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3:45 PM ET, May 30, 2006

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New York Times:
Justices, 5-4, Limit Whistleblower Suits  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it harder for government employees to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against for going public with allegations of official misconduct.  —  By a 5-4 vote, justices said the nation's 20 …
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Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:
Today's (Very Significant) Opinion and Order List  —  The Court issued its opinion today in Garcetti v. Ceballos, No. 04-473, originally argued in the Ocotber sitting and then reargued after Justice Alito joined the Court.  Justice Alito's was the fifth vote in favor of reversal …
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Orders: Court to hear tobacco appeal
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Source: Paulson replaces Snow at Treasury  —  WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary John Snow has resigned and will be replaced by Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry M. Paulson Jr., a senior administration official said Tuesday, in another chapter of a White House shake-up to revive President Bush's troubled presidency.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton Is A Politician Not Easily Defined  —  Hillary Rodham Clinton has fashioned a political persona that generates intense passions but defies easy characterization.  She is viewed as a hawk on Iraq and national security, stamped as a big-government Democrat for her work on health care in the 1990s …
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Jeff Zeleny / Chicago Tribune:
OBAMA IN '08?  —  Can a promising politician go to Washington and NOT make a run for president?  —  WASHINGTON — The roster of aspiring presidential candidates seems to grow by the week here in the nation's capital, where the season of speculation and seduction is in full blossom.
Discussion: Time, Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Takeover of House, Senate not likely
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
AP: Reid Arguably Not Beyond Reproach  —  If at first you don't succeed...  Back in February, the AP's John Solomon ran a lengthy piece detailing alleged contacts between Jack Abramoff's team at Greenberg Traurig and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV).  As Josh pointed out, although the article concentrated …
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John Solomon / Associated Press:
Senate leader took free boxing tickets
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, May 29 — The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge of violence linked …
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Aparisim Ghosh / Time:
On Scene: Picking up the Pieces in Haditha  —  Residents of the neighborhood where 24 Iraqi civilians were allegedly massacred by Marines say the military investigation has been surprisingly thorough.  But that doesn't mean they can ever forgive, or forget, what happened
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CBS News:
Wounded CBS Reporter 'Responsive'  —  Kimberly Dozier Now In Germany For Treatment; Colleagues Douglas, Brolan Are Mourned  —  (CBS/AP) CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier - critically wounded Monday by a bomb that killed cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan …
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New York Times:
Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists  —  By some reckonings, the death of two journalists working for CBS News on Monday firmly secured the Iraq war as the deadliest conflict for reporters in modern times.  —  Since the start of the war in 2003, 71 journalists have been killed in Iraq …
Associated Press:
"We Are Determined"  —  SPIEGEL: Mr. President, you are a soccer fan and you like to play soccer.  Will you be sitting in the stadium in Nuremberg on June 11, when the Iranian national team plays against Mexico in Germany?  —  Ahmadinejad: It depends.  Naturally, I'll be watching the game in any case.
Washington Post:
Accident Sparks Riot in Afghan Capital  —  Mobs Rampage After Fatal Crash Involving U.S. Military Truck; Curfew Imposed  —  KABUL, May 29 — The Afghan capital erupted Monday in the worst street violence since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, following a fatal traffic accident involving a U.S. military truck.
Opinion Journal:
Raiding Congress  —  The Justice Department went overboard in raiding Rep. Jefferson's office.  —  With the separation of powers, the Founders created a system with inevitable tension between Congress and the executive.  Congress has been the biggest offender in stealing power from the executive …
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John Holusha / New York Times:
Lawmakers, at Hearing, Assail F.B.I.'s Capitol Raid
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Harriet Brown / New York Times:
Well-Intentioned Food Police May Create Havoc With Children's Diets  —  Earlier this year, our small Midwestern school district joined the food wars, proposing a new policy that would discourage all food in classrooms, ban nuts and sugary foods and do away with vending machines.
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Talk of Pelosi as Speaker Delights Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON, May 29 — Hoping to win a Congressional majority in November, some optimistic Democratic lawmakers have taken to referring to Representative Nancy Pelosi as "speaker," as in speaker of the House.  So have some optimistic Republicans.
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
New Policy Adviser Admits Altering Text  —  Karl Zinsmeister, President Bush's new domestic policy adviser, acknowledged he did something wrong when he took a newspaper profile of himself, altered quotes and text, and then posted it on a Web site without noting the changes.
Brendan Murray / Bloomberg:
Rove May Find `It's the Economy, Stupid' Won't Work (Update1)  —  May 30 (Bloomberg) — Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's top political adviser, laid out a plan to win the 2002 congressional elections by stressing national security.  For 2006, Rove is framing a strategy for Republicans to sell the U.S. economy.
Discussion: FP Passport
Reuters:
Pedophiles to launch political party  —  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage.
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
In Search of New Forms of Netroots Organizing  —  Over the past two months, I have grown increasingly interested in the opportunities that social networking sites such as MySpace hold for political organizing.  Considering Ari Melber's new article as The Nation, MySpace, My Politics, I clearly am not the only one:
Discussion: CBS News and Interesting Times
Georgie Anne Geyer / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Is the tide finally turning in Mexico?  —  Funny thing about Mexican President Vicente Fox's visit to the American West last week: It didn't turn out as one would have expected.  —  The tall, lanky, laconic "presidente," who seemed to offer such hope to Mexico when he was elected five years ago …
 
 
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New York Times:
Block the Vote  —  In a country that spends so much time extolling …
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Hillary asks gay activists for marriage amendment help
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Acting on Assumptions with Iran & Iraq
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USA Today:
Nation splits 4 ways on illegals
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
The Catastrophe Wasn't Katrina
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Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders
 

 
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