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Momentous decisions
Pity the Supremes. Not Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson but Alito, Breyer, Roberts, Thomas, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan, Kennedy and Scalia. After two days of testimony last week on two separate issues of gay rights -- or as we should think of...Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), John G. Roberts, Jr., Florence Ballard, Gays and Lesbians, Justice System
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Pakistan, Colleges and Universities, University of Chicago, George Ryan
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: Annapolis, Interior Policy, Firearms, Sexual Assault, Personal Weapon Control
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The reckoning on Obamacare
WASHINGTON — Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. Now it's back, summoned to the national stage by the confluence of...
Tags: Barack Obama, Family Planning, Pneumonia, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Lawyers
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Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue. You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court...
Tags: Barack Obama, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), John G. Roberts, Jr., Gays and Lesbians, Strom Thurmond
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Minority Groups, Health Care Reform (2009), Mitt Romney, Credit and Debt
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The stakes before the court
WASHINGTON -- Don't take anything for granted. The conservative activists on the Supreme Court may not be able to halt the inexorable shift toward acceptance of gay marriage, but we probably should expect them to try. The two big cases being argued this...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Barack Obama, Gays and Lesbians, Antonin Scalia, Family
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Deep in the reeds on genes
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney had it wrong. Corporations aren't people -- corporations own people. The Supreme Court on Monday took up the unusual question of whether corporations control our genetic material -- specifically, whether a Utah-based company...Tags: Salt, John G. Roberts, Jr., Baseball, Stephen Breyer, Chocolate Chip Cookies
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The sound of inevitability
Cal ThomasGiven his track record on marital fidelity, former President Bill Clinton is not the person I would consult about "committed, loving relationships." Clinton used those words in a Washington Post op-ed last week, urging the Supreme Court to overturn the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Cal Thomas, Gays and Lesbians, Bill Clinton, Antonin Scalia
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No Longer Need For Voting Rights Protection
The Hartford CourantProgressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, yet progressives insist the program remain frozen, like a fly in amber. Medicare is...Tags: Racism, Barack Obama, John G. Roberts, Jr., Minority Groups, Government Health Care
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A Justice league of their own
WASHINGTON -- For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are willing to face him down. As it happens, the two manning up to take on Nino the Terrible are women: the court's...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Congress, Discrimination, John G. Roberts, Jr., Judges
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Supreme Court rules 5-4 to uphold President Obama's health care law
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation Thursday in a narrow 5-4 ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which said that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not give Congress...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Barack Obama, National Government, Healthcare Laws, Judges
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