++The D.C. Court of Appeals vacated the Halbig decision which banned subsidies for health insurance plans bought on the federal exchange. The original decision was 2 to 1 by a three-judge panel, consisting of two Republicans and 1 Democrat. Today,they decided to review the case with a full court, which is heavily Democratic. Conservatives are trying to short-circuit this by trying to appeal directly to the Supreme Court. With this decision,that way is short-circuited.
++Yesterday, a Louisiana judge became the first federal judge to uphold that state's same-sex marriage ban. The decision will go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
++The Department of Justice is going to investigate not just the shooting of Michael Brown but the entire police department of Ferguson, Missouri.
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