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The justices went on a relative shopping spree when they returned from their holiday break , on Friday , agreeing to hear seven additional cases before this year 's term ends . Senate Republicans Prevent Vote on Minimum-Wage BillSenate Republicans blocked Democrats yesterday from fulfilling a campaign promise to increase the federal minimum wage , demanding that the pay increase be paired with a tax break for small businesses.On a vote of 54 to 43 , Democrats fell six short of the 60 needed to end debate and go to passage of a House-approved bill to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade - - boosting it over two years to $ 7.25 per hour from $ 5.15 . The aim is to displace 15 percent of projected annual gasoline use in 2017.The rest of the decreased gasoline consumption would come through additional authority for the administration to change the minimum required fuel economy for cars as it has for light trucks over the next decade . He became a legal resident in 1990 and later opened two small businesses in South Dakota.In 1997 , state prosecutors there indicted him on charges of cocaine distribution and of aiding and abetting cocaine possession . The only problem was that all of Goddard 's other sources indicated that immigrant smuggling was still booming in Arizona.So on Sept. 21 , Goddard expanded the program , issuing a warrant blocking all Western Union money transfers of $ 500 and above from 26 states with a significant population of illegal immigrants to a group of Western Union outlets in the northern Mexican state of Sonora . So I decided to test it . " The California sentencing law that the court strikes down today is indistinguishable in any constitutionally significant respect " from the remedy the court offered in 2005 , Alito wrote.From the beginning , Kennedy and Breyer have opposed the court 's resistance to systems that allow judicial discretion.The debate may seem procedural rather than substantive , but the case that arrived at the court shows the impact.Police officer John Cunningham was convicted in 2003 of molesting his young son , who had come to live with him and his girlfriend . Michigan protested , so Wachovia sued for release from state oversight . So I went into the process , certainly , eyes-open , and well-educated about what the process was like . The North , too , has changed from a predominantly agricultural society ( in 1946 ) to an industrial one ; with abundant mineral resources and hydropower , 60 % of its national product is now derived from mining and manufacturing . Scalia , joined by Thomas , also issued a concurring opinion that said an additional Supreme Court decision , which Kennedy said he did not need to rely on , made this " an easy case . The small harm done to a few students who do not get their first choice of schools , Louisville argued in its brief , is outweighed by the value of an integrated school system that " significantly advances the goal of teaching students how to participate in a democracy that has formed a single society out of many diverse people . We alternate the meeting spot so no one from their side knows exactly where we 'll be . When he passes the formal entrance to his office , he said , there 's " a little brass plaque on the door that says ' The Chief Justice , ' and I still kind of feel that I have to be a little quiet so I do n't disturb him . " Slowly , what 's happening is that Americans are no longer accepting the small , stinky , rusty-fence shelters as suitable places for animals , " said John Snyder , vice president for companion animals at the Humane Society of the United States . " There were many , many wonderful aspects of the experience that get lost because people do n't focus on that . But just looking at it from the outside , I think they could contribute more to the clarity and uniformity of the law by taking more cases . " So I think lawyers who have n't been part of the judiciary are as qualified and will be viewed as qualified in the future . " People are fearful of cognitive decline , and the idea that a small and simple intervention can have an impact is pretty compelling . He asked specifically how many additional investigators the OCC had hired when it took over this responsibility . ) , the law 's namesake , and president of the Campaign Legal Center.If the justices uphold the lower-court ruling , Potter predicts additional disputes in the courts and at the FEC about when an independent group 's commercial would be considered legitimate issue advocacy , and when it would be considered an attempt to influence the outcome of an election .