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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said it was his duty to defend laws that said the state recognized marriages only of a man and a woman. But whether such laws are constitutional, he said, is becoming "one of the great legal and civil rights issues of our day" and "must be answered by our courts."

Immigrants reach out, touch home through long-distance phone shops

even as crime rates fall.

Georgians are paying more in state taxes on cigarettes and cigars, and the state is planning to spend less to get them to stop smoking.

typically because they can't afford the $680 application fee, don't realize the fee can be waived

IF ENOUGH CITIES BAN CHEAP GUNS, MAYBE THE LEGISLATURE WILL LISTEN

t issue is the date of Muhammad's formal "arrest" on capital murder charges in Fairfax -- part of numerous charges filed against Muhammad in the October 2002 Washington area sniper slayings. Under Virginia law, a jailed defendant must be tried within five months of being arrested.

The court ruled in November that same-sex couples have a right to marry in the state. The court gave the Legislature six months to pass a law that complies with the ruling.

Arapahoe County prosecutors have asked the Supreme Court to reverse District Judge Stanley Brinkley's order that they disclose the residential addresses of the law enforcement officers who may testify in the sentencing phase of the death penalty case against Alejandro Perez, 29.

The bill, which would impose fines and criminal penalties on employers who hired illegal aliens, has aroused intense concern among Hispanic groups, labor unions, civil libertarians, business organizations and farmers dependent on foreign workers.

Some feel wounded by Salazar gun vote Senator backs bill to limit suits against gunmakers

LIEBERMAN COUNTERS PRO-GUN LOBBY

We say peaceful protests because the violence and destruction committed by small numbers of protesters -- vandals, really -- in Oakland and other cities have no political legitimacy.

State's top court won't remove Nichols judge

Suit on Partnership Benefits

Evans is on death row for the April 28, 1983, slayings of David Scott Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy, who were motel clerks in Pikesville.

Three veteran activists are staging a hunger strike in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception this week,

to allow more time to review claims the condemned inmate is mentally retarded and insane.

whose husband was killed and son wounded by a deranged gunman on the Long Island Rail Road.

PRESIDENT UNVEILS GUN BUYBACK PLAN

High noon at the high court

Freer said she plans to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. "I am disappointed by the narrow view of the court," Freer said, "in that by upholding the lower court's decision their interpretation prevents me from speaking or visiting with my children, and curiously has the power over who I can live with and be a parent [to].

MAN WHO KILLED BOY ASKS HOLDEN TO REDUCE SENTENCE

The Brown campaign is bolstering the charge with excerpts from news stories through the years. Garamendi is never quoted directly as opposing the death penalty. But the politician portrayed in the articles is considerably less single-minded about capital punishment than the candidate who has been running for governor these last few months.

SO WHY DOES AGRICULTURE OVERSEE GUN PERMITS?

A STATE OF LIMBO RULES THE LIVES OF POLISH ALIENS

Clinton Tells Science Group Of Need to Cut Teen Smoking

The Dec. 1 Fed Page article "LGBT baby boomers face hurdles at retirement time" was a fairly comprehensive look at the hardships faced by many older, married lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples, especially those who have been denied Social Security survivor's benefits due to a state's failure to recognize their same-sex marriage.

Incidents of violent crime have declined for the eighth straight year, and this year saw a record low for murders of police officers.

Mr. LaPierre said that gun owners would make up a political counterweight to the mayor. "We have people all over, millions of people, sending us $5, $10, $15, $20 checks, saying, 'Stand up to this guy that says we can only have three bullets,' which is what he said,'' Mr. LaPierre said. " 'Stand up to this guy that says ridiculous things like the N.R.A. wants firearms with nukes on them.' I mean, it's insane, the stuff he says.''

It was a blow not only to survivors of Virginia Tech's dead

Completing a stunning political comeback, Gov. Pete Wilson on Tuesday rode middle-class fears about crime and illegal immigration to a new, four-year lease on the governor's office.

Blog: Political Insider; Jones and Cardwell say yes to domestic partner benefits for federal employees

About 3,000 people initially gathered at Sunken Gardens Park, but the crowd grew to nearly 10,000 during the march, organizers said. Denver police refused to give a crowd estimate.

"Two-thirds of Americans favor a guest worker program with a path to citizenship," according to Maurice Carroll, director of Quinnipiac's Polling Institute. "Maybe a lot of Americans think back to the stories of their own immigrant families."

Florida curbs death row appeals

In neither case did the court make an overall statement either in favor of or against same-sex marriage. And in a sign that neither victory was complete for gay rights, the high court said nothing about the validity of same-sex marriage bans in California and roughly three dozen other states. A separate provision of the federal marriage law that allows a state to not recognize a same-sex union from elsewhere remains in place.

CANCER SOCIETY NOT 'SELLING' NAME, ONLY FIGHTING TOBACCO

WHAT IS THE LEGAL STATUS OF GAY UNIONS?

Secondhand smoke sparks neighbor to sue

The news follows Reynolds American Inc.'s announcements last week that it would test-market a spitless tobacco called Camel Snus (pronounced "snoose") and would buy Conwood, a private smokeless tobacco company, for $3.5-billion.

The law exempts undocumented students who attended and graduated from Maryland high schools from paying out-of-state or out-of-county rates at colleges in Maryland.

Then legislators, under fire from tobacco and other lobbyists who feared suits against other businesses would follow, passed a bill to repeal the law. But Chiles vetoed that measure. Throughout the year, Associated Industries of Florida, the state's biggest business lobby, and tobacco lobbyists have waged a high-profile campaign to override the veto.

Lawyers at Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which represented the seven same-sex couples who filed the landmark lawsuit, are poised to appeal a second case to the Supreme Judicial Court on behalf of out-of-state gay couples now barred from marrying here.

boost border enforcement by adding 5,000 more agents and 14 miles of triple fencing near San Diego

Tobacco Associates, a group of Southeastern tobacco growers, has spent $3.36 million in federal money helping government-owned cigarette monopolies

The end of the death penalty in Maryland

The plain language of the 1968 act would prohibit these imports, yet the A.T.F. appears to be relying instead on standards in the 1994 assault weapons ban to approve them. The 1994 law banned the domestic manufacture, sale and possession of 19 kinds of assault weapons and barred the manufacture and sale of other semiautomatics with certain military characteristics such as bayonet mounts, grenade launchers and flash suppressors.

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For Gorsuch, a consequential start

right to own guns.

Bush Expected to Endorse Amendment on Marriage

With the expected addition of Californians after Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling,

A friend, she said, gave her the card, affirming the bond they had formed as members of a discussion group opposed to the death penalty. In recent months, members of the group have been promoting a "Declaration of Life," urging people to sign a form saying that if they are murdered during a violent crime, their killer should be spared the death penalty.

After Newtown Massacre, N.R.A. Proposes 'Absolute Protection'

Legalizing same-sex marriage ruins traditional institution

TRULY ONE OF THE FINEST

The move will increase pressure on Mr. Obama and lawmakers to pass a comprehensive overhaul, rather than taking on the debate over immigration in smaller pieces to try to gain more support among Republicans.

putting criminals where they belong, behind bars.

Mr. Cuomo, speaking at a news conference at the Capitol, said he wanted to avoid a repeat of the last push to legalize same-sex marriage, in December 2009, when a measure was brought to the floor of the Senate and suffered a stinging defea

Police department data suggest that there may be substantially more guns in Chicago than in other cities. The presence of these weapons could make ordinary disputes more violent and more lethal.

Republicans cannot choose to do nothing in the face of that reality.

A Ruling Gives Gay Couples Hope for Financial Equality

Wall Street reacted favorably to the agreement. Shares of New York-based RJR Nabisco, which makes Camel cigarettes, rose 1/2 to 35 13/16, while shares of Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, rose 15/16 to 45 1/4 in late trading.

NEWT GINGRICH appears to have joined Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and other leading conservatives in backing down on his initial plan to deny welfare and other benefits to legal aliens

Detaining Asylum Seekers Is Illegal Prodigality

The population of illegal immigrants leveled off after peaking in 2007 at 12 million, then dropping sharply over two years to 11.1 million in 2009, according to the report, which is based on census data. The declines occurred primarily because fewer people from Mexico and Central America came illegally to the U.S., Pew concluded.

The bill is completely unconstitutional, so the courts are going to have to throw it out."

Bush's amnesty plan draws bipartisan fire; Permanent legality for many of the 3M illegal Mexican immigrants is an "old, failed program"

concealed guns would have been allowed in the state Capitol, state office buildings, psychiatric facilities, child-support enforcement offices, veterans' homes, the Missouri School for the Blind, the Missouri School for the Deaf, buildings at the Missouri State Fair and other state-owned or operated properties.

Mizeur and other advocates are asking O'Malley to make same-sex marriage part of his legislative agenda in January - a move that would signal he intends to put the weight of his office behind it.

D.C. gun laws: A timeline

City to join same-sex marriage court case

In Largely Symbolic Move, N.A.A.C.P. Votes to Endorse Same-Sex Marriage

And it means she'll probably be around a little bit longer to take care of this old man."

"We focus on trying to prevent injuries before they occur rather than after they occur," he said. "We use a scientific approach to try to find out what works for prevention."

Their thinking is, Don't confuse me with facts. So all of you self-appointed constitutional lawyers, answer this question: Why is it that the NRA never challenges gun control laws on Second Amendment grounds?

the Philadelphia-based journalist convicted of killing a police officer and in jail on death row since 1982.

In the aftermath of 9/11, they can be unsettling reminders of how porous U.S. borders are.

announced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman William V. Roth Jr. (R-Del.) after negotiations among the panel's Republicans and Democrats

McVeigh Lawyers, Seeing Fraud, Ask Judge for Stay of Execution

Law enforcement officials in Mississippi said Sunday that they had arrested four people after the fatal shooting of two police officers in Hattiesburg, and that two of the suspects had been charged with capital murder.

California lawmaker pitches big cigarette tax hike

Preparing for the Roll

"Every time you see a child, you wonder how they are still alive,"

voting rights measure

Biden gun push in Conn.

POLS FLIP STANCE, BACK SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Then officers searched Overby's house. Inside were a handgun and 500 rounds of ammunition.

DEAD WOMAN WALKING

The ruling sets the stage for a potential trial in a lawsuit that alleges racial profiling in the patrols in Maricopa County, Ariz., and would further limit Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration authority after Washington yanked his federal powers this month.

The Chastine family was poor and Kirby Chastine was disciplined with occasional ``whippings,'' Ola Mae Chastine said. But she said he was never abused by his stepfather and she described the family as loving and strongly moral.

Atkins was convicted in 1996 of killing a U.S. airman in a carjacking and robbery in Virginia.

Curbing the carnage that's caused by guns

Colorado clergy on opposing sides of the gay-marriage debate will implore their flocks this weekend to contact their U.S. senators as a vote looms on a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between one man and one woman.

U.S. could let Haitians stay here a while; Undocumented might get temporary permits because of disaster.; 81 from various nations to get citizenship today.

"I could not in good conscience ask a jury to kill somebody, but I think it would be wrong for me to say we're not going to enforce the law," he said. "It's a very difficult area . . . for Catholics."

''A lawsuit was filed the very next day to enjoin the village from enforcing that law,'' notes Morton Grove's Corporation Counsel, Martin Ashman. The plaintiff, Victor D. Quilici, a lawyer who lives in the village, charges that the ordinances violate the Federal and State Constitutions. Both the National Rifle Association in Washington, D.C., and the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Wash., are helping to pay for the lawsuit, Mr. Quilici says.

Workers put a stalk into a series of cups on the wheel and remove the first grade of leaf. Others around the wheel remove the next two grades of leaf. And still others put the leaves into bales and keep tobacco in the wheel and removes stalks.

A political action committee headed by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, also vowed to target gun-control opponents.