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  • George Will authored an opinion column in the Washington Post describing his preferred criteria for selecting new Supreme Court justices. Will says the issue is critical for GOP candidates to discuss so that voters can "distinguish the Lockean constitutionalists from the merely rhetorical conservatives whose reflexive praise of 'judicial restraint' serves the progressives’ Hobbesian project of building an ever-larger Leviathan."
  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is appearing before the Select Committee on Benghazi today to testify about the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. Read more at the Wall Street Journal.
  • President Obama has stated he will veto the National Defense Authorization Act. Read more at the Wall Street Journal.