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Court's DNA decision serves public safety and justice
The Supreme Court's decision today to uphold Maryland's law allowing the collection of DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes upholds the interests of justice, the Constitution and common sense. Concerns that the DNA samples could violate...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Safety of Citizens, Government, Sonia Sotomayor, Justice System
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U.S. Supreme Court authorizes post-arrest DNA collection
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in Maryland and elsewhere can continue the warrantless collection of DNA from people arrested — but not convicted — of serious crimes. The 5-4 decision upheld a state law that allows...
Tags: Police Arrests, Justice System, Chemical Industry, FBI, U.S. Supreme Court
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Carroll County's gun law nullification fantasy
Nullification fever is spreading across the rural counties along the Mason-Dixon Line, with Cecil, Harford and Carroll counties passing resolutions in the last month declaring their view that Maryland's new gun control law is unconstitutional. Cecil's...
Tags: Firearms, Justice System, Lawyers, Laws, Civil Rights
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Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?
Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Ken Burns, Gays and Lesbians, John Roberts, Starbucks Corp.
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The false analogy between abortion and gay marriage
If the tenor of their questions is any indication, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared evenly divided in the challenge to California's law banning gay marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy, predictably, in the middle. But rather than deciding...
Tags: Abortion, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, Gays and Lesbians
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Wrong about racism
One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. "White Power," it said. I was chatting with a friend, Cathy Duncan, and what happened next was as smooth as if we had rehearsed it. All at once,...
Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Polls, Civil Rights, Laws
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Scalia and racial entitlement
The Sun has published several commentaries, including one by Leonard Pitts Jr. ("Wrong about racism," March 3), discussing Justice Antonin Scalia's recent remark during oral arguments about the Voting Rights Act being a "racial entitlement." None squarely...
Tags: Elections, Racism, Voting
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What Scalia really has against the Voting Rights Act
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: USA Today, Civil Rights, Elections, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Congress
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No time to go weenie on Maryland gun control
Watch out, ladies and gentlemen, the Maryland Senate — where Democrats outnumber Republicans 35 to 12 — could be going weenie on gun control. Already, they're caving to the "gun enthusiasts" on the proposal to require a license to buy a...
Tags: Firearms, Calvert County, Howard County, Lobbying, Annapolis
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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: Police Arrests, Lawyers, Justice System, Chemical Industry, Regional Authority
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Obama goes big on gun control, but can he deliver?
The first general reaction to President Barack Obama's package of gun control ideas seems to be criticism that it's too ambitious. Predictions are being heard that he will fall far short of his aspirations and even fail to restore the ban on assault...
Tags: Joe Biden, Weaponry, Barack Obama, Assault, Civil Rights
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Robert Bork, the original originalist
Robert Bork, who died Wednesday, occupies a peculiar position in the pantheon of American conservative heroes. Most conservatives celebrated Judge Bork as the champion of constitutional values who was denied his rightful position on the Supreme Court by...
Tags: Abortion, Government, Justice System, Litigation and Regulation, Activism
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