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  • Supreme Court Showdown

    By on December 11, 2012

    Advocates have been left energized but wary following the Supreme Court's Dec. 7 announcement that it will weigh in on a pair of cases regarding...

  • Smirking and Magical Thinking

    By on October 11, 2012

    One of the wonders of our age is the persistence of ''Birthers'' and other True Believers who insist that Barack Obama is an Islamist terrorist...

  • Justice for All

    By on July 6, 2011

    On March 26, 2003, Paul Smith argued to the United States Supreme Court that the justices should declare sodomy laws unconstitutional under the U.S. Constitution...

  • Signing Statements

    By on June 25, 2010

    ''Requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage, without which democracy is doomed.'' Justice Antonin Scalia, siding with gay-rights...

  • Hostile Court

    By on April 28, 2010

    Lawyers attempting to keep secret the names of those who signed the petition to put Washington's domestic partnership referendum on the ballot fought an uphill...

  • A Supreme Victory

    By on July 2, 2003

    One down, two to go. Wherever one stands on last week's Supreme Court decision striking down sodomy laws -- with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's moving...