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Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts
Top Stories & Analysis 10/20/2020Republican claims that Democrats would expand the U.S. Supreme Court to undercut the conservative majority if they win the presidency and control of Congress has a familiar ring. It's a tactic the GOP already has employed in recent years with state s...
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Senate Judiciary sets vote on Barrett, Dems decry ‘sham’
Courts and the Judiciary 10/17/2020The Senate Judiciary Committee set Oct. 22 for its vote to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court on Thursday as Democrats threw pointed objections but were unable to stop the Republicans’ drive to confirm President Donald Trump&...
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Health care law on line at court, but is it likely to fall?
Law Firm Marketing 10/13/2020To hear Democrats tell it, a Supreme Court with President Donald Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett could quickly get rid of the law that gives more than 20 million Americans health insurance coverage. But that’s not the inevitable outcome...
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High court nominee served as ‘handmaid’ in religious group
Courts and the Judiciary 10/09/2020Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a “handmaid,” the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group’s members shows.Barrett has thus far refu...
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2 justices slam court’s 2015 decision in gay marriage case
Courts and the Judiciary 10/06/2020The Supreme Court, already poised to take a significant turn to the right, opened its new term Monday with a jolt from two conservative justices who raised new criticism of the court’s embrace of same-sex marriage.The justices returned from the...
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High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
Courts and the Judiciary 10/05/2020The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.The high court said Monday it would not take the cas...
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Trump taps ‘eminently qualified’ Barrett for Supreme Court
Courts and the Judiciary 09/29/2020President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effor...
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Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
Courts and the Judiciary 09/26/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over her ...
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The Latest: Trump says he won't meet with Judge Lagoa
Legal Exams 09/24/2020President Donald Trump says he will not be meeting with Judge Barbara Lagoa, but says the Florida-born jurist is still on his short list to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.Speaking to reporters during a White House press briefing Wednesday, Tru...
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
Legal Events 09/21/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women’s rights champion who became the court’s second female justice, died Friday at her home in Washington. She was 87.Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer...
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Supreme Court to stick with arguments via telephone, for now
Courts and the Judiciary 09/17/2020The Supreme Court said Wednesday it will start its new term next month the way it ended the last one, with arguments by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic and live audio available to the public.With 87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
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Shooting outside US court in Phoenix wounds federal officer
Legal Exams 09/15/2020A drive-by shooting wounded a federal security officer outside the U.S. courthouse in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday, and a person was later taken into custody, authorities said. The officer was taken to a hospital and was expected to recover, according...