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2:40 PM ET, April 18, 2007

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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Backs Ban on Abortion Procedure  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.  —  The 5-4 ruling said the Partial …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court upholds federal abortion ban  —  Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a sweeping — and only barely qualified — victory to the federal government and to other opponents of abortion, upholding the 2003 law that banned what are often called "partial-birth abortions."
Washington Post:
Court Backs Ban on Late-Term Abortion Procedure  —  The Supreme Court today narrowly upheld a nationwide ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure, voting for the first time to restrict abortion rights and handing a major victory to President Bush and his social conservative allies.
Discussion: Political Animal and Blue Gal
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
`Partial Birth' Abortion Ban Upheld by Top U.S. Court (Update2)  —  A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on ``partial birth'' abortion, marking a shift on the issue and underscoring the impact of President George W. Bush's two high court appointments.
Bill Mears / CNN:
Justices uphold ban on abortion procedure
Discussion: Cliff Schecter and SCOTUSblog
Bean / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Oh Justice Kennedy, How You Have Failed Us.
Glenn Reynolds / NY Daily News:
People don't stop killers.  People with guns do  —  On Monday, as the news of the Virginia Tech shootings was unfolding, I went into my advanced constitutional law seminar to find one of my students upset.  My student, Tara Wyllie, has a permit to carry a gun in Tennessee, but she isn't allowed to have a weapon on campus.
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Jules Crittenden:
Killer Reax  —  People with guns stop killers."  —  Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom: "Nanny-Statism — in its efforts to protect — succeeds only in infantilizing the culture."  —  Harry Reid, rare moment of clarity, warns against a rush to gun control.
Discussion: Don Surber
Jack Shafer / Slate:
In Praise of Insensitive Reporters  —  WE'D HATE THEM EVEN MORE IF THEY DIDN'T OVERCOVER THE VT STORY.  —  Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui  —  Everybody is too busy right now consuming the Virginia Tech slaughter coverage to accuse the press of going overboard.
James Fallows:
Virginia Tech shooting: one American woman terrifies China  —  It was Tuesday night China time when the authorities in Blacksburg, Virginia, identified the gunman as a young Korean.  For the previous 12 hours, the worst traits in the Chinese media had been brought out by an even-worse lapse by part of the U.S. media.
Discussion: Political Animal
Michael Agger / Slate:
im glad you are ok though
Discussion: Blog P.I.
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos:   Kossack Gun Poll
David B. Kopel / Wall Street Journal:   'Gun-Free Zones'  —  The bucolic campus of Virginia Tech …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Democratic Race Tightens as Views of Clinton Become More Negative  —  Forty-five percent favorable rating one of lowest ever for Clinton  —  PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans have an unfavorable image of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Discussion: Don Surber and On Politics
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
For Clinton, Even Presidential Politics Is Local
Discussion: The Caucus and On Politics
Washington Post:
Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers, But No One Imagined What Cho Seung Hui Would Do  —  They met across the professor's desk.  One on one.  The chairman of the English department and the silent, brooding student who never took his sunglasses off.
Discussion: The Corner and Political Animal
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Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation blogs:
Who Placed a Secret Hold on Sunlight?  —  Yet again an anonymous Senator has placed a secret hold on legislation that would increase transparency.  This time a secret hold has been placed on a bill, S. 223, that would mandate that Senators file their campaign finance reports electronically.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker
Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Tammy Bruce exposes far-left outlets' hit list on everyone to their right  —  If you're a center-left, centrist, center-right or conservative and you've uttered an opinion in public, chances are far far left loss leaders Media Matters and Air America have a dossier on you.
 
 
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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
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Amanda / Think Progress:
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
With campaign finance loophole, Romney's wealth cannot be matched
Discussion: TIME and The Fix
Margaret Talev / Real Cities:
White House seeks to review GOP e-mails
Bill Theobald / Tennessean.com:
Thompson's pre-decision tour continues
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Gates Says Iraqi Shake-Up Could Aid Reconciliation
Daily Mail:
Polygamous husbands can claim cash for their harems
Discussion: On Deadline and Hot Air
Tobias Buck / Financial Times:
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