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12:45 PM ET, June 26, 2017

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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 …
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.
Discussion: Political Wire and TheBlaze
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.
Discussion: Axios, ABC News and Fusion
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 …
Discussion: IJR
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’
Discussion: RedState and Mother Jones
Reuters:
In victory for Trump, Supreme Court revives Trump travel ban
Discussion: The FADER
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
High Court Mostly Revives Trump Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal
Discussion: Daily Kos and MILO NEWS
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Supreme Court revives Trump travel ban
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
Supreme Court allows parts of Trump travel ban to take effect
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court declines to review California concealed-weapon law
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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
Elana Schor / Politico:
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 …
Discussion: AOL
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
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.
Caroline Orr / Shareblue:
“Death sentence.” Opioid addiction experts blast GOP health care repeal
Discussion: CNN
Brian Beutler / New Republic:   The Democrats' Last Best Chance to Rescue Obamacare
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kellyanne Conway Defends Medicaid Cuts, Says Adults Can Always Find Jobs
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Replacing Obamacare is a make-or-break moment for Republicans
Discussion: NBC News
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CityLab
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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.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
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.
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Donald Trump is Not Under an FBI Investigation. Bernie Sanders Is.
Discussion: RedState
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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Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Kushner company received $285M loan from Deutsche Bank shortly before election: report
Discussion: RedState
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 …
Discussion: MILO NEWS and The Last Tradition
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Jon Passantino / BuzzFeed:
CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
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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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump claims Obama ‘colluded’ on Russia, without citing evidence
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
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Week
 
 
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Pro-Trump group launches new attack ad against special counsel Robert Mueller
Discussion: CNN, Right Wing Watch and Daily Kos
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Obama holdover: Trump style ‘quicker, more decisive’
Discussion: IJR
Bloomberg:
Amazon Robots Poised to Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses
Discussion: Daily Mail
Jack Shafer / Politico:
America's Mayor  —  Gathering a flock of House Republicans …
Discussion: The Week
Dylan Scott / Vox:
The Senate health care bill's biggest fan makes the case for it
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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