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8:45 PM ET, May 4, 2009

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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Sessions to take over top GOP slot on Judiciary  —  Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) will take over the ranking member position on the Senate Judiciary Committee after striking a deal with his more senior colleagues over the weekend, sources confirm to The Hill.  —  Sessions and Sen. Chuck Grassley …
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Jeffrey Rosen / The New Republic:
The Case Against Sotomayor  —  Indictments of Obama's front-runner to replace Souter.  —  This is the first in a series of reports by TNR legal affairs editor Jeffrey Rosen about the strengths and weaknesses of the leading candidates on Barack Obama's Supreme Court shortlist.  —  RELATED CONTENT
The Politico:
Hatch: W.H. may reveal name this week  —  After talking to President Barack Obama on the phone today, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch says he believes the White House will move swiftly on its Supreme Court nominee, perhaps making an announcement by the end of this week.
Discussion: TPMDC and The Swamp
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Sonia Sotomayor's IQ  —  Sonia Sotomayor seems in many ways like exactly the sort of person Barack Obama would appoint to the Supreme Court.  She was born to a working class Puerto Rican family in the South Bronx, and went from Cardinal Spelling High School to Princeton and Yale Law.
Discussion: Concurring Opinions and The Plank
Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Gunning For Sotomayor  —  I am inclined to agree with Christy that Sonia Sotomayor is the most likely Obama nominee, given her compelling personal story and what seems to a moderate liberal record.  Stuart Taylor, however, asserts that: … Excepitonally controversial?
Discussion: TalkLeft
Christopher Eisgruber / NPR:   The Next Justice: No More Mr. White Guys
Mary Manning / Las Vegas Sun:
Criminal charges filed against ACORN, two employees  —  Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto and Secretary of State Ross Miller announced Monday that voter registration fraud charges have been filed against an organization that works with low-income people and two of its employees in its Las Vegas office.
Discussion: Election Law
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:   ACORN CHARGED.  —  Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
ACORN charged with registration fraud for ‘blackjack’ payments
Discussion: Salon
Quinnipiac University:
Ridge Trails Pennsylvania's Specter By 3 Points, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; New Democratic Senator Tops Toomey By 20 Points  —  Newly-minted Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter would whip old Republican rival Pat Toomey 53 - 33 percent if the 2010 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race were held today …
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Danny / The Note:
AFL-CIO Leader: Labor Might Not Support Specter  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports:  —  The Democratic establishment may be lining up behind Sen. Arlen Specter — but some who control the ground troops aren't so ready to fall into line.  —  On today's “Top Line,” Richard Trumka …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Joe the Plumber: I would never let gay people ‘anywhere near my children.’  —  In an interview with Christianity Today, Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher said that calling gay people “queer” “is not like a slur” because homosexuality is “strange and unusual.”  He also declared that he would never …
Discussion: Colorado Independent
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Christianity Today:
Q & A: ‘Joe the Plumber’  —  Samuel Wurzelbacher was launched into the public arena after Senator John McCain used him as an example of an average American during a presidential debate last fall.  “Joe the Plumber” quickly became a celebrity because he questioned then-candidate Barack Obama …
Laura Varon Brown / Detroit Free Press:
Obama criticism shuts down conversation  —  Parties were more fun when George W. Bush was president.  You could debate, argue even, praise and condemn, throw darts and laurels and solve the world's problems over a bottle of wine.  —  No more.  At least not in my circles.
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Greg Braxton / Los Angeles Times:
Funny thing about Obama ...
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
gqrr.com:
RE: Resurgent Republic: Stan Greenberg's Open Letter to Ed Gillespie, Founder of Resurgent Republic, on Their Initial National Survey  —  To: Ed Gillespie Founder, Resurgent Republic  —  From: Stan Greenberg Greenberg Quinlan Rosner  —  RE: RESURGENT REPUBLIC
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The Huffington Post:   James Carville: If GOP Abandoned Christian Right, “Their Party Would Crumble”
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin will work with Nat'l Council  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin plans to work with a new Republican group, the National Council for a New America, a spokeswoman said.  —  Palin “looks forward to doing all she can to bring about positive change many desire and deserve, across Alaska and our great nation …
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John Carney / Clusterstock:
Is The White House Lying About Perella Weinberg Threat Story?  —  Allegations that the Obama administration behaved thuggishly in putting together its Chrysler rescue package aren't going away.  Right now we're at a kind of impasse, with conflicting accounts that need to be resolved before we will know exactly what happened.
Discussion: Hot Air, TPMMuckraker and SCSUScholars
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Mark Knoller / CBS News:
When Reporters Rise For The President
Discussion: Hot Air
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
MONSTERS, INC.  —  Amid the blizzard of economic data that the government puts out every week, last Tuesday's report analyzing G.D.P. industry by industry got little notice.  But it contained one very interesting piece of data: in 2008, for the first time in sixteen years, the finance and insurance industry shrank.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘OUTSIDE’ THE BELTWAY.... As part of the Republican Party's rebranding effort, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) hosted a National Council for a New America event at a pizza shop over the weekend.  Roll Call reported, “Cantor said the idea of the road show is to gather ideas from outside the Beltway to shape the Republican agenda.”
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Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
McCotter Rejects GOP Policy Group
Discussion: Think Progress
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press  —  The iPod stemmed losses in the music industry.  The Kindle gave beleaguered book publishers a reason for optimism.  —  Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor …
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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Plans Kindle for Textbooks
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
A VERY WEIRD FORM OF CONSISTENCY.  —  Not to fill the blog with Arlen Specter related content this morning, but this bit from Meet the Press deserves to be quoted. … The thing about the Wyden-Bennett plan — the aspect that actually makes it different from virtually every other plan on offer …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
The Daily Beast:
Bush's Lawyers Strike Back  —  Blogs and Stories  —  In a brutally frank and at times contentious interview, former Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales sat down with Dan Abrams to talk about:  —  •their definition of torture ("Were the interrogations harsh?  Yes.
Discussion: Raw Story, Daily Kos and Think Progress
New York Post:
FILM A B'WAY SMASH  —  2 HURT IN TIMES SQ.  STUNT  —  A movie chase scene got too realistic early today when a car jumped a curb during a film shoot and smashed into the entrance of a Times Square restaurant, injuring two people, police and witnesses said.
The Huffington Post:
Michele Bachmann: Obama Led Spending “Orgy,” Government “Spent Its Wad” (VIDEO)  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann is on a roll.  Less than a week after suggesting a link between the swine flu outbreak and Democratic control of the U.S. government, the Minnesota Republican penetrated a heretofore unseen zone …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and The Swamp
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
ADL Poll: Israelis Want Attack on Iran  —  For whatever reason, the Anti-Defamation League decided that their mission of fighting anti-semitism extends to surveying the Israeli public's attitudes toward a preemptive military strike on Iran: … Just as food for thought …
New York Times:
As Foreclosures Surge ...  The Obama administration sat by last week as 12 Senate Democrats joined 39 Senate Republicans to block a vote on an amendment that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify troubled mortgages.  —  Senator Obama campaigned on the provision.
David Skeel / Less than the Least:
Pam Karlan and Souter's Seat—Stuntz  —  If Obama wants to appoint a Scalia for the left, he should choose Pam Karlan, a longtime colleague of mine at Virginia who now teaches at Stanford.  Pam is (1) brilliant, (2) broadly knowledgeable — Cass Sunstein aside, I can't think of anyone who knows …
Discussion: GayPatriot
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
N.Y. Times to File Notice It Will Close Boston Globe  —  The New York Times Co. said last night that it is notifying federal authorities of its plans to shut down the Boston Globe, raising the possibility that New England's most storied newspaper could cease to exist within weeks.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Sarah Palin's “Revelation”  —  This is unfinished business - a news event that got swallowed up by the release of the ICRC report, the OLC Memos and the Senate Armed Services report.  But given this blog's coverage of governor Palin's various strange stories about Trig …
 
 
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Petra Cahill / World Blog:
‘THEY KILL PEOPLE LIKE US,’ SAYS GAY IRAQI
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S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Dems don't fund bid to close Gitmo
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Neil Newhouse / TQIA:
A Deeper Look at Party Identification
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Irwin M. Stelzer / New York Post:
CHRYSLER CUT-UP'S CONTRACT KILLERS
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Anne Barrowclough / Times of London:
Doh! Pirates captured after attacking the wrong ship
Lawrence Lessig / The Huffington Post:
Banks Think They “Own” Congress? Wrong — We're Taking Congress Back
Dr. Melissa Clouthier:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
In Praise Of Souter
Discussion: New York Times and Swampland
Alexander Arms / NY Daily News:
Aww, shoot! NRA makes Palin top gun
Discussion: Don Surber
Michelle Malkin:
Another snort-inducer: Obama to crack down on tax cheats
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and The Foundry
Michelle Malkin:
What George Will missed: The decrepit state of the California GOP
Discussion: The Other McCain
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Personal Savings and the Age of Reagan
Patricia Lopez / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken's in limbo as the weeks grind on
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