memeorandum: Romney, Santorum campaign in final push (Mike Johnson/JSOnline)

1:15 PM ET, April 3, 2012

Top Items:

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?

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, DISSENTING JUSTICE, Betsy's Page and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog

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.

Discussion: Hot Air, BREITBART.COM, Wake up America, Reuters, Don Surber, GOP 12, Fausta's Blog, Questions and Observations, americanthinker.com, The Lonely Conservative, Scared Monkeys, Taylor Marsh, Althouse, The Mental Recession, National Review, Doug Ross and NO QUARTER

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.

Discussion: Instapundit, BizzyBlog, RedState, Outside the Beltway and neo-neocon

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, FiveThirtyEight, Patterico's Pontifications, A plain blog about politics, Politico and Guardian

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Taegan Goddard's …

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

Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla

Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Obama's unsettling attack on the Supreme Court

Discussion: USA Today, MyFoxboston, Hot Air and Firedoglake

Rose Garden / The White House:
Joint Press Conference by President Obama, President Calderon of Mexico, and Prime Minister Harper of Canada

Discussion: The Hill, The Maddow Blog, dallasmorningviewsblog …, The Volokh Conspiracy, PrawfsBlawg, Law Blog, Wall Street Journal, White House.gov Blog, SCOTUSblog and Balkinization

Leon H. Wolf / RedState:
President Obama Goes on Record Opposing Marbury v. Madison

Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy, The Sundries Shack, Weekly Standard, Right Wing News, The Other McCain, The Lid, nation.foxnews.com and Weasel Zippers

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 …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Washington Examiner, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Washington Wire, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, USA Today, PoliticsPA, Ballot Box, GOP 12, Baltimore Sun and Associated Press

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

Discussion: ABCNEWS, FiveThirtyEight and Washington Post

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.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Poliglot, Daily Kos, NOM Blog and Human Rights Campaign

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

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog and Althouse

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

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.

Discussion: USA Today, CNN, The Week and No More Mister Nice Blog

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

Amie Parnes / The Hill: Obama to attack Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’

Alister Bull / Reuters:
Obama takes on Republicans over tax fairness

Discussion: American Prospect

CBS News:

Axelrod: Romney “oblivious” to everyday life — (CBS News) — A top campaign adviser to President Obama Tuesday called Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney “oblivious” to the concerns of everyday Americans and suggested he is living in a different era.

Discussion: Shakesville, Jammie Wearing Fools and Washington Post

Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Axelrod: Mitt Romney 'must watch “Mad Men” and think it's the evening news'

Discussion: CNN and Politico

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 …

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Hit & Run, Wall Street Journal and Watts Up With That?

Reuters:
Solar Trust of America files bankruptcy

Discussion: Campaign 2012 and The Gateway Pundit

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.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Washington Times, USA Today, New York Times, Ballot Box, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Politico, Fox News, Race 4 2012 and New York Magazine

Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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

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:

Discussion: Mock, Paper, Scissors, Gawker and New York Magazine

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 …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars and Suburban Guerrilla

Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:

Trayvon Martin - Is Everything You Think You Know Just Media BS? — As a launch point, let me pick up on this throw-away comment made by Rod Dreher in his own comments section: — I do think Zimmerman was a paranoid guy — I make this judgment based on his frequent 911 calls over the past year …

Discussion: The Other McCain