Meet The Press Roundtable: Why Didn’t Congress Move Gun Control ‘Quickly In The Weeks After Newtown?’

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This morning on NBC’s Meet The Press the roundtable confronted the waning support for new gun control legislation even though some polls show over 90 percent of Americans want so-called universal background checks. Former Obama campaign strategist, David Axelrod, said he thinks the the politics on gun control remain unclear. “On the Republican side I… Read more »

What did we learn from this week’s Supreme Court arguments? Jeffrey Toobin explains.

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Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a senior analyst for CNN, and author, most recently, of “The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court.” We conducted this interview over e-mail; a transcript follows. Dylan Matthews: Is DOMA doomed? Jeffrey Toobin: Recall that my record as a prognosticator of high-profile… Read more »