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Supreme Court blocks overseas human rights cases from U.S. courts
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has declared that American courts will not be the world’s forum for deciding suits alleging human rights abuses by corporations and foreign tyrants on foreign soil. In a 9-0 decision, the high court tossed...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Supreme Court hears custody dispute over adopted girl
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court was asked Tuesday to decide who should raise a 3 1/2-year-old girl who was given up by her single mother: the South Carolina couple who adopted her at birth or her biological father, who invoked his rights as a...Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Gun rights and corresponding responsibilities
For those who oppose commonsense gun safety legislation - including background checks and magazine limits - claiming it threatens their Second Amendment rights, I say gun rights come with responsibilities to protect citizens’ safety. Even...Tags: Shootings, Gun Control, Lobbying, Government, Safety of Citizens
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Letters: Parents who care, gay or straight
Re "Experts defend gay parenting," April 6 With more than 40 years of experience in education as a teacher, school director, principal and headmaster, I find Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's concern that the children of same-sex couples may suffer...
Tags: Social Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Iran
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The plight of the black zombie: 'SNL' takes on 'The Walking Dead'
Fans of “The Walking Dead” were thrilled last night when the show was parodied on “SNL.” In the sketch, Rick Grimes (played by Taran Killam) is traveling with his crew, including Nasim Pedrad as trigger-happy 12-year-old Carl who...
Tags: Voting, Justice and Rights, The Walking Dead (tv program), Seth Meyers, Civil Rights
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Wrong about racism
One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. "White Power," it said. I was chatting with a friend, Cathy Duncan, and what happened next was as smooth as if we had rehearsed it. All at once,...
Tags: Voting, Justice and Rights, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Civil Rights, Politics
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Audio delayed is audio denied -- high court should enter the 21st century and broadcast its arguments live
Change of SubjectFriday's print column I'm such a news geek that not only did I listen to both sets of the arguments on gay marriage this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, I was annoyed that the audio wasn't posted until several...... -
Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?
Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...
Tags: John Roberts, Ken Burns, 60 Minutes (tv program), Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice
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As court deliberates, clergy, professor offer views on same-sex marriage
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comThe Rev. Rob Apgar-Taylor, pastor of Veritas United Church of Christ, lives in Hagerstown with his husband, but despite the state of Maryland voting to legalize same-sex marriage in November, he and his spouse still do not have access to any federal...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Defense of Marriage Act, Church and State Relations, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Religion and Belief
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Audio delayed is audio denied
I'm such a news geek that not only did I listen to both sets of the arguments on gay marriage this week at the U.S. Supreme Court, I was annoyed that the audio wasn't posted until several hours after the fact. Previous generations of news geeks would...
Tags: Social Issues, Entertainment, Marriage, Stephen Colbert, Family
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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: John G. Roberts, Jr., Defense of Marriage Act, Politics, Elena Kagan, Justice System
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Court seems to be leaning against Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON — After two days of arguments on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court seemed poised to give gays and lesbians a major legal victory but probably not the immediate right to marry in all states that many of them had hoped for. Justice...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., Defense of Marriage Act, Lobbying, Politics, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
Apr 17, 2013
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Apr 16, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 9, 2013
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Mar 3, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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