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LiveBlog for Monday, May 14, 2012

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The Rude Pundit calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to talk about Mitt Romney’s bullying, and the fight for LGBT rights

Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 10am ET / 7am PT to co-host Right Wing World

Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), who introduced the Student Loan Affordability Act, calls in at 11:30am ET / 8:30am PT to talk about the GOP’s efforts to block it

• Speaking at the graduation commencement of Liberty University, Mitt Romney told the crowd that people of different faiths can meet “in common purpose” through their moral decision-making. Romney also reiterated his position against same-sex marriage.

• For the third year in a row, a slight majority of Americans consider gay and lesbian relations morally acceptable, signaling that this is the new “new normal” in public opinion, according to a new Gallup poll released Monday just days after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage.

JPMorgan Chase is expected to accept the resignation of Ina Drew, one of the highest-ranking women on Wall Street, after the bank lost $2 billion in a trading blunder, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday.

The defense for John Edwards is scheduled to start this morning in the former presidential candidate’s corruption trial. Last week, the federal judge presiding over the trial turned down a motion to dismiss the charges against Edwards.