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5th Circuit tells courts to issue same-sex marriage rulings

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Television crews set up outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday June 25, 2015. The court is expected to hand down decisions today. Two major opinions, health care and gay marriage, are among the remaining to be released before the term ends at the end of June. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court gay marriage ruling expected as early as Friday

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Pro-abortion rights supporter Yatzel Sabat (left) and anti-abortion protestor Amanda Reed demonstrate at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, on July 2, 2013. The Supreme Court is considering an emergency appeal from abortion providers in Texas, who want the justices to block two provisions of a state law that already has forced the closure of roughly half the licensed abortion clinics in the state. Ten of the remaining 19 clinics will have to shut their doors by July 1, 2015, without an order from the Supreme Court. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Associated Press) **FILE**

High court to decide whether to take up major abortion case

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Good News Community Church Pastor Clyde Reed, center, smiles as he leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, with his wife Ann, left. The Supreme Court appears likely to side with a small church in its fight with a Phoenix suburb over limits on roadside signs directing people to Sunday services. Liberal and conservative justices expressed misgivings Monday with the Gilbert, Arizona, sign ordinance because it places more restrictions on the churches' temporary signs than those erected by political candidates, real estate agents and others. The Good News Community Church sued over limits that Gilbert places on so-called directional signs, like the ones the church places around town to point people to its services in local schools and retirement communities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Arizona church wins outdoor sign case in Supreme Court

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III speaks at his home in Oceanside, Calif., in this Aug. 2, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Defense: War-crimes case vs. Marine based on shoddy inquiry

By JULIE WATSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 15, 2013 file photo, abortion opponent Corrie Zastrow, left, calls out to patients while clinic escorts secure signs on the front gates to prevent abortion opponents from visually confronting patients as they enter the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss. Abortions have declined in states where new laws make it harder to have them — but they've also waned in states where abortion rights are protected, an Associated Press survey finds. Nearly everywhere, in red states and blue, abortions are down since 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

N.C. abortion-ultrasound law dead as Supreme Court denies review

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Pro-choice supporters, foreground, try to disrupt pro-life supporters as they march to the Texas Capitol during a Texas Rally for Life, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas abortion providers ask court to stay ruling while they appeal to Supreme Court

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

The sun shines through concertina wire on a fence at the Angola Prison Rodeo in Angola, La. (Associated Press)

Federal judge orders last ‘Angola Three’ inmate released

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press

Louisiana school voucher program before US appeals court

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Justice won’t appeal amnesty injunction to Supreme Court

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Unions Helped by Obama Appointees Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

MARK MIX: Unions want to keep workers in the dark

By Mark Mix

The birth control pill remains the most common method of female contraception in the U.S. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obamacare contraception decision imposed by court on priest group

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Muslims protest the video "Innocence of Muslims," which ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Protests have also taken place in Egypt and other regions of the Middle East. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

‘Innocence of Muslims,’ anti-Islam video, should not have been forced off YouTube, court rules

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 17, 2015 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. McConnell and GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz are among 57 Republicans in Congress who are calling on the Supreme Court to uphold state bans on same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

EDITORIAL: Courts rule Patriot Act illegal

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Supporters rally outside of the Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Sioux Falls, S.D., Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. A federal judge heard arguments Friday on South Dakota's request to throw out a lawsuit challenging its ban on gay marriage but will file her decision later. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)

Gay-marriage cases halted in 8th, other federal circuit courts

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Illustration on liberal efforts to undermine the integrity of the vote by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ROBERT KNIGHT: Restricting U.S. voting to American citizens

By Robert Knight

"If you read what the Supreme Court said" in a 2013 gay marriage case, Windsor v. United States, "there's really no other way for the Supreme Court to come out in the case that's up for argument on Tuesday," lawyer Ted Olson said on NBC's "Meet the Press." (Associated Press)

Gay marriage advocates expect Supreme Court to rule in their favor

By Valerie Richardson and Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times