memeorandum: Impact of Gun Ruling Limited, Experts Say (Adam Liptak/New York Times)

5:10 AM ET, June 27, 2008

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Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Millionaire's Amendment' — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law meant to level the financial playing field when rich candidates pay for their own political campaigns. — The 5-to-4 decision, legal experts said, was significant for rejecting …

Discussion: QandO, Jonathan Martin's Blogs, Althouse, Wake up America, The Swamp and Ben Smith's Blogs

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Impact of Gun Ruling Limited, Experts Say — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's historic decision on the right to bear arms on Thursday was a sweeping pronouncement of constitutional principles that will nonetheless have little practical impact in most of the country, legal experts said.

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Colbert I. King / Washington Post:

The Thugs Win the Case — There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago.

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David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans in Agreement With Supreme Court on Gun Rights

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Commentary: So, what's next on guns?

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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Bill of Rights or Bill of Goods?

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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:

Obama-Clinton Meeting Fest — WASHINGTON - Senator Barack Obama said Thursday that he had written a personal check of $2,300 to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, a goodwill gesture intended to nudge his top donors to help ease Mrs. Clinton's debt and help the two Democrats move beyond their rivalry to focus on the fall campaign.

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Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:

Obama: ‘I bit my tongue’ against Clinton — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he bit his tongue “many times” during the fierce primary battle with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). — Two sources said that Obama's comments came after Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), a Clinton backer …

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The Hill:

Housing bill, FISA delayed until after July recess — The Senate hit impasses over legislation aimed at helping struggling homeowners and a rewrite of spying laws, forcing Democratic leaders to push back consideration of those measures until next month. — Leaders had hoped to finish …

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Daniel W. Reilly / The Crypt's Blogs:
Senate delays FISA vote until after recess

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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:

Which Candidate has a Base Problem? — That title is not meant to be read rhetorically or sarcastically. But the correct answer is “both of them”. The thing, however, is that they are somewhat opposite problems. — The below is data compiled from Rasmussen Reports …

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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:

Let McCain Be McCain — The big political headline this week, of course, involves John McCain's endless and humiliating attempts to placate Mitt Romney by bowing to demands he hire his operatives and pay his campaign debt. So far all he's got is a grudging one-sentence endorsement from that rampaging rage-aholic Ann Romney.

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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:

A Diplomatic Success That Defies the Critics — WASHINGTON — North Korea's declaration of its nuclear activities is a triumph of the sort of diplomacy — complicated, plodding, often frustrating — that President Bush and his aides once eschewed as American weakness.

Mike Allen / The Politico:
Plouffe's ‘persuasion army’ …

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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:

Iraq Bombings Kill at Least 30; Three Marines Dead — BAGHDAD — Two insurgent bomb blasts struck at pro-American Iraqi targets in Anbar province just west of Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, and the police said at least 30 people were killed and 80 wounded.

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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:

The Anti-Defamation League and Joe Klein — Fulfilling its historic role as a nonpartisan watchdog against anti-Semitism, the Anti-Defamation League has acted quickly in the case of Joe Klein and his jaw-dropping use, on the Time Magazine blog Swampland, of the anti-Semitic argument of …

Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Under debate plan, Obama loses height advantage — WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama would sit at a table at two of three presidential debates this fall, according to a formal proposal unveiled Thursday, which, perhaps unintentionally, would neutralize Obama's height advantage.

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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

SO SAD — It's sad to see articulate and intelligent, if terribly misguided, writers still trying to justify their Iraq catastrophe by claiming its no different from World War II and our decades' long stationing of troops in Germany and Japan. — Today we have the instance of Max Boot ...

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Todd Venezia / New York Post:

NEWS BABE'S ‘IRAQI TRYST’ — IN-BEDDED REPORTER ‘TOOK MY HUBBY’ — Sexy CBS siren Lara Logan spent her days covering the heat of the Iraq war - but that was nothing compared to the heat of her nights. — The “60 Minutes” reporter and former swimsuit model apparently courted two beaus …

Discussion: Wonkette

Steve Connor / The Independent:

Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole — Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change — It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. — The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice …

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, TownHall Blog and Agence France Presse

Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:

Lieberman on His Private Chat with Obama, Rev. Wright, and How McCain is Picking Up the Gore-Lieberman Foreign Policy Mantle — In an interview on the ABC News Shuffle Podcast today (listen HERE) Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, made his case for the presidential campaign …

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