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4:40 PM ET, March 28, 2012

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: A lift for the mandate?  —  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 it would be to decide what to do after that.
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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)
Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
First severability argument update  —  Paul Clement is finished.  The Court was skeptical that the whole act should fall if the individual mandate is invalid.  But there wasn't any clear indication of how far the Court would go.  It seemed like there wasn't much question …
David Frum / david-frum:
Supremes Won't Save GOP From Itself on Obamacare  —  A supporter of President Barack Obama's health care reforms(R) argues with several elderly women who are against the reforms in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC after the morning session March 27, 2012, KAREN BLEIER / AFP / Getty Images
Discussion: 2012 Decoded
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Justifies Denying Health Care To People With Pre-Existing Conditions: 'We Can't Play The Game Like That'  —  As Mitt Romney tries to distance himself from Obamacare, he ran into some trouble last night when he got stumped by comedian Jay Leno.  Leno asked Romney what he would do to help people …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
White House defends embattled solicitor general  —  The White House is coming to the defense of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, whose efforts to defend the president's health care law Tuesday are under attack as a “train wreck” and “The Worst Supreme Court Argument of All Time.”
Washington Wire:
Live Blog: Obama Health Law at the Supreme Court, Day 3 … The Supreme Court on Wednesday had the last of its three days of arguments over the Obama health-care law, with justices set to weigh what happens to the rest of the overhaul if the court strikes down the requirement that individuals carry health insurance.
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision  —  Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision... And such a decision would have two consequences: 1) feed the perception that the Supreme Court is as partisan as the other branches, and 2) satisfy no one... Yesterday was a bad day for the mandate …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Santorum uses Supreme Court oral arguments on Obama healthcare law to criticize Romney
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
SCOTUS mulls striking down all of Obamacare
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Reactions: Lawmakers revert to talking points as Justices leave them in the dark
Discussion: Politico
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.
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie For Trayvon  —  Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) donned a hoodie and took to the House floor this morning to speak out against the murder of Travyon Martin, but was shouted down and removed from the floor by the Republican speaker pro tem …
Fox News:
Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there  —  SANFORD, FLA - An elderly Florida couple have been forced to move into a hotel after their home address was wrongly tweeted as belonging to the man who shot teen Trayvon Martin.
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Congressman Bobby Rush Kicked Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie
Corey Boles / Washington Wire:
Rep. Bobby Rush Is Scolded for Wearing a ‘Hoodie’ on House Floor
Discussion: Hot Air
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity  —  Mitt Romney trails Barack Obama by 19 points in basic popularity as the 2012 presidential contest inches closer to the main event, with a record 50 percent of Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll now rating Romney unfavorably overall.
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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.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds
Stephanie Cutter / CNN:
Top Obama aide calls GOP charges ‘despicable’
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and msnbc.com
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich cuts staff, aims at Tampa
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
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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Mj Lee / Politico:
John McCain: John Boehner's got it wrong on presidential travel  —  Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that he disagrees with House Speaker John Boehner's suggestion that it's inappropriate to criticize President Barack Obama when he's traveling overseas.  —  “I understand John Boehner's point …
Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
FBI Taught Agents They Could ‘Bend or Suspend the Law’  —  The FBI taught its agents that they could sometimes “bend or suspend the law” in their hunt for terrorists and criminals.  Other FBI instructional material, discovered during a months-long review of FBI counterterrorism training …
 
 
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Sourcing narrative “facts” in the Martin case
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Sister Toldjah
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Mississippi Is Most Religious U.S. State
Larry Kramer / The Huffington Post:
Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Strength and Weakness in the Campaign of Ron Paul
Discussion: Salon, GOP 12, Truthdig and msnbc.com
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Why Republicans Aren't Rushing To Endorse Romney
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Birnbaum / Washington Post:
German town fears loss of U.S. Army base
Bloomberg:
About Peter R Orszag  —  No Revenue Means Steep Social Security Cuts Under Romney
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal?
Discussion: msnbc.com and Politico
Fox News:
Media Matters writer ‘sorry’ after blasting Drudge for Martin photo