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Politics
The Supreme Court is diving into a debate about the place of religious symbols in public life in a case about a cross-shaped war memorial in Maryland.
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Politics
The Supreme Court this week is hearing a case challenging the location of a nearly 100-year-old, cross-shaped Maryland war memorial.
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Carroll County Times Opinion
Justice Clarence Thomas is seldom discussed without mention of his unusual silence. Appointed in 1991, he has spoken fewer than three words, on average, per
Politics
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a Maryland redistricting case that has the potential to reshape how congressional boundaries are drawn nationwide.
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Editorial
President Donald Trump called the Supreme Court's decision to partially reinstate his travel ban a "clear victory," but there's nothing clear about it.
Op-ed
The day after the United States bombed airfields in Syria to punish the Assad regime for the chemical slaughter of civilians, the Justice Department quietly filed its latest brief defending a ban on refugees from that country. Next month, appeals courts on both coasts will debate the matter, hearing argument in cases from Maryland and Hawaii, where two district judges found that a revised presidential order blocking immigrants from certain predominantly Muslim countries violates the
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Attorneys representing Allegany County have filed a motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit seeking the removal of a Ten Commandments monument that has stood on the grounds of the county courthouse since 1957,
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The Supreme Court on Monday empowered police to stop people on the streets and question them, even when it is not clear they have done anything wrong.
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Arts
Stevenson University's 2016-2017 Baltimore Speakers Series will include lectures from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, former Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Barak and actress Rita Moreno.
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A case involving a Maryland-based order of nuns appeared to divide the Supreme Court on Wednesday as attorneys argued the Obama administration overstepped its authority by requiring faith-based employers to facilitate health insurance coverage for contraception.
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Editorial
Antonin Scalia's death touches off a cringeworthy GOP push to reject President Obama's Supreme Court nominee sight unseen
Anne Arundel County
The Supreme Court declared Monday the Constitution gives the president, not Congress, the lead role in setting the nation's foreign policy, including the "exclusive power" to recognize foreign governments and negotiate sensitive disputes.
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Carroll County Times Opinion
Yhe past year's examples of racially charged police abuses from Ferguson to Staten Island to North Charleston affecting the Supreme Court.
Maryland
Attorney General-elect Brian Frosh named his two top deputies Tuesday, tapping Gov. Martin O'Malley's chief legal adviser Elizabeth Harris and Thiru Vignarajah, the city prosecutor who coordinated major investigations.
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Politics
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down aggregate limits on how much money wealthy donors may spend on elections, a decision that could pour vast sums of new cash into the nation's increasingly expensive system of campaign finance.
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Features
A divided Supreme Court struck down a federal law Wednesday that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, a landmark decision that will make federal marriage benefits available to legally married same-sex couples for the first time in the nation's history.
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Crime
The U.S. Supreme Court authorized police to collect DNA samples from individuals arrested for violent crimes, in an opinion released Monday that overturns Maryland's Court of Appeals ruling.
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Editorial
The only difference between collecting genetic information and fingerprints from arrestees is that DNA matches are far more accurate.
Crime
The U.S. Supreme Court will take on Maryland's DNA law after being asked to decide whether the collection of samples from people arrested for certain crimes is a violation of their constitutional rights.
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Opinion
Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill could face a Supreme Court test similar to the Affordable Care Act
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Health
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, ruling that the government may impose tax penalties on people who do not have health insurance.
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Editorial
Chief Justice John Roberts' ruling that Obamacare is largely constitutional is a model of judicial restraint and a real victory for the American people.
Maryland
Hiring up-and-coming prosecutor Thiru Vignaraja away from the federal government and to the city state's attorney's office was a coup for Gregg Bernstein, who took over as the city's top prosecutor last year.
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