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Supreme Court: Justice Ginsburg has cancerous growths removed from lung
Supreme Court: Justice Ginsburg has cancerous growths removed from lung.
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Ethics complaints against Kavanaugh dismissed
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of judges has dismissed ethics complaints against new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The judges say the complaints must be dismissed because they were filed under a federal law that…
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110 things that happened in American politics in 2018
There were a lot of things that happened this year in American politics, some of which you may have already completely forgotten about. Here are 110 of them.
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2019 is the year the Supreme Court will make or break Trump
The court, with its strong 5-4 conservative majority, is facing requests from an aggressive Trump administration to weigh in early on many of its most controversial policies in areas including immigration, LBGT rights, asylum and reinstating the citizenship question on the census.
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‘The Notorious RBG’ draws sold-out audience in New York
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an unlikely national rock star. But “The Notorious RBG” is now the subject of a second film about her this year — in…
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow asylum ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Two federal courts have temporarily blocked the…
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Justices reject county’s appeal over woman’s time in jail
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected a Mississippi county’s appeal in the case of a woman who was jailed for more than three months without seeing a judge. The court’s order on Monday…
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The Latest: Justices unlikely to upset double jeopardy rule
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Supreme Court arguments in a closely watched case on double jeopardy (all times local): 11:35 a.m. The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a constitutional rule that allows state…
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Supreme Court takes up closely watched double jeopardy case
The Constitution says you can’t be tried twice for the same offense. And yet Terance Gamble is sitting in prison today because he was prosecuted separately by Alabama and the federal government for having a gun after an earlier robbery conviction.
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High court seems to lean against West Virginia in tax case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed inclined Monday to side with a retired U.S. marshal who argues West Virginia is discriminating against former federal law enforcement officers like him by giving a more generous…
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Justices reject environmentalists’ appeal over border wall
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from environmental groups trying to stop President Donald Trump from building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, even as other legal action against the wall…
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Supreme Court sends bar fees case back for further look
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is telling a lower court to take another look at a case challenging mandatory fees lawyers pay to a state bar association. The case the justices sent back for…
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Supreme Court: Signature phrases each of the justices use
When you sit through almost all the Supreme Court arguments in a week, a month or even a term, you hear the same phrases over and over. Some justices have a sort of verbal signature, phrases they employ to disagree — more or less politely — with a lawyer arguing in front of them. Some of the phrases can be jarring.
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Donations to liberal group swelled during Trump’s first year
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anonymous donors gave more than $79 million to a liberal nonprofit during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, helping fuel opposition to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and build support…
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High court likely to say states can’t levy excessive fines
The Supreme Court is taking up the case of an Indiana man who says the Constitution should have barred local authorities from seizing his $40,000 Land Rover after his arrest for selling less than $400 in heroin to undercover officers.
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