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Seasoned attorney, ethics specialist Charlie Wiggins files to run against controversial Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders....

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By a 65 percent margin, Americans in poll disagree with the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to allow corporations to spend without limits on campaign ads....

topics: campaign, supreme-court

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Preteens and jurisprudence generally make for a bad combination. Add in an overburdened public defender and watch the potential for a legal system major malfunction rise.That was the cas... Continue reading Moses Lake Boy Who Pled...

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President Obama's State of the Union speech brought out some bad behavior from a normally objective Supreme Court judge. But Justice Samuel Alito's disappointed shake of the head was nothi... Continue reading Obama's State of the ...

topics: obama, supreme-court

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The New York Times on Sunday profiled James Bopp Jr., the Indiana-based attorney who was instrumental in getting the U.S. Supreme Court to agree to decide whether people who signed Referendum 71 petitions should have their names publicly disclosed. T...

topics: campaign, supreme-court

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The Seattle Times editorial board argues for Zero tolerance for cyberbullies, and while I d agree that schools have rarely taken bullying nearly seriously enough, just the mention of the phrase zero tolerance gives me the willies.McClure, like al...

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With little time I don t write much anymore so here s a dump on some of the latest&I ll start local.Larry Haler&I don t know what has happened with our local Washington State Legislator Larry Haler (R-8th). Once upon a time we had a reasonable, per...

topics: committee, congress, democrat, democrats, elected

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Patty Murray says she might still be a mom in tennis shoes - not one of the nation's more powerful senators - had Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling about political spending been in place in 1992....

topics: campaign, political, supreme-court

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Just to be absolutely clear, I think it is safe to argue that if there s one thing on which a majority of Americans agree, it s that corporations don t have nearly enough influence in state, local and national politics. So we should all thank the cou...

topics: politics, supreme-court

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The same day the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to big money in the political process, a report from Seattle's elections watchdog suggests the almighty dollar isn't as powerful as it used to be in Jet City....

topics: political, supreme-court