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News Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban
Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban
Jamie Sterling
May 5, 2005 08:19:00 am

Colorado's House Judiciary Committee have killed SB 140 , a bill that would have allowed Colorado voters in the upcoming November election to vote on the addition of a same-sex marriage ban to the state Constitution....

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News Mexico drops case against Mexico City mayor
Mexico drops case against Mexico City mayor
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 04:04:00 pm

The Mexican attorney general's office (PGR) Wednesday dropped a land dispute case brought against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador , the popular front-runner in the country's 2006...

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News US soldiers arrested for attempted arms smuggling in Colombia
US soldiers arrested for attempted arms smuggling in Colombia
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 02:53:00 pm

Colombian police arrested two American soldiers Wednesday for attempted arms smuggling, potentially to illegal far-right Colombian para-military groups. This is the second set of arrests for US military smuggling in the past month; the other involved a US Air...

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News IRA member charged with murder for 1998 terrorist bombing
IRA member charged with murder for 1998 terrorist bombing
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 02:36:00 pm

Sean Gerard Hoey, a member of the Irish Republican Army , was charged Wednesday with the murder of 29 people in the largest terrorist bombing in the history of Northern Ireland's "troubles." The 1998 Omagh bombing [BBC archive...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge throws out England guilty plea in Abu Ghraib trial
BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge throws out England guilty plea in Abu Ghraib trial
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 4, 2005 02:17:00 pm

A military judge at Fort Hood has rejected Pfc. Lynndie England's guilty plea in her Abu Ghraib prison scandal court-martial, torpedoing her plea agreement.2:51 PM ET - In declaring the mistrial, Col. James Pohl said statements by England about...

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News Report on Air Force Academy religious practices [AU]
Report on Air Force Academy religious practices [AU]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 4, 2005 12:45:00 pm

Report of Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Religious Coercion and Endorsement of Religion at the United States Air Force Academy, April 30, 2005 [prompting a May 3 announcement by Acting Air Force Secretary Michael L. Dominguez...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ FBI charges Pentagon analyst with leaking classified documents
BREAKING NEWS ~ FBI charges Pentagon analyst with leaking classified documents
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 11:26:00 am

AP is reporting that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin , previously demoted and stripped of his security clearance in the wake of August allegations that he had spied for Israel, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in on charges...

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News Serb general pleads not guilty to Kosovo war crimes
Serb general pleads not guilty to Kosovo war crimes
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2005 11:01:00 am

Former Serbian police general Sreten Lukic pleaded not guilty Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to charges of overseeing the murder, deportation and persecution of Kosovo Albanians in 1999. Lukic,...

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French president urges positive vote on EU constitution
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2005 10:05:00 am

French media said Wednesday that the latest television appearance by French President Jacques Chirac calling on voters to endorse the European constitution was largely a success. Chirac participated in a televised town hall...

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US-Iran clash over agenda slows NPT review conference
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2005 09:28:00 am

The ongoing tension between US and Iran over Iran's pursuit of nuclear technology is threatening to stall the 2005 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference , where representatives of more than 180 nations have gathered to review the workings...

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Dred Scott decided

On March 6, 1857, the US Supreme Court announced its landmark decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, holding that black people—slaves as well as free—were not and could never become citizens of the United States and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Learn more about the Dred Scott case from Washington University in St. Louis (the city where Dred Scott initially filed his suit for freedom and had his case first tried). Review a selection of contemporary newspaper editorials reacting to the decision.

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