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It Matters

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State Senate candidate Lynn Sebourn is encouraged by the Heller Supreme Court ruling affirming an individual right to bear arms but advises eternal legislative vigilance against activist courts:

Keeping the gun issue alive?

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Here's an interesting piece (from American Spectator) about the Democratic Party's response to the Heller decision. From the article:

THAT BRINGS US to the most prominent Illinois Democrat of them all.

Kick Your Shoes Off And Stay A While

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This just brought a smile to my face. State prosecutors have decided to re-try death row inmate Paul House for the 22 year-old murder that he was originally convicted after an intentionally misrepresented Supreme Court ruling gave anti-death penalty activists the chance to let him loose. Killing babies and freeing murderers.

Abuse Common in Tennessee Justice System

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Some very damning judicial rulings in the case of death-row inmate Paul Gregory House indicate House should already have been released, but he remains in in jail. The questions raised by the rulings about how the state is operating it's judicial system reveal that abuses are a constant.

States suing EPA to move on global warming

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"A coalition of states is suing the Bush administration to force it to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that rebuked what justices called inaction on global warming."

Tennessee nor any city in the state involved. Would Knoxville even consider attempting to join as a plaintiff?

Eighteen states and two cities listed...

Playing Abortion Politics

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In a fine bit of political theater, Democrats showed up Republicans on the abortion issue this week in the state Senate.

Republicans, denying any political posturing for this year’s elections, are pushing a state constitutional amendment on abortion. They say it’s needed to nullify a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling that they say prohibits “commonsense” restrictions on abortion rights.

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