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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Court Backs Ban on Abortion Procedure — WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long- awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench. — The 5-4 ruling said the Partial …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court upholds federal abortion ban — Dividing 5-4, the Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a sweeping — and only barely qualified — victory to the federal government and to other opponents of abortion, upholding the 2003 law that banned what are often called "partial-birth abortions."
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Washington Post:
Court Backs Ban on Late-Term Abortion Procedure — The Supreme Court today narrowly upheld a nationwide ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure, voting for the first time to restrict abortion rights and handing a major victory to President Bush and his social conservative allies.
Bill Mears / CNN:
Justices uphold ban on abortion procedure … WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a law that banned a type of late-term abortion, a ruling that could portend enormous social, legal and political implications for the divisive issue. — The sharply divided 5-4 ruling could prove historic.
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN UPHELD, BUT ON NARROW GROUND: The opinions are here.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:Breaking: Supreme Court upholds federal ban on partial-birth …
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:The Profound Effects of Justice O'Connor's Retirement
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Glenn Reynolds / NY Daily News:
People don't stop killers. People with guns do — On Monday, as the news of the Virginia Tech shootings was unfolding, I went into my advanced constitutional law seminar to find one of my students upset. My student, Tara Wyllie, has a permit to carry a gun in Tennessee, but she isn't allowed to have a weapon on campus.
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Jules Crittenden:
Killer Reax — People with guns stop killers." — Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom: "Nanny-Statism — in its efforts to protect — succeeds only in infantilizing the culture." — Harry Reid, rare moment of clarity, warns against a rush to gun control.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
In Praise of Insensitive Reporters — WE'D HATE THEM EVEN MORE IF THEY DIDN'T OVERCOVER THE VT STORY. — Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui — Everybody is too busy right now consuming the Virginia Tech slaughter coverage to accuse the press of going overboard.
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New York Times:
Two-Hour Delay Is Linked to Bad Lead — The police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old student, as the killer of 32 people in the shooting rampage at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, releasing new information on Tuesday about the troubled mind of a young man few people on campus knew.
Michael J.W. Stickings / The Reaction:
Michelle Malkin is a dangerous idiot — I can barely bring myself to post on this, mostly because I don't want to waste my time thinking about the mad, mad ravings of Michelle Malkin, but here goes: — As Heraclitus mentioned earlier, some conservatives are already responding …
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Democratic Race Tightens as Views of Clinton Become More Negative — Forty-five percent favorable rating one of lowest ever for Clinton — PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans have an unfavorable image of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A New Threat In Iraq — While the Bush administration struggles to stabilize Baghdad, a major new threat is emerging in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq. If it isn't defused, this crisis could further erode U.S. goals in Iraq — drawing foreign military intervention …
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Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation blogs:
Who Placed a Secret Hold on Sunlight? — Yet again an anonymous Senator has placed a secret hold on legislation that would increase transparency. This time a secret hold has been placed on a bill, S. 223, that would mandate that Senators file their campaign finance reports electronically.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Poll reveals most negative assessment of Iraq war yet — In the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, taken April 10-12, 69 percent of Americans say things are going badly for the United States in Iraq. That's the most negative assessment yet recorded, up from 54 percent …
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Killer's parents hospitalised 'with shock' — The parents of mass killer Cho Seung-hi were hospitalised with shock and had not attempted suicide, contrary to reports in Korean media. — Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that Cho's parents, who ran a dry cleaning shop in Centreville …
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