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According to a new national survey by FindLaw.com, two-thirds of Americans cannot name a single U.S. Supreme Court justice. The survey, by the most popular legal information website, revealed that, even amid constant media attention of Elena Kagan‘s nomination to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, only 35 percent of Americans can name a member of the Supreme Court.

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The Texas textbook debate continues to rage on after the Texas Board of Education approved Friday some radical changes to its social studies curriculum. Last night Rachel Maddow summed up some of the (fairly disturbing) revisions the conservative Board is making to the state’s history textbooks (and possibly the nation’s). Bye bye Thomas Jefferson?