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  • Supreme Court Appears Divided on Voting Rights Act
  • At issue is whether the act’s Section 5 provision, which requires all or part of 16 states to get any changes to election law pre-approved by either the Justice Department or a federal court, is still necessary and constitutional in today’s world.
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  • Democratic Governors Fear Gun Reform Moment Has Passed
  • Now that expanded background checks seem to be the only initiative that may pass Congress, the most powerful bloc of gun-control proponents in the country is conceding that the gripping sense of outrage following the Sandy Hook massacre has ebbed.

  • Idaho Gov. Otter Seeks State Control of Public Land in D.C.
  • Butch Otter urged a Congressional committee to create a pilot project that would give Idaho control over 2 million of the more than 20 million acres of federal public land in the state.


  • Sheriff Arpaio Offers to Detain Freed Illegal Immigrants in 'Tent City'
  • Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he has a solution for the federal government’s mass release of illegal immigrants to cut costs ahead of the sequester: Send them for free to his “Tent City," where prisoners sleep in tents and are required to wear pink underwear.




  • Illegal Immigrant Detainees Released as Sequestration Nears
  • The Obama administration announced that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house them because of across-the-board cuts that are set to start taking effect Friday.
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