Progressive groups are ratcheting up the pressure on Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, sending coat hangers to her offices; organizing rallies, social media, telephone and email campaigns; and raising nearly $1 million for a future opponent if she votes to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. There also are allegations circulating on Twitter that her […]
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U.S. Supreme Court rejects appeal of semi-automatic weapon ban
Data curated by InsideGov WASHINGTON — Acting in the aftermath of the San Bernardino mass shooting, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from gun owners who challenged a Chicago suburb’s ban on assault weapons. Two conservative justices said they would have heard the case and struck down the ban. The court, though, left […]
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H. Lord: Ultimate justice still to come
Five Supreme Court justices have issued a tragic and unconstitutional decision in an attempt to legitimize so-called gay marriage. What arrogance. And what recklessness. They have obviously forgotten the one who is the supreme judge of the world. They obviously do not attach much importance to the Declaration of Independence. True Americans give special honor […]
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Dissenting court opinion got it right
Who knew that inherent rights are a political bombshell? Justice Clarence Thomas set off a controversy in his dissent in the Supreme Court’s gay-marriage decision by reciting core American beliefs about the innate dignity and rights of all persons, whatever their circumstances or the injustices done to them. He wrote that even people held in […]
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M. Nadeau: A basic American value
Regarding the letter to the editor, “Obituary for America,” written by William Sullivan (July 3), I have two observations: The first relates to his comment about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding same-sex marriage. He has a right to denounce the Court’s decision. Perhaps “equal justice under law” has a different meaning to me than […]
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Feds argue U.S. Supreme Court should reject Maine Medicaid case
AUGUSTA — The federal government is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s request to decide whether Maine can eliminate Medicaid coverage for thousands of low-income young adults. LePage’s administration asked the court to review the case in February after a federal appeals court denied its plan to remove about 6,000 […]
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Leonard Pitts: Supreme Court rulings set dangerous precedent
It is a case of Supreme hypocrisy. The adjective refers to that nine-person tribunal at the top of the American legal system, the noun to its latest act of judicial malpractice. Meaning not the notorious Hobby Lobby decision handed down at the end of June but a less-noticed ruling a few days later. We have […]
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Rich Lowry: Leftists up in arms over Supreme Court ruling
It has long been suspected that the Supreme Court hates women, although it took the court’s 5-4 decision in the Hobby Lobby case to fully reveal its blatant misogyny. The court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act forbids the administration from forcing Hobby Lobby — an arts-and-crafts chain owned by evangelical Christians — to […]
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Supreme Court ruling threatens Portland protest buffer zone
PORTLAND — The future of a 39-foot buffer zone outside Planned Parenthood of New England offices was jeopardized Thursday by a U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down similar buffer zones. By a 9-0 vote, justices ruled a Massachusetts law requiring anti-abortion activists to stay 35 feet away from offices where abortions are performed, excluding hospitals, violated […]
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R. Melendy: Money is not speech
The conservative members of the U.S. Supreme Court have decided that very wealthy people can give millions of dollars to any political candidate running for office because they are guaranteed “freedom of speech” by the United States Constitution. Giving money is speech? My dictionary says “speech” means, “To utter words with ordinary voice” or “To […]