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Why Women Stand To Gain the Most From the Health Care Decision

The Supreme Court’s decision is in. With the Affordable Care Act mostly intact, tens of millions of uninsured Americans will gain coverage. Senior citizens will get billions of dollars of prescription drug benefits. Everyone with insurance will get preventive services at no cost.

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Sharon Lerner

Hidden Fees Are Eating Up Your 401(k)s

Most of us with 401(k) plans watched in horror as our retirement savings plummeted in the stock market crash of 2008. That year, the average 401(k) balance dropped by a third, forcing older Americans to delay retirement or cut back on spending. Since then, as the market rebounded, some of our savings have recovered in fits and starts.

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Prison Addresses Cannot be Counted, Supreme Court Says

On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling which upholds a lower court ruling, and area returning citizens are pleased by the court's ruling.

Supreme Court Justices agreed with Maryland's “No Representation Without Population Act” in a summary disposition which means meaning the Justices based their ruling on existing briefs and did not engage in oral arguments. A lower court ruled that in the case of Fletcher v. Lamone, Maryland officials cannot count a prisoner's incarceration address, and must count their last known home of residence.

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Stand By Montana's Opposition To Citizens United

The First Amendment was never intended as a tool for the wealthy to dominate our political process.

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Adam Lioz

Court Upholds Right of EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gases

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J. Mijin Cha

Low State Tax Rates Don't Predict Growth

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Elon Green

High Court Affirms Maryland's Redistricting Map

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed Monday a lower court's ruling upholding Maryland's new congressional redistricting plan, which counts inmates as living at their last-known addresses instead of in their prison cells. But it may not be the last word on the matter.
 
Some Republican lawmakers opposed to the map, drawn once each decade based on U.S.
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Dellinger, Demos: Supreme Court Wrong to Deny Montana its Day in Court on Citizens United

Washington, D.C. – Today, the United States Supreme Court summarily reversed the Montana Supreme Court decision to uphold a state law restricting corporate spending in elections, squandering a chance to review the disastrous consequences of Citizens United.

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Supreme Court Upholds Maryland Law Ending Prison-Based Gerrymandering; Huge Victory For Fair Representation

Washington, DC – The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of Maryland’s groundbreaking “No Representation Without Population Act,” which counts incarcerated people as residents of their legal home addresses for redistricting purposes. The 2010 law was a major civil rights victory that ended the distortions in fair representation caused by using incarcerated persons to pad the population counts of districts containing prisons.

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