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How Is This for Affordable Health Care? Question the Health and Human Services' New $20 Million PR Firm Hired to Tout Obamacare

Wendy N. Powell | Posted 05.24.2012

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This impending PR campaign is irresponsible when there is a Supreme Court decision expected in the not-too-distant future that may affect the very existence of the Affordable Health Care Act.

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Laughable Online Censorship Attempt Won't Last a New York Minute

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.23.2012

Republicans in the New York state government are attempting to pass a law that would ban anonymous comments online. Even if they actually passed the act, once it arrived in a federal court it would be tossed out in a "New York minute" (as they say).

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Will SCOTUS Abandon Gitmo?

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 05.23.2012

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The Supreme Court is expected to decide as soon as Thursday whether it will hear the Latif v. Obama and possibly restore a right to meaningful judicial review for detainees imprisoned in the name of the "war on terror."

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Scalia Accused Of Turning Into Advocate Against Obama

Posted 05.15.2012

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Scalia's tone this year, particularly in cases involving the Obama administration, is raising new criticism over the temperament of a justice who has ...

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BibliFact Roundup #3: Biblical Aliens, SB 1070 And A Jericho March

Timothy Beal | Posted 04.30.2012

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Hospitality is not at the margins of Scripture. It is a central theme. In fact, the Hebrew word for "alien" or "stranger" appears 92 times in the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

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Supreme Court Soaks Up The Limelight

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 04.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court, suddenly at the heart of presidential politics, is preparing what could be blockbuster rulings on health care an...

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American 'Enemy Combatant' Seeks To Sue Rumsfeld For Torture -- Again

AP | MEG KINNARD | Posted 04.23.2012

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A man held for years as an "enemy combatant" is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a lawsuit accusing former Defense Secreta...

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Supreme Court Upholds Stay Of Execution For Convicted Killer

AP | Posted 04.13.2012

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OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a stay of execution for a convicted Oklahoma killer who says he is insane and ineligible for t...

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Supreme Court OKs Suspicionless Strip Searches For New Jail Inmates

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 04.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday decided that jails may perform suspicionless strip searches on new inmates regardless of the gravity of thei...

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Does 5-4 Really Matter?

Abby Huntsman | Posted 04.01.2012

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No one can help but to speculate on how a 5-4 verdict against the law might impact the general election. From my perspective, I'll be relieved that we can now remove the popular and overused phrase "Repeal Obamacare" from the GOP vernacular.

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Retrograde SCOTUS

Cody Pomeranz | Posted 04.03.2012

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These justices have implied that there is a need for a limiting principle, that the Constitution requires it. This is not the case.

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Congress Gets Rough Treatment At Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court left little doubt during last week's marathon arguments over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that i...

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Obama Care Bears & Walruses

Will Durst | Posted 03.30.2012

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Due to the rarified air of the highest court in the land, the arguments were solemn, dignified and incisive. "Obamacare Sucks!" "Does not." "Does So." "Does Not." Like that, only in elevated lawyer language.

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Michele Bachmann: People 'Roll The Dice' On Insurance

The Huffington Post | Anna Staver | Posted 03.30.2012

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Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) said that some uninsured Americans choose "to roll the dice" and not to buy insurance, according to an interview with...

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2 Justices Could Be Key In Health Care Law Case

AP | CONNIE CASS | Posted 05.28.2012

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WASHINGTON — The fate of President Barack Obama's health care law appears to rest precariously in the hands of two justices. After three days o...

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Looks Like the Cynics Were Right About the Supreme Court

Larry Womack | Posted 05.27.2012

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No matter how the Supreme Court rules on health reform, one thing is certain: the court is now viewed largely as a suspect partisan institution alarmingly contented with its own impropriety.

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Supreme Court Throws Fate Of Health Care Law Into Question

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 05.27.2012

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WASHINGTON — The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative...

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Can a Repeal of Obamacare Actually Help Obama in November?

Paul Heroux | Posted 05.26.2012

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There may be no other issue that will bring out voters quite like Obamacare. A repeal may actually have the perverse effect of improving Obama's odds at re-election.

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What's at Stake -- No, Who's at Stake in the Great Supreme Court Case?

Jennifer Ng’andu | Posted 05.22.2012

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For or against it, hundreds of people will line up on the steps to try and secure one of the limited seats in the Court reserved for the public. And for good reason: The Supreme Court's decision will have major bearing on the health care experiences of Americans for generations to come.

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High Stakes For Latinos Amid Record Breaking Hearing

Posted 03.22.2012

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As the health care debate approaches, a record has fallen amid the constant political bickering and impending oral arguments for and against the Patie...

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Supreme Court Rejects Louisiana On Undocumented Immigrants Claim

AP | Posted 05.19.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has turned down Louisiana's bid to recover the congressional seat taken from the state as a result of the 2010 Ce...

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Attacks on Media Coverage of Citizens United's Pivotal Role in Rise of Super PACs Are Misguided and Wrong

Fred Wertheimer | Posted 05.01.2012

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On Jan. 21, 2010, the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case struck down the ban on corporate spending in federal elections and opened Pandora's Bo...

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Rise Up Corporations! Don't Hide Behind Super PACs! Democracy Belongs To You!

Murray Hill Inc. | Posted 04.28.2012

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Instead of hiding behind Super PACs and campaign committees, why aren't corporations taking the logical next step after Citizens United and running for office themselves?

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Supreme Court Rules On Prisoner Miranda Rights

AP | By JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 04.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Tuesday investigators don't have to read Miranda rights to inmates during jailhouse interrogations about crimes u...

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Supreme Court Justice Robbed

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.14.2012

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was robbed at knifepoint last Thursday at his family’s vacation home on the Caribbean island of Nevis, the Asso...

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