Stay requested: South Carolina on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put the brakes on same-sex marriage in that state pending appellate review. Read the state’s emergency petition here. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit earlier that day turned down the state’s request for a stay. The Post and Courier has coverage here and Reuters here. The high court has not acted on gay marriage petitions arising out of the Sixth Circuit.
Pyrrhic Victory?: The U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bill by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. Landrieu, who faces a Dec. 6 run-off election, fell one vote shy of the 60 required to approve the nearly 1,700-mile, $7.6 billion project, The Washington Post reports.
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