PORN POLITICS
: Lesley Clark for McClatchy News Service covers the Supreme Court arguments in the case of a former Florida police seargent in prison for posession of child pornography.RACIAL POLITICS:
Deborah Barfield Berry in the Montgomery Advertiser reports on the apologies Justice Department's voting rights chief John Tanner made Tuesday for insensitive comments, including saying new voter ID laws won't disenfranchise elderly minority voters because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. They die first."BILLS, HEARINGS AND MARKUPS:
Suzanne Struglinski in the Deseret News and Thomas Burr in the Salt Lake Tribune reports on a water conservation bill sponsored by Rep. Jim Matheson.AMTRAK:
Faith Bremner in the Great Falls Tribune reports on an amendment Sen. John Tester attached to the Amtrak bill ordering the company to reinstate passenger rail service through Southern Montana; and Herb Jackson in the Bergen Record reports on the Amtrak bill's implications for New Jersey.LOCAL RACES: Democrats are targeting Louisiana Republican Rep. Richard Baker for his vote against expanding the children's health insurance program,
Gerard Shields reports in the Baton Rouge Advocate; meanwhile, Democrats in Florida are fighting amonst themselves over primary rules, Wes Allison reports in the St. Petersburg Times.
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