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By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsHecklers take note. A group of University of California students will learn next week whether they've been charged with criminal offenses for repeatedly interrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren last year. A grand jury convened by Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas reportedly has been weighing a possible indictment of the UC Irvine and UC Riverside students, believed to be members of the Muslim Student Union. Rackauckas has until Tuesday, one year after the incident occurred, to charge them. The case of the so-called "Irvine 11" has brought to light an unexpected ...
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By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyDavid H. Souter, the perennially reticent, famously dorky former justice of the United States Supreme Court, gave his country a blessing of a speech last Thursday at Harvard University's commencement. In his typical polite, patient, plodding style, he offered to the (probably bored and underappreciative) crowd an extraordinary gift. He delivered to them a thoughtful but firm answer both to the lazy politicians who decry "judicial activism" and to "originalists," like Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, who see the Constitution as a contract that must be interpreted only in light of ...
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