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McDermott loses Supreme Court appeal, must pay Boehner

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to free Rep. Jim McDermott from having to pay damages to House Minority Leader John Boehner for letting reporters hear an illegally recorded 1996 phone call between House Republicans. The justices, without comment Monday, let stand an appeals court ruling that the Constitution's free-speech guarantee doesn't shield McDermott from Boehner's lawsuit. ...

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