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People who repeatedly deny services in public accommodations to transgender people could face up to a $50,000 civil penalty under the state's gender identity law, an opponent of the law told a radio talk show host. Andrew Beckwith, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, appeared on the
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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey and Republican challenger Jay McMahon clashed on guns, the state's gender-identity law, the president's travel ban, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and whether the criminal justice system is racist during a debate Wednesday. Healey, a Democrat finishing her first
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I did not support the nomination of Neil Gorsuch by President Donald Trump to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court in order to fill the vacancy caused by the death of former associate justice Antonin Scalia. What prevented me from supporting Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court
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Five United States senators hold the result of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the United States Supreme Court in their hands. Three are Republicans. Two are Democrats. They are the only fence-sitters left. Kavanaugh has 48 senators in his corner, with 47 opposed. He needs any two of the
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Marty Walsh, mayor of Boston, spoke before a rally against Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Boston City Hall Plaza on the morning of Monday, October 1, 2018, before a scheduled appearance by U.S. Senator Jeff Flake at a separate event there. Below is a transcript of his remarks, taken from
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U.S. Senator Jeff Flake was just doing his job when he called for a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into accusations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last week but "has an opportunity to do something really special" if he votes against Kavanaugh on the
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One way to look at the situation of Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court nominee awaiting a Senate vote, is as only the latest episode in the long story of Griswold v. Connecticut. In other words, it's a story about Yale Law School.
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By Craig Sandler State House News Service (Review and analysis of the week in state government) Nothing could match the surrealism of the scene in Washington this week, but the dynamic around this state's governor's race has its own strange feel — and poll numbers early this
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