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Both sides agree school desegregation lawsuit should end

...Richmond County Board of Education shouldn't be closed.The original lawsuit was filed because eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional and therefore illegal, Richmond County schools were still segregated...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-06-17/both-sides-agree-schoo
Question is, who wants it more?

...the currency, national security and the future living standards of their children and grandchildren.Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Obamacare ? and the Republican Party nominated the one presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, who...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-05-28/question-who-wants-it
Rule of law often ignored

...of citizenship.Common sense fails many judges when they consider the words of the Constitution. In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford that no black person of African descent could be a citizen of the United States...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2013-05-14/rule-law-often-ignored
Ex-Pentagon chief Gates: Budget must be smarter

...president of Texas A&M University. He is currently chancellor at The College of William & Mary, succeeding former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.Gates didn't name any specific bases he felt should be targeted for closure but...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-10/ex-pentagon-chief-gates-budge
NBA veteran Jason Collins comes out in first for major league

...Olympic gold medalist, disclosed in 2005 that she was gay.Living in the nation's capital last month while the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about same-sex marriage had an effect on Collins, who says "the strain of hiding my sexuality...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/nba/2013-04-29/nba-veteran-jason-collins-com
Kids need mother, father

This week the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the most pivotal human rights issue since it grossly erred in 1973 in the Roe v. Wade decision. The Obama administration...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2013-03-27/kids-need-mother-father
Can you find it?

...win a gift from The Augusta Chronicle. Four people correctly guessed last week's photo as the childhood home of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph R. Lamar, 415 Seventh St. Ronnie Thompson received the prize. Others who correctly identified...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/richmond-neighbors/2013-04-10/can-you-find-it
Georgia high court to hear appeal of murder sentence

...attorney contends that he should be resentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole because in 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court found it unconstitutional to impose a death sentence on anyone under the age of 18.Moore was 17 years old when...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-12/georgia-high-court-hea
SC case on Native American adoption goes to US Supreme Court

COLUMBIA - The U.S. Supreme Court this week will hear an emotional family challenge...given to the child's Native American parent.The U.S. Supreme Court has considered Native American adoption before...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-04-14/sc-case-native-american-adoption-go
Confessed Augusta murderer seeks lighter sentence

...survived.At the time, state law permitted the death penalty for juveniles, but after he was behind bars, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minors couldn't be executed. His attorney, Stephen Reba, argues that ruling entitles Moore to a...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-16/confessed-augusta-murd