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Divisive Legislative Tool Gaining Democrats’ Favor
Senate Democrats are increasingly receptive to using a controversial budget shortcut to ease passage of health-care reform legislation, a shift in stance encouraged by the White House but denounced by…
Supreme Court to Weigh Relevance of Voting Rights Act in Obama Era
AUSTIN -- America's next great battle over civil rights could hardly have a less controversial flash point: the benign decision to move the neighborhood polling place from Jack Stueber's garage…
Some in Justice Department See D.C. Vote in House as Unconstitutional
Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue.…
