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GOP rejects gay marriage, asks Supreme Court to uphold Prop. 8
Republican leaders unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8, the measure under court review that forbids same-sex marriage in California. The Republican National Committee “affirms its...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Marriage, Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Elections
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Jerry Brown vows to produce plan for reducing inmate population
GUANGZHOU, China -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Sunday that his administration will come up with a plan for reducing the state prison population by an additional 10,000 inmates, even as it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to block a judicial order demanding such a...
Tags: Prisons, Judges, Jim Nielsen, China, Crime, Law and Justice
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Md. should repeal sodomy laws
Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller is right that Maryland isn't "the Southern state that [it] used to be" and has become more progressive ("Session ends in a flurry of votes," April 9). Yet, for all the progress that has been made, there remains one...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Maryland General Assembly, Sex Crimes, Social Issues, Laws
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows fight with judges over prisons
SACRAMENTO — Escalating a dispute with the courts over California's troubled prison system, Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday fired back at federal judges who threatened to hold him in contempt, vowing to "litigate until the Supreme Court tells us that we'...
Tags: Judges, Regional Authority, Jerry Brown, Fines, Punishment
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Republicans pledge to change tone, not positions
With an eye on the White House in 2016, Republicans spent this week in Hollywood mapping a path to a resurgence — determining how to streamline the primary process and close their deficit with Democrats among key voter blocs such as single women and...
Tags: Minority Groups, Marriage, Marco Rubio, Same-Sex Marriage, Family
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Former Crestwood official pleads guilty in tainted well scheme
A state inspector visiting south suburban Crestwood in 2007 had a question for one of its top water officials: How could the village have pumped out more water than it had claimed to purchase from nearby Alsip? Certified water operator Frank Scaccia...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago Elections, Judges, Water Supply, Politics
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Gov. Jerry Brown vows to continue fight over prison conditions
SHANGHAI, CHINA -- Contending there is nothing more California can do to reduce prison crowding without increasing crime on the streets, Gov. Jerry Brown vows to take his case, again, to the same Supreme Court that rebuffed him two years ago. “...
Tags: Prisons, Judges, China, Crime, Law and Justice, Safety of Citizens
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Influence of big-money 'SuperPACs' not so clear
CHICAGO — There's a scary bedtime story on money in politics about how the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling unleashed a tidal wave of corporate cash into politics and drowned out the voices of the little people. But as researchers...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Elections, Planned Parenthood, Colleges and Universities, State University of New York
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Retired Justice O'Connor: Bush v. Gore 'stirred up the public'
Tribune reporterRetired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor hasn’t given much thought to which case was the most important one she helped decide during her 25 years on the bench. But she has no doubt which was most controversial. It was Bush v....Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ronald Reagan, Chicago Tribune
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CBOE identifies software glitch that halted trading
ReutersThe Chicago Board Options Exchange, which opened for trading three hours late on Thursday, said in a memo to clients that it has found the software issue at fault for the delay. And though it is conducting an "ongoing and thorough internal review of the...Tags: S&P 500, Economy, Business and Finance, Computer Crime, Stock Activities, NYSE Euronext, Inc.
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Give 'bomb control' a chance
He thought his wife was in love with another man, police say, so James L. McFillin of Baltimore decided to blow up the other man. It was 1979. McFillin wired two sticks of an explosive called Tovex 220 into the electrical system of a truck belonging...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bill Clinton, Gun Control, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Firearms
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Meyer Leads Candidates for U.S. Court
The Hartford CourantThe field of candidates for a much sought-after federal judgeship in Connecticut has narrowed, apparently to one — law professor and former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Meyer. Neither of the state's two U.S. senators who recommended Meyer to...Tags: Judges, Quinnipiac University, Barack Obama, Elections, United Nations
Apr 12, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
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