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10:50 PM ET, March 28, 2012

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: A lift for the mandate?  (FINAL UPDATE 5:12 pm)  —  Analysis  —  The Supreme Court spent 91 minutes Wednesday operating on the assumption that it would strike down the key feature of the new health care law, but may have convinced itself in the end not to do that because of just how hard …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Will Medicaid be sacrificed?  (FINAL UPDATE 7:08 pm)  —  Analysis  —  Unless a closing oration by a top government lawyer stirs some real sympathy for the poor, the new health care law's broad expansion of the Medicaid program that serves the needy may be sacrificed …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Justices poised to strike down entire healthcare law  —  Demonstrators pray outside the U.S. Supreme Court on the third day of oral arguments over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / March 28, 2012)
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Supreme Court's Dark Vision of Freedom  —  The court's conservatives apparently believe in the land of the free.  Circa 1804.  —  The fight over Obamacare is about freedom.  That's what we've been told since these lawsuits were filed two years ago and that's what we heard both inside and outside the Supreme Court this morning.
Reid Cherlin / GQ:
Take It From Me: Defending Obamacare is Super-Hard  —  It so happens that I'm packing up my apartment and moving out of Washington today after eight years of residence, most of which were spent in politics and government.  One of the items I just bubble-wrapped is a framed copy of The L …
Discussion: Ezra Klein, Mother Jones and News Desk
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Debates Striking Down Whole Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — The day after the Supreme Court suggested that President Obama's health care law might be in danger of being held unconstitutional, the justices on Wednesday turned their attention to the practical consequences and political realities of such a ruling.
New York Times:
The Supreme Court's Momentous Test
David Frum / david-frum:
Supremes Won't Save GOP From Itself on Obamacare
Los Angeles Times:
Justices suggest Medicaid expansion is unconstitutional
Peter Landers / Washington Wire:
A Medicaid Twist in Health-Law Arguments
Jeff Weiner / Orlando Sentinel:
Trayvon Martin: Couple who fled home after Spike Lee tweet hires Morgan firm  —  A couple who say they were forced to leave their home after director Spike Lee re-tweeted their address to his Twitter followers has hired the Morgan & Morgan law firm to represent them.
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
New Police Video Shows George Zimmerman Unscathed On Night Of Trayvon Martin Shooting  —  ABC News has obtained exclusive video of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman on the night he shot the Florida teenager, speaking to police.  While there is no audio, the video is key evidence …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Dem kicked off House floor for ‘hoodie’ in Trayvon Martin protest  —  Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Wednesday morning was asked to leave the House floor after removing his suit jacket to reveal a “hoodie,” then putting the hood of his sweatshirt on his head to protest the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Rasmussen does a poll on whether Zimmerman is guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Sourcing narrative “facts” in the Martin case
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Susan Jacobson / Orlando Sentinel:
Elderly couple abandons their home after address is posted on Twitter as that of George Zimmerman
CNN:
CNN Poll: Obama leads Romney and Santorum in November showdowns  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama holds a double-digit lead over GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in hypothetical general election matchups, according to a new poll.
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Marco Rubio / CNN:
Rubio endorses Romney, argues GOP should ‘come together’  —  (CNN) - Marco Rubio, a senator whose name was floated first as a possible presidential, then vice presidential candidate, on Wednesday made an endorsement in the presidential race, saying, “It's evidently and increasingly clear …
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity
JSOnline:
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Bloomberg:
News Corp. Said to Plan U.S. Sports Network to Rival ESPN  —  Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWSA) is taking steps to start a national U.S. sports network on cable television aimed at challenging Walt Disney Co. (DIS)'s ESPN, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Stealing Christianity  —  TNR's Tim Noah wrote yesterday about one of my all-time biggest pet peeves: the constant appropriation of the word “Christian” by conservative evangelicals as exclusive to their distinctive and hardly uncontested point of view.  What sent Noah off was an NPR story on …
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Timothy Noah / The New Republic:
Language Cop: “Christian”
Discussion: Mother Jones
Dylan Byers / Politico:
CNN's Toobin discusses the Toobin factor  —  CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin continued to set the tone on the media's coverage of the Supreme Court's health care arguments today.  Following up on yesterday's analysis that this was a “train wreck” for the Obama administration …
Michael Wilson / City Room:
On ‘Mad Men,’ an Opening Scene Straight From Page 1  —  The opening scenes of Sunday's season five premiere of “Mad Men,” set in 1966, depicted a sort of knucklehead-racism at work, when young men from the ad agency Young & Rubicam dropped bags filled with water on protesters picketing on the Madison Avenue sidewalk below.
Discussion: Liberal Values and Poynter
Janet Reitman / Rolling Stone:
Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth's Hazing Abuses  —  A Dartmouth degree is a ticket to the top - but first you may have to get puked on by your drunken friends and wallow in human filth  —  Andrew Lohse visits the Dartmouth campus where he has come forward to report …
Discussion: Felix Salmon and Corrente
 
 
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Katie Allen / Guardian:
UK GDP fell faster than previously estimated in fourth quarter, ONS says
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP running out of gas on Solyndra
BBC:
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Chris Parsons / Daily Mail:
Former Pakistani dancing girl commits suicide 12 years after horrific acid attack which left her looking ‘not human’
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
J Street, Pro-Israel but Opposed to Attacking Iran, Takes Its Message to Washington
BBC:
New attacks target Jews in France
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