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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Republican presidential candidate New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie denied Sunday ever supporting Planned Parenthood, but in the 1990s a reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger quoted Christie as saying he supported the organization “with my personal contribution.” TPM’s Sara Jerde notes that the Star-Ledger journalist who wrote the initial report now works as a spokesman for Gov. Christie’s office.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “What’s morbidly funny is that the defense thought that Scalia, despite his protestations of being the only principled and consistent judge on the SC bench, is anything but someone who rules based on his prejudices. Now that private sector unions have been crushed, leading to massive damage to the middle class in the US, we can all watch as the same happens to the public sector unions, and the middle class, and consequently democracy, is absolutely destroyed in the US.”
Related: Why public sector unions should be afraid after Monday’s SCOTUS arguments.
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What We’re Reading
Lena Dunham’s curious role on the road with Hillary Clinton in Iowa. (Gawker)
Loretta Lynch isn’t giving in to fear. (New York Magazine)
We’ve developed a growing appreciation for what the Internet wants to take away: our time alone with the written word. (The New York Times)
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