Gay rights supporters won’t appeal vote on gay benefits
(Olympia, Wash) Supporters of the state’s most recent expansion of domestic partnership rights announced Wednesday they won’t appeal to the Washington Supreme Court to try and block a public vote on the new law.
Washington Families Standing Together chairwoman Anne Levinson said the group will now focus on a campaign to …
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(Washington) Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racing through a crucial set of meetings with senators on Capitol Hill, working to reassure Republicans who worry she’d bring ethnic and gender bias to her decisions.
Sotomayor, who would be the high court’s first Hispanic and third woman, is telling senators in both …
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