WASHINGTON — On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. “The towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, ...

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FAIRFAX, Va. — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial site, his family asked for privacy and Supreme ...

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LEXINGTON, Va. — A state council is scheduled to take up a proposal to rename George Mason University’s law school for the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. The school announced earlier this year that it received a $10 million ...

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LAS VEGAS – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he is not interested in being considered for the U.S. Supreme Court at this time and has told the White House so. The Republican governor issued a statement following news that ...

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WASHINGTON  — Wanted: Top legal mind with Supreme Court aspirations, to serve as a national political football. Candidate must be camera-ready and prepared for disappointment. Contact Barack Obama. The stance of Republicans who are refusing to hold a vote or ...

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WASHINGTON — The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s voluminous public information file is remarkably short on any details related to his health, just a report of minor shoulder surgery in 2003. But Scalia’s doctor said in a letter, parts ...

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WASHINGTON — Sounding like he is prepared for a lengthy vacancy on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Samuel Alito said Tuesday that the court will find a way to get its work done with eight members following the death of ...

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WASHINGTON — Republicans in favor of putting off consideration of a Supreme Court nominee during an election year have focused on an unexpected ally: Joe Biden, circa 1992. As Senate Judiciary Committee chairman more than two decades ago, the vice ...

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WASHINGTON — Antonin Scalia’s colleagues honored the late Supreme Court justice Monday in a manner he would surely have approved, in sharp exchanges and aggressive questions during the court’s first session since Scalia’s death. His black cloth-draped chair next to ...

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  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered Saturday as a man of faith, family and the law in a funeral marked by church ritual and pageantry for the conservative jurist whose larger-than-life personality dominated the high court ...

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