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MLK tackled many issues in his lifetime. Where are we now?
In this Feb. 22, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.
US Supreme Court urged to abandon Microsoft data privacy case
San Francisco, April 1 - The US Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to abandon its case against Microsoft over international data privacy after a law was signed to legally collect the data stored on foreign soil. The DoJ, in a court filing posted late on Saturday, said the new law signed by President Donald Trump last week answered the legal question at the heart of Microsoft's case.
Opinion: Democrats Are Christians, Too
Now that Stormy Daniels has confirmed on national television that Donald Trump initiated sex with her just months after his third wife gave birth to their child, at least half the country is asking: Surely this is a porn star too far for white evangelical Christians, right? As we celebrate Easter Sunday, nearly 18 months after Mr. Trump won the presidency with about 80 percent of the white evangelical vote, surveys show him retaining nearly all of that support. In contrast, white evangelicals re-elected George W. Bush in 2004 with 78 percent of their votes, but by May 2006 their approval had slid to 55 percent .
Stevens makes good point in essay
Let me say it up front: I don't think we should repeal the Second Amendment. But I applaud retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens for arguing that we should.
Liberal US judge who struck down ‘under God’ in pledge dies
8, 2014, file pool photo, Judge Stephen Reinhardt listens to arguments on gay marriage bans at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Judge Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S... .
E.J. Dionne: Our big political cheating scandals
Political cheating allows those who engage in it to amass far more power than they have a right to in a constitutional democracy. Its most sophisticated form isn't ballot-box stuffing but the use of indirect means by those in authority to perpetuate themselves in office.
No One Is Saying That
Did you hear? They're talking about repealing the Second Amendment. It started with former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley.
Redistricting a thorn for justices
Keegan Herrod, 6, of Denver , dressed as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, waits in line while hoping to see the justices with her mother, Maeve Felle , Wednesday outside the Supreme Court building in Washington where the justices heard arguments in a gerrymandering case. WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices wrestled Wednesday with how far states may go to craft electoral districts that give the majority party a significant political advantage, delving into an issue that affects elections across the country.
Supreme Court’s Breyer in Boston for hate speech event
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is exploring hate speech and the First Amendment at an event in Boston. Breyer is scheduled to have a public discussion on Thursday with the president of the National Constitution Center, a nonprofit history museum in Philadelphia.
What?! Cuomo Denies Liberal Justice Called for Second Amendment Repeal
Only minutes after taking to Twitter early Wednesday morning to falsely claim that "no one" was talking about repealing the Second Amendment, CNN New Day co-host Chris Cuomo doubled-down on that assertion during an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. When the Republican pointed to a Tuesday New York Times op/ed in which former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens demanded that the right to bear arms be revoked, Cuomo simply pretended it didn't happen.
Trump says Second Amendment won’t be repealed
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the Second Amendment "WILL NEVER BE REPEALED" and called on voters to elect more Republicans in this fall's congressional elections because the GOP "must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court." Trump's statements came a day after retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in an essay in The New York Times that repealing the amendment would make it easier for Congress to enact gun control legislation.
SCOOP: Pro-online Sales Taxes Retailers Pulling Back $$ Ahead of Probable SCOTUS Ruling
Retailers who support legislation allowing states to require online retailers to collect and remit sales taxes owed on purchases by their residents are pulling back on their advocacy spending on the issue ahead of an anticipated, pro-sales-tax-collection decision by the Supreme Court, RedState has confirmed. According to consultant, working for retailers who had made passing legislation like the Marketplace Fairness Act or the Remote Transactions Parity Act into law a priority, budgets expended on that effort are being cut.
Trump says Second Amendment won’t be repealed.
The president is making that pledge a day after retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens expressed a different view. Stevens wrote in The New York Times that repealing the Second Amendment would help Congress enact gun control measures.
Live Videos | How Media Coverage of March for Our Lives Varied…
Rhode Island College Professor Emeritus Kay Israel broke down the widely varying media coverage of the "March for Our Lives" events around the country -- and what the implications of the continued mobilization might mean for the 2018 elections -- when he appeared on GoLocal LIVE.
A Needle In A Legal Haystack Could Sink A Major Supreme Court Privacy Case
Tucked deep within a 2,300-page congressional spending bill is a provision that will likely make a Supreme Court case on tech privacy moot. It looks like one of the marquis cases before the U.S. Supreme Court is about to go bust - sabotaged by a needle in a legislative haystack.
Supreme Court to weigh partisan gerrymandering Wednesday
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a Maryland case brought by Republican voters who are challenging the way Democratic state officials drew the boundaries of a sprawling congressional district now held by Rep. John Kevin Delaney 2020 Dem contenders travel to key primary states Overnight Tech: FTC nominees promise focus on data breaches AT&T wants antitrust chief to testify in merger trial Experts fear US losing ground to China on AI MORE Republicans in the district claim state officials intentionally and unconstitutionally packed Maryland's 6th Congressional District with Democrats to beat the Republican incumbent, then-Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. The case opens a second front in the war over partisan gerrymandering.
No more – one-person conspiracies’
The U.S. Supreme Court on March 21, 2018, reversed the Second Circuit in a 7-2 decision in Marinello v. United States, holding that to convict a defendant under the Omnibus Clause of Code Section 7212 the government must prove that the defendant was aware of a pending tax-related proceeding, such as a particular investigation or audit, or could reasonably have foreseen that such a proceeding would commence.
The Latest: Supreme Court won’t block Texas execution
A San Antonio man who became known as the "suitcase killer" has been executed in Texas for the 2005 slaying of a 29-year-old Lubbock woman whose battered, naked body was stuffed into a new piece of luggage and tossed in the trash. Rodriguez was the fourth convicted killer executed this year in Texas and the seventh nationally.
Former Supreme Court Justice: – Repeal the Second Amendment,’ Confiscate All Semi-Automatics
On Tuesday, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for repealing the Second Amendment, banning civilian ownership of semi-automatic weapons, and raising the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old. Stevens was inspired to write his piece by the "March for Our Lives," which he praised as a uniquely impressive example of "civic engagement" that "demand[s] our respect."