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Mark Sherman / AP News:
Trump travel ban partly reinstated; fall court arguments set  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go forward with a limited version of its ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries, a victory for President Donald Trump in the biggest legal controversy of his young presidency.
Discussion: Fusion and Shakesville
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect and will consider case in fall  —  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to allow a limited version of President Trump's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect and will consider in the fall …
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with religious institutions in a major church-state decision
Richard Wolf / USA Today:
Supreme Court declares churches eligible for some public funds
Discussion: NPR, IJR and Washington Free Beacon
Amy Howe / SCOTUSblog:
Justices agree to weigh in on travel ban, allow parts of it to go into effect
Discussion: Washington Post and The Mahablog
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Supreme Court turns down case on right to carry guns
CNN:   Supreme Court rules for church preschool in religious liberty case
New York Times:
Senate Health Bill Would Leave 22 Million More Uninsured, C.B.O. Says  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026, a figure that is only slightly lower than the 23 million more uninsured …
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Ron Johnson / New York Times:
Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails  —  Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.”  As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”
Deborah Kilroe / CBO's Publications:
CBO to release estimate for Senate health care plan Monday afternoon  —  CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation expect to release an estimate of the Senate health care plan later this afternoon.  The estimate will be published on CBO's website.  —  Deborah Kilroe is CBO's Associate Director for Communications.
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
Elana Schor / Politico:
Why Dems can't break through on Obamacare repeal
Discussion: ABC News and AOL
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Kellyanne Conway Defends Medicaid Cuts, Says Adults Can Always Find Jobs
Dan Diamond / Politico:
CBO score sure to add to McConnell's headaches
Discussion: The Outline
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals  —  When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers.  Yet according to a major new study …
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FiveThirtyEight:
Seattle's Minimum Wage Hike May Have Gone Too Far  —  As cities across the country pushed their minimum wages to untested heights in recent years, some economists began to ask: How high is too high?  —  Seattle, with its highest-in-the-country minimum wage, may have hit that limit.
Discussion: Marginal REVOLUTION and The Week
Economic Policy Institute:
The “high road” Seattle labor market and the effects of the minimum wage increase: Data limitations …
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Huckabee: Senate GOP ‘on the pathway to making some major blunders’ with healthcare bill  —  Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) on Monday questioned the healthcare bill unveiled by Senate Republicans, saying GOP lawmakers in the upper chamber appear to be “on the pathway to making some major blunders” with the measure.
Discussion: RedState and Fox Business
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
American Medical Association: ObamaCare repeal violates ‘do no harm’ rule
Simone Campbell / The Hill:
Catholic Sister: Time for moral leadership on Medicaid from so-called ‘pro-life’ Senate Republicans
Discussion: Raw Story
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical  —  For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage  —  Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …
Discussion: Hit & Run, NPR and IJR
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CBO's Publications:
H.R. 1628, Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017  —  CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would reduce federal deficits by $321 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 22 million in 2026 relative to current law.
Discussion: KTLA and Fusion
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's latest bizarre tweets about Russia just left him badly exposed  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  In recent days, President Trump has adopted a fiendishly clever new line on the ongoing Russia probes: He will fully acknowledge that Russia did try to sabotage our election …
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
Audiences of Broadway's graphic portrayal of ‘1984’ faint and vomit  —  A night at the theater generally involves dressing to the nines, perhaps dinner beforehand at a nearby restaurant and finally the play.  Fainting, vomiting, screaming and fighting are not typically part of the experience.
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer's Fervor for Trump  —  The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit.  Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?  —  Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan …
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
6 Nobel Prize-winning economists announce opposition to Senate health bill  —  Forty economists, including six Nobel laureates, sent a letter Monday to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) outlining their opposition to the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Amazon's New Echo Show Is Very Cool And A Little Creepy  —  I plod into the kitchen on a Sunday morning and tell the new Alexa to turn on CNN.  Its screen lights up, and it shows a video about Russia as I microwave bacon and worry if there will be a nuclear war.
 
 
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Joe Otterson / Variety:
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Susan Edelman / New York Post:
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Yamiche Alcindor / New York Times:
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
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Bloomberg:
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Very Fake News Scandal Consumes CNN as Jeff Zucker, Network Flack Refuse to Comment on Russia Retraction to Own Network
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
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