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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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Outside the Beltway, Washington Free Beacon and Refinery29
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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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ABC News, Politico, TheBlaze and Balloon Juice
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
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.
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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RedState and Mother Jones
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
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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Patterico's Pontifications and National Review
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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The Gateway Pundit, Judicial Watch and Fox News Insider
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
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Power Line, ABC News and Politico
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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Weekly Standard, The Daily Caller, Fusion, Slate, LifeZette, TheBlaze, Politico, Outside the Beltway and AOL
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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Washington Post, ABC News, Politico and Political Wire
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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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 …
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AOL
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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Axios, ABC News, TheStreet and Daily 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
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
The Democrats' Last Best Chance to Rescue Obamacare
CNN:
Gov. Kasich: Neither party ‘cares about helping poor people’
Gov. Kasich: Neither party ‘cares about helping poor people’
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Washington Post, Plain Dealer, The Resurgent, The Daily Caller and RedState
Hugh Hewitt / Washington Post:
Replacing Obamacare is a make-or-break moment for Republicans
Replacing Obamacare is a make-or-break moment for Republicans
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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 …
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Weekly Standard, National Review, 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.
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Mother Jones and Marginal REVOLUTION
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.
Discussion:
TheBlaze and Political Wire
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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Conservative News Today and Shakesville
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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RedState
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule — One of the nation's largest healthcare lobbying groups Monday announced its opposition to the Senate's ObamaCare repeal plan, warning that it could hurt the “most vulnerable citizens.”
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Political Wire
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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
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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The Week and Political Wire
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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Washington Post
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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