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Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Voting Rights Act in Washington in July, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Lawmakers move to restore Voting Rights Act

By HENRY C. JACKSON - Associated Press

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Big donors poised to give more if Supreme Court strikes limits

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

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)

Justices doubtful on Mass abortion buffer zone law

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Pro-choice demonstrators (left) watch as a group of anti-abortion demonstrators pray on the steps of the Supreme Court when the court heard arguments about a protest-free zone outside Massachusetts abortion clinics. The high court struck down the law in 2014. (Associated Press)

Justices’ questions appear unsympathetic to abortion clinic ‘buffer zone’ law

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

South Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson gives his annual State of the Judiciary speech to a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Pierre, S.D. Gilbertson says the court system is doing its part to overhaul South Daktoa's criminal justice system. (AP Photo/Chet Brokaw)

SD chief justice says courts working on reform law

By CHET BROKAW - Associated Press

Medical marijuana supporters claim victory

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Full Senate to vote on latest AG election proposal

By ERIK SCHELZIG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, file photo, Gay Phillips, left, her partner Sue Barton, along with Mary Bishop and her partner Sharon Baldwin, right, toast during a celebration at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, in Tulsa, Okla., after a federal judge struck down Oklahoma's gay marriage ban. But the judge headed off any rush to the altar by setting aside his order while state and local officials complete an appeal. In less than a month, two federal judges have struck down state bans on gay marriage for the same reason, concluding that they violate the Constitution’s promise of equal treatment under the law. Although that idea has been the heart of the gay marriage debate for years, the decisions in deeply conservative Oklahoma and Utah offer new momentum for litigants pressing the same argument in dozens of other cases across the country. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, James Gibbard, File)

Gay marriage rulings in Okla., Utah build momentum

By SEAN MURPHY and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Pa. court widens AP open-records victory

By PETER JACKSON - Associated Press

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HENTOFF: How we will be a self-governing republic again

By Nat Hentoff

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Killing under guise of freedom

By our readers

Inslee calls for $200 million more for education

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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)

EDITORIAL: Mystery at the Supreme Court

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 file photo shows Hamilton County Judge Tracie Hunter in Blue Ash, Ohio. Hunter, an Ohio juvenile court judge,was indicted Friday, Jan. 10, 2014 on eight felony charges, including tampering with evidence, theft in office and forgery. (AP Photo/The Cincinnati Enquirer, Amanda Rossman, File) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES

Credit card misuse charge added against Ohio judge

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2013, file photo, Heather, left, and Jax Collins of West Jordan join hundreds of other same-sex couples descending on county clerk offices around the state of Utah including the Salt Lake County office to request marriage licenses. The Supreme Court on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, put same-sex marriages on hold in Utah, at least while a federal appeals court more fully considers the issue. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Francisco Kjolseth, File)

RUSE: Congress should protect states’ right to define marriage

By Cathy Cleaver Ruse

Do-over ordered in challenge of tenure law

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Conn. court: Boy Scouts not liable in abuse case

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

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)

Court could limit president’s recess appointments

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

"I'm hoping the living Constitution will die." - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Supreme Court Justices skeptical of Obama’s end run around Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** A statue representing women's empowerment stands in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 23, 2011. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court won’t revive Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban

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