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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Ronald Reagan, Judges, Book
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Peter Sagal's 'Constitution USA' hits the road with humor
NEW YORK — If someone told you of a barnstorming TV host who interviewed people around the country about a given subject, you'd say it sounds like a lot of the road-trip reality series that have proliferated on cable TV. But what if that host...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Crime, Law and Justice, Lifestyle and Leisure, Rand Paul, Entertainment
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Supreme Court won't revive Alabama immigration law
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court made it clear Monday that enforcing immigration laws was reserved for the federal government, not the states. By an 8-1 vote, the justices rejected a request from Alabama to revive part of a 2011 law designed to drive...Tags: Career and Workplace, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration, Civil Rights
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Can Tsarnaev be ruled an "enemy combatant"?
Reuters(Reuters) - Three major legal questions are now swirling around the Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Since his dramatic capture Friday night, the public debate has already begun muddling these issues. An overarching question is whether the...Tags: Human Rights, Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Rights, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Laws
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Personal Weapon Control, Lobbying, Marty Block
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Manchin-Toomey amendment simply extended background checks
I applaud Sen. Toomey for his leadership on gun safety legislation. Our democratic process is based on compromise, and I am grateful to be represented by someone who is willing to find ways to make the nation safer while protecting our constitutional...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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Letters: The language of Justice Scalia
Re "Scalia's poison pen," Opinion, April 14 Bigoted as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's views on homosexuality seem, he makes a valid legal point by intimating that equal protection claims asserted to support gay marriage similarly support...Tags: Marriage, Incest, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Birth Defects
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What now on gun control?
Despite the mounting casualties of gun violence and a brutal massacre that left 20 children dead in Newtown, Conn., the Senate on Wednesday failed to pass a bipartisan compromise to widen background checks for potential purchasers of guns as well as...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Elections, National Rifle Association of America, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Justices rule U.S. courts not world forum for human rights suits
WASHINGTON— U.S. courts will not be the world forum for lawsuits brought by victims of human rights abuses abroad who seek damages from multinational corporations or deposed tyrants, the Supreme Court declared Wednesday. In a decision welcomed...
Tags: Human Rights, Clarence Thomas, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Amnesty International
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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: Human Rights, Clarence Thomas, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer, Civil Rights
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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: Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Civil Rights
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Antonin Scalia's anti-gay words are poison; so I confronted him
It seems these days as if everyone is speculating about how Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will approach the two same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. But I haven't heard anyone wondering which side Antonin Scalia will be on. He has made...
Tags: Clarence Thomas, Family, Crime, Law and Justice, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), U.S. Supreme Court
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