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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: Barack Obama, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ronald Reagan, Healthcare Laws, Judges
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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: Radio, Rand Paul, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Television
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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: Trials, Justice and Rights, Immigration, Career and Workplace, American Civil Liberties Union
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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: U.S. Supreme Court, Interior Policy, Loni Hancock, Gun Control, Mark Leno
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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: Marriage, Social Issues, Values, Birth Defects, Family
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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: Elections, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy, Lobbying, Personal Weapon Control
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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: Clarence Thomas, Lawyers, Energy Resources, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Trials
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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: Clarence Thomas, Lawyers, Justice and Rights, U.S. Congress, Stephen Breyer
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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: Social Issues, Lawyers, Interior Policy, Sonia Sotomayor, Family
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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: Clarence Thomas, Marriage, U.S. Supreme Court, Minority Groups, Family
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Conservative justices hint at procedural barrier to DOMA ruling
WASHINGTON -- Two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members suggested Wednesday that procedural barriers should prevent the justices from ruling on the constitutionality of the federal law that denies benefits to legally married same-sex couples,...
Tags: Marriage, Lawyers, Trials, Family, Defense of Marriage Act
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The plight of the black zombie: 'SNL' takes on 'The Walking Dead'
Fans of “The Walking Dead” were thrilled last night when the show was parodied on “SNL.” In the sketch, Rick Grimes (played by Taran Killam) is traveling with his crew, including Nasim Pedrad as trigger-happy 12-year-old Carl who...
Tags: Justin Timberlake, Social Issues, Seth Meyers, Jamie Foxx, Justice and Rights
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