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Gay rights lawyer senses high court will strike down DOMA
The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages, a gay rights lawyer said Wednesday. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Rights
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Supreme Court likely to strike down DOMA, experts say
Experts said that based on Wednesday's arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court appears willing to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Gay rights lawyer Jon W. Davidson said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was likely to permit married same-sex...
Tags: Laws, Judges, Elena Kagan, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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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: Judges, Justice and Rights, Elena Kagan, Crime, Law and Justice, 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: Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Anthony Kennedy, Minority Groups
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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: Judges, Crime, Law and Justice, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., Same-Sex Marriage
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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: Judges, Laws, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Elena Kagan
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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: Judges, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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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: Parties and Movements, Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., Libertarian Party, Anthony Kennedy
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Laws, Firearms, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America
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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: Ecosystems, Economic Stimulus Plan, Immigration, Muammar Gaddafi, Same-Sex Marriage
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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: Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress
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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......
Mar 27, 2013
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Mar 26, 2013
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Feb 28, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Jan 25, 2013
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Dec 17, 2012
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Nov 5, 2012
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