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3:45 PM ET, March 27, 2013

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Washington Wire:
Live Blog: Supreme Court Weighs Gay Marriage, Day 2  —  The Supreme Court Wednesday is hearing arguments on the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, completing a two-day exploration of gay marriage after arguments Tuesday that showed the justices divided over how far the rights of gays and lesbians should extend.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: DOMA is in trouble (FINAL UPDATE)  —  Analysis  —  If the Supreme Court can find its way through a dense procedural thicket, and confront the constitutionality of the federal law that defined marriage as limited to a man and a woman, that law may be gone, after a seventeen-year existence.
New York Times:
Justices Hears Arguments on Defense of Marriage Act  —  WASHINGTON — A majority of the justices on Wednesday questioned the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, as the Supreme Court took up the volatile issue of same-sex marriage for a second day.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Courting Cowardice  —  As the arguments unfurled in Tuesday's case on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court justices sounded more and more cranky.  —  Things were moving too fast for them.  —  How could the nine, cloistered behind velvety rose curtains, marble pillars and archaic customs …
Ricochet Conversations Feed:
Troy Senik, Ed. : The Gay Marriage Fight that Should Unify the Right  —  As we endure the oral arguments over California's Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in the Supreme Court this week, things are likely to get a little chippy here on Ricochet.
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan declares her support for gay marriage  —  Sen. Kay Hagan said Wednesday that she supported the right of gay people to marry, saying “we should not tell people who they can love or who they can marry.”  —  Hagan, one of the few Democratic senators who had not previously come …
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Bill O'Reilly: Gay Marriage Foes Can Only ‘Thump The Bible’ In Their Arguments (VIDEO)  —  Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday that the opponents of same-sex marriage have been unable to do anything but “thump the Bible” in their arguments.  —  Speaking to Megyn Kelly about the Supreme Court's hearing …
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Planned Parenthood's president thinks abortion is headed back to the Supreme Court  —  Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards speaks at the 2012 Democratic Convention. … Sarah Kliff: Tell me a bit about what the restrictions we're seeing out of North Dakota mean.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Defense Of Marriage Act Takes A Beating At Supreme Court  —  A majority of the Supreme Court justices delivered a beating to the Defense of Marriage Act during oral arguments Wednesday, signaling a positive outcome for marriage equality.  —  The four liberal-leaning justices …
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Supreme Court seems open to killing Defense of Marriage Act
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
DOMA on shaky ground in court
Discussion: CNN, Hit & Run and Reuters
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Kay Hagan Joins Democratic Senators Supporting Marriage Equality
Reuters:
‘Rude’ lawmaker Louie Gohmert pulls rank on cops over parking ticket  —  A Texas Republican congressman got into a late-night verbal altercation with U.S. Park Police officers earlier this month, pulling rank in an attempt to get out of a parking ticket near the Lincoln Memorial.
Washington Post:
CIA director faces a quandary over clandestine service appointment  —  As John Brennan moved into the CIA director's office this month, another high-level transition was taking place down the hall.  —  A week earlier, a woman had been placed in charge of the CIA's clandestine service for the first time in the agency's history.
Iowahawk / BREITBART.COM:
Same Sex Marriage and Gilligan's Island Game Theory  —  After 28 years of wedded bliss and 2 kids, I'm guessing I'm probably the Conversation's resident marriage champ.  (It was an arranged Hindu ceremony, I was 3 and she was 2.)  And there's nobody who can better attest to the joys and benefits of a traditional monogamous union.
Discussion: Power Line and Hit & Run
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Local Airport Closures Cause GOPers Sequestration Anxiety  —  We've noted previously that outside Washington D.C. — where politicians and reporters obsess endlessly over inconsequential but high-valence things like White House tours and Easter egg hunts — sequestration is beginning to cause real harm, and political pain.
CBS News:
Poll: 80% of Americans unhappy with Washington  —  The Sequester  —  Americans continue to believe the sequester cuts will be bad for the country (41 percent) in the long run, and just 28 percent expect their effect to be good for the country.  However, the view that sequester will have no impact …
Paul Krugman:
Poland Is Not Yet Lost  —  But its leaders remain determined to give disaster a chance.  —  Poland is one of Europe's relative success stories.  It avoided the severe slump that afflicted much of the European periphery, then had a fairly strong recovery:  —  As you can see …
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Jan Cienski / Financial Times:
Poland opens way to euro referendum
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dave Lee / BBC:
‘Biggest ever attack’ slows internet  —  The row centres on the blocking of a web-hosting company alleged to be hosting spam websites  —  The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack in history.
Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM and Mashable
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New York Times:
Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack
Discussion: Gawker and Boing Boing
Politico:
Our Story  —  We created POLITICO with a simple promise: to prove there's a robust and profitable future for tough, fair and fun coverage of politics and government.  To do this, we cling to a simple principle: always hire the most talented editors, reporters and newsroom staff and then set …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Louise Radnofsky / Washington Wire:
Sebelius: Some Could See Insurance Premiums Rise  —  Some people purchasing new insurance policies for themselves this fall could see premiums rise because of requirements in the health-care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Tuesday.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  March 27, 2013 - Virginia Voters Know Little About Gov Candidates, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Cuccinelli More Experienced, McAuliffe Less Ideological  —  Virginia State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is viewed as having better experience while voters see Terry McAuliffe …
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  March 27, 2013 - Sandy Won't Change …
Discussion: Politico, Ballot Box and CNN
 
 
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