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This image provided by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles shows the design of a proposed Sons of Confederate Veterans license plate. The Supreme Court on March 23, 2015, will weigh a free-speech challenge to Texas’ decision to refuse to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag. Specialty plates are big business in Texas, where drivers spent $17.6 million last year to choose from among more than 350 messages the state allows on the plates. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Motor Vehicles)

Justices struggle with free speech case over license plates

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington in this Oct. 3, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Sharp partisan divide in Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage case

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Barry Roux, defense lawyer for Oscar Pistorius, reacts in the High Court in Johannesburg Friday, March 13, 2015. Pistorius’ lawyers failed in their attempt to stop prosecutors from appealing the double-amputee athlete’s negligent killing conviction and again seeking a murder verdict against him for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. (AP Photo/Kim Ludbrook, Pool.)

Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers fail in attempt to stop appeal

Associated Press

Illustration on Federal court incursions on individual liberties by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JAMES BOVARD: On Obamacare justices fret over state rights, ignore individual rights

By James Bovard

"We do not seek to impose our religious beliefs on others. We simply ask that the government not impose its values on the university when those values conflict with our religious teachings. We have engaged in conversations to find a resolution that respects the consciences of all, and we will continue to do so." - The Rev. John I. Jenkins, Notre Dame's president, May 21, 2012. (Associated Press)

Religious freedom, contraceptive rules get new hearing as Supreme Court sends Notre Dame case back

By Mark A. Kellner - Deseret News

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell speaks in Washington on July 28, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Federal health insurance aid in doubt for nearly 8M

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Kevin Vineys - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s at-will law changes unconstitutional

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Contraceptive pills are shown in this undated file photo. On Feb. 7, 2017, the Parsemus Foundation announced it had conducted a successful animal trial of an injectable male contraceptive gel and that it hoped to begin human trials in the coming year. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)

Supreme Court to lower court: Reconsider Obamacare birth control mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks at the White House in Washington on March 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obamacare premiums to spike, but law is cheaper than expected

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell departs a governors only luncheon after giving an address during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington on Feb. 22, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Sylvia Mathews Burwell: Supreme Court ruling against Obamacare would harm millions

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Joe Biden pauses while addressing the Human Rights Campaign Spring Equity Convention in Washington, Friday, March 6, 2015. Biden said the same human rights that African Americans fought for in Selma, Alabama, are at stake for gay rights activists today. Biden is drawing parallels between the civil rights and gay rights movements in a speech to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Joe Biden: Bigots ‘an incredibly smaller and smaller minority’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

PETER SPRIGG: Americans want states to define marriage

By Peter Sprigg

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015. The Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt health care premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obamacare on life support as Supreme Court splits on law’s fate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 25, 2012, file photo, shows the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court, during the week of March 2, 2015, hears a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. If successful, the lawsuit would cripple Obama's prized domestic achievement, a program that has brought the U.S. as close as it has ever come to universal health care. The Affordable Care Act passed Congress in 2010 without a single Republican vote in favor. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GAYLE TROTTER: President Obama, Chief Justice Roberts and the Constitutional Do-Over

By Gayle Trotter

FILE - This Jan. 25, 2012, file photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington. A Supreme Court case over the legality of federal subsidies that help millions of Americans afford health coverage under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law poses risks to both political parties. Republicans and conservatives who brought the case say many of those subsidies are illegal. Should they win, the states whose residents would be hurt are disproportionately represented by Republicans in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obamacare Supreme Court partisan battle lines drawn

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Attorney Paul Clement speaks to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Washington in this March 25, 2014, file photo. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Arizona Republicans on March 2, 2015, who want to take away a voter-approved commission’s power to draw the state’s congressional district boundaries. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

High court case threatens independent electoral map drawers

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press