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- President Obama reminds the crowd at a campaign event that there are three justices approaching retirement who could easily be replaced by whoever wins in 2012.
- The Florida Supreme Court upholds the Florida’s state senate maps after striking down a previous attempt last March.
- Orrin Hatch was for the Violence Against Women Act before he was against it.
- A thousand-lawyer corporate law firm is poised to become the largest firm ever to declare bankruptcy.
- And, finally, the following paragraph was actually published by a leading conservative media outlet:
- Medical examiners in Los Angeles are investigating the possible poisoning death of one of their own officials who may have worked on the case of Andrew Breitbart, the conservative firebrand who died March 1, the same day Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced probable cause for forgery in President Obama’s birth certificate.
- No word yet on whether the medical examiner was poisoned because he was on the verge of discovering a plot to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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