A.M. Links: Obama and Obamacare Increasingly Unpopular, Rand Paul Plans Trip to Detroit, Documents Reveal NSA’s Justification For Metadata Collection

  • President Obama’s relationship with congresssional Democrats
    has
    soured unprecedentedly
    since the botched Obamacare rollout. New
    polling shows public opinion of the president and his healthcare
    law
    have hit new lows
    . An Obamacare official said that 40 percent
    of IT systems supporting the federal exchange
    still need to be built
    .
  • Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who previously opposed a taxpayer
    bailout for Detroit, will travel to there next month to
    offer his fix
    for the struggling city.
  • Newly released documents show that the NSA used the
    legal precedence
    of sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug
    testing to justify collecting metadata.
  • Voters in Albuquerque, New Mexico
    struck down
    a proposed late-term abortion ban by a wide
    margin.
  • Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin
    was executed
    this morning after the U.S. Supreme Court
    r
    ejected
    his final requests for a stay.
  • Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
    refuses to back down
    on Iran’s nuclear rights.

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