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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court says detainees have rights, bucking Bush  —  WASHINGTON - In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. civilian courts …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court gives detainees habeas rights  —  UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. The District Court judges in Washington who will hear the detaineees' habeas challenges mandated by the Supreme Court will meet soon to decide how to proceed, that Court announced shortly after the Supreme Court ruled.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
High Court sides with Guantanamo detainees again  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.  —  In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment …
David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal in Civilian Courts  —  WASHINGTON — Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4 …
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:   The Gitmo Defeat  —  While I am still reviewing the 5-4 decision …
Satyam / Think Progress:
Scalia: Court's Decision Restoring Habeas 'Will Almost Certainly Cause …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Supreme Court restores habeas corpus, strikes down key part …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
KEY QUOTES FROM BOUMEDIENE V. BUSH: In this post, I want to excerpt …
Discussion: American Spectator and Commentary
Michelle Malkin:   Supreme Court opens up Gitmo lawsuit floodgates; Scalia …
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Karen Tumulty / Time:
Exclusive: Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan  —  As long as there have been rumors in politics, there has been one widely accepted way for a candidate to deal with them.  Basically, it's not to.  Otherwise, according to prevailing wisdom, all a candidate achieves is to elevate the rumors to a legitimate story for the media to feast on.
Matt Lewis / TownHall Blog:
Jay Carney Blames Conservative Bloggers for “Whitey” Rumor  —  Obama has a new website designed for rapid response.  It's called, “Fight The Smears” ...  Jay Carney of TIME was just on MSNBC, talking about it.  He went on to say that conservative bloggers started the Michelle Obama “Whitey” rumors.
Flip / Suitably Flip:
Kos Tries To Pass Off Obama's Birth Certification As Birth Certificate
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Kos
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama moves DNC operations to Chicago  —  In a major shakeup at the Democratic National Committee — and a departure from tradition — large parts of the committee's operations are relocating to Chicago to be fully integrated with the Obama campaign.  —  The DNC's political department …
Tax Policy Center home:
A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans  —  The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration.  The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Comparison of the McCain and Obama Tax Plans  —  The Tax Policy Center has published A Preliminary Analysis of the 2008 Presidential Candidates' Tax Plans.  Here is the abstract: … Here is the bottom line: … Joe Kristan wryly observes on Roth & Co.:
Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS:
Ron Paul to End Campaign, Launches New Effort  —  Supporters Plot Shadow Convention, More Revolution  —  Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, a pugnacious, ideological crusade against big government and interventionist leanings in the Republican party, will officially end Thursday …
The Trail:
Huckaboom Hits TV  —  Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, pictured at a taping of “Meet the Press” in May 2008, will be a commentator for Fox News.  (Getty Images)  —  MIKE HUCKABEE  —  Huckaboom Hits TV  —  By Howard Kurtz Mike Huckabee may have flamed out as a presidential candidate …
Discussion: Salon and TIME.com
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Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
And there it is — Huckabee inks deal with Fox
Discussion: The Swamp
Josh Margolin / New Jersey Online:
CNN's Dobbs is said to consider a run for NJ Gov  —  It's a hot topic in Republican political and fund-raising circles: CNN's Lou Dobbs is thinking of running for governor of New Jersey.  —  Several well-connected Republicans say they've heard the buzz that Dobbs, famous for his sharp commentary …
Michael Calderone / The Politico:
Fox addresses baby mama drama: Producer used ‘poor judgment’  —  Since Salon's Alex Koppelman caught Fox News characterizing Michelle Obama as “Obama's Baby Mama,” there's been an uproar over use of such an offensive term.  —  “A producer on the program exercised poor judgment in using …
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MiamiHerald.com:
China-Cuba rumors fuel renewed offshore drilling debate  —  Rumors of China drilling in Cuban waters are rallying support for drilling off Florida's coast, but experts say they're untrue.  —  Facebook  —  AIM  —  lclark@MiamiHerald.com  —  WASHINGTON — With gas topping $4 a gallon …
Discussion: The Crypt's Blogs
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Wall Street Journal:
Ex-Friends of Barack  —  It turns out that Jim Johnson was not the man Barack Obama thought he knew.  The presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee threw the former Fannie Mae CEO over the side as his Vice Presidential vetter yesterday, only a day after he'd said that Mr. Johnson was only …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Barack's Bad Day  —  Everybody knows that the very first rule …
Discussion: Washington Post
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
PUTTING OBAMA'S LEAD INTO PERSPECTIVE  —  From NBC's Mark Murray  —  In the latest NBC/WSJ poll, Obama leads McCain by six points (47%-41%) among registered voters.  While polls can't accurately gauge an election five months out — after all, so much can still happen …
Justin Rose / Times of London:
Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent's wife alive  —  The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district.  His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.
 
 
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Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
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