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8:30 PM ET, June 28, 2006

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Associated Press:
Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld most of the Texas congressional map engineered by former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay but threw out part, saying some of the new boundaries failed to protect minority voting rights.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Decisions: No ruling on Hamdan; partisan gerrymander claim rejected  —  (NOTE: The Chief Justice announced that the Court will issue remaining decisions in the Term at 10 a.m. Thursday.  The two still-undecided cases are the war crimes tribunal case (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) …
Patty Reinert / Houston Chronicle:
Most of Texas' redistricting map upheld  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld almost all of Texas' Republican-friendly U.S. House election district map.  —  By a 5-4 vote, the court said the 23rd District in Southwest Texas, represented by Republican Henry Bonilla …
New York Times:
Justices Back Most G.O.P. Changes to Texas Districts
Discussion: Swing State Project
Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Terrorist funds-tracking no secret, some say  —  Cite White House boasts of tighter monitoring system  —  WASHINGTON — News reports disclosing the Bush administration's use of a special bank surveillance program to track terrorist financing spurred outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill …
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New York Times:
Patriotism and the Press  —  Over the last year, The New York Times …
Max Boot / Los Angeles Times:   Staying the wrong course in Iraq
Associated Press:
'Mashaal is target for assassination'  —  Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Wednesday that Hamas's Syria-based leader, Khaled Mashaal, is a target for assassination for ordering the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier in the Gaza Strip.  —  "He is definitely in our sights ... he is a target," Ramon told Army Radio.
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Dan Froomkin / Washington Post:
A SWIFT Kick in the Head  —  When asked to back up the White House accusation that a recent New York Times story put American lives at risk by disclosing vital secrets to terrorists, the best press secretary Tony Snow could do yesterday was this: "I am absolutely sure they didn't know about SWIFT."
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Washington Post:
Amnesty To Exclude Killers of GIs, Iraqis  —  Prime Minister's Vow Clarifies Key Section Of Reconciliation Plan  —  BAGHDAD, June 27 — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed Tuesday that no one who has killed Americans or Iraqis would be pardoned under his government's national reconciliation plan.
Discussion: New York Times
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Obama: Democrats Must Court Evangelicals  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday for failing to "acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people," and said the party must compete for the support of evangelicals and other churchgoing Americans.
Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Home Fly-By Sends Message to Syrian Leader  —  Israeli warplanes buzzed the summer residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad early Wednesday, military officials said, in a message aimed at pressuring the Syrian leader to win the release of a captured Israeli soldier.
Seth Borenstein / apnews.excite.com:
Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.  —  The former vice president's movie - replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City …
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Calls on Senate to Pass Line-Item Veto  —  President Bush pushed the Senate yesterday to give him and his successors the power to strip special projects out of spending bills, part of a broader political effort to assuage disaffected supporters that he really is a fiscal conservative despite the growth of government on his watch.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate Rejects Flag Desecration Amendment  —  The Senate rejected by a single vote yesterday an effort to amend the Constitution to allow Congress to ban desecration of the American flag, after a two-day debate freighted with political calculations and sharp disputes over the limits of free speech.
Pew Research Center:
Democrats More Eager to Vote, But Unhappy with Party  —  Gay Marriage, Inheritance Tax Among the Lowest Public Priorities  —  Summary of Findings  —  With less than five months to go before Election Day, Democrats hold two distinct advantages in the midterm campaign that they have not enjoyed for some time.
Tom Ferrick Jr. / Philadelphia Inquirer:
Indiana Jones?  No, it's Weldon  —  It's a scene out of an Indiana Jones movie - or an Indiana Jones parody:  —  A caravan of jeeps and heavy equipment crawls across the Iraqi desert, headed for a secret location on the banks of the Euphrates River.  —  Their mission: to dig 25 feet …
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
GOP's New `values Agenda' Item Fails  —  House Republicans failed Wednesday to advance a bill protecting the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.  Only a day earlier, the GOP had placed the measure on its "American Values Agenda" in hopes of bolster the party's prospects in the fall election.
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Dean: 'We're About to Enter the '60s Again'  —  (CNSNews.com) - America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.  "We're about to enter the '60s again …
James C. Dobson / CNN:
Commentary: Media provides cover for assault on traditional marriage  —  Editor's note: James C. Dobson is founder and chairman of Focus on the Family Action.  He has a Ph.D. in child development and is author of the best-selling book, "Bringing Up Boys."  He's currently working on a follow-up, "Bringing Up Girls."
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
On the Net Neutrality Commerce Committee Tie  —  In terms of the vote, well, we pretty much expected this, though we weren't sure whether we could keep the Dems unified.  They held under intense lobbying pressure from the telecoms.  I think it's fair to say that we've reversed the momentum on this issue …
 
 
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Must Read  —  Troops Home Fast  —  GSFP and Code Pink …
David Holman / American Spectator:
The Huffington Post's Swift Antics
Discussion: RedState and Right Angle Blog
Michael Rogers / pageoneq.com:
Pentagon reverses on listing of homosexuality as mental illness
William Yardley / New York Times:
A.F.L.-C.I.O. in Connecticut Gives Backing to Lieberman
Discussion: spazeboy
Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
Money and Speech  —  Would the Supreme Court uphold a "spending limit" for abortion?
Discussion: Dean's World
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Video: Frist blames CNN for low Republican poll numbers
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Fatah Group Announces it Kidnapped 62-Year-Old Israeli
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The enemy within.  —  [T]he true cause of our imminent danger …
Discussion: alicublog
Washington Post:
Poll Shows Ehrlich Lagging As He Opens Reelection Run
CNN:
Senator seeks tax on pimps, prostitutes
Porkbusters:
we need to stop this... now  —  Guest Contributor: Sen. John McCain