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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, Lawyers, Justice System, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Lawyers, Crimes, U.S. Supreme Court, Biotechnology Industry, Stephen Breyer
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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: Ron Paul, Libertarian Party, Parties and Movements, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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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: Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lobbying, Shootings, Laws
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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: Ball State University, Teachers, Health and Safety at School, Lawyers, Justice System
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Obama for president
Barack Obama has not been a perfect president. Millions are still suffering from a weak economy, vitally important issues like climate change and immigration remain all but unaddressed, and most disappointingly, the promise of a new politics to move us...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Primaries, Economic Stimulus Plan, Ecosystems, Economy, Business and Finance
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Is Obamacare a tax? The argument teaches us to stay healthy by disagreeing
Sometimes our elected officials operate on such a high intellectual plane that their message can get lost. Take, for example, the debate over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law in the wake of theU.S. Supreme Court's declaration that the...
Tags: Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Mitt Romney, Education
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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...... -
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: Philosophy, Sheldon Adelson, Federal Election Commission, Mitt Romney, Companies and Corporations
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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: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Mitt Romney, Biography (genre), Crime, Law and Justice
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Justices to Re-Examine Use of Race in College Admissions
CNNWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Heman Marion Sweatt and Abigail Noel Fisher both wanted to attend the University of Texas at Austin. Both claimed their race was a primary reason for their rejection. Both filed civil rights lawsuits, and the Supreme Court...Tags: Lawyers, Court Administration, Social Issues, University of Michigan, School Examinations
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High court looks at race in college admissions
WASHINGTON (AP)— Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election...
Tags: Students, Lawyers, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC
Feb 28, 2013
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