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2:30 PM ET, June 8, 2015

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Peyton M. Craighill / Washington Post:
Public to Supreme Court: Don't gut Obamacare  —  The Affordable Care Act hangs in the balance in the Supreme Court for the second time in three years, but the public has rendered a judgment ahead of the court's ruling.  By a margin of 55 percent to 38 percent, more people say the court …
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Cliff Owen / Associated Press:
Supreme Court Rejects NRA Appeal To Loosen San Francisco Gun Laws  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned down another National Rifle Association-led appeal aimed at loosening gun restrictions and instead left in place two San Francisco gun laws.
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Can Republicans Win by Losing at the Supreme Court?
Discussion: ABC News
Kenneth Jost / Jost On Justice:   Counting Everyone for ‘One Person, One Vote’
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The GOP has 5 plans to fix Obamacare if the Supreme Court blows it up. They're all a mess.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Gonnerman / New Yorker:
Kalief Browder, 1993-2015  —  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime.  He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed.
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Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Kalief Browder, jailed for 3 years in N.Y. without a trial, commits suicide  —  Kalief Browder, whose three years in jail without trial inspired calls for reform in New York, has committed suicide at age 22, his attorney said Sunday.  —  Browder was 16 when he was arrested on suspicion …
Discussion: Gothamist and 89.3 KPCC
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic:
The Brief and Tragic Life of Kalief Browder
Discussion: Common Dreams
Yoni Appelbaum / The Atlantic:
McKinney, Texas, and the Racial History of American Swimming Pools  —  A woman swims in a pool in Tampa, Florida.  (Shaun Best / AP)  —  On Friday, a large group of teens gathered for a pool party in the city of McKinney, Texas.  Shortly thereafter, someone called the police.
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Local Homeowners Defend Texas Cops Who Brutalized Black Teens At Pool Party  —  The police's brutal treatment of black teens attending a pool party in McKinney, Texas has sparked a nationwide outrage.  The video shows officer Eric Casebolt grabbing 15-year-old Dajerria Becton …
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her  —  A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper's editorial page endorsed Clinton …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Clintons gave $100k to NYT fund in '08  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton's Family Foundation gave $100,000 to a New York Times' charitable fund in 2008, the same year that the paper endorsed Hillary Clinton in the hotly contested Democratic presidential primary, the Washington Free Beacon reported Monday.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win  —  Bernie Sanders surprises with 41 percent of the vote.  —  Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a close second to Hillary Clinton, who won 49 percent.
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Matt Latimer / Politico:
Scandals only make the Clintons stronger  —  The Republican plan to defeat Hillary Clinton is doomed.  It's time to go easy on her.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  One has to wonder: When Republicans gathered earlier this year to scheme the defeat of Hillary Clinton, who was the genius who stood up and said, “I know.
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Nicholas Ballasy / PJ Media:
Nader: Hillary Tried to ‘Overcompensate’ for Gender with ‘Shocking’ Militarism
Discussion: Hit & Run, Althouse and The Week
Nick Gass / Politico:
Barbara Bush: I'm keeping quiet during Jeb's likely 2016 run
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Kruse / Politico:
On talk circuit, George W. Bush makes millions but few waves  —  Toward the end of his presidency, George W. Bush told Robert Draper, reporting for a book called Dead Certain, that he intended after vacating the Oval Office to “replenish the ol' coffers.”  He said he could make “ridiculous” money on the lecture circuit.
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Danny Diaz to Be Jeb Bush's Campaign Manager  —  Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old Washington, D.C., native who has worked for the last three Republican presidential nominees, will serve as campaign manager of Jeb Bush's anticipated presidential campaign.  —  The job of running day-to-day campaign operations …
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
This Is the Way to Win Elections (But It Makes Governing Harder)  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  This is how you win elections.  But it makes governing harder
Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
Box Office: FIFA Movie ‘United Passions’ Bombs in U.S.  —  Even bad publicity is usually good publicity — except in the case of the FIFA-financed film United Passions, which was quickly red-carded at the U.S. box office this weekend.  —  Writer-director Frederic Auburtin's film beyond bombed …
 
 
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