned the healthcare bill unveiled by Senate Republicans, saying GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber appear to be “on the pathway to making some major blunders” with the measure.
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RedState and Fox Business
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
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Political Wire
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
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Talking Points Memo, New York Times and Political Wire
Simone Campbell / The Hill:
Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
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Raw Story
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical — For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage — Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal from a Colorado baker with religious objections to same-sex marriage who had lost a discrimination case for refusing to create a cake to celebrate such a union.
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Vox, Mashable, TheBlaze and Political Wire
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’ — The University of Delaware fired a college professor for comments she made online about Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who recently passed away after being released from North Korea.
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delawareonline, MILO NEWS, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, University of Delaware and The Daily Caller
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Ivanka Trump: ‘I try to stay out of politics’ — Ivanka Trump may keep an office in the White House and hold an official position within her father's administration, but when it comes to politics, the first daughter said in an interview that aired Monday that she tries to stay out of President Donald Trump's way.
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Axios
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Donald Trump is Not Under an FBI Investigation. Bernie Sanders Is.
Donald Trump is Not Under an FBI Investigation. Bernie Sanders Is.
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RedState
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
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Breitbart, CNN, New York Times, RedState, Salon, SARAH PALIN, Outside the Beltway, The Federalist, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, CNBC, NBC News and Talking Points Memo
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer's Fervor for Trump — The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit. Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal? — Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan …
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Washington Post, Mediaite and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit — A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play. Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
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Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Caller
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
This chart shows the stunning trade-off at the heart of the GOP health plan — The Republican repeal bills in the House and Senate both include multi-billion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and deep health benefit cuts for the poorest Americans. — Sign up for VoxCare