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Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus. The campus has one of the most-diverse student bodies in the country. Texas has maintained some use of affirmative action. It also has implemented a "top 10 percent" plan granting automatic admission to top high school students based on class rank and, as a result, its enrollment of minorities has risen overall since the late 1990s. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court to revisit race for college entry

By Justin Pope - Associated Press

**FILE** With Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law still under scrutiny in state courts, a sign at a Pennsylvania driver’s license center in Butler alerts voters, who can get a qualifying state ID at the center. The voter-ID law, one of the toughest in the country, has become a lightning rod for Democrats who hate it and Republicans who support it. (Associated Press)

Judge halts Pa.’s tough new voter ID requirement

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

A woman holds a Bible while standing in silent prayer on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 1, 2012, before the justices return to the bench for another term. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

High court returns to social, political cases

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

People wait in line to enter the Supreme Court on Oct. 1, 2012, before the justices return to the bench for another term. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Supreme Court opens big term with new human rights case

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

**FILE** With Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law still under scrutiny in state courts, a sign at a Pennsylvania driver’s license center in Butler alerts voters, who can get a qualifying state ID at the center. The voter-ID law, one of the toughest in the country, has become a lightning rod for Democrats who hate it and Republicans who support it. (Associated Press)

Pa.’s tough voter-ID law awaits appellate judge’s ruling

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

** FILE ** Lawyer Alan Gura (Astrid Riecken/Special to to The Washington Times)

MILLER: Gun carry in the Obama era

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A woman holds a Bible while standing in silent prayer on the steps of the Supreme Court on Oct. 1, 2012, before the justices return to the bench for another term. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Supreme Court faces another momentous term

By Keely Brazil - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a University of Colorado Law School event on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012, in Boulder, Colo. (AP Photo/The Daily Camera, Jeremy Papasso) ** FILE **

High court yet to say if it will rule on DOMA

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistani prime minister agrees to court demand in graft case

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

President of the NAACP's state conference, J. Wyatt Mondesire, middle, speaks to people gathered to demonstrate the opposition of Pennsylvania's new voter identification law during the NAACP voter ID rally, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court justices are scheduled to hear arguments over whether a new law requiring each voter to show valid photo identification poses an unnecessary threat to the right to vote. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)

Pennsylvania justices set voter ID law review

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Fox’s Kelly gets big role for convention

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

** File ** Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf waves upon his arrival for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Islamabad on, Aug. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

Pakistani court gives PM more time to obey order

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation. (Associated Press)

Embracers of the Constitution are baffled by what’s really in it

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Police escort protesters from the room Aug. 17, 2012, after disrupting Kris Kobach, Secretary of State from Kansas, as he addressed the Commission at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Immigration Briefing in Birmingham, Ala. (Associated Press/Southern Poverty Law Center, Butch Dill)

Ala. court  delivers  split  decision  on immigration law

By Jay Reeves - Associated Press

Hundreds of demonstrators descend on the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, to protest a tough new voter ID law. (AP Photo/The Harrisburg Patriot-News, John C. Whitehead)

Judge won’t halt Pa. voter identification law

By Marc Levy - Associated Press

Making $11,000 a year, but excluded from Medicaid

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and KELLI KENNEDY - Associated Press

Some below poverty line don’t qualify for Medicaid

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and KELLI KENNEDY - Associated Press

Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and KELLI KENNEDY - Associated Press

Sandra Pico, 52, holds her medications July 26, 2012, at her home in North Miami Beach, Fla. Pico makes about $15,000 a year working about 20 hours a week as a home health aide — a bit too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough that she can afford private insurance. (Associated Press)

Anti-Medicaid states: Earning $11,000 is too much

By Carla K. Johnson and Kelli Kennedy - Associated Press

Obama backs college race factor

By Jesse J. Holland - Associated Press