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Scalia's slam of the Voting Rights Act is a bar-stool rant
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his comments during oral arguments over a challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act displayed all the mental acuity of a third-tier...
Tags: John Lewis, U.S. Supreme Court, Radio, Elena Kagan, Entertainment
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Supreme Court justices: The case for hanging it up
Over the next three months, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to end affirmative action, whether to overturn part of one of the most important civil rights laws in our country's history (the Voting Rights Act) and whether gays and...
Tags: Laws, Gays and Lesbians, U.S. Supreme Court, Gun Control, Elena Kagan
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Two new camera-shy Supreme Court justices
Without using the term “going native,” the New York Times reports that Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor have developed second thoughts about the desirability of televising arguments before the court. The NYT’s...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, C-SPAN (tv network)
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The Times' 2012 list of the naughty and the nice
Santa's not the only one who makes lists. As we reflect on 2012, we too have thoughts about who should look forward to a cheerful holiday morning and who deserves a lump of coal. Below, The Times' reflections on who's been naughty and who's been nice....
Tags: Government, Arts and Culture, Todd Akin, Customs and Tradition, Justice System
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Letters: Guns and paranoia
Re "Survival 101," Jan. 9 What madness is this? Like a "Twilight Zone" story, we fear a handful of people who threaten our children and families with death just because of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. Even conservative Supreme Court Justice...
Tags: FBI
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Justice Clarence Thomas speaks -- and so do his detractors
Not since "Garbo Talks!" has a public figure's decision to speak attracted such attention. I'm referring, of course, to the media sensation created this week when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas broke an almost seven-year-long silent streak to crack...
Tags: Laws, Clarence Thomas, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Criminal Laws
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A warrant to draw blood?
The Supreme Court was asked this week to rule that police never need to obtain a search warrant before drawing blood from a motorist stopped for drunk driving. The court should reject that claim. In 2010, Tyler G. McNeely was stopped by a Missouri...
Tags: Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Legal larceny by lawyers
What's the difference between a mosquito and a lawyer? One is a blood-sucking parasite. The other is an insect. I'm a lawyer, but I live out of state and haven't practiced law in recent years, so I am at this point an "inactive" member of the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Justice System, Illegal Immigrants, Career and Workplace, General Practitioners
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Book review: 'When I Was a Child I Read Books' by Marilynne Robinson
-------------------- When I Was a Child I Read Books Essays Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 232 pp., $24 -------------------- Marilynne Robinson, the Pulitzer-winning novelist, is a confounding writer in today's political alignment. Her...
Tags: Book, Sociology, Edmund Burke, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture
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With foie gras ban, chefs say state is force-feeding morality
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticIf you want to eat foie gras in California before July 1, especially at a feast dedicated to the smooth, super-fatted duck liver, your pâté may be seasoned with a grain or two of political theater. Outside Santa Monica's Mélisse earlier this month, there...Tags: Values, Foods and Beverages, Physiology, Restaurants, Sea Bass
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Scalia and Limbaugh trash Supreme Court immigration ruling
The first day of a big week for the third branch of government brought a ruling on Arizona's immigration law that was less than satisfying for Justice Antonin Scalia and the Rush Limbaugh wing of the U.S. Supreme Court. A five-vote majority that included...
Tags: Laws, Radio, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice, Samuel A. Alito
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Robert H. Bork dies at 85; pivotal figure in Supreme Court history
Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation process and changed the court's direction for decades, died Wednesday. He was 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on...
Tags: White House, Justice System, Robert H. Bork, International Law, Anti Trust Crime
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