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Emergency Manager Poll Finds White, Republican Men Favor LawHuffington PostA recent Detroit Free Press/WXYZ poll claims Michigan voters are evenly split when it comes to support for Public Act 4, the state's emergency manager law. But a closer look shows support for the law comes largely from those whom it least affects.Emergency manager law divides [...]

AFP Republican pipeline bill raises legal questions: US officialAFPWASHINGTON — A senior US official said a Republican bill to deny US President Barack Obama the right to decide on the construction of an oil pipeline from Canada raises "serious" legal questions. Kerry Ann-Jones, who is charged with reviewing the …Keystone Bill Raises 'Legal Questions,' U.S. [...]

Telegraph.co.uk Mitt Romney aspiring Republican candidateSaudi GazetteBy Doha Ghouth Abusinessman and Harvard Law and Business graduate who is hoping to be chosen as presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Mitt Romney speaks of offering hope for the rebuilding of America's deteriorating economy. …Newt's Third LawAmerican ThinkerGingrich the projected winner of South Carolinamsnbc.comGOP field feeds South [...]

USA TODAY Health Law, Abortion Among Hot Topics In SC Republican DebateKaiser Health NewsThe GOP presidential hopefuls clashed on a range of issues related to the health law, its individual mandate and efforts to repeal it. Candidates' positions on abortion were also flashpoints. Rick Santorum, in third or fourth place in South Carolina's …Recommended: First [...]

Globe and Mail Republican presidential hopefuls disagree on law allowing indefinite detention …Washington PostMany civil liberties activists believe the law is unconstitutional. Front-runner Mitt Romney said he would have signed the law and insisted it was “appropriate” to detain American members of al-Qaida. Romney called membership in the group “treason” and …Romney: Scrap campaign finance [...]

South Carolina Photo ID Law Draws Heated Rhetoric From Republican Presidential …Huffington PostSouth Carolina is in a standoff with Democratic President Barack Obama's administration over a new state law that would require residents to produce a photo ID before they could vote. Federal officials say it could disproportionately keep black voters …and more » View full [...]

Republican candidates remain firmly behind tough immigration lawsKansas City StarWith slight variations, the top GOP candidates back mass deportations, tough state enforcement laws and extending the 675-mile fence along the US-Mexico border, where illegal crossings were near their highest back in 1999. The top Republican candidates …and more » View full post on law – Google [...]

Republican Presidential Candidates Embrace Granting Legal Rights to Human EmbryosNew York Times (blog)By ERIK ECKHOLM The “personhood amendment,” granting legal rights to human embryos, might have seemed to be a political nonstarter after voters in Mississippi, arguably the most conservative and anti-abortion state in the nation, rejected such a …and more » View full post on [...]

Sunshine Slate Former Republican Nancy Argenziano Challenges New Elections Law, Wants To Run …Sunshine Slate[Tallahassee, FL] A former Republican lawmaker seeking to run for Congress as a Democrat filed suit against the state Friday, saying a new elections law unconstitutionally bars her from joining her new desired party. Nancy Argenziano, who currently …Another Elections Law [...]

Fox News Republican Threatens Legal Action Against DHS Over Immigrant-Data SubpoenaFox NewsHomeland Security Assistant Secretary Nelson Peacock earlier wrote a letter explaining to Smith that many of the immigrants whose names show up in their system through Secure Communities are legal and would simply not count as a "removable alien. …and more » View full post [...]