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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: Illegal Immigrants, American Civil Liberties Union, Laws, Immigration, Trials
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COLUMN - Can Tsarnaev be ruled an 'enemy combatant'?
Reuters(Ari Melber is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Ari Melber April 22 (Reuters) - Three major legal questions are now swirling around the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Since his dramatic capture Friday night, the public...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Human Rights, White House, Terrorism, Prosecution
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Supreme Court refuses to revive Alabama immigration law
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON _ The Supreme Court has blocked Alabama from enforcing a state law that authorized the police to arrest and jail persons who hid or transported illegal immigrants. By an 8-1 vote, the justices let stand lower court rulings that said enforcing...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Labor Legislation, Laws, Tribune Company, Immigration
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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: Minority Groups, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Research, University of Cambridge, Trials
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Justice Kennedy's one-man show
WASHINGTON -- Imagine how gratifying it must feel to be Anthony Kennedy. As the justice who most often serves as the swing vote on the Supreme Court, he is the target of endless sycophancy, solicitude and general kissing up -- and his courtiers were...
Tags: Elena Kagan, John G. Roberts, Jr., U.S. House of Representatives, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Lawyers
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Supreme Court seems willing to restore gay marriage in California
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, hearing arguments on the emotionally charged issue of gay marriage for the first time, appeared willing Tuesday to restore marital rights to gays and lesbians in California but uncomfortable with legalizing same-sex...
Tags: Minority Groups, Gay Rights, Elena Kagan, Anthony Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Letters: Marriage through the ages
Re "Court looks split on gay marriage," March 27 The issue isn't the "tradition" of marriage but rather the role of government in regulating marriage. This discussion is being confused by an inaccurate depiction of marriage as an unchanging institution....Tags: Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, Martin Luther, John G. Roberts, Jr., Civil Rights
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Is privacy going to the dogs?
New Yorker magazine once had a cartoon showing a storefront office with the company name on the window: "None of Your Damn Business Inc." If it were publicly traded, the corporation's stock would be down this morning. That's because of Tuesday's...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage
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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: Minority Groups, Elena Kagan, Laws, U.S. Supreme Court, Abortion
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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: The New York Times, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, C-SPAN (tv network), Google Inc.
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Prop. 8: Antonin Scalia surprisingly tame in gay marriage hearing
Justice Scalia lays a gay marriage trap for Ted Olson. There was a silly fertility joke about Strom Thurmond, but Scalia Watchers hoping to see the famously acid-tongued justice in action were out of luck Tuesday. The irascible U.S. Supreme Court...Tags: Minority Groups, Kamala D. Harris, Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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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: Court Administration, John G. Roberts, Jr., Laws, Internal Revenue Service, Lawyers
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