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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: Barack Obama, Racism, Medicare, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Voting
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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: Gays and Lesbians, Civil Rights, Kamala D. Harris, Judges, Marriage
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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, George W. Bush, Israel, Gays and Lesbians, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Liberal justices, Kennedy appear to favor ending part of DOMA
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrapped up a second day of arguments on gay marriage, as Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and the court’s liberal justices appeared headed toward striking down the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies...
Tags: Elena Kagan, Gays and Lesbians, Lobbying, Judges, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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DOMA, Supreme Court face tide of Twitter criticism
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, supporters and opponents of the law took to the Web to make their own case. Enacted in 1996 under a Republican Congress and Democratic...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Marriage, Customs and Tradition
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Supreme Court likely to strike down DOMA, experts say
Experts said that based on Wednesday's arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court appears willing to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Gay rights lawyer Jon W. Davidson said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was likely to permit married same-sex...
Tags: Elena Kagan, Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Marriage, Minority Groups
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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: Civil Rights, Elena Kagan, Judges, Sonia Sotomayor, Voting
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Excerpts of Tuesday's gay marriage case at high court
Excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, from a transcript released by the Supreme Court: ___ On whether the case should be before them (Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Tags: Elena Kagan, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Sonia Sotomayor, Judges
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A gay marriage backlash? Not likely
Court decisions sometimes spark dramatic political backlashes. Brown vs. Board of Education, which struck down school segregation laws in 1954, temporarily retarded progressive racial reform in the South and advanced the political careers of racial...
Tags: Racism, Punishment, Government, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians
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Prop. 8: Gavin Newsom proud of helping start gay marriage case
Rep. Nancy Pelosi got Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom-- the former San Francisco mayor whose actions launched the litigation -- a seat in the courtroom Tuesday. “I don’t want to overstate it, but literally when I walked in, I had a feeling I had never...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Gays and Lesbians, Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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Gay marriage, Prop. 8 debate comes down to the wire
The mood was electric that crisp, clear February day as couples lined up at San Francisco City Hall to be among the first to get licenses for same-sex marriages in California. Nine tortuous years followed: The state high court halted and invalidated...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Judges, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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Prop. 8 arguments: Audio and transcript from U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. The court has provided rare same-day audio and written transcript of the proceedings. The...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Family, U.S. Supreme Court, University of California, Irvine, Same-Sex Marriage
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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Mar 26, 2013
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