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Column: What to expect in 2013
A year ago, we predicted President Barack Obama would edge Mitt Romney 48-47 with 286 electoral votes, plus we’d get a Democratic Senate and Republican House; the numbers were a bit off, but who’s counting? Â So plunging past the fiscal...Tags: Mitt Romney, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Democratic Party, Tony Romo, John Cornyn
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Same-sex marriage meets the high court
On Nov. 6, for the first time in American history, a majority of voters in a state — indeed, in three states — approved same-sex marriage. On Friday, the Supreme Court decided to weigh in on the issue, granting review in cases challenging...
Tags: Gay Rights, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Judges
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Robert Bork, rejected Supreme Court nominee, dies at age 85
Robert H. Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 infuriated conservatives and politicized the confirmation process for the ensuing decades, died Wednesday at the age of 85. The former Yale law professor and judge on the U.S. Court of...Tags: Mitt Romney, Heart Problems, Antonin Scalia, Judges, Elections
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Failed Supreme Court nominee dies at age 85
Robert H. Bork, whose failed Supreme Court nomination in 1987 infuriated conservatives and politicized the confirmation process for the ensuing decades, died Wednesday at the age of 85. Â The former Yale law professor and judge on the U.S. Court of...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Democratic Party, Heart Problems, Antonin Scalia, Judges
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Did Robert Bork become the creature of his critics?
I expect that the death of Robert Bork will produce a lot of commentary about how different the law would be today if the Senate had confirmed his nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987. That’s an obvious reaction. If Bork -- and not Justice...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Arlen Specter, Freedom of the Press, Interior Policy, Judges
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For Scalia, no gay people, just gay sex?
Is there anything more to be said about Justice Antonin Scalia’s sulphurous comments about homosexuality, which prompted a gutsy student at Princeton University to confront the voluble jurist this week about his rhetoric? One thing at least: Scalia&...
Tags: Princeton University, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Planned Parenthood, Antonin Scalia
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The 'animus' of Justice Scalia
In a 1996 Supreme Court decision protecting gays and lesbians from discrimination, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote that Colorado voters had evidenced an unconstitutional "animus" toward homosexuality. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, huffing: "I had...
Tags: Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Antonin Scalia, Marriage
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Gay marriage: Scalia knew this day would come
In announcing Friday that it will hear two cases involving same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court did not include a statement from Justice Antonin Scalia saying “I told you so.” But the thought surely has crossed the conservative justice’s...
Tags: Gay Rights, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Antonin Scalia
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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: Mitt Romney, Planned Parenthood, Abortion Issue, Republican Party, Paul Ryan
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High court looks at race in college admissions
WASHINGTON (AP)— Nine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back on their agenda in the middle of a presidential election...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lawyers, Minority Groups, University of California, Los Angeles, Colleges and Universities
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Supreme Court Starts New Term, Agenda Could Be Historic
CNNWASHINGTON, D.C. -- A day after the Supreme Court upheld the health care law, Chief Justice John Roberts joked that he would spend some time at "an impregnable island fortress" to escape the torrent of vitriol and praise heaped on the bench. The nation...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Abortion Issue
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Supreme Court kicks off new term, faces agenda that could be historic
CNNA day after the Supreme Court upheld the health care law, Chief Justice John Roberts joked that he would spend some time at "an impregnable island fortress" to escape the torrent of vitriol and praise heaped on the bench. The nation is now focused on the...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Minority Groups, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Abortion Issue
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