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New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Travel Ban Case — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for President Trump to prohibit the entry of some people into the United States from countries he deems dangerous, but the justices imposed strict limits on Mr. Trump's travel ban …
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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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Fusion and Shakesville
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, Axios, Little Green Footballs, TheBlaze, National Review, Politico and Balloon Juice
The White House:
Statement from President Donald J. Trump
Statement from President Donald J. Trump
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Shakesville, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, SARAH PALIN, The Week, Judicial Watch, Fox News Insider and Vox Popoli
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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ThinkProgress, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, RedState, Slate, Mother Jones and 24Ahead
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, Politico, ABC News, Outside the Beltway and SCOTUSblog
Rick Hasen / electionlawblog.org:
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices
Justice Gorsuch Already Showing Himself to Be Among Court's Most Conservative Justices
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RedState and Above the Law
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect
Supreme Court allows Trump's travel ban to take partial effect
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Washington Post, ABC News, neo-neocon, Axios, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Fusion
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
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NPR, IJR and Washington Free Beacon
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, No More Mister Nice Blog, ABC News and Political Wire
Leah Litman / Take Care Blog:
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
On The Travel Ban The Supreme Court Says: Stay Tuned
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Mother Jones, Just Security, Lawfare and electionlawblog.org
New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says — WASHINGTON — The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured …
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The Hill, Washington Post, Politicus USA, IJR, Talking Points Memo and Washington Free Beacon
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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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Vox, Talking Points Memo, Politico, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress, Take Care Blog, No More Mister Nice Blog, AOL, The Daily Caller and The Week
Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon — CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation expect to release an estimate of the Senate health care plan later this afternoon. The estimate will be published on CBO's website. — Deborah Kilroe is CBO's Associate Director for Communications.
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Politico and Shakesville
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
Privately, health plan worries Senate bill would “cause most small employers' premiums to go up”
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ABC News, 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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Politico, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, Axios, TheStreet and Daily Wire
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
Debating Senator Ron Johnson On The Senate Healthcare Bill
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Talking Points Memo, The Guardian and Political Wire
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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Marginal REVOLUTION and The Week
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill — Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) on Monday questioned the healthcare bill unveiled by Senate Republicans, saying GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber appear to be “on the pathway to making some major blunders” with the measure.
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RedState and Fox Business
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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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RedState, Associated Press, Forbes and Political Wire
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
THIS CHART: Premiums Shoot Up For Older Americans Under Senate Obamacare Repeal Bill
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Center on Budget … and Hullabaloo
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
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
Justices to Hear Case on Religious Objections to Same-Sex Marriage
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Vox, Mashable, TheBlaze, Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
College Professor Fired For Posting Online That Otto Warmbier ‘Got What He Deserved’ — The University of Delaware fired a college professor for comments she made online about Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who recently passed away after being released from North Korea.
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delawareonline, MILO NEWS, TheBlaze, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, University of Delaware and The Daily Caller
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CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 — CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed — THE MORNING PLUM: — In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
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Breitbart, CNN, RedState, New York Times, Salon, Outside the Beltway, The Federalist, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, CNBC, NBC News, Talking Points Memo and The Week
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit — A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play. Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
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Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Caller
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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Washington Post, Mediaite and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Amazon's New Echo Show Is Very Cool And A Little Creepy — I plod into the kitchen on a Sunday morning and tell the new Alexa to turn on CNN. Its screen lights up, and it shows a video about Russia as I microwave bacon and worry if there will be a nuclear war.