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- The AP profiles Republican megalawyer Paul Clement, who is arguing numerous cases before the Supreme Court this term on behalf of right-wing elected officials.
- The Washington Post profiles Republican megalawyer Paul Clement, who is arguing numerous cases before the Supreme Court this term on behalf of right-wing elected officials.
- Bloomberg profiles Republican megalawyer Paul Clement, who is arguing numerous cases before the Supreme Court this term on behalf of right-wing elected officials.
- The AP also mixes things up a bit by profiling Solicitor General Don Verrilli, who will argue that the Supreme Court should not take up Clement’s offer to overrule nearly 200 years of precedent in order to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
- A federal judge in Maryland struck down that state’s law requiring individuals to show a “good and substantial reason” before obtaining a handgun permit.
- A new poll shows 54 percent of North Carolina residents oppose writing anti-gay discrimination into their state’s constitution.
- A federal appeals court upheld the city of Detroit’s decision to fire an attorney who called her local court a “ghetto court.”
- The Kansas House steps away from the brink of forcing state universities, hospitals and nursing homes to allow people to bring guns inside them, although it is poised to pass a bill allowing people to bring firearms into most government buildings.
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