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
  rejected
  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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