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Supreme Court Extends 2nd Amendment Protection To State, Local Levels
Staff reporterThe Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities and states must abide by the 2nd Amendment, strengthening the rights of gun owners and opening a new chapter in the national debate over gun control. In a 5-4 decision, the justices said the right to have a...Tags: Illinois, Gun Control, Republican Party, Murder, Sonia Sotomayor
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Obama Meeting With Senators For Supreme Justice Replacement
wpix.comPresident Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will sit down with Senators Wednesday to discuss replacing retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Some of the senators expected to join the meeting are Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...Tags: Justice System, Kathleen Sebelius, G20, Harry Reid, Barack Obama
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New York City Native To Be Nominated For Supreme Court Today
President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the president's thinking said Sunday night.
The move positions the court to have three female justices for the first time in history.
The...Tags: Republican Party, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Democratic Party
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Elena Kagan: A (Very) Native New Yorker
wpix.comThe newest nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court is just about as native a New Yorker as it gets. Elena Kagan is a self-professed die-hard New York Mets fan from the Upper West Side, and graduated from Hunter College High School, where her late mother taught...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), U.S. Supreme Court, Education, Local Government, Barack Obama
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Citizens United II
"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics." That penultimate sentence in now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens' brilliant dissent in the...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Republican Party, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Non Ferrous Metal
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Obama talks politics of division to win a second term
"The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states ..." -- Barack Obama, rising star, Democratic convention, 2004 WASHINGTON Poor Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. Once again he's been pilloried for fumbling a...Tags: Republican Party, Sonia Sotomayor, Al Gore, Democratic Party, Minority Groups
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Bob Dylan to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelWhat does American musical icon Bob Dylan have in common with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and ex-astronaut John Glenn? All are on the list of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the nation's highest civilian honor,... -
Allan Powell: Citizens United decision is a two-year-old monster
The Citizens United Supreme Court decision is now two years old. The majority opinion of five ultra-conservative justices shows their determination to advance the power and wealth of corporations. They gave this awesome gift by affirming that corporations...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Elections
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The Klimts and the Supreme Court
Opinion L.A.Patt Morrison Asks: E. Randol Schoenberg on the Klimts and the Supreme Court.... -
Reading the court's mind
The Supreme Court's three days of arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law have triggered a guessing game, replacing for the moment the 2012 presidential campaign as topic A on the nation's nonstop talk shows. Did the justices'...
Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Republican Party, Health, Justice System, Barack Obama
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The fourth outfielder
Special to Tribune NewspapersYup, I won a game for the Cubs when I was 9 years old, a kind of pre-pubescent reverse-Bartman deal. The next day's Chicago Tribune called the anonymous fan who interfered with a critical eighth-inning play "the fourth outfielder," which. with its...Tags: Atlanta Braves, U.S. Supreme Court, Fergie Jenkins, Chicago Tribune, Leo Durocher
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Goldberg: People Inc.
"Corporations are people, my friend," Mitt Romney declared in a testy back-and-forth with hecklers last summer in Iowa. It was among the first of what appears to be a growing list of gaffes Democrats will use to hang around Romney's neck in the less than...Tags: Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Charlton Heston, Democratic Party, New York City
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