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...solve society's problems." He has held that view since his earliest days in government. Old memos show that as a Reagan Administration lawyer, he ardently opposed judicial meddling in divisive issues he thought were best left to lawmakers. He even wrote that Congress had the power to strip the Supreme Court of its right to hear cases that involved social issues like school prayer and abortion. When Chief Justice Warren Burger in 1983 complained of the court's heavy workload, Roberts wrote a sizzling memo, observing, "So long as the court views itself as ultimately responsible for governing...
...Queensland Labor Senator Jan McLucas says critics, among them government members Warren Entsch and agenda-setter Barnaby Joyce, want to strip gbrmpa - which declined to speak to TIME last week ahead of an announcement on the review - of its regulatory powers. Entsch denies wanting the authority disbanded, but says fishers were so misled during the rezoning that a major shake-up is needed "so individuals in the bureaucracy don't go down the same track again." Fishing Party Queensland chairman Kevin Collins hopes some green zones can be changed: "We're painted as rednecks who pillage the reef...
...This week the Israeli government began moving thousands of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Officials say once the area is cleared of all Jews, the land will be renamed Utah." --CONAN O'BRIEN...
...Settlers' Lament As Israel evacuates the Gaza Strip, TIME follows three American-Israeli families who face giving up the lives they have built there. Don't expect all of them to go quietly
...Then, they got on the 20 busses that were awaiting them, and after quite a long wait they started in the slow procession out of Gush Katif. Just out of Gaza Strip, people from the local kibbutzim greeted them with refreshments. The next stop in the journey was, according to the evictees' request, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It was almost 1:00 AM when they arrived to the ancient, sacred site, but the place was packed. The Hilburgs have a daughter who lives in the city of Modiin, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; they spent the night...