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Supreme Court considers John Steinbeck and ‘Of Mice and Men’
The state courts in Texas apply a test named for clumsy giant Lennie Small in "Of Mice and Men" to determine whether a convict is mentally fit for capital punishment.
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Deluge of disrespect greets Clarence Thomas for 25th anniversary on SCOTUS
Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court 25 years ago this week, yet Thomas-derangement has not abated with time.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg calls Kaepernick protest ‘dumb and disrespectful’
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's refusal to observe the national anthem "dumb and disrespectful" in an interview with Katie Couric of Yahoo News.
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Syrian Christian leader: MidEast Christians on verge of annihilation
A senior Catholic churchman in the Middle East, told an audience in Toronto that the Christian community in the Levant is on the verge of extinction.
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Supreme Court blocks trans student from using boys bathrooms
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order requiring the Gloucester County School District to allow a transgender student to use the bathroom of his choice. Gavin Grimm, 17, was born female but identifies as male. He sought to begin using the boys bathroom at Gloucester High
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The federal government is making fishermen pay for on-board babysitters
Fishermen have had a tough go of it against the federal government in the last year.
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The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling, explained
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy salvaged the University of Texas at Austin's (UT) race-conscious admissions policy in Fisher v. University of Texas Thursday, while divulging little about the future of affirmative action as a general constitutional question.