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Civil rights

...or open seating on buses. Interracial marriage took even longer for churches and some people to accept. It took a supreme court decision in the end, and many states had to re-write parts of their prejudiced constitution to reflect the new law...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-05-17/civil-rights
Open Forum
Ward now target of recall petition

...The proposed petition to recall Radinovich is being reviewed in the judicial system, a spokesman for the Minnesota Supreme Court said.Kern, a deputy chair of the Crow Wing County Republican Party, said he was acting as an individual when he...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2013-05-13/ward-now-target-recall-pet
Political
Thanks John, Joe

...ago a Gallup poll found 72% of Americans believed interracial marriage was wrong. The US Supreme Court struck down that law. This June the US Supreme Court will rule on the Defense of Marriage Act. Maybe we should thank Senator Paul Gazelka for...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-05-13/thanks-john-joe
Open Forum
GOP official starts recall petition against Radinovich

...submitted immediately to the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court or a designee.Both the parties calling the proposed...further states "A petition may not be issued until the supreme court has determined that the facts alleged in the petition...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2013-05-06/gop-official-starts-recall
Political
Nolan fields questions from Pequot students

...question addressed the issue of campaign costs he said he has introduced a constitutional amendment to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United case which, he said, defined corporations as people. He also has introduced legislation calling...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-04-29/nolan-fields-questions-pequot-studen
News
GOP official starts recall petition against Radinovich

...submitted immediately to the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court or a designee.Both the parties calling the proposed...further states "A petition may not be issued until the supreme court has determined that the facts alleged in the petition...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/political/2013-05-06/gop-official-starts-recall
Political
Well regulated

...we remove these regulations, which have been effective?Probably the most relevant interpretation is that of the Supreme Court in the District of Columbia v. Heller. It ruled that there is a right to own guns for self-protection, but the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-04-24/well-regulated
Opinion
Obama's recess appointees to NLRB ruled unconstitutional

...This overreach of his constitutional authority places the president's action in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. These appointments were either an attempt to usurp the Constitution by the administration, or ignorance of the law...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2013-04-04/obamas-recess-appointe
Open Forum
The Second Amendment might need some revision

...Gross is no gun-lover. His support for the Second Amendment ? specifically for the idea, endorsed now by the Supreme Court, that the Constitution guarantees individual gun ownership ? seemed to me mainly tactical. And cleverly so. Explicitly...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2013-04-19/second-amendment-mi
Guest Columns
Minnesota Supreme Court affirms Tscheu murder conviction

...County.Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision...favorable result for Tscheu. The supreme court found the postconviction court's...Ross Lake Township home. The supreme court considered the petition on direct...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-04-24/minnesota-supreme-court-affirms-tsch
News

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