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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...Tags: Trials, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Defense of Marriage Act, Social Issues
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Letters: Marriage through the ages
Re "Court looks split on gay marriage," March 27 The issue isn't the "tradition" of marriage but rather the role of government in regulating marriage. This discussion is being confused by an inaccurate depiction of marriage as an unchanging institution....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Social Issues, Civil Rights, Minority Groups
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Is privacy going to the dogs?
New Yorker magazine once had a cartoon showing a storefront office with the company name on the window: "None of Your Damn Business Inc." If it were publicly traded, the corporation's stock would be down this morning. That's because of Tuesday's...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Supreme Court
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Supreme Court questions sides in challenge of Md. DNA law
Maryland's practice of collecting genetic information from people arrested — but not convicted — on serious charges took the national stage Tuesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on what Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called "perhaps the...
Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Judges, Crimes, Criminals
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Supreme Court justices: The case for hanging it up
Over the next three months, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to end affirmative action, whether to overturn part of one of the most important civil rights laws in our country's history (the Voting Rights Act) and whether gays and...
Tags: Laws, Politics, Social Issues, Judges, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Prop. 8: Antonin Scalia surprisingly tame in gay marriage hearing
Justice Scalia lays a gay marriage trap for Ted Olson. There was a silly fertility joke about Strom Thurmond, but Scalia Watchers hoping to see the famously acid-tongued justice in action were out of luck Tuesday. The irascible U.S. Supreme Court...Tags: Kamala D. Harris, Defense of Marriage Act, Judges, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court
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Conservative justices hint at procedural barrier to DOMA ruling
WASHINGTON -- Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members suggested Wednesday that procedural barriers should prevent the justices from ruling on the constitutionality of the federal law that denies benefits to legally married same-sex couples,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Laws, Trials, Defense of Marriage Act, Judges
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Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue. You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, George W. Bush, Social Issues, Strom Thurmond, Israel
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Liberal justices, Kennedy appear to favor ending part of DOMA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrapped up a second day of arguments on gay marriage, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the court’s liberal justices appeared headed toward striking down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies...Tags: U.S. Congress, Laws, Politics, Defense of Marriage Act, Social Issues
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Illinois Catholic couple taking on Obama over contraception mandate
An Oak Brook health care company and its Roman Catholic owners who don't want to include birth control in their employees' benefits still have no choice, despite exceptions to the contraception mandate proposed by the Obama administration this month....
Tags: Birth Control, Belief and Faith, Judges, Freedom of Religion, Women's Health
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Excerpts of Tuesday's gay marriage case at high court
Excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, from a transcript released by the Supreme Court: ___ On whether the case should be before them (Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Trials, Judges, Social Issues, Strom Thurmond
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Scalia gets it right
In his opinions on abortion and gay rights, Justice Antonin Scalia has taken an offensively narrow view of the Constitution's guarantees of due process and equal protection of the laws. But when it comes to the 4th Amendment's more specific protection...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Elena Kagan, Gays and Lesbians, Drug Trafficking
Mar 26, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Feb 24, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 25, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
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