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Pedestrian crash closes portion of Hershberger Rd. NW, police say

We are told one person is hospitalized following car vs. pedestrian crash in Roanoke.

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Pedestrian crash closes portion of Hershberger Rd. NW, police say

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON


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Ketanji Brown Jackson has battled, compromised in her first nine months on the Supreme Court

Just under three months shy of the one-year anniversary of her swearing in as the first Black woman to serve on the High Court, Jackson, has already begun to make her mark.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is lone dissenter as Supreme Court vacates abortion ruling

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a lone dissent on an abortion case stemming from a lawsuit in Missouri involving a pregnant teenager.

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Democrats who can't define 'woman' celebrate International Women's Day

Democrats across the country were eager to celebrate International Women's Day despite previously being unable or unwilling to provide the definition of a "woman."

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Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.

Justice Thomas wrote of 'crushing weight' of student loans

The Supreme Court won’t have far to look for a personal take on the “crushing weight” of student debt that underlies the Biden administration’s college loan forgiveness plan.

Supreme Court set to hear Google case that could impact free speech online

Tech companies and many free speech experts warn that changing Section 230 will have broad implications for how the internet operates.

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Romney, outspoken about his own party, weighs reelection run

After four years in Washington, Republican Mitt Romney has established himself as a rare senator willing to publicly rebuke members of his own party.

Ethics Code Wouldn’t Fix Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Crisis

The US high court has undercut itself by making radical, reactionary decisions — something a code of conduct can’t solve.

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2 Black quarterbacks to start in Super Bowl for first time in NFL history

For the first time in NFL history, two Black quarterbacks are playing in the Super Bowl. Here is why that matters.

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Justices yet to decide any cases

The Supreme Court is off to a historically slow start in failing to resolve any cases in which it has heard arguments since early October.

Supreme Court debates union tactics in spoiled concrete case

The Supreme Court is debating the lengths unions can go to when exerting pressure during a strike.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is writing a memoir

“Mine has been an unlikely journey,” Jackson said in a statement about her forthcoming book, to be titled “Lovely One.”

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Justice Jackson working on a memoir, titled 'Lovely One'

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir.

At the Supreme Court, it's taking longer to hear cases

Supreme Court arguments are continuing long after a red light tells lawyers to stop.

Biden outpacing Trump, Obama with diverse judicial nominees

The White House and Senate Democrats are closing out the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency having installed more federal judges than his two immediate predecessors.

Supreme Court Asked To Bar Punishment For Acquitted Conduct

In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes juries found they didn’t commit.

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Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct

In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes juries found they didn’t commit.

Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conduct

A jury convicted Dayonta McClinton of robbing a CVS pharmacy but acquitted him of murder. A judge gave McClinton an extra 13 years in prison for the killing anyway. The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice.

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After Jan. 6: Congress born of chaos ends in achievement

The 117th Congress opened with the unfathomable Jan. 6, 2021, mob siege of the Capitol.

The Supreme Court thrives on hypotheticals. Alito’s latest sparked a backlash.

In a case about LGBTQ and religious protections, Justice Samuel A. Alito found himself musing about children in KKK outfits and Black shopping mall Santas.

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Both sides see high stakes in gay rights Supreme Court case

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Warnock, Walker pivot to overtime in Georgia Senate contest

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, are pivoting to a second and decisive round of their Senate race in Georgia.

Supreme Court seems ready to hasten challenges to federal agencies

If justices side with plaintiffs, it would diminish the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson publishes first Supreme Court opinion in Ohio death row case

The case involved an Ohio man on death row for the 1989 murder of Bryan Jones.

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Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion.

Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn, whose lawyers argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion.

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High court to hear water dispute between Navajo, government

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

Supreme Court more diverse than lawyers who argue before it

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

How America Has Changed Since the First Affirmative-Action Case

Plus: The plastic-recycling conundrum

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Reddit users explode on Supreme Court over possible end to affirmative action: 'My country is dying'

Reddit users criticized Republicans and the Supreme Court after legal experts suggested that the Justices may vote to end affirmative action in colleges.

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High court told jurors were misled in Arizona death row case

A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

Justice Jackson’s Crucial Argument About Affirmative Action

The Court’s newest member wanted to know what fairness looks like if you take race out of the equation.

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Justice Jackson Recused Herself From a Supreme Court Case. Your Move, Clarence Thomas!

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments that will likely result in its overturning of affirmative action in education. The plaintiffs allege that race-conscious school admissions are a form of discrimination against White and Asian students. It’s bad! But there are actually two separate arguments today about the constitutionality about affirmative action, because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from one due to a potential conflict of interest. Justice Clarence Thomas is seein

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Supreme Court Takes Up Race-Conscious College Admissions

The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago.

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Dozens of Major U.S. Companies Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Race-Based College Admissions

Eighty-two major U.S. companies have called on the Supreme Court to uphold race-based college admissions, as the Court is set to hear oral arguments.

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Affirmative action in jeopardy after justices raise doubts

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

The most diverse Supreme Court ever confronts affirmative action

Two Black justices, one Latina and an ascendant conservative bloc take up race-based college admissions policies that have splintered previous courts.

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Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case

The University of North Carolina was once a bastion of segregation.

In midterm elections, women's votes will decide our future

Women are the most powerful voting bloc in the nation, and we have the power and the determination to shape the future of this country on Election Day.

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New Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes herself heard

Over eight oral arguments, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated questioning and commentary, speaking twice as much as her next most loquacious colleague.

washingtonpost.com

Andy Warhol, Prince at center stage in Supreme Court case

Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman.

Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate's race bias claim

A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

In her own words: Justice Jackson speaks volumes from bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson said before the Supreme Court's term began that she was “ready to work.”.

Loud and clear: New Justice Jackson speaks volumes at bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was “ready to work.” For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. “I can’t think of a time where you’ve seen a junior justice take hold of the arguments” to the same extent, Feldman said using the court’s shorthand title for the newest justice.

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Supreme Court's new 'class photo' includes number of firsts

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Supreme Court's new 'class photo' includes number of firsts

The group photo of the Supreme Court's nine members is a long-standing ritual. The new image includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female justice, who joined the court in June. Friday's formal photo captured by news photographers is sometimes called the group's “class photo.”

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Supreme Court’s liberals mount defense of Voting Rights Act, but outcome of challenge is unclear

Alabama's Republicans say they should not be required to draw a second congressional district likely to elect a Black Democrat.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson invokes 14th Amendment history during Supreme Court voting rights hearing

The court’s newest justice and first Black woman participated in oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies.

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Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears open to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts.

Supreme Court hears lively debate on protecting wetlands, led in part by new Justice Jackson

First day of new Supreme Court term features a clash between environmental protection and property rights, joined by new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Court filing: Trump objects to expediting appeal in special master case

Donald Trump on Monday objected to a Justice Department request for an expedited ruling in the special master case involving documents seized by the FBI in an August search of the former president's Florida home.

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Justice Jackson, on her first day in the Supreme Court, pushes back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, on her first day as a Supreme Court Justice, pushed back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act. In Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the extent of the EPA’s regulations will be affected, especially in regards to wetlands. If the court rules in favor of the Sackett’s, the couple that brought the case to the Supreme Court when they were ordered by the EPA to not build on their purchased wetlands in Idaho, then the EPA could be limited in the kinds of wetlands and streams that the Clean Waters Act protects from pollution.

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High court rejects Russian company's dispute with Ukraine

The Supreme Court is siding with a Russian oil company in a dispute with Ukraine worth millions, a win for the company as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.

Supreme Court rejects bump stock ban cases

The Supreme Court says it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks.

Supreme Court Welcomes The Public Again, And A New Justice

A new stack of high-profile cases awaits. The court has agreed to hear cases involving race, elections, free speech and LGBTQ rights, among others.

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Supreme Court's new term brings fresh opportunity for conservative majority to flex its muscle

The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday, Oct. 3.

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Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

Supreme Court Poised To Keep Marching To Right In New Term

The court is diving back in with an aggressive agenda that seems likely to split its six conservative justices from its three liberals.

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Supreme Court's new term brings fresh opportunity for conservative majority to flex its muscle

The Supreme Court will begin its new term Oct. 3.

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Supreme Court's top cases for new term, new Justice Jackson

The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday and will hear arguments for the first time after a summer break and with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson among its nine members.

Supreme Court poised to keep marching to right in new term

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Supreme Court Debut In Ceremony

During the ceremony Jackson followed the custom of every other new justice since 1972.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her seat on Supreme Court

Investiture ceremony marks the first time that Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, has taken her place on the bench.

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Biden, Harris join Ketanji Brown Jackson at investiture ceremony ahead of justice's first term

President Biden, Vice President Harris and several White House officials Friday attended a formal investiture ceremony for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson formally sworn in as Biden, Harris look on

Newly-confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was welcomed to the Supreme Court Friday with a traditional investiture ceremony.

cnbc.com

Supreme Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson gets formal induction before the new term

Ahead of the Supreme Court's term beginning next week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson participated in a short, formal investiture ceremony on Friday.

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Supreme Court's new term brings fresh opportunity for conservative majority to flex its muscle

The Supreme Court will begin its new term Oct. 3.

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Stacey Abrams looks to win Black men in bid for Ga. governor

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is trying to solidify support and boost turnout by Black men in her governor's race against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp.

Justice Jackson says she has 'a seat at the table'

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Biden and Harris to attend ceremonial investiture for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Jackson took the constitutional and judicial oaths at the end of June.

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Biden and Harris attend ceremonial investiture for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Jackson took the constitutional and judicial oaths at the end of June.

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Biden, Harris to attend Jackson's Supreme Court investiture

The White House says President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses will attend the ceremonial investiture for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Supreme Court keeping live audio as it opens again to public

The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

Senator Ted Cruz confronted on plane by heckler who asked him to name one Uvalde victim, video shows

Texas Senator Ted Cruz did not respond by naming any Uvalde school shooting victims and instead spoke about his failed school safety bill.

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After blasting Biden's student-loan forgiveness, Ted Cruz says it 'may prove a real challenge' to fight the relief in court

Sen. Ted Cruz has frequently slammed student-debt cancellation as a policy for "slackers," but he acknowledged taking it to court might not hold up.

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Judge denies Sen. Lindsey Graham's bid to quash subpoena in Trump election probe in Georgia

Fulton County's DA wants to question Graham about phone calls he made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger after the Trump-Biden election.

cnbc.com

Breyer, Gorsuch join to promote education about Constitution

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution.

How Schumer's messy style delivers for Dems: 'I persist'

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

Lindsey Graham says same-sex marriage should be left to the states but pivots from question on interracial marriage

Sen. Lindsey Graham said the federal government shouldn't define marriage and that such questions were meant to distract from inflation and crime.

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Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gets her own bobblehead

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled its bobblehead of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The bobbleheads are expected to ship in September.

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AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court on Friday took a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions. Jackson, who joined the court June 30 following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer, had pledged during her confirmation hearing to sit out the case involving Harvard's admissions policy because she was a member of the school's board. The Harvard dispute had been joined to a similar lawsuit involving the University of North Carolina.

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Supreme Court won't let Biden implement immigration policy

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Judicial Nominations Are Totally Out of Whack

Republicans have made it clear that they’re itching to shut down the process with a Democrat in the White House, so a GOP Senate takeover is likely to produce shortages of federal judges.

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Senate confirms Michelle Childs to DC appeals court

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.

Appeals court: Congress can see some Trump financial records

A federal appeals court has narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump’s finances.

Appeals court: Congress can see some Trump financial records

A federal appeals court on Friday narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump's finances. The decision from the federal appeals court in Washington almost certainly won't be the last word in the legal fight that began in 2019, when Trump was president and Democrats newly in charge of the House of Representatives subpoenaed a wealth of records from Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA. It held that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform should be given records of financial ties between foreign countries and Trump or any of his businesses for 2017-18.

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Supreme Court Justice Breyer has options as a retiree

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

Supreme Court Justice Breyer has options as a retiree

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes. As a retired justice, Breyer can maintain an office at the Supreme Court if he wants to and also gets a clerk to help him. One example: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the court's first female justice, in retirement founded a group that teaches students civics through computer games.

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Historical significance of Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as U.S. Supreme Court Justice

Aharown Campbell, an aspiring attorney, told us how this moment impacted him.

'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more

Abortion, guns, religion.

What Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Do on a Radical-Right Court

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

newyorker.com

Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism's conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

Jackson to be sworn in as Breyer retires from Supreme Court

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

WATCH: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman justice on the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon.

AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

Gun safety activists decry inaction as US shootings surge

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

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