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Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, 59, wife of former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, makes her exit after entering her plea of guilty to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a federal corruption investigation, at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, 59, wife of former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, makes her exit after entering her plea of guilty to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a federal corruption investigation, at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, 59, (in sun glasses) wife of former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, arrives to enter her plea of guilty to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a federal corruption investigation, at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, 59, (in sun glasses) wife of former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, arrives to enter her plea of guilty to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a federal corruption investigation, at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson, 59, (in sun glasses) wife of former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson, arrives to enter her plea of guilty to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a federal corruption investigation, at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., Thursday, June 30, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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Prince George's County Council member Leslie Johnson, wife of former County Executive Jack B. Johnson, leaves the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on June 30, 2011, after pleading guilty to corruption charges. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Attorney General Eric Holder testifies June 1, 2011, before the U.S. Sentencing Commission at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Libyans celebrate on Monday, June 27, 2011, in Benghazi, Libya, after receiving news that the International Criminal Court in The Hague had issued arrest warrants for Col. Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of the regime's struggle to cling to power. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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** FILE ** Sue Swayze, a lobbyist for Indiana Right to Life, discusses a hearing in federal court where Planned Parenthood of Indiana is seeking a injunction against a law ending most of their state funding outside the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis, Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy

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** FILE ** Betty Cockrum, left, president of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and attorney Ken Faulk discuss a hearing in federal court where the group is seeking a injunction against a law ending most of their state funding, outside the Federal Courthouse in Indianapolis, Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller filed an appeal Tuesday of a preliminary injunction issued Friday blocking parts of a new law that would cut public funding for Planned Parenthood services in the state. (Associated Press)

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PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION Mike and Chantell Sackett have been fighting the EPA for four years over property they bought in Idaho that's been declared a wetland by the agency.

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** FILE ** Harold Koh, the U.S. State Department legal adviser, speaks in Geneva in November 2010. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

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Associated Press photographs Writing for the majority, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said, "Any increase in speech resulting from the Arizona law is of one kind and one kind only: that of publicly financed candidates."

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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to the media at the Federal Courthouse in Chicago on June 27, 2011. Blagojevich has been convicted of 17 of the 20 charges against him, including all 11 charges related to his attempt to sell or trade President Obama's vacated Senate seat. At right is his wife Patti. (Associated Press)

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American student Amanda Knox greets her parents during an appeal hearing in Perugia, Italy, on Monday, June 27, 2011. Knox and her Italian boyfriend were convicted in 2009 of sexual assault and murder in the 2007 death of her British roommate. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)

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International Criminal Court Presiding Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng of Botswana is seen in the courtroom in The Hague on Monday, June 27, 2011, as the court issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power. (AP Photo/Robert Vos, Pool)

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**FILE** A frame grab of the PBS website from May 31, 2011, is shown, as PBS officials confirmed on its official Twitter account that the website had been hacked. Lulz Security has stolen mountains of personal data in about a dozen different hacks, embarrassing law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic. (Associated Press)

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An Idaho couple's half-acre of land is at the center of a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. Mike and Chantell Sackett were told in 2007 by the EPA that they couldn't develop their property because it was a federally designated wetland. (Pacific Legal Foundation photograph)

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The Supreme Court heard the Sacketts' legal petition last week and could decide as early as Monday on whether the justices will take up their case. (Pacific Legal Foundation photograph)