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President Joe Biden signing a bill into law that Democrats say safeguards gay and interracial marriages from the Supreme Court has been welcomed by its supporters.
PITTSBURGH – After a federal magistrate judge recommended that an amended lawsuit from a Vandergrift Borough Council member, which alleged a conspiracy-based campaign of defamation and slander undertaken by a number of borough officials was intended to drive her out of office, be dismissed for failure to prosecute, the presiding judge acted accordingly and threw out the case.
PITTSBURGH – A federal magistrate judge has recommended that an amended lawsuit from a Vandergrift Borough Council member, which alleged a conspiracy-based campaign of defamation and slander undertaken by a number of borough officials was intended to drive her out of office, be dismissed for failure to prosecute.
Spoke about going even further than alito, the idea of where alito tried to say, look, i'm just trying to talk about abortion here. he wanted to go farther to same sex marriage possibly and other, birth control and contraceptives. what do you make of that decision and that statement to go even further than what was written in the majority? >> well, i think justice thomas has always had a different view of where these rights come from. if i look on my constitutional law professor hat, the majority is talking about something called substantive due process. he's looking at the privileges or immun...
State-by-state decision. like, i'm legitimately asking why you would think it's not really at risk? >> a couple things. one, so justice thomas is one justice. he says that the decision should be reconsidered. he also suggested a possible alternative basis for reaching the same conclusion. just abandoning substantive due process using the privileges and immunities clause. second, the fact that 47 republicans in the house have voted for this suggests that it's not the same sort of issue as abortion. you're highly unlikely, i think, to get a case wind its way up the courts and create a live contr...