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The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on March 4, 2015, in a major test of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul that threatens insurance coverage for millions of people. The justices are meeting Wednesday to try to determine whether the law makes people in all 50 states eligible for federal tax subsidies to cut the cost of insurance premiums.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Gay marriage defies opinions of American majority, legal brief tells Supreme Court

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag in front of the Supreme Court in Washington. Thousands of businesses, religious groups, advocacy organizations and politicians who are filing legal briefs at the Supreme Court in support of gay marriage. The cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee will be argued April 28, and a decision is expected by early summer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court same-sex marriage hearing expected to draw opponents, advocates

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama greets Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas prior to his address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Clarence Thomas, President Obama in hypothetical discussion

By Armstrong Williams

Wal-Mart is awaiting a court decision after one of its major shareholders, a church that owns 3,500 franchises around the country, filed to have high-capacity gun magazines removed from the stores. (Associated Press)

Wal-Mart beats church in court battle over gun sales

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Antonin Scalia

JOHN S. BAKER: The heart of Justice Scalia’s originalism

By John S. Baker

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this March 23, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Anthony Kennedy: Gay mentor, belief in dignity at roots of justice’s views

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Tuesday, April 1, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Ron Johnson offers latest GOP plan to deal with Obamacare subsidies ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

LGBT activists have long applauded President Obama's record on gay issues, hiring several homosexual staff members to his administration and repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" for the military. Republican strategists are seeking ways to lure some of the gay vote away from the eventual Democratic presidential candidate in 2016. (Associated Press)

Obama: ‘Pretty clear cut’ that Obamacare will survive Supreme Court test

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A container for birth-control pills designed to look like a woman's compact is displayed. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Religious colleges seek contraception mandate exception like for-profit companies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Peggy Young, a Virginia woman who lost her UPS job because she became pregnant, left, accompanied Marcia Greenberger, founder and co-president of the National Women's Law Center, center, and Young's attorney, Sharon Fast Gustafson, right, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Working while pregnant increasingly common

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Illustration on ramifications of the RFRA laws by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Indiana’s religious freedom act sets back the clock

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif. wear patriotic clothes on Cinco de Mayo, 2010. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

American flag free-speech appeal rejected by Supreme Court

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 1, 2015 file photo, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, waves the flag of Ireland as he marches beside Kerry Kennedy, third from left, during the all-inclusive St. Pat's For All parade in the Sunnyside, Queens neighborhood of New York. The parade, which embraces diversity and inclusion, is considered an alternative to the New York City's official St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Everyone but churches can use NYC schools – will the mayor do anything about it?

By Matt Hadro - Catholic News Agency

FILE - In this April 7, 2005 file photo, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus poses in Rome. Afghanistan’s highest court has ruled that the police officer convicted of murdering Niedringhaus and wounding AP correspondent Kathy Gannon almost one year ago should serve 20 years in prison, according to documents sent to the country’s attorney general on Saturday, March 28, 2015. The final sentence for former Afghan police unit commander Naqibullah was reduced from the death penalty recommended by a primary court last year. Twenty years in prison is the maximum jail sentence in Afghanistan, said Zahid Safi, a lawyer for The Associated Press who had been briefed on the decision by the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Afghan court sentences AP journalist’s killer to 20 years

Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, Peggy Young, a Virginia woman who lost her UPS job because she became pregnant, speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is giving the former UPS driver another chance to prove her claim of discrimination after the company did not offer her lighter duty when she was pregnant. The justices on Wednesday sided with former driver Peggy Young in throwing out lower court rulings that rejected Young&#8217;s lawsuit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Supreme Court ruling on pregnancy protection applauded by pro-lifers

By Adelaide Mena - Catholic News Agency

Obamacare in a death spiral illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SEAN PARNELL: Obamacare flying machine begins a death spiral

By Sean Parnell

Maryland players react after Princeton received an offensive foul call in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the second round of the NCAA tournament, Monday, March 23, 2015, in College Park, Md. Maryland won 85-70. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Maryland women end Princeton’s undefeated season, advance to Sweet 16

By Tom Schad - The Washington Times