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4:30 PM ET, November 21, 2014

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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The GOP Reaction to Obama's Immigration Order Will Be Way More Damaging Than They Realize  —  There are several reasons why Obama's executive action on immigration has put Republicans in a terrible bind.  There's the fact that conservatives are likely to respond by demanding a hardline position …
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Dish and Daily Kos
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Republicans confront own worst enemy on immigration  —  Just two weeks ago, Republicans handed President Obama a humiliating defeat at the polls, winning full control of Congress.  But already, GOP leaders fear that the conservative uproar over the president's immigration actions will doom …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Obama's Immigration Order: The Right Thing in the Wrong Way
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
House Republicans Sue Obama Administration Over Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans filed a long-threatened lawsuit Friday against the Obama administration over unilateral actions on the health care law that they say are abuses of the president's executive authority.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Finally Sues Obama On Obamacare (READ)
Discussion: Balloon Juice
CNN:
Boehner: House GOP files Obamacare suit
Discussion: Mediaite
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
GOP bill would defund immigration order  —  Reps. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Diane Black (R-Tenn.) have introduced legislation to prohibit funding to implement President Obama's executive action on immigration.  —  Their bill, titled The Separation of Powers Act, would block the use of funds …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Arpaio Filing Lawsuit Against Obama For Executive Actions On Immigration
Discussion: Liberaland and FOX News Radio
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Obama's advantage is that he has an immigration policy. Republicans don't.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Steven Dennis / Roll Call:
Obama Would Veto Any Bill Undoing Immigration Executive Action (Updated) (Video)
Discussion: Power Line
Zoltan L. Hajnal / New York Times:
The Democrats' Immigration Problem  —  SAN DIEGO — PRESIDENT OBAMA'S executive order eliminating the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants is good policy.  It is the right thing to do.  But it is a dangerous move for the Democratic Party.
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Washington Post:
Transcript: Obama's immigration speech
CNN:
Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in talks to resign from police force, sources say  —  Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) — Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed teenager Michael Brown on August 9, is in the final stages of negotiations with city officials to resign, according to people close to the talks.
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NY Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Another actress accuses Bill Cosby of sexual assault in Las Vegas hotel  —  Model-actress Angela Leslie is the eighth woman to come forward accusing Cosby of sexual harassment or worse.  She tells the Daily News he plied her with alcohol, may have tried to drug her and forced …
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Reuters:
Bill Cosby loses Las Vegas show after sex assault claims
Discussion: FOX News Radio
The Huffington Post:
Torture Report Fight Erupts In Chaos  —  WASHINGTON — Before White House chief of staff Denis McDonough came to brief Senate Democrats on Thursday afternoon, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) had a little pep talk with his flock.  Every Tuesday, during the weekly caucus lunches, he said, you all gripe and moan about the White House.
Associated Press:
FACT CHECK: Obama's claims on illegal immigration  —  2 photos  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama made some notable omissions Thursday night in his remarks about the unilateral actions he's taking on immigration.  —  A look at his statements and how they compare with the facts:
Discussion: Hot Air, Time and Betsy's Page
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Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Reid Unapologetic as Aide Steps on Toes, Including Obama's  —  President Obama called Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, to broach a particularly delicate subject.  It was during last year's government shutdown and standoff with Republicans, but Mr. Obama's frustration focused on one of their own.
Walter Dellinger / Slate:
It's Legal  —  The underpinnings of the president's immigration plan are anything but radical.  —  The idea that the immigration plan just announced by President Obama is a lawless power grab is absurd.  As the Justice Department legal analysis that was just released amply demonstrates …
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Mark Binker / WRAL-TV:
State auditor fires professor who made controversial ‘Obamacare’ remarks  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — State Auditor Beth Wood has terminated a contract with MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber after the health care policy expert came under fire for controversial comments involving how the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Issa Wants Gruber To Testify On O-Care ‘Lack Of Transparency’ Comments
Discussion: Mediaite
FiveThirtyEight:
The Election Map Alone Doesn't Explain The 2014 Republican Wave  —  Throughout the 2014 campaign, we kept hearing that Republicans were going to do well because of the “map.”  To take back the Senate, all they had to do was win seats in six states (Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Montana …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David McCabe / The Hill:
Cruz turns to Roman orations to bash Obama immigration order  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) turned to the Roman orations of Cicero to bash President Obama's coming executive order on immigration Thursday.  —  He took to the floor of the Senate and delivered a speech that included one of Cicero's …
New York Times:
Brooklyn Man Fatally Shot by Police Was Unarmed, Bratton Says  —  A rookie New York City police officer shot and killed an unarmed 28-year-old man in a darkened stairwell in Brooklyn late Thursday night, according to the police.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio said the shooting appeared to be unprovoked.
Mike Huckabee / Facebook:
It is interesting that Obama cites Scripture as the justification for him taking unilateral action on illegal immigrants.  —  Funny how, for the first six years of his Administration, even the two years when he had unstoppable majorities in both houses, Scripture did not compel immediate action.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
White House: Republicans Won The Election, We Won The After-Election  —  Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer: “We feel very good about how the last two and half weeks have gone.”  —  Jim Bourg / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's strategy of rolling out progressive policy …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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J. Christopher Giancarlo / Wall Street Journal:
Now Federal Job-Killers Are Coming After Derivatives
Discussion: Hot Air
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Louie Gohmert Claims Obama And ‘Liberal Attack People’ Want Violence And Mayhem
Discussion: Raw Story
Avik Roy / Forbes:
The Typical Beneficiary Of Obama's Illegal Immigration Plan Will Pay No Net Income Taxes
Department of Justice:
Attorney General Holder Announces New Law Enforcement Guide for Community Engagement …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, CNN and CBS St. Louis
Associated Press:
Gambia signs law for life imprisonment for homosexual acts
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Vox Popoli
Jason Zengerle / The New Republic:
The Man Who Was Everywhere  —  The serendipitous political career of Harris Wofford
Discussion: ABC News and Washington Monthly
 Earlier Items: 
Samtata / New York's PIX11:
Caught on camera: NYPD officer cracks alleged fare beater in head with nightstick
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Obama's Big Dare: What His Immigration Move Was Really About
Discussion: US News and Wall Street Journal
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
Obama Puts The Republic Out Of Its Misery
Discussion: Time and CNN
Ed Gillespie / New York Times:
An Obamacare Do-Over  —  MANY political analysts were surprised …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Suffer Little Children
Scott Brown / Boston Herald:
Scott Brown to rejoin Fox News on ‘Outnumbered’