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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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Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to partially take effect — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to let portions of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order take effect, partially reviving the controversial directive after a string of lower court defeats.

Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple — The Supreme Court on Monday said it will consider next term whether a Denver baker unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to sell them a wedding cake. — Lower courts had ruled …
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Conservative News Today and Shakesville


High Court Mostly Revives Trump Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal — People with close relationships in U.S. can enter, court says — Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito would have let full ban take effect — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared most of President Donald Trump's travel ban to take effect immediately …

Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall
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ABC News, Politico and Balloon Juice

No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow
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Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, Fusion, Slate, Outside the Beltway, LifeZette, TheBlaze, Politico and AOL

Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
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ABC News and The Daily Caller

D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
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Politico, ABC News, Washington Post and Political Wire

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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Why Dems can't break through on Obamacare repeal — Even before Senate Republicans released their Obamacare repeal plan last week, a call went out from liberal activists: Head to the airport and greet departing senators with a furious protest. — About five dozen demonstrators showed …
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The cruel reality of high-speed health care legislating — Four days ago, Senate Republicans got their first glimpse at their leadership's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. — Three days from now, Senate Republicans are expected to vote on that plan.
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ABC News, Axios, Politico and Daily Wire


Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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Media Matters for America

Replacing Obamacare is a make-or-break moment for Republicans
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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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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

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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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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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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Kushner firm's $285 million Deutsche Bank loan came just before Election Day — One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner's real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan. — The loan came at a critical moment.
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Kushner company received $285M loan from Deutsche Bank shortly before election: report
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Very Fake News Scandal Consumes CNN as Jeff Zucker, Network Flack Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction to Own Network — The scandal surrounding CNN's mishandling of a very fake news hit piece on President Donald Trump and his associates grows bigger on Sunday night as the network's president Jeff Zucker …
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MILO NEWS and The Last Tradition
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CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage
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Trump's Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies — In the span of 72 hours, President Trump described the email hacking that roiled the 2016 campaign as a Democratic “hoax” and as clear aggression by Russia that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, failed to address.
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Trump claims Obama ‘colluded’ on Russia, without citing evidence
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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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Political Wire and The Week


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
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Washington Post