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Missionary Ronald Brock lets his anti-gay marriage views be known Wednesday outside the Supreme Court. The vast majority of people on hand, however, supported gay rights. (Annie Z. Yu/The Washington Times)

Gay-rights supporters celebrate ruling while opponents lie low

By Annie Z. Yu - The Washington Times

President Obama pauses during a speech on climate change at Georgetown University on June 25, 2013, in Washington. (Associated Press)

Obama administration has lost two-thirds of Supreme Court cases

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration: Abortion by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Free speech and abortion

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Illustration: Voting by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Restoring rights

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** FILE ** Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag at dawn in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. In two separate and significant victories for gay rights, the high court struck down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Associated Press)

Traditional-marriage supporters vow to fight on for DOMA, California Prop 8

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Supporters of gay marriage embrace outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 26, 2013, after the court cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban. (Associated Press)

Gay couples can immigrate under DOMA ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama speaks May 13, 2013, during a news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

Obama: Supreme Court ruling on voting rights a ‘setback’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** The Supreme Court in Washington is seen June 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court says Voting Rights Act of 1965 is no longer relevant

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (Associated Press)

Democratic lawmaker hits justice as ‘Uncle Thomas’

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

"We have made some technical fixes and clarifying edits to the legislative language, but that's it. This is a routine step."

As Democrats call on Congress to fix Voting Rights Act, GOP goes quiet

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** This photo shows the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington on Oct. 8, 2010. Seated from left to right are: Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr., and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. (Associated Press)

Court sends affirmative action case back to lower courts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Visitors walk past the Supreme Court in Washington on Saturday, March 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court to rule on Obama recess appointments

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Amending the Constitution

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Illustration: Go to jail by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: No right to silence

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**FILE** In this photo from July 27, 2011, Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, greets a supporter at a tea party rally on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

Sen. Mike Lee: Chief Justice John Roberts OK’d Obamacare on ‘campaign of intimidation’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court are (clockwise from upper left) Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony M. Kennedy; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Supreme Court: Federal law trumps Arizona in voter registration battle

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration: DNA locked away by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Genes and DNA

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Illustration: Race and Justice by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Discrimination by another name

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Patents awarded to Myriad Genetics Inc., a Utah firm that isolated the location and sequence of what's known as the BRCA gene, were thrown out Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that human genes are "a product of nature." (Associated Press)

Supreme Court: Companies cannot obtain patents for human genes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court are (clockwise from upper left) Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony M. Kennedy; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Supreme Court says companies cannot patent human genes

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times