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Aug 14 2013
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Pentagon extends benefits to same-sex military spouses
The Pentagon on Wednesday announced it would extend federal benefits to same-sex spouses of military personnel and civilian defense employees, following up on a Supreme Court decision that overturned a key portion of the Defense of Marriage Act. The benefits will be available to all legally married spouses regardless of sexual orientation beginning no later than Sept. 3, according to a Defense
Washington Post
Mar 05 2020
Headline Roundup
Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Schumer's 'Threatening Statements'
Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for "threatening statements" against Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
The rebuke came after Schumer, outside the Supreme Court, said that the Justices "have released the whirlwind" and will "pay the price" for their court decisions. At the same time, the Supreme Court was hearing a case testing an abortion ruling
USA TODAY
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CNN (Online News)
Apr 30 2014
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Senate Dems vow vote to change Constitution, block campaign funding
Senate Democrats said Wednesday that the Supreme Court has stretched the First Amendment too far when it comes to campaign finances, and vowed to hold a vote to amend the Constitution and undo a number of landmark decisions. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat and chairman of the Rules Committee, said he will push a constitutional amendment to the full floor later this year that would give Washington Times
May 22 2019
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Probe Inconclusive on VA Governor Northam's Racist Yearbook Pic
An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a Ku Klux Klan hood.
Investigators with a law firm hired by Eastern Virginia Medical School said Wednesday they couldn't "conclusively determine" the identities of either person in the 35-year-old photo.
They
CBN
Jul 08 2019
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Justice Department changing lawyers on census case
The Justice Department is swapping out the lawyers who had been representing the administration in its legal battle to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, possibly signaling career attorneys’ legal or ethical concerns over the maneuvering ordered by President Trump.
The department announced the move in a statement, which was issued after The Washington Post inquired
Washington Post
Feb 19 2024
Headline Roundup
ICJ Hears Palestinian Arguments on Israeli Occupation
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) began hearing arguments on Monday over the legality of Israel’s occupation of land claimed by Palestinians.
The Details: The hearings are separate from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over the war in Gaza; instead, they stem from a 2022 U.N. resolution seeking the ICJ’s non-binding advisory opinion on the occupation. The ICJ's
The Times of Israel
CNN (Online News)
Washington Examiner
Apr 05 2015
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Gay Rights Will Continue to Divide Republicans: Albert R. Hunt
Gay rights won't fade as a political issue. The Republican base won’t let it.
Prominent Republicans calculated that if the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage was constitutionally protected, the issue would become settled law and disappear politically. This would be welcome, they reasoned, as the party was on the wrong side of the politics and history.
Then Indiana enacted
Newsmax (News)
Nov 19 2014
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Meet Michael Cannon, the man who could bring down Obamacare
Michael Cannon is an ardent Obamacare opponent who runs the health policy program at the libertarian Cato Institute. The New Republic has described him as "Obamacare's most relentless antagonist." They're absolutely right; Cannon has spent the past three years testifying in countless statehouses, imploring legislators not to implement Obamacare. Now, he's gotten the Supreme Court listening.
Vox
Mar 20 2019
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Mueller team cites ‘press of other work’ in seeking delay until April 1 over request to open Manafort records
Prosecutors with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team on Tuesday cited the “press of other work” in asking a judge to give them until April 1 to respond to the court about a request from The Washington Post to unseal records in Paul Manafort’s criminal case.
In a two-page filing, Deputy Solicitor General Michael R. Dreeben and prosecutor Adam C. Jed wrote, “Counsel responsible
Washington Post
May 14 2019
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Conservative media downplay the Trump administration's unprecedented stonewalling of congressional oversight
As legal experts, historians, and Democratic lawmakers have sounded the alarm over President Donald Trump’s blanket obstruction of congressional oversight of his presidency -- suggesting we have reached or are approaching a constitutional crisis -- Trump’s conservative media allies are brazenly misrepresenting the arguments and suggesting everything boils down to a fight over the Mueller
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