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The end may be coming for Roe v. Wade
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Tribune News Service 
Sep 09, 2021
Consider this an elegy for Roe v. Wade, a lamentation for the impending death of a law that has enabled millions of American women over the past half-...
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Abortion rises as major election issue
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JAY AMBROSE Tribune News Service 
Sep 08, 2021
After President Joe Biden’s tragic spectacle of administrative incompetence, pundits said Afghanistan was going to be the chief issue in the midterm e...
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Finding common ground
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KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ 
Jul 07, 2021
Sharonell Fulton and Toni Simms-Busch should be household names. Fulton and Simms-Busch were the plaintiffs in a recent foster-care and religious-libe...
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Bill Cosby might be home, but he isn’t home free
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ROBIN ABCARIAN Tribune News Service 
Jul 02, 2021
Bill Cosby, who is accused of drugging and assaulting dozens of women over many decades, walked out of a maximum-security prison in Pennsylvania on We...
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Moving ahead on health care
Local Columnists, Nation World
Jun 21, 2021
The Supreme Court Thursday let Obamacare cheat death for the third time, beating back a challenge from states seeking to knock down the entire Jenga t...
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Supreme Court hits and misses
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May 19, 2021
On Monday the Supreme Court bolstered the Fourth Amendment’s ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” ruling that police officers may not enter a ...
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Kids, school and online posts
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May 01, 2021
In a case that began with a teenager’s Snapchat rant against her cheerleading squad, the Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether and when a scho...
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Someday, courts will rule on social media
Local Columnists, Nation World
BYRON YORK 
Apr 08, 2021
It started as one of those ridiculous controversies of the Trump era. In May and June 2017, then-President Donald Trump blocked a few Twitter trolls w...
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A heartbeat is life
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CYNTHIA M. ALLEN Tribune News Service 
Apr 06, 2021
How Texas fetal heartbeat bill advances cause — perhaps all the way to Supreme Court For millions of parents the world over, the image of a tiny heart...
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Politics of election changes
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SUSAN SHELLEY Tribune News Service 
Feb 16, 2021
As the House impeachment managers made their case that former President Donald Trump made blatantly false statements about a stolen election for the p...
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Supreme Court declines to hear Sheldon Silver appeal
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STEPHEN REX BROWN New York Daily News 
Jan 25, 2021
NEW YORK (TNS) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s appeal of a 6 1/2-year corruption sentence. Si...
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The glory of Trump’s judges
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RICH LOWRY 
Dec 12, 2020
One of President Donald Trump’s foremost achievements has been to erect a formidable obstacle to his own post-election legal challenges. The federal j...
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Is Google dam about to burst?
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NICHOLAS L. WADDY Special to Olean Times Herald 
Oct 26, 2020
Most people know that Google’s original motto was: “Don’t be evil.” Cute, right? Perhaps a more fitting summary of the company’s philosophy would have...
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Recusal woud be up to Barrett herself
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ANN McFEATTERS, Tribune News Service 
Oct 19, 2020
If the 2020 presidential election goes to the Supreme Court, as happened just 20 years ago, whether Amy Coney Barrett helps Donald Trump get a second ...
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ACB wasn’t nominated for healthcare czar
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 14, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett has accomplished many things in her career. Becoming an authority or a policy maker on healthcare isn’t one of them. At Notre Dame, ...
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