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1:50 PM ET, April 3, 2012

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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?
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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 …
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 …
Fox News:
Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law  —  President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law — while repeatedly saying he's “confident” it will be upheld.
New York Sun:
Ex Parte Obama  —  It's been a long time since we've heard a presidential demarche as outrageous as President Obama's warning to the Supreme Court not to overturn Obamacare.  The president made the remarks at a press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Hearings Hurt Public Regard for both Health Care Law and Supreme Court  —  While most Americans say last week's Supreme Court hearings on the 2010 health care law did not change their views of the law or of the Court, they did more harm than good to the image of both.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
Discussion: National Review and ThinkProgress
Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Wary of activist court, Obama defends health law
Quinnipiac University:
Santorum Leads Romney In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; ‘etch A Sketch’ Rap Unfair To Romney, Republicans Say  —  Favorite Son Rick Santorum leads former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 41 - 35 percent among likely voters in Pennsylvania's Republican presidential primary …
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Conservative Anti-Romney Pundits Struggle to Embrace Mitt
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Mike Johnson / JSOnline:
Romney, Santorum campaign in final push
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  —  Bloomberg, Snowe and Taylor Dana Rubinstein  —  Some male politicians did show up to last night's Women's Campaign Fund reception at Christie's in Rockefeller Center, though they were solidly outnumbered by their female counterparts.
Discussion: Politico
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.
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.
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: The Hill
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
Discussion: CNN
Alister Bull / Reuters:
Obama takes on Republicans over tax fairness
Discussion: American Prospect
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
Josh Fatzick / Ballot Box:
RNC chief: Congress's approval rating would skyrocket if Pelosi quit  —  The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday said Congress's approval rating would jump 20 points if House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) resigned.  —  “If Nancy Pelosi would resign …
Discussion: HotAirPundit
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi wants Hillary Clinton to run in '16
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
Wall Street Journal:
GOP, Romney to Raise Funds Jointly  —  In a move that shows Republicans are coalescing around the party's front-runner, Mitt Romney plans to begin raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee this week as both the candidate and the GOP brace for an expensive general-election fight against President Barack Obama.
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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 …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Narrow Escape For Taxpayers  —  The collapse of the “green” energy industry continued today, as Solar Trust of America LLC filed for bankruptcy.  Solar Trust was, it claimed, carrying out the world's largest solar energy project in California.  Two things make Solar Trust's bankruptcy especially newsworthy …
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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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
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 …
Richard Danielson / Tampa Bay Times:
Permitted concealed firearms would be allowed in GOP convention protest zone  —  TAMPA — If Tampa's proposed rules for the Republican National Convention are passed, protesters could not bring squirt guns into a designated protest zone.  —  But they could bring real guns if they have concealed weapons permits.
 
 
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