Word: utah
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...Hegar bill is just one arrow in the NRA's quiver in a national campaign that has focused on state legislatures in recent years. The powerful lobby group has found fertile ground in state capitols where rural and conservative legislators often come from both parties. University of Utah officials just lost their battle with the state's legislature over the geographic scope of its concealed carry law - they had sought to ban weapons on campuses, but the state supreme court said they had to comply with the state law, effectively blocking them from banning permitted guns. By contrast, in Kansas...
...Other G.O.P. candidates have said they would appoint federal judges "in the mold" of Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito. What type of judges would you appoint? -Bill Murphy Salt Lake City, Utah People who believe that the purpose of the judiciary is not to make law but to properly apply it. My own personal hero on the court is Scalia, not least because I duck-hunted with...
...turns out the critics were right. Plaintiffs have made the decision the centerpiece of attempts to defeat state bans on the sale of sex toys in Alabama, polygamy in Utah and adoptions by gay couples in Florida. So far the challenges have been unsuccessful. But plaintiffs are still trying, even using Lawrence to challenge laws against incest...
...thought there was a lot of oversight of student groups at your high school, think again. Next month a new law will go into effect in Utah that regulates almost everything relating to student groups in public schools—how they can form, what they can discuss, and who can join. In addition to tedious bureaucratic impositions like a parental signature requirement, the law also regulates the content of student discourse by specifically barring clubs that address “human sexuality.” Such content-based regulation not only denies students a necessary forum for discussion...
...first choice of the Christian-right leadership rarely ends up being the party's nominee. And even in some of the most conservative states, the power of social issues may be on the ebb. Voters in South Dakota rejected a stern antiabortion law in November. A similar bill in Utah failed in early March. Kansas has restored Darwin to public school classrooms and tossed out the state attorney general who sought to examine abortion records...