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Maine.gov:
Governor Signs LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom  —  AUGUSTA - Governor John E. Baldacci today signed into law LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom.  —  “I have followed closely the debate on this issue.
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Matt Wickenheiser / pressherald.mainetoday.com:
Baldacci signs same-sex marriage into law  —  Maine becomes the fifth state to allow same-sex marriage.  The law will take effect 90 days after the end of the legislative session in June.  —  AUGUSTA - Democratic Gov. John Baldacci today signed into law a bill allowing gay marriage …
Tim Craig / D.C. Wire:
Barry Warns of “Civil War” Over Gay Marriage  —  D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), the only council member to vote against the bill today to legalize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, predicted today there could be a “civil war” in the District if the Council decides …
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
MAINE, FIFTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro  —  Maine's Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill into law allowing same-sex marriage in his state.  Maine becomes the fifth state to do so.  The other four: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Discussion: Firedoglake, The BRAD BLOG and SFist
CNN:
Maine legalizes same-sex marriage
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Michael Falcone / The Politico:
Poll to test Sestak's Netroots support  —  A liberal political group, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, went live Wednesday with an online straw poll designed to gauge progressive support for a Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter.  —  More specifically …
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The Politico:
Meltdown: Specter stands alone  —  Arlen Specter infuriated Senate Republicans when he bolted from their party last week.  Now he's alienated just about everybody in the Senate Democratic caucus, too.  —  Since declaring himself a Democrat last Tuesday, Specter has defied Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: Washington Post
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Top Republican inclined against Scotus filibuster
Discussion: The Caucus
CNN:
Senate strips Specter of seniority after party switch
Discussion: Politics Daily
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Complicated Question  —  I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene.  —  Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much younger.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: Republican Recruiting Recovering  —  (Photo - Toni L. Sandys/ The Washington Post)  —  Republicans, out of power in Washington and struggling badly to find new leaders to match President Obama at the national level, are on the verge of a series of recruiting successes …
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret U.S.-Israel nuclear accord in jeopardy  —  President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Tortured Logic  —  Hit me Bybee, one more time.  —  Remember the Rule of Law?  In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles.  Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where he could either lie under oath or suffer massive personal and political embarrassment …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Confederate Legacy  —  Ed Kilgore has a very interesting post on a new trend sweeping conservative politics in Dixie—"sovereignty resolutions" that appear to assert states' rights to unilaterally invalidate federal action, a doctrine last seen in the hands of John C. Calhoun, the great antebellum theorist of white supremacy.
The Politico:
The GOP's new point man  —  By elevating Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to their top spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans have selected their chief inquisitor for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee: a Southern, white conservative man who has drawn fire for racially insensitive comments in the past.
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The Hill:
Sessions less likely to opt for filibuster
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and CBS News
Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Obama's Brave Burger Run; Even Takes Biden Along (And You Know How Risky That Can Be)  —  All D.C. is a-twitter with yesterday's big burger run by the White House's answer to the Venture Bros.  —  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden jaunted off to an Arlington …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Say Cheese: Obama Lunch Turns Juicy Eat-and-Greet
Discussion: Needlenose and White House Watch
New York Times:
Matthew Shepard Act  —  After years of unconscionable delay, the House has approved legislation that would, for the first time, extend federal hate-crimes law to give substantive coverage to gay people.  The act would be an important step forward in protecting all minorities from violence …
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Wesley Young / Winston-Salem Journal:
Foxx sends note of apology to gay man's mother
Discussion: Think Progress and Joe. My. God.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Elena Kagan, Radical?  —  Earlier this week, President Obama called Republican Senator Orrin Hatch to discuss the vacancy on the Court left by Justice Souter.  According to Hatch's office, the president “assured Hatch...that he would appoint a pragmatist, not a radical, to this important position.”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Roger Ailes
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Chrysler + FIAT = Chooch!  —  Dan Gross, in a defense of the Chrysler deal's treatment of bondholders, writes … But Gross argues it's permissable in this case, if I understand him, because thanks to government bailout money the complaining “secured” lenders are doing better than they would have anyway.
Discussion: Overlawyered
Amy Diluna / NY Daily News:
Old duds, Michelle still fab  —  Now that's how to dress in New York during a recession.  —  For her first visit here as First Lady, Michelle Obama recycled a wardrobe staple.  She shopped her closet and picked a Tracy Feith dress that she's worn before for a meet-and-greet at the U.S. mission to the UN Tuesday afternoon.
Discussion: Cassy Fiano and The Anchoress
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Corzine Allies Plan Attack in G.O.P. Primary  —  Allies of New Jersey's Democratic governor, Jon S. Corzine, are so worried about his re-election prospects that they are going to start spending and advertising heavily — in the Republican primary.  —  Mr. Corzine's allies plan to attack …
Philip Johnston / Philip Johnston's blog listings:
Should we be banning this US ‘shock jock’?  —  The Home Office has issued the latest list of people it believes should not come to the country because they hold extremist opinions.  —  It is a state's prerogative to decide who it wants to come to its country.  That is, after all, what a visa system is for.
Discussion: Don Surber
Kristi Keck / CNN:
Obama tones down National Prayer Day observance  —  (CNN) — For the past eight years, the White House recognized the National Day of Prayer with a service in the East Room, but this year, President Obama decided against holding a public ceremony.  —  “Prayer is something that the president does everyday …
Discussion: Rumproast
Michael Barone / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
White House puts UAW ahead of property rights  —  Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company's headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich.  —  As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit.
New York Post:
OBAMA'S TAX DODGERS . . .  Here's a tip for President Obama: Next time you excoriate tax cheats, try to keep Rep. Charles Rangel's name out of the discussion.  —  Somehow, it doesn't further your case.  —  Yet that's precisely what Obama did Monday, singling out the powerful Harlem congressman …
 
 
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