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3:00 PM ET, April 3, 2012

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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Obama's unsettling attack on the Supreme Court  —  There was something rather unsettling in President Obama's preemptive strike on the Supreme Court at Monday's news conference.  —  “I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama vs. Marbury v. Madison  —  The President needs a remedial course in judicial review.  —  President Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review and famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.  But did he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Top Legal Commentator Toobin Stands By Doomsday Prediction For Health Care Law  —  Hindsight hasn't changed Jeffrey Toobin's mind.  —  A week after oral arguments led him to predict that the Supreme Court will strike down a key piece of President Obama's health care law …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Fox News:
Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Put a Ring on It: Obama Wins Women, but Not the Married Kind  —  At a campaign rally in New York two weeks ago, Michelle Obama was courting women voters.  —  The first bill President Obama signed into law, she excitedly told the crowd, was an act intended to help women earn as much as men do.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and HotAirPundit
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Quinnipiac University:
Santorum Leads Romney In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds …
Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney Wins over Donors by Warning of Huckabee-Palin Ticket at Convention
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Guardian
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Three times Obama has said ‘marvelous’  —  President Obama took a dig at Romney today for describing Paul Ryan's budget plan as “marvelous.”  —  “Marvelous... is a word you don't often hear about budgets,” he said.  “That's a word you don't often hear generally.”  —  Except:
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Paul Ryan budget plan is ‘Trojan horse’  —  President Barack Obama on Tuesday will shred the House GOP budget as a “Trojan horse” built around radical right-wing, “thinly veiled social Darwinism” and the makings of a renewed recession.  —  That's the message he'll …
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
Discussion: Politico
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Obama: Ryan Budget Is ‘Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism’
Discussion: American Prospect
Mj Leeand Tim Mak / Politico:
Sarah Palin pokes fun at herself on ‘Today’  —  Kicking off the highly anticipated battle of Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric on the morning TV shows Tuesday, the former Alaska governor demonstrated that that she is more than comfortable poking fun of herself on national television.
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Palin and Couric Have Their Morning Showdown. No Blows Landed.
Discussion: USA Today and GOP 12
New York Times:
Divide and Discriminate  —  When a light is shined into the dark corners of American politics, it's never pleasant to see what scurries away.  Last week, a federal judge in Maine unsealed memos from the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most prominent groups fighting against same-sex marriage.
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Noncitizens Sue Over U.S. Gay Marriage Ban
Discussion: American Prospect and Althouse
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Olympia Snowe: Birth Control Debate Is ‘Retro’ 1950s … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Michael Bloomberg, Emily's List, Heather Wilson, Lilly Ledbetter, Linda Lingle, Olympia Snowe, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Birth Control, Politics News
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Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:
A Women's Fund event sends off Olympia Snowe and launches Sandra Fluke
Discussion: Politico
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Mitt Romney 'must watch “Mad Men” and think it's the evening news'  —  Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod mocked GOP front-runner Mitt Romney's economic policies on Tuesday, saying his ideas were from a “time warp.”  —  “He must watch ‘Mad Men’ and think it's the evening news …
Discussion: CNN and Politico
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CBS News:
Axelrod: Romney “oblivious” to everyday life
Sarah Devlin / Mediaite:
Gov. Nikki Haley On The View: 'Women Don't Care About Contraception'  —  Nikki Haley, the young Indian-American governor of South Carolina, was on The View to talk about her new book Can't Is Not An Option, but the segment ended up going in a surprising number of directions.
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
White House and the F.D.A. Often at Odds  —  Nancy-Ann DeParle, the whip-smart and sometimes caustic White House deputy chief of staff, picked up The Wall Street Journal one summer day in 2010 and got an unwelcome shock.  The Food and Drug Administration was proposing as part of the new health care law …
Dan Zimmerman / The Truth About Guns:
Quote of the Day: Narrative Destroying Edition  —  “You will recall the incident of the beating of the black homeless man Sherman Ware on December 4, 2010 by the son of a Sanford police officer.  The beating sparked outrage in the community but there were very few that stepped up to do anything about it.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Boston Herald:
Uncle Obama on the roads again  —  RMV approves ‘hardship license’  —  Just a week after he copped a plea in a drunken-driving rap, President Obama's illegal-alien uncle has landed a hardship driver's license from the Registry of Motor Vehicles, making it perfectly legal for him to drive in Massachusetts …
Byron Tau / Politico:
Two-in-three Jewish voters back Obama  —  President Obama's support among Jewish voters remains high according to a new survey - despite heavy criticism of his policy towards the current Israeli government.  —  A new poll of American Jews, conducted by Public Religion Research Institute …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race  —  From left, Butch Morgan, Pam Brunette, Beverly Shelton and Dustin Blythe were charged April 2, 2012, in an election fraud case from the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary.  —  Felony charges related to election fraud …
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Perry heard singing in bathroom pre-debate  —  President Obama sang Al Green at a fundraiser.  And Mitt Romney belted out “America the Beautiful” on the trail.  —  As for Texas Gov Rick Perry, his 2012 musical moment took place in the bathroom, according to this excerpt from POLITICO's new e-book, Inside the Circus:
Kathleen M. Howley / Bloomberg:
Home Prices Seen Dropping 10% in U.S. on Foreclosures: Mortgages  —  As many as 1.25 million of America's least cared for homes are headed for auction after a year-long probe into foreclosure practices kept them off the market.  —  Sales of repossessed properties probably will rise 25 percent …
Associated Press:
Anti-gay group in Liberia issues hit list, threatens to ‘get to them one by one’  —  MONROVIA, Liberia — An anti-gay group in Liberia distributed fliers over the weekend with a hit list of people who support gay rights, and one member of the group threatened to “get to them one by one.”
 
 
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Lee Habeeb / National Review:
Too Young to Die  —  His name was Albert Vaughn.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and PJ Media
Declan Walsh / New York Times:
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Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge:
World's Largest Solar Plant, With Second Largest Ever Department of Energy Loan Guarantee, Files For Bankruptcy
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Discussion: TalkLeft and The Impolitic
Edward P. Lazear / Wall Street Journal:
The Worst Economic Recovery in History
Discussion: Brad DeLong, BizzyBlog and Ezra Klein
Josh Fatzick / Ballot Box:
RNC chief: Congress's approval rating would skyrocket if Pelosi quit
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Broken Contracts  —  A series of major cuts in military spending …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Campaign 2012
 Earlier Items: 
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Cheney released from hospital after heart transplant
Discussion: Politico
Hoover Institution:
Justice Kennedy's Million Dollar Question
Discussion: Power Line
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Anti-Romney Pundits Struggle to Embrace Mitt
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Would Lower Health Costs By Asking Patients To Pay More For Their Benefits
Discussion: Daily Kos
Bill McMorris / Washington Free Beacon:
Loose Bulbs  —  The Department of Energy awarded lighting giant Philips …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Richard Danielson / Tampa Bay Times:
Permitted concealed firearms would be allowed in GOP convention protest zone
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