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FILE - In this July 7, 2010 file photo, media billionaire Barry Diller attends the annual Allen &amp; Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. Diller is the financial backer of Aereo Inc., an Internet startup company that gives subscribers access to television programs on their laptop computers, smartphones and other portable devices. Broadcasters say Aereo is essentially stealing their programming by taking free television signals from the airwaves and sending them over the Internet without paying redistribution fees. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Tuesday, April 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Internet TV case: Justices skeptical, concerned

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

University of Michigan student Ebrie Benton, left, demonstrates outside the Federal courthouse, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in Cincinnati, where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals was hearing oral arguments in their review of their ruling last summer that Proposal 2, the ban on affirmative action in Michigan, is unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Supreme Court upholds Michigan affirmative action ban

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The U.S. Supreme Court, December 2013. (The Washington Times/Emily Miller)

Ministry of Truth: SCOTUS skeptical of law to police campaign ‘lies’

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Shelton Stroman, left, and partner Christopher Inniss, right, watch television at home with their son Jonathan, 9, Thursday, April 17, 2014, in Snellville, Ga. A gay rights group on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, filed a federal lawsuit in Atlanta challenging the state of Georgia’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages. Georgia voters in 2004 overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage in 2004. The ban was challenged in courts by gay rights groups who challenged the wording of the ballot question, but the state Supreme Court ultimately ruled the vote was valid in 2006. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Lawsuit challenging Ga. gay marriage ban filed

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 30, 2012, file photo, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens speaks at a lecture presented by the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark. In the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings that left 20 first-graders and six educators dead, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens began thinking about ways to prevent a repeat. The result is Stevens' new book, his second since retiring from the court at age 90, in which he calls for no fewer than six changes to the Constitution, of which two are directly related to guns. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Retired justice proposes changes to Constitution

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaking at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The justices said in a 6-2 ruling that Michigan voters had the right to change their state constitution to prohibit public colleges and universities from taking account of race in admissions decisions. The justices said that a lower federal court was wrong to set aside the change as discriminatory. In dissent, Sotomayor said the decision tramples on the rights of minorities, even though the amendment was adopted democratically. “But without checks, democratically approved legislation can oppress minority groups,” said Sotomayor, who read her dissent aloud in the courtroom Tuesday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Michigan affirmative ban is OK, Supreme Court says

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

High court to hear legislator election case

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Supreme Court upholds Michigan’s ban on affirmative action in college admissions

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South Carolina editorial roundup

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FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Clayton Lockett. Lockett is one of is one of two Oklahoma death row inmates scheduled to be executed who have sued state corrections officials to obtain details about the lethal drugs that will be used to execute them, including their source. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)

Stay cancels Oklahoma death row inmate’s execution

By TIM TALLEY - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Dec. 13, 2013, file photo, the Western Wall, right, and the gilded Dome of the Rock, among the holiest sites for Jews and Muslims, are covered in snow. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Supreme Court to decide if passports can say ‘Jerusalem, Israel’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Columnist Ernest Istook says Congress, on its own, has clear authority to arrest and jail former IRS official Lois Lerner until she testifies. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: Congress on its own can arrest and jail Lois Lerner until she testifies on IRS scandal

By Ernest Istook

Court upholds dismissal of corruption case

By BARRY MASSEY - Associated Press

Arizona court rules on DUI law for marijuana users

By BRIAN SKOLOFF - Associated Press

FILE - This March 29, 2010 file photo shows Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Ohio in Cincinnati. Negative campaigning and mudslinging may be a fact of life in American politics, but can false accusations made in the heat of an election be punished as a crime? That debate makes its way to the Supreme Court next week as the justices consider a challenge to a controversial Ohio law that bars false statements about political candidates during a campaign. The case began during the 2010 election, when the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-abortion group, planned to launch a billboard campaign accusing then-Democratic Driehaus of supporting taxpayer-funded abortion because he backed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)

EDITORIAL: Ohio’s political campaign truth squad goes to court

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

High court will hear case of mistaken traffic stop

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ignoring the Ninth Amendment

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Court urges rewrite of child pornography law

By BARRY MASSEY - Associated Press

FILE - This July 7, 2010 file photo shows Barry Diller at the annual Allen &amp; Co. Media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho. Thirty years after failing to persuade the Supreme Court of the threat posed by home video recordings, big media companies are back at the high court to try to rein in another technological innovation that they say threatens their financial well-being. The battle has moved out of viewers’ living rooms, where Americans once marveled at their ability to pop a cassette into a recorder and capture their favorite programs or the game they wouldn’t be home to see. Now the entertainment conglomerates that own U.S. television networks are waging a legal fight, with Supreme Court argument on Tuesday, against a start-up business that uses Internet-based technology to give subscribers the ability to watch programs anywhere they can take portable devices. The source of the companies’ worry is Aereo Inc., which takes free television signals from the airwaves and sends them over the Internet to paying subscribers in 11 cities. Aereo, backed by media billionaire Barry Diller, has plans to more than double that total. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Court to hear dispute over Internet TV broadcasts

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

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