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supreme court rejects trump census citizenship question

The state of New York and coalition of more than dozen other states and cities brought the lawsuit challenging Department of Commerce's decision to add the question to the census. ... U.S district court Northern California also ruled against Trump in separate case brought by state..

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teen pregnancy prevention: iowa groups battle over who best can help

In May, American Civil Liberties Union filed lawsuit on behalf of Planned Parenthood in the state case, and judge granted injunction prohibiting the defunding.. State law requires each Iowa school board to provide age-appropriate, research-based human growth and development, including..

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tompkins county to get third county court judge

The state's omnibus bill that was passed at the tail end of this year's session and signed into Tuesday, authorizes the county to install the additional judge on Jan 1 of next year after being elected in this November's general election. .. ... In order to create this position, State..

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american marriage ministries holds mass ordination at blue slip winery

Seattle-based American Marriage Ministries stopped Knoxville on Wednesday during its trek across Tennessee to ordain people in person after the state passed law barring online-ordained ministers from performing weddings. . ... We'd like to think that we're helping people understand what they..

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the lemon is squeezed dry

There's something in the names of the in Supreme Court's on church and state. ... In that case, Supreme Court overturned Pennsylvania and Rhode Island laws providing state funding of nonreligious programs provided by religious, almost all Catholic, schools.. ..

gambia: women accuse ex-president of sexual violence

The officials, include two men who worked for Protocol Department at State House four close protection officers for Jammeh or at State House woman. In March 2019, Gambian commission and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, ing platform, accused Jammeh of stealing up to US..

state department releases latest report on

Secretary of State also uses the reports to help determine which countries have engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of order to designate countries of particular concern... Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam..

commentary: let flawed court precedent fall

So the court ruled 5-4 that the 1985 ruling should not stand as burden on plaintiffs seeking federal remedy for state infringements of their constitutional rights.. ... Congress wrote that amendment and other laws because, it worried state courts could not be trusted to enforce..

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