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10:45 PM ET, June 25, 2012

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Alexander Burns / Politico:
The Romney camp's line on Arizona (Updated)  —  Mitt Romney released a statement earlier today emphasizing the right of states to enact immigration policies, but not actually commenting directly on the substance of today's Supreme Court decision on the Arizona immigration law.
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Homeland Security suspends immigration agreements with Arizona police  —  The Obama administration said Monday it is suspending existing agreements with Arizona police over enforcement of federal immigration laws, and said it has issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline …
Gail Sheehy / The Daily Beast:
Bill Clinton Warns About Supreme Court Ruling Against Obamacare  —  As America awaits the Supreme Court's decision on Obamacare, Clinton spells out the dire consequences of the law being struck down—and talks about the prospects for Hillary being president and Chelsea giving him a grandchild.
Kevin Russell / SCOTUSblog:
Court strikes down much of Arizona immigration law  —  This morning, the Court handed down its decision in Arizona v. United States, the case involving Arizona's attempt to supplement federal immigration enforcement through several state law measures.  The Court reviewed four provisions of the statute …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Scalia's Anger at Obama on Immigration  —  Isn't it time to ask the real, lingering question?  —  Isn't it about time for Justice Antonin Scalia to get his own show on Fox News?  Talking Points Memo: … We really have to run a lot of this post here to take it all in.
Discussion: American Power
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Justice Scalia Rages Against Obama On Immigration  —  In his aggressive defense of Arizona's immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia pointedly went after President Obama's recent immigration policy shift and accused him of deliberately refusing to enforce immigration statutes.
Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Arizona Law  —  The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona's tough immigration law but struck down others as intrusions on federal sovereignty, in a ruling that gave both sides something to cheer in advance of November elections where immigration is a major issue.
Associated Press:
Federal hotline set up on Arizona immigration  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has set up a hotline for the public to report potential civil rights concerns regarding the Arizona law that requires police to check the immigration status of those they stop for other reasons.
Discussion: protein wisdom and Weasel Zippers
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Supreme Court Strikes Most of Arizona Immigration Law, Making Scalia Very Angry
BuzzFeed:
Romney Criticizes Immigration Ruling
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
Blocking Parts of Arizona Law, Justices Allow Its Centerpiece
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Justice Scalia rips Obama's deportation directive in dissent on Arizona case
Discussion: Hot Air, CNN and The Hill
Kelly Cernetich / PoliticsPA:
Turzai: Voter ID Law Means Romney Can Win PA  —  House Majority Leader Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny) told the Republican State Committee that Voter ID will allow Romney to win PA.  —  State Treasurer candidate Diana Irey Vaughan may have stolen the show at the Republican State Committee meeting …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics  —  (Midnight update: This item went up three hours ago with a more blunt-instrument headline than it should ever have had: “5 Signs the United States is Undergoing a Coup.”  I used the word “coup” in a particular way in the longer item this was drawn from.
Miranda Leitsinger / msnbc.com:
Teen lesbian couple found shot in Texas park  —  Police are investing the shooting of two teenage girls in a small Texas community along the Gulf of Mexico.  KRIS reporter Lindsay Curtis has the story.  —  Two teenage girls in a relationship were found with gunshot wounds to the head in a south Texas park …
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
How Republicans made it possible for the Supreme Court to rule against the mandate  —  It wasn't easy for Barack Obama to persuade David Axelrod to take him on as a client.  It took years, actually.  But there was a reason Obama wanted Axelord to be the one to run his campaigns.
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CNN:
Health care ruling looms
Discussion: Liberal Values and PoliticsPA
BuzzFeed:
Romney Bus Circles, Honks Obama — Again Mitt Romney's campaign bus circled President Barack Obama's fundraiser tonight in Boston, the second time they've pulled the stunt in two weeks.  —  BOSTON — For the second time in as many weeks, Mitt Romney's campaign taunted President Barack Obama outside a speech.
Discussion: nation.foxnews.com and Daily Kos
NY Daily News:
Elmo imposter hassles tourists for money and gets booted from Central Park Zoo  —  Man dressed up as furry Sesame Street Muppet gets taken away on ambulance  —  An emotionally disturbed man dressed as Elmo is taken away by ambulance after hassling tourists for money and shouting obscenties at Central Park Zoo.
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Garth Johnston / Gothamist:
Crazy Anti-Semitic Elmo Captured In Central Park
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Eric Holder ‘Fast and Furious’ contempt vote to be held Thursday  —  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (Chip Somodevilla - GETTY IMAGES) The House is scheduled to vote on recommendations that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. be held in contempt of Congress on Thursday, according to House Republican aides.
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Voters: Obama over-reached blocking ‘Fast and Furious’ docs
A.W. / Allergic to Bull:
An Important Victory For Freedom of Expression  —  First, dear readers, you should expect this post to change radically—or perhaps I will start a new post.  I just wanted to get this off my chest immediately.  —  I am free once again to do something very simple.  I am allowed to say the name Brett Kimberlin again.
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Facebook's Lame Attempt To Force Its Email Service On You  —  Please don't email me here.  —  You may or may not realize that you have a Facebook email address.  It's an @facebook.com address you can use to correspond with people on external email accounts from your Facebook inbox.
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Whitson Gordon / Lifehacker:
Facebook Changed Everyone's Email to @Facebook.com; Here's How to Fix Yours
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. treated for exhaustion, takes medical leave  —  Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) has taken a medical leave of absence because he is being treated for exhaustion, according to his office.  —  In a brief statement released Monday, Jackson's staff disclosed that the lawmaker …
Discussion: CNN
Steve Beck / CBS Philly:
Plane Tows Swastika Banner, Startles New Jersey Beachgoers  —  LONG BEACH, N.J. (CBS/AP) — New Jersey beachgoers were startled over the weekend to see a small plane flying overhead pulling a swastika banner.  —  VIEW: Photo Plane Towing Swastika Banner  —  Twitter was abuzz with tweets …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jimmy Carter / New York Times:
A Cruel and Unusual Record  —  THE United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights.  —  Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation's violation of human rights has extended.
Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Study: More Than Half a Trillion Dollars Spent on Welfare But Poverty Levels Unaffected  —  (CNSNews.com) - The federal government is not making much headway reducing poverty despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute.
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz Getting Booted  —  Back in April, the Shark Tank floated the likelihood that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz was perhaps on her way out as DNC Chairwoman.  We now have learned that Wasserman Schultz will not be back as DNC Chairwoman after the November elections.
Michael Musto / La Daily Musto:
GOProud Is A Bunch Of Jewish Nazis  —  Ever since the conservative gay group GOProud backed Mitt Romney for President last week—albeit by a very slim margin—the epithets and insults have been hurling at them like taunts at a gay kid.  —  But this time, the outrage is justified.
 
 
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Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Taliban behead 7 Pakistani soldiers: report
Discussion: DAWN.COM
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Iranian pair face death penalty after third alcohol offence
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Misha Glenny / New York Times:
A Weapon We Can't Control  —  THE decision by the United States …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Andrea Peterson / ThinkProgress:
Kansas Doctor Loses License For Protecting Privacy Of Abortion Patients
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Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem
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The Source of Barack Obama's Power to Trick Us Comes from Our Willingness to Be Tricked
Benjamin Weinthal / Jerusalem Post:
Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor dies
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