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6:10 PM ET, May 30, 2006

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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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Washington Post:
Paulson Nominated as Treasury Secretary  —  President Bush named Henry M. Paulson Jr. , chief executive of Goldman Sachs, as the new Treasury secretary this morning to replace John W. Snow.  —  Bush made the announcement at 9:15 a.m. from the Rose Garden, saying Paulson would be "the leading force on my economic team."
White House:
President Bush Nominates Henry Paulson as Treasury Secretary  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good morning.  Welcome to the White House.  I'm pleased to announce that I will nominate Henry Paulson to be the Secretary of the Treasury.  —  The past eight years, Hank has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Goldman Sachs Group.
Discussion: CNN and Angry Bear
New York Times:
Bush Selects Goldman Chief to Take Over Treasury Dept.  —  WASHINGTON, May 30 — President Bush today nominated Henry M. Paulson Jr., the chairman of one of Wall Street's biggest firms, to become his next Treasury secretary and what Mr. Bush described as "my principle economic adviser."
Discussion: Amygdala and FP Passport
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 …
Balkinization:
Ceballos— The Court Creates Bad Information Policy  —  Marty has explained the details of the Ceballos opinion below and I won't repeat what he has to say here.  Instead let me offer a few remarks on the larger meaning of the case.  —  The Court's employee speech cases rest on an unstable tension.
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
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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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Will Reinforce Troops in West Iraq
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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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.
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
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.
Jonathan Hutson / talk2action.org:
The Purpose Driven Life Takers  —  Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life.  You are issued high-tech military weaponry …
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: The Left Coaster and FP Passport
USA Today:
Nation splits 4 ways on illegals  —  WASHINGTON — Americans hold strong and conflicting views about immigration that underscore the difficulties Congress will face in reaching a final legislative deal on the issue, an analysis of USA TODAY polling data shows.  —  ON DEADLINE: Which group are you in?
Discussion: QandO, The RCP Blog and Blogs for Bush
New York Times:
Americans Living Abroad Get a Nasty Tax Surprise  —  HONG KONG, May 29 — In an effort to raise revenues, tax writers in Congress added a last-minute provision that retroactively increased taxes for Americans living abroad.  But the sudden imposition of new taxes has surprised overseas taxpayers …
The Raw Story:
Dems say oil execs, Bush Admin set to gain from estate tax repeal  —  Democrats have prepared for an upcoming Senate battle over repeal of the estate tax by releasing estimated savings the repeal could equal for oil executives and members of the Bush Administration, RAW STORY has learned.
Discussion: Amygdala and TAPPED
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.
Benjamin Joffe-Walt / Guardian:
Lecturers back boycott of Israeli academics  —  Britain's largest lecturers' union yesterday voted in favour of a boycott of Israeli lecturers and academic institutions who do not publicly dissociate themselves from Israel's "apartheid policies".  —  Delegates at the annual conference …
Gateway Pundit:
After Fence Assault, Anti-War Port Mob Eats Pepper Spray  —  Sadly, the young protesters had to dunk their heads in Puget Sound after their encounter with pepper spray.  —  Thurston County Sheriff's deputies holds protesters to the ground after clearing the entry to the Port of Olympia on Wednesday afternoon.
 
 
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