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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court’s cellphone privacy and recess appointment rulings, Mississippi’s GOP primary runoff and the value of the Tea Party–versus-establishment narrative, and Rand Paul’s chances in 2016.

Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:

• The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that police cannot search an individual’s cellphone without a warrant.
• Linda Greenhouse suggested that the Supreme Court’s decision was based partially on how the justices view the content of their own cellphones.
• Walter Dellinger writes that because of recent cases that limited the exclusionary rule, the court can now enforce the Fourth Amendment more aggressively as it applies before searches.
• In another unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s recess appointments were unconstitutional because the Senate was technically in session during the appointments.
• The Senate’s filibuster rules have recently changed, requiring a simple majority to confirm executive and judicial nominees.
• Sen. Thad Cochran won the Mississippi GOP primary runoff against Tea Party–backed state Sen. Chris McDaniel.
• There’s a debate among political scientists and journalists about whether campaigns make a substantial difference in election outcomes.
• Cochran was saved by black Democrats who were possibly swayed by McDaniel’s coded comments on race and promises to slash federal government spending.
• Despite some primary losses, Tea Party representatives and sympathizers in the House are fighting the establishment GOP on legislative issues such as the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.
• On Meet the Press, Sen. Rand Paul criticized former Vice President Dick Cheney’s handling of the war in Iraq and criticized the Bush administration for the power vacuum that allowed the militant group ISIS to grow.
• Most Americans now feel that the U.S. should “mind its own business internationally.”
• Although Paul is sponsoring a bill that would allow nonviolent ex-felons the right to vote, Republicans won’t support it because it would help Democrats in swing states.

John chatters about “The Great Tamale Incident.”

Emily chatters about the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that a Massachusetts abortion clinic buffer-zone law is unconstitutional.

David chatters about why it’s occasionally OK to objectify World Cup athletes.

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Podcast production by Alexis Diao. Links compiled by Max Tani.