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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Justice System, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...
Tags: Guy Fieri, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice
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Supreme Court won't revive Alabama immigration law
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that enforcing immigration laws was reserved for the federal government, not the states. By an 8-1 vote, the justices rejected a request from Alabama to revive part of a 2011 law designed to drive...Tags: Migration, Politics, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Civil Rights
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Loni Hancock, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Interior Policy, Kevin de Leon
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Letters: The language of Justice Scalia
Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...Tags: Ethics, Incest, Values, Birth Defects, Gays and Lesbians
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What now on gun control?
Despite the mounting casualties of gun violence and a brutal massacre that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., the Senate on Wednesday failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to widen background checks for potential purchasers of guns as well as...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Politics, Interior Policy, Civil Rights
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Litigation, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Philippines
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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that U.S. courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding lawsuits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed out a...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Politics, Justice System, Civil Rights, Clarence Thomas
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Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Politics, Adoption, Interior Policy, Justice System
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Anthony Kennedy, Incest, Same-Sex Marriage, Defense of Marriage Act, Justice System
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Letters: Parents who care, gay or straight
Re "Experts defend gay parenting," April 6 With more than 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, school director, principal and headmaster, I find Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's concern that the children of same-sex couples may suffer...
Tags: Iran, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues
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Three justices' concern over gay parenting surprises experts
WASHINGTON — During last week's Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that "there's considerable disagreement" among experts over whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not." Two other...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, University of Cambridge, Family, Marriage, Social Issues
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