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2:35 PM ET, April 4, 2016

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Unanimous Supreme Court Preserves Principle Of One Person, One Vote  —  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against challengers seeking to change the long-held interpretation of the principle of one person, one vote.  Siding with a lower court, the 8-member high court held that total population …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rejects conservative challenge to ‘one person, one vote’
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court rejects voting-district case that would have weakened California's clout
Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Conservative challengers lose key Supreme Court voting rights case
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Says States May Continue To Use Total Population In Deciding Districts
Will Fitzgibbon / The Panama Papers:
Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption  —  Millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens … Reading time: … A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of 12 current …
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David Pegg / Guardian:
The Panama Papers: how the world's rich and famous hide their money offshore
BBC:
Panama Papers: Leaks spur global investigations
Discussion: The Atlantic and ABC
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Mark Green / fox13now.com:
Grandmother of 9-year-old Utah girl allegedly raped by four men: ‘I want justice’
Discussion: KTLA
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history.  —  On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald Trump's campaign advisers gathered by the pool at Mar-a-Lago, the billionaire's private club in Palm Beach.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Internal memo reveals Trump campaign's mounting fury with its critics  —  Woodward on his ‘very unusual’ Trump interview What's at stake in the Wisconsin primary … In a private document that was circulated over the weekend and obtained by The Washington Post, Trump campaign senior adviser …
Mike Allen / Politico:
Top Republicans talking up Paul Ryan as nominee  —  On the eve of the Wisconsin primaries, top Republicans are becoming increasingly vocal about their long-held belief that Speaker Paul Ryan will wind up as the nominee, perhaps on the fourth ballot at a chaotic Cleveland convention.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz warns GOP of voter ‘revolt’ against alternative nominee
Discussion: New York Times
Candace Smith / ABC News:
Meet the Pro-Donald Trump Women Who Defy His Negative Polling  —  On a blustery Saturday, as thousands of people braved the flurries outdoors, inside the Expo Center in Wausau, Wisconsin, Sarah Palin was on fire.  —  “Who is the only candidate who promotes women in his own company …
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Elizabeth Armstrong Moore / Newser:
8th-Grader Refuses to Share Her ‘Perfect’ BMI  —  She instead pens an essay arguing the index is outdated  —  (NEWSER) - An Indiana 8th-grader's refusal to complete a school project as assigned is making headlines.  The unnamed girl was asked to calculate her body mass index and give …
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Body mass index can predict infant's risk of becoming an obese child
Discussion: FOX31 Denver
NBC Bay Area:
California Highway Patrol Officer Rescues Wayward Chihuahua After Chasing It Across Bay Bridge  —  Highway patrol officers noticed the small dog on the bridge's north side catwalk heading toward San Francisco  —  California Highway Patrol officers gave chase to an unlikely suspect early Sunday — a Chihuahua.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The GOP's (other) convention nightmare  —  Republicans, already girding for their most tumultuous convention in decades, now have another fight brewing: a divisive battle over gay marriage on the party's official national platform.  —  It's an issue that drives intense passion …
Abby Wambach / Facebook:
Last night I was arrested for DUII in Portland after dinner at a friend's house.  —  Those that know me, know that I have always demanded excellence from myself.  I have let myself and others down.  —  I take full responsibility for my actions.  This is all on me.
Emily Gosden / Telegraph:
Student accused of violating university ‘safe space’ by raising her hand  —  A university student was threatened with being thrown out of a meeting after being accused of violating “safe space” rules - by raising her hand.  —  Imogen Wilson, the vice-president for academic affairs …
Bloomberg:
Republican Crisis May Deepen Even If Trump Loses Wisconsin  —  If the Republican front-runner heads into the party's convention leading the delegate count, but is denied the nomination, his supporters may sit out the general election.  —  michaelcbender  —  mniquette
New York Times:
Early Missteps Seen as a Drag on Bernie Sanders's Campaign  —  The morning after he lost the Nevada caucuses in February, Bernie Sanders held a painful conference call with his top advisers.  —  Mr. Sanders expressed deep frustration that he had not built a stronger political operation in the state …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates  —  Sen. Ted Cruz is out-hustling Donald Trump and looks set to ensure many Arizona delegates will defect to him in a convention floor fight.  —  The Texas senator, who ever since Iowa has played a stealthy ground game in contrast to Trump's chaotic populism …
Eric Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
This may be the week the SJWs lost it all...or, at least, their power to bully people in the hacker culture and the wider tech community.  —  May of you probably already know about the LambdaConf flap.  In brief: LambdaConf, a technical conference on functional programming …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Sara Vilkomerson / EW.com:
INSIDE AMY SCHUMER TAKES ON HAMILTON WITH ‘BETSY ROSS’ IN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW  —  A hip-hopera about historical wig and knee sock people?  Consider us ready to invest  —  Sure, the hit Broadway musical Hamilton has many devoted fans, but maybe none quite as passionate as “Betsy Ross” writer and Inside Amy Schumer producer Kim Caramele.
Discussion: Mashable
Jerry Mitchell / The Clarion Ledger:
Mississippi RV park owner evicts interracial couple  —  TUPELO — A Mississippi RV park owner evicted an interracial couple because of the color of their skin.  —  “Me and my husband, not ever in 10 years have we experienced any problem,” said Erica Flores Dunahoo, who is Hispanic …
Stephen Gutowski / Washington Free Beacon:
March Sees Record Gun Sales  —  Gun sales broke records yet again in the month of March.  —  The FBI performed 2,523,265 firearms-related background checks between March 1 and March 31, according to the agency's records.  That's a new record for the month.  It's nearly 35,000 more checks than the previous record set in March 2014.
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Ivana Trump: We need immigrants to clean for us  —  's ex-wife defended the Republican presidential front-runner's immigration policies in an interview published in Sunday's New York Post.  —  Ivana Trump said the first step for America to regain respect is adopting the billionaire's immigration policies.
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders leads Clinton by 8 points in Wisconsin
Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Yes, The Alt-Right Are Just a Bunch of Racists
David Siders / Sacramento Bee:
Jerry Brown signs $15 minimum wage in California
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz primary challenger posts strong fundraising total
Philip Cohen / Washington Post:
American policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
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Princeton Board Votes to Keep Woodrow Wilson's Name on Campus Buildings
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