Supreme Court

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This photo taken Dec. 17, 2013 shows anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen, of Boston, standing at the painted edge of a buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood location in Boston. The regulation of protests outside abortion clinics returns to the Supreme Court for the first time since 2000 to find the justices seemingly more protective of speech and less committed to abortion rights. That combination could prove difficult to overcome for the state of Massachusetts as it seeks to defend a law, in arguments at the high court on Jan. 15, that prohibits abortion protests any closer than 35 feet from the entrance to clinics. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, left, looks on as Sen. Sharon Brown, R-Kennewick, right, is sworn in as vice president pro tem of the Senate by Washington state Supreme Court Justice James Johnson, center, on the first day of the 2014 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Attorney General Eric Holder says same-sex couples married in Utah in the past two weeks should be eligible for federal benefits, despite a Supreme Court stay on the legislation. (associated press)

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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, a view of the Supreme Court can be seen from the view from near the top of the Capitol Dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in a clash between President Obama and Senate Republicans over the power granted the president in the Constitution to make temporary appointments to fill high-level positions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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"'Keep and bear arms' does not limit you to keeping your gun in your house," said Dick Heller, the litigant in the original gun-rights case in the Supreme Court case that in 2008 overturned the District's strict 32-year-old handgun ban.

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**FILE** Supreme Court choice Sonia Sotomayor speaks to President Obama during an announcement on May 26, 2009, in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)