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A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice caught up in a government porn email scandal stepped down Monday.
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Ginsburg: justices should stay if able to work
RESTON, Va. — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says Supreme Court justices should work as long as they can and shouldn’t manipulate their retirement so a like-minded president can appoint their successor. Some liberals have recently called on the 80-year-old Ginsburg ...
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Read More »O’Connor: Campaign finance trend troubling
BRISTOL, R.I. — Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said the nation is in trouble in the area of campaign finance and told a group of law students that “careful thinking” is needed after the 2010 Citizens United ...
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Read More »Kagan: Justices not tech savvy, send paper memos
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Elena Kagan says she and her fellow Supreme Court justices aren’t the most tech-savvy group of people and still communicate with one another the same way they did when she was a clerk in 1987: with paper ...
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Read More »Split evident as high court hears voter ID case
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices disagreed Monday over whether states can require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. Arizona and other states told the justices the ...
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Read More »Justices to hear DEA agent’s appeal on personal jurisdiction
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether a Nevada court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a Georgia police officer whose sole “contact” with Nevada is his knowledge that the plaintiff has connections there.
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Read More »In book, Bork says Nixon offered him next high court seat in 1973
WASHINGTON — Robert Bork says President Richard Nixon promised him the next Supreme Court vacancy after Bork complied with Nixon’s order to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973. Bork’s recollection of his role in the Saturday Night Massacre ...
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Read More »Justices weigh effect of judge’s mistake
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to rule that a criminal defendant cannot be tried again after a judge acquits him midway through a trial, even if the judge based his decision on a legal error. The justices ...
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Read More »Justices question affirmative action plan
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices sharply questioned the University of Texas’ use of race in college admissions Wednesday in a case that could lead to new limits on affirmative action. The court heard arguments in a challenge to the program ...
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Read More »Editorial: Too little we know of justice so slow
It’s hard to decide which is worse: the Court of Appeals’ intractably sluggish pace or its attempts to camouflage the same.
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