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atlargely.com - 1/11/2009
Look what SCOTUS is up to...
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This is very interesting indeed: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court served notice Friday that it may make a far-reaching change in civil rights law in 2009 and knock down a pair of long-standing rules that give special protection to minorities in the workplace and the voting booth. The justices, ...

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Brilliant at Breakfast — ... Larisa Alexandrovna notes how the Supreme Court is getting ready to hear cases designed to make sure that no one else whose pigmentation is unseemly ever again rises as high as Barack Obama. ...

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