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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 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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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.


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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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


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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Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
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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

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

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

Trump lauds Supreme Court order on travel ban as ‘clear victory’
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National Review and Patterico's Pontifications

Supreme Court declines to review California concealed-weapon law
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D.C. on edge: rumors of new Supreme Court vacancy swirl
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Trump travel ban: Supreme Court reinstates key parts of executive order
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No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow
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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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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

The cruel reality of high-speed health care legislating
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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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Mother Jones and Marginal REVOLUTION


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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American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
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Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
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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


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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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


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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Donald Trump is Not Under an FBI Investigation. Bernie Sanders Is.
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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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CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage
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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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Washington Post, The Week and Political Wire


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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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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