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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: Laws, Regional Authority, Judges, Police Arrests, U.S. Department of Justice
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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, Gays and Lesbians, Abortion, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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Two new camera-shy Supreme Court justices
Without using the term “going native,” the New York Times reports that Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor have developed second thoughts about the desirability of televising arguments before the court. The NYT’s...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The New York Times, C-SPAN (tv network), Google Inc.
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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: John G. Roberts, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Libertarian Party, Politics, Clarence Thomas
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Obama goes big on gun control, but can he deliver?
The first general reaction to President Barack Obama's package of gun control ideas seems to be criticism that it's too ambitious. Predictions are being heard that he will fall far short of his aspirations and even fail to restore the ban on assault...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Civil Rights, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Symptoms
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Guns without roses
WASHINGTON -- Unlike many who recently have joined the debate about gun rights, I have a long history with guns, which I proffer only in the interest of pre-empting the "elitist, liberal, swine, prostitute, blahblahblah" charge. I grew up in a home with...
Tags: Laws, Germany, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Letters: Guns and paranoia
Re "Survival 101," Jan. 9 What madness is this? Like a "Twilight Zone" story, we fear a handful of people who threaten our children and families with death just because of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Even conservative Supreme Court Justice...
Tags: FBI
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Justice Clarence Thomas speaks -- and so do his detractors
Not since "Garbo Talks!" has a public figure's decision to speak attracted such attention. I'm referring, of course, to the media sensation created this week when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas broke an almost seven-year-long silent streak to crack...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Laws, Criminal Laws, The New York Times, Clarence Thomas
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Robert H. Bork dies at 85; pivotal figure in Supreme Court history
Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on...Tags: Laws, Antitrust Issues, Civil Rights, Social Issues, University of Chicago
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A warrant to draw blood?
The Supreme Court was asked this week to rule that police never need to obtain a search warrant before drawing blood from a motorist stopped for drunk driving. The court should reject that claim. In 2010, Tyler G. McNeely was stopped by a Missouri...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Crime, Law and Justice
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Patron: An Israeli can't fathom America's love of guns
The NRA is today's Moloch — an ancient Canaanite god who required regular child sacrifices by fire to appease his rage against all humans. Even though the Israelites were commanded to worship One God, they often lapsed into pagan rituals, including...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Israel, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Legal larceny by lawyers
What's the difference between a mosquito and a lawyer? One is a blood-sucking parasite. The other is an insect. I'm a lawyer, but I live out of state and haven't practiced law in recent years, so I am at this point an "inactive" member of the...
Tags: Laws, Labor Legislation, General Practitioners, Illegal Immigrants, Economy, Business and Finance
Feb 26, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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Jan 25, 2013
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Jan 18, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 11, 2013
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Dec 29, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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