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3:25 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 …
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.
Discussion: Shakesville and Fusion
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Trump calls Supreme Court ruling on his travel ban a ‘clear victory’  —  The high court ruled the Constitution and federal immigration laws support Trump's case.  (June 26, 2017) (Sign up for our free video newsletter here http://bit.ly/2n6VKPR)  —  The Supreme Court handed President Trump …
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: ABC News, Axios and Political Wire
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
Discussion: Power Line, ABC News and Politico
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
CNN:   Supreme Court rules for church preschool in religious liberty case
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Justices agree to weigh in on travel ban, allow parts of it to go into effect
Discussion: Washington Post and The Mahablog
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Discussion: NPR, IJR and Washington Free Beacon
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to take case on baker who refused to sell wedding cake to gay couple
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
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
6 Nobel Prize-winning economists announce opposition to Senate health bill  —  Forty economists, including six Nobel laureates, sent a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) outlining their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Elana Schor / Politico:
Why Dems can't break through on Obamacare repeal
Discussion: AOL
Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon
Discussion: Politico
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
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.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION
Economic Policy Institute:
The “high road” Seattle labor market and the effects of the minimum wage increase
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
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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: Vox, TheBlaze and Political Wire
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court will hear religious liberty challenge to gay weddings
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.”
Discussion: Political Wire
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill
Discussion: RedState and Fox Business
Simone Campbell / The Hill:
Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story
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: Axios
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Donald Trump is Not Under an FBI Investigation. Bernie Sanders Is.
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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
Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
‘Give Me a Chance,’ Trump Associate-Turned-Housing-Official Says  —  Lynne Patton shakes her head and sighs when she thinks about the New York Daily News front-page story that called her “The Wedding Scammer” and led many people across the country to ridicule her as the Trump family wedding planner turned federal housing official.
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed
Alanne Orjoux / CNN:
Philando Castile's family reaches $3 million settlement with city of St. Anthony
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Outline
Phil LeBeau / CNBC:
BMW adding 1,000 jobs at South Carolina plant
Discussion: Breitbart
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘You are killing them’: Al Franken reveals Trump tax cut for 400 people would fund Medicaid for 750,000
Discussion: IJR
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Bloomberg:
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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
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Mike Allen / Axios:
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