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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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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.
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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.
Ann / Feministing:
"Today's decision is alarming." — Justice Ginsburg penned a moving dissent from today's Supreme Court opinion upholding the Federal Abortion Ban. Some highlights: … She goes on to note that the court's previous ruling, in Stenberg v. Carhart, struck down a "partial-birth" abortion ban because it lacked a health exception.
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION BAN UPHELD, BUT ON NARROW GROUND: The opinions are here.
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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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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.
ABCNEWS:
VT Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit — Harassed Two Female Students; Concerns He Was Suicidal — A Virginia court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and potentially dangerous. Then the state let him go.
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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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James Fallows:Virginia Tech shooting: one American woman terrifies China
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David B. Kopel / Wall Street Journal:'Gun-Free Zones' — The bucolic campus of Virginia Tech …
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Dinesh D'Souza / News Bloggers Blog:Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:"People don't stop killers. People with guns do"
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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.
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 …
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.
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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Ian / Hot Air:
Video: Eisner says it's time to get the public "emotional" about gun control — Appeals to reason are so passe. Or so suggested the former Disney CEO during his appearance this afternoon on CNBC's "Power Lunch," in which he called explicitly for the abolition of handguns in America.
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Washington Post:
Student Wrote About Death and Spoke in Whispers, But No One Imagined What Cho Seung Hui Would Do — They met across the professor's desk. One on one. The chairman of the English department and the silent, brooding student who never took his sunglasses off.
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