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State AG Candidates Spar Over Issue Of Abortion

NY1 | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the backing of pro-choice advocates, candidate for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman continued Saturday to use abortion as a wedge issue in his ...

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DOJ, Arizona Discuss Immigration Law: No Lawsuit Planned

AP | PAUL DAVENPORT and PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

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PHOENIX — Justice Department officials told Arizona's attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious ...

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New Idaho Law: AG Must Sue Federal Government If Health Care Reform Bill Passes

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal g...

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Holder's Baby Step On Medical Marijuana

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.

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Coakley Wins Democratic Race For Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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BOSTON — The relatively quiet campaign to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat was matched by equally light turnout Tuesday as voters p...

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Reno: Holder's "Indubitably" Qualified, Shouldn't Be Faulted For Pardons

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Attorney General Janet Reno said on Wednesday that her one-time deputy, Eric Holder, was "indubitably" qualified to assume the AG role in an Ob...

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