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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: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Elena Kagan, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Crime, Law and Justice
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Supreme Court appears split on Prop. 8, broad gay marriage ruling
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded closely split on gay marriage Tuesday, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy suggested the court should strike down California’s ban on same-sex marriage without ruling broadly on the issue. Twice...Tags: Voting, Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Elena Kagan, Marriage
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Supreme Court sides with Westboro; Father of Kansas soldier reacts
![<span style="font-size: small;">The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-03/59792158-02151739.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals.</span>")
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount attention-getting, anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The court voted 8-1 Wednesday in favor of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church. The...Tags: Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Kansas, Local Government, Politics, U.S. Supreme Court
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A Justice league of their own
WASHINGTON -- For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down. As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court's...Tags: Voting, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. Congress, Stephen Breyer
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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: Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court, FBI, Criminals, Wicomico County
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Notebook: Litmus tests await votes in SD Legislature
It would seem highly unlikely Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg pay attention to the South Dakota House of Representatives. Those three...Tags: Republican Party, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., Stephen Breyer, Ron Paul
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Here's one prediction you can take to the bank: In 2016, Focus on the Family will still be spewing paranoid nonsense
Change of SubjectIn advance of the 2008 election, Focus on the Family released "Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America," warning their followers what life would be like in the fall of 2012 were Barack Obama to be elected. It's both frightening and...... -
It's time to fight for restrictions on assault weapons
Let's be honest about this: Those of us who believe there are too many guns — and too many military-style guns that should not even be manufactured for, much less sold to, the civilian market — have taken a walk on gun regulation. We...
Tags: Gun Control, Lobbying, U.S. Congress, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Shootings
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Court: Who counts as a supervisor?
WASHINGTON (AP) — When does your co-worker also count as your supervisor? The Supreme Court may make a final decision on whether to draw a legal line between work colleagues and work managers, at least when it comes to harassment and retaliation...
Tags: Entertainment, Elena Kagan, Music, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ball State University
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Will 2012 be the year American democracy dies?
Who's buying our democracy? Wall Street financiers, the Koch brothers, and casino magnates Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn, among others. And they're doing much of it in secret. It's a perfect storm -- the combination of three waves that are about to...
Tags: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Mitt Romney, Religion and Belief, Charity
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'The Partisan' an opinionated biography of William Rehnquist
-------------------- The Partisan The Life of William Rehnquist John A. Jenkins Public Affairs: 368 pp., $28.99 -------------------- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist was a curious man. He could be courtly and gracious, elegant in argument and a...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Richard Nixon, Biography (genre), Barack Obama, FBI
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 26, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 2, 2011
|Story| KWCH
Feb 28, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Nov 5, 2012
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Dec 17, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2012
|Story| AP Indiana
Aug 8, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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