Subject: POLITICO’s Huddle: FRANCE UNDER ATTACK — King mania — GOP’S REPEAL SOUL-SEARCH — How Obama got trade done — CLINTON EMAIL TROUBLES.
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 06:30:52 -0600

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UNRAVELLING NOW: BEHEADING, EXPLOSION IN FRENCH TERRORIST ATTACK. The Guardian: "France has launched a terrorism investigation after police found a decapitated body and a flag with Islamist inscriptions after an attack on a factory belonging to a US gas company in the south-east of the country. 'It is a terror attack. There is no doubt about it,' the country's president, Francois Hollande, told reporters in Brussels before leaving a European council summit to return to Paris. A decapitated body found at the scene had 'a message written on it,' Hollande said, without elaborating. The attack left one person dead and two injured, he said. The interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said a
 firefighter had killed one of the attackers and another had been arrested." 
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THE BIG STORY: KING MANIA. SCOTUS handed down its much-awaited King v. Burwell verdict late yesterday morning, ruling 6-3 that Obamacare subsidies purchased on federal exchanges were constitutional. The basic argument, written by none other than Chief Justice John Roberts, centered on the original intent of the law: "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter,' the court wrote in its majority opinion," he wrote.

Justice Antonin Scalia called the opinion "pure applesauce": "We should start calling this law SCOTUScare...The somersaults of statutory interpretation they have performed ('penalty' means tax, 'further [Medicaid] payments to the State' means only incremental Medicaid payments to the State, 'established by the State' means not established by the State) will be cited by litigants endlessly."

And ICYMI/were under a rock yesterday, POLITICO.com has just about 100 gazillion stories covering this news from every angle imaginable. Check it:

GOP'S ACA SOUL SEARCHING: TIME TO MOVE ON FROM REPEAL OBSESSION? Manu and Burgess on what this means for Republicans' repeal efforts: "Republicans have tried to kill the health care law twice at the Supreme Court, only to be rebuffed. They've held more than 50 repeal votes, virtually all of which have died in the Senate. They tried to defund the law through the spending process, but the government shut down instead. As Republicans process Thursday's sharp rebuke at the hands of the Supreme Court, they're struggling with what to do next - beset by internal divisions and procedural roadblocks that severely limit their options."

"Many, like Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.), concede the law is here to stay until at least 2017, when they hope a GOP president will finally kill it. But conservatives like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz insist Congress should use 'every single tool at our disposal' now to stop the law, including holding spending bills hostage to force President Barack Obama to acquiesce. Bad idea, say other GOP lawmakers. 'We've tried that before, and it didn't work very well,' said Cruz's fellow Texan, Sen. John Cornyn." 
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Reconciliation for repeal or no? Upon unveiling their GOP budget deal several months ago, party leaders laid out a plan to use the fast-track procedure to either A.) 'fix' King should subsidies be struck, or B.) go for the full repeal-or as far as the Bird rule allows. It was one of the bigger internal disputes in negotiations, with Senate leaders preferring to go for repeal and House leaders saying they wanted to leave their "options open" for other things like tax reform. Well, it looks like they may be back to that same place. My story: 
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CONSERVATIVES TO ROBERTS: TRAITOR. The most read story on POLITICO zeros in on the GOP react to the chief justice's ruling. He's now twice saved Obama's tookus. Here's our Josh Gerstein: "Conservatives were left baffled after Chief Justice John Roberts saved Obamacare three years ago. On Thursday, as the George W. Bush appointee again helped President Barack Obama's signature legislative achievement avoid a potentially devastating blow, they felt betrayed. Adding to the sting: The chief justice wasn't just along for the ride. When the court's ruling allowing the law's insurance subsidies to be offered nationwide emerged, he wrote the majority opinion and delivered it from the bench."

Lead quote: "It's a sad day for the Constitution when the clear terms of a statute can be 'interpreted' away in the service of an aggressively lawless president. The two biggest losers today are the English language and the legacy of Chief Justice Roberts." -- Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network. 
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POST-KING: STILL NO EASY ROAD FOR OBAMACARE. Jennifer Haberkorn and Rachana Pradhan for POLITICO: "Obamacare has cleared a second major hurdle at the Supreme Court - but its troubles are far from over. The law is still highly unpopular, and significant structural issues remain: Health insurance rates are rising, many people don't have as much choice of doctors and hospitals as they'd like, some states continue to struggle with their exchanges, and 21 states still haven't backed Medicaid expansion."

"So while President Barack Obama can point to a two-time victory at the high court and the law's historic increase of health coverage, his foes - including the Republicans jockeying for the 2016 ticket - can recite an alternative story. The fact that both realities are true - a red story that paints a grim picture and a blue version that has a much brighter hue - will make it hard to move on." 
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RECESS!- IT'S FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2015. You're reading Huddle, where we're wondering what ever we shall do with our free time over the next few days. Burgess hosts you next week. And you can bug him here: 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS: The weeklong July 4 recess begins.

AROUND THE HILL: Not a whole lot - but numerous lawmakers are headed down to Charleston to join President Barack Obama at the funeral of the slain leader of the Emanuel AME Church.

HOW OBAMA JOINED HANDS WITH GOP TO GET TRADE DONE. Jake and Manu with the ticktock: "The story of how Pelosi was vanquished by a president of her own party in unlikely tandem with GOP leaders began three days after Republicans swept the November midterm elections. It consisted of lobbying by the president and his Cabinet members, who zeroed in on a few dozen key Democratic senators and House members, wooing them with lunches in Washington, private Oval Office meetings and appearances in their states and districts."

"It included frenetic deal making by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and his close allies, who worked to mollify a host of regional and partisan concerns - on issues as far-flung as the potential for an influx of immigrants, to worries that U.S. Postal Service would be interrupted in Europe. The machinations highlighted tensions between Senate Republican leaders and conservatives like Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who skipped a cliffhanger vote this week despite privately pledging his support to his leadership team. And it showcased an all-hands-on-deck approach to kill any changes that could scare away other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership -
 most notably a bipartisan effort to crack down on countries that manipulate their currencies." 
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"JEB HENSARLING'S FIGHT AGAINST EX-IM BANK SUCCEEDS, FOR THE MOMENT." NYT's Jonathan Weisman: "A year ago, an entrepreneur from California came before the House Financial Services Committee, a Purple Heart pinned to his lapel from his Marine Corps service in Vietnam, to plead for the Export-Import Bank - and by extension his livelihood. The committee's chairman, Representative Jeb Hensarling of Texas - seemingly unaware that the man, Steve Wilburn, could not sell his massive garbage-to-gas plants in the United States - demanded to know why he needed loan guarantees to build the alternative energy facilities in Brazil and the Philippines...."

"To this day, Mr. Wilburn speaks of his post-traumatic stress from war and of his 'being bullied' by Mr. Hensarling, 'the bad guy' on the Ex-Im Bank. Mr. Hensarling shares a different memory, his aides laughing along with him in his House office. 'I'm sure he could have kicked my butt several different ways past Sunday,' the lawmaker joked. 'I didn't realize at 5-foot-6 I carried such an intimidating presence.'...[H]is fight against the Ex-Im Bank will bear fruit, at least temporarily. Congress went home on Thursday for the Fourth of July recess with the bank's charter set to expire at the end of June - and no legislative opportunities left to save it." 
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POPPING LAST NIGHT-

CLINTON DIDN'T HAND OVER ALL BENGHAZI RECORDS: This opens up a whole new can of worms for the 2016 Democratic frontrunner. The AP: "The State Department cannot find in its records all or part of 15 work-related emails from Hillary Rodham Clinton&#39;s private server that were released this week by a House panel investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, officials said Thursday. The emails all predate the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. diplomatic facility and include scant words written by Clinton herself, the officials said. They consist of more in a series of would-be intelligence reports passed to her by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, the officials said.

"Nevertheless, the fact that the State Department says it can&#39;t find them among emails she provided surely will raise new questions about Clinton&#39;s use of a personal email account and server while secretary of state and whether she has provided the agency all of her work-related correspondence, as she claims." 
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MEADOWS WINS - DEFECTOR PUNISHMENT OVERTURNED. By midafternoon yesterday, Rep. Mark Meadows was said to be reinstated as an Oversight subcommittee chairman - and it had everything to do with the North Carolina Republican's friend: Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan. Jake and Anna with the backstory: "Jordan, the Ohio Republican who leads the conservative group, maneuvered behind the scenes successfully this week to overturn Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz's (R-Utah) decision ...canvassed Republicans on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, shoring up support for Meadows...Jordan's guerrilla campaign seemed to work - the majority of the overwhelmingly conservative
 committee said they wanted Meadows back." 
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"BUCK FUNDRAISES OFF ATTEMPTS TO OUST HIM AS CLASS PRESIDENT." Roll Call's Emma Dumain: "Rep. Ken Buck learned Thursday morning he could keep his slot as freshman class president, but ... a few hours after his fellow classmates decided not to punish him for voting against GOP leadership on the rule for Trade Promotion Authority, Buck sent out a fundraising email asking for financial support."

"'Friend - please, if you can - stop what you are doing right now and read this urgent message,' Buck wrote, in the blast email sent from his campaign operation, under the subject line 'BREAKING NEWS: Dirty Politics.' 'In a shocking and vindictive attempt on conservative leaders inside their own party, Republican Leadership in Congress attempted - without due process - to strip me of my elected position as Freshman Class President!' Buck continued. 'Friends,' he said, 'I'm under personal attack and I need your extremely urgent help to defend myself. Will you make an emergency contribution of $25, $50, $100, or more, right now so I can take swift action to fight off these harsh attacks?'" 
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THURSDAY&#39;S TRIVIA WINNER. Michael Patrick Long was the first to answer that Martha Washington was the last woman featured on paper currency, waaaay back between 1891 and 1896, on the front on the $1 silver certificate. History.com notes that, "before that, Pocahontas made a brief appearance on a $20 note from 1865 to 1869. But since then women, including Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea, have been relegated to coins."

TODAY&#39;S TRIVIA: Borrowed from our friends over at National Journal, who currently have a trivia quiz posted online: "Last week, Clarence Thomas voted with the Supreme Court's liberals in a 5-4 decision, ruling that Texas could reject a vanity license plate featuring the Confederate flag. How many other times in the last five years has Thomas sided with the liberals in a 5-4 decision?" Email 
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