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Supreme Court considers Obama health care overhaul
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The Supreme Court plunged into a three-day debate on the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system Monday.
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Rick Santorum calls Obama health care law 'unconstitutional'
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"There's one candidate who's uniquely disqualified to make the case. That's the reason I'm here and he's not," GOP candidate Rick Santorum told reporters outside the Supreme Court as protesters behind him chanted, "Health care is a right."
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Supreme Court to address Obama health care overhaul
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Monday, the nine justices will hear arguments on the crux of the legal challenge that focuses on the requirement that most Americans buy health insurance, or face fines if they do not.
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George Mason students get to handle Supreme Court case
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George Mason University law student Matthew Long still has three months of schoolwork before graduation, but this week he and two classmates had a case before the Supreme Court.
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Both sides file appeals over fee award in DC gun case
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The District of Columbia and a man who sued the city over its gun laws are both appealing a judge's award of attorneys' fees in the historic case that reached the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court looks at affirmative action in University of Texas case
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The Supreme Court is now looking at an affirmative action in a case related to race and university admissions--the case is brought by a white student denied a spot at the flagship campus of the University of Texas.
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Stephen Breyer robbed on vacation
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Breyer, wife Joanna and guests were confronted by the robber Thursday in the home Breyer owns on the Caribbean island of Nevis.
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GPS tracking of suspects requires search warrant, Supreme Court rules
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must get a search warrant before using GPS technology to track criminal suspects.
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Scalia: Don't like 'Citizens United'? Turn off your TV
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U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has a simple solution for people who don't like all the political advertisements unleashed by the court's decision two years ago that ended limits on corporate contributions in political campaigns - change the channel or turn off the TV.
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Christopher Van Hollen, John Sarbanes push to overturn Citizens United
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Maryland's Chris Van Hollen and John Sarbanes are pushing to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United case.
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14 arrested at Supreme Court
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Those who were arrested will likely be charged with illegally demonstrating at the Supreme Court.
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Religious workers can't sue for job discrimination, Supreme Court rules
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The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that religious workers can't sue for job discrimination.
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Lindsay Lohan: Elizabeth Taylor role in her future?
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Daybreak Daily’s afternoon meeting with the pop-culture world’s Board of Directors finds a star-turned-starlet-turned-something, Supreme doings in D.C., other things, as well as the mystery music video.
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D.C. ordered to pay $1 million in historic gun case
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After the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in 2008, the city rewrote its gun laws and for the first time in more than 30 years permitted handgun ownership.
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Winner of U.S. Supreme Court landmark gay rights case dies
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The Texas man whose case led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that granted privacy rights to gay men and lesbians has died at age 68.
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High court to look at state immigration laws
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on Arizona's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants, setting the stage for an election-year decision on an issue that is already shaping presidential politics.
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Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas asked to sit out health care case
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Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice Clarence Thomas who should sit it out.
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Justices unlikely to have last word on health care
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The weight of a Supreme Court decision isn't likely to settle the contentious debate over health care in America.
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