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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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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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Little Green Footballs, ABC News, Politico, TheBlaze and Balloon Juice
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to let portions of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order take effect, a partial victory for the White House that could come as a relief after a string of lower court defeats.
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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Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned — Today the Supreme Court resolved the government's petitions for certiorari and motions to stay the lower courts' injunctions in the travel ban litigation. The Court granted the government's petitions for certiorari …
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electionlawblog.org and Just Security
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 and Politico
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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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple
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Washington Times, Conservative News Today and Shakesville
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
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 and ABC News
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump lauds Supreme Court order on travel ban as ‘clear victory’
Trump lauds Supreme Court order on travel ban as ‘clear victory’
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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
Mike Allen / Axios:
D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
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Fox News:
Trump travel ban: Supreme Court reinstates key parts of executive order
Trump travel ban: Supreme Court reinstates key parts of executive order
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David Lat / Above the Law:
No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow
No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow
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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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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up” — A large health plan is privately expressing concern that a little-noticed provision in the Senate health bill could drive up premiums for small business health plans. — Sign up for VoxCare
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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, TheStreet, ABC News and Daily Wire
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Democrats' Last Best Chance to Rescue Obamacare
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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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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Mother Jones and Marginal REVOLUTION
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
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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
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
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The Senate health care bill's biggest fan makes the case for it
The Senate health care bill's biggest fan makes the case for it
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New York Magazine, Washington Post and Balloon Juice
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, Political Wire and TheBlaze
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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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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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
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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Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage
CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage
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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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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
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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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Hot Rhetoric Is OK for Liberals, and for Me — I wrote a book calling Democrats “the party of death.” They howled. Now they're saying the same thing about Republican health care. — Over the weekend Hillary Clinton tweeted that if Republicans pass the health-care bill, they should be called “the death party.”
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