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News Ban on women in close combat roles lifted in Britain
Ban on women in close combat roles lifted in Britain
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 02:44:57 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday lifted a ban on women serving in close combat units in British military. In what Cameron called a "major step," women will now be allowed to serve in...

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News Amnesty: Palestine and Israel officials need to deal with war crimes
Amnesty: Palestine and Israel officials need to deal with war crimes
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 02:11:02 pm

In a report issued on Thursday, Amnesty International (AI) called upon Palestinian and Israeli officials to properly address human rights violations committed by their forces. The report was released a day before the second...

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News Ireland Parliament defeats abortion bill
Ireland Parliament defeats abortion bill
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 12:59:09 pm

The Irish Parliament on Thursday defeated a bill that would have allowed abortion in Ireland where the child would not survive outside of the womb. Prime Minister Enda Kenny had been open about his opposition ...

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News Massachusetts legislature sends transgender anti-discrimination bill to governor
Massachusetts legislature sends transgender anti-discrimination bill to governor
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 12:22:55 pm

The Massachusetts Legislature on Thursday sent a transgender anti-discrimination bill to Governor Charlie Baker . The bill , which many believe will be signed into law, will provide protections to transgender people in places of...

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News Republicans question transfer of low-level Guantanamo Bay detainees
Republicans question transfer of low-level Guantanamo Bay detainees
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 11:47:22 am

In a hearing on Thursday several Republican lawmakers questioned Obama administration officials in regards to the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees. In the hearing , before the House Foreign Affairs committee , lawmakers claimed that the...

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News Democrats call for hearing on recent police shootings
Democrats call for hearing on recent police shootings
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 11:05:48 am

Democrats in Congress called for hearings in the wake of police shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile , two black men, earlier this week. Congressman and House Judiciary Committee member, Cedric Richmond...

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News Canada top court rejects appeal in former-Nazi citizenship case
Canada top court rejects appeal in former-Nazi citizenship case
Mark Casper
July 8, 2016 10:33:20 am

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Attorney General of Canada asking the court to review a lower court decision instructing the country to reconsider revocation of a former-Nazi's Canadian citizenship....

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News Indiana District Court: parenthood statute violates Fourteenth Amendment
Indiana District Court: parenthood statute violates Fourteenth Amendment
Mark Casper
July 1, 2016 06:41:24 pm

The US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana on Thursday struck down the state's parenthood statute for violating the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment . Indiana Code Section...

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News Canada Supreme Court overturns drug charges due to trial delay
Canada Supreme Court overturns drug charges due to trial delay
Mark Casper
July 1, 2016 03:52:50 pm

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday overturned a man's drug possession and trafficking conviction because he had been made to wait too long for his trial. The man, Shane Vassal, had waited three years before...

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News Supreme Court denies cert in religious objection to birth control case
Supreme Court denies cert in religious objection to birth control case
Mark Casper
June 29, 2016 11:47:00 pm

The Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday denied certioriari in Stormans Inc. v. Wiesman , a case challenging a Washington regulation requiring pharmacies to sell birth control despite potential religious objections...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

March from Selma begins

On March 21, 1965, Martin Luther King, Jr. began his third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to protest racial discrimination in the Jim Crow South. By March 25, over 25,000 people led by Dr. King reached Montgomery, Alabama. Specifically, the march called attention to the suppression of African-American voting rights and a police assault on a civil rights demonstration three weeks prior. Five months later, in August 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. Read a history of the march from Selma to Montgomery.

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