Did you know that hospitals can deport you through something called ‘medical repatriation.’
Despite a show of optimism, reviving background checks in this Congress looks like a really, really heavy lift.
Benjy Sarlin takes us inside the longshot, can-they-do-it effort to sell the right on immigration reform. Good piece. And for the moment, hard not to give Rubio his due, that he’s actually going all out to sell this thing on the right.
As I’ve mentioned a few times, at the end of next month we’re introducing a new version of TPMPrime which will be fully integrated into the rest of the site. One part of that will be a streamlined layout with fewer ads for members. We’re showing some early mock-ups of what that’s going to look like in this Prime thread. Curious to get your feedback.
Background check double-talk catches up with Sen. Flake (R-AZ).
There were strongly conflicting opinions on TV today on whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev deserves Miranda rights.
It looks like the feds have come up empty on their initial search of accused ricin mailer Paul Kevin Curtis. No evidence of ricin in the home and nothing suspicious on his computers. Doesn’t mean they won’t find it obviously. But this guy didn’t strike me as a master of tradecraft. So curious.
Late Update: To up the awesomeness, through his attorney, Curtis says that J. Everett Dutschke, a martial arts instructor with whom Curtis is apparently engaged in a ‘feud’, may have tried to frame him.
In other words, we have now moved into the full Southern Gothic phase of this investigation.