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Week in Review

By guest host Jane Clayson:

The nation is still reeling from the Virginia Tech massacre, the deadliest shooting incident in its history. Meanwhile, a new, more conservative Supreme Court makes a historic decision to uphold a federal ban on one type of abortion.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fights for his job during a rough-and-tumble Senate hearing. And Baghdad sees a wave of deadly bombings, despite the U.S. military surge.

This hour On Point: we’ll go inside these headlines with top analysts and you.

Guests:

Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor and legal analyst, Slate

Tod Lindberg, columnist, The Washington Times, and Research Fellow at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.;
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst.

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