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...Roberts really does think Roe was "wrongly decided," as he wrote in a 1990 Justice Department brief, Democrats want to know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that...
While restrictive measures have so far been upheld in court, more challenges are in the works. The New York State Civil Liberties Union has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit brought by 15 John Doe offenders in Binghamton, N.Y., who say that the city's new ordinance, which bans offenders from coming within a quarter mile of any park, school or day-care center, unconstitutionally limits free travel inside a state. In New Jersey, Steven Elwell, 35, is speaking out against a local ordinance that could keep him from living near any bus stop...
...They hit hundreds of computers that night and morning alone, and a brief list of scanned systems gives an indication of the breadth of the attacks. At 10:23 p.m. pacific standard time (PST), they found vulnerabilities at the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. At 1:19 am PST, they found the same hole in computers at the military's Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia. At 3:25 am, they hit the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a defense department installation in San Diego, California. At 4:46 am PST, they struck the United...
RECOVERING. HARRY REID, 65, Senate minority leader; from a brief ministroke that did not require hospitalization; in Searchlight, in his home state of Nevada...
...semi-enclosed parking garages in Manhattan, and his increasingly bizarre behavior--he was jailed in 2000 for ordering a hit on a business partner--always kept him in the papers, including the pages of the New York Post, which he owned for two tumultuous weeks in 1993. During his brief tenure, a disgruntled staff ran the headline WHO IS THIS...