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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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The Latest: Court likely to apply excess-fine ban to states
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Supreme Court case about excessive fines (all times local): 11:25 a.m. The Supreme Court seems very likely to rule that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to…
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Pro-Kavanaugh group received millions from anonymous donors
WASHINGTON (AP) — An obscure nonprofit last year gave nearly $15 million it received from anonymous donors to a conservative advocacy group that backed Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination, according to newly released federal…
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Supreme Court orders new look at case of endangered frog
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal judges must look again at an agency’s decision to declare a tract of Louisiana timberland “critical habitat” for an endangered Southeastern frog, following a ruling Tuesday by the nation’s highest…
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Justices debate Indian control of land in Oklahoma
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether an Indian tribe retains control over a vast swath of eastern Oklahoma in a case involving a Native American who was sentenced to death for…
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Justices weigh free speech case involving ‘Arctic Man’ event
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday waded into a freedom of speech case resulting from an arrest at Arctic Man, a snowmobile and ski race event that draws thousands to a remote campsite…
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Kennedy cousin asks court to refuse appeal on his conviction
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to refuse to hear an appeal by Connecticut prosecutors seeking to reinstate his murder conviction in the 1975 killing of…
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Government asks high court to hear transgender military case
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to fast-track cases on the president’s decision to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the military.
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Cyber Monday shoppers will see more sites charging sales tax
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shoppers heading online to purchase holiday gifts will find they’re being charged sales tax at some websites where they weren’t before. The reason: the Supreme Court. A June ruling gave states the…
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The Latest: Trump, Roberts clash over judiciary independence
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump (all times local): 7:50 p.m. President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts are clashing over the independence of America’s judiciary,…
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Roberts, Trump spar in extraordinary scrap over judges
Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump for his description of a judge who ruled against Trump’s migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.”
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In rare rebuttal, Chief Justice Roberts rejects Trump criticism of federal judges, praises independent judiciary
WASHINGTON (AP) — In rare rebuttal, Chief Justice Roberts rejects Trump criticism of federal judges, praises independent judiciary.
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