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Appeals judge could be first Indian-American named to Supreme Court

March 3, 2016 Leave a comment

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sri Srinivasan, a federal appeals judge who was born in India and grew up in Kansas, would be the first foreign-born justice to serve on the Supreme Court in more than 50 years. The 49-year-old Srinivasan ...

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Texas abortion case appears to split depleted US Supreme Court

March 2, 2016 Leave a comment

Pro-abortion rights protesters rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. The abortion debate is returning to the Supreme Court in the midst of a raucous presidential campaign and less than three weeks after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. The justices are taking up the biggest case on the topic in nearly a quarter century and considering whether a Texas law that regulates abortion clinics hampers a woman’s constitutional right to obtain an abortion. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century. In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court’s liberals and conservatives signaled that there’s little common ground ...

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Justices hear judicial-bias claim in death-row case

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

In this Oct. 16, 2014, file photo, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Ron Castille stands outside the new Philadelphia Family Court building in Philadelphia. The Supreme Court is hearing an appeal Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, from a Pennsylvania death-row inmate over when a judge must step aside from a case. Inmate Terrance “Terry” Williams says then-Chief Justice Castille of Pennsylvania Supreme Court should not have taken part in Williams’ case. Castille signed off on Williams’ death penalty prosecution while serving as Philadelphia’s district attorney in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that a Philadelphia district attorney-turned-state high court judge should not have taken part in the case of a prison inmate whose death-penalty prosecution he had personally approved nearly 30 ...

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High court rejects challenge to Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

Debris floats in the Chesapeake Bay north of the Bay Bridge on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011 in Sandy Point State Park, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Dominguez)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from farm groups challenging a federal plan that limits pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s restrictions ...

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Justices won’t disturb student’s suspension over rap song

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

This Feb. 17, 2016, file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is staying out of an interesting free speech debate about the power of school officials to discipline students for things they write or say away from school. The justices on Monday left in place the ...

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Supreme Court rejects NJ employees’ appeal over pension fund

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

In this Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 file photograph, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering at a town hall meeting in Moorestown, N.J. The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a ruling from New Jersey's top court that sided with Gov. Chris Christie in a legal fight with public worker unions over pension funds.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a ruling from New Jersey’s top court that sided with Gov. Chris Christie in a legal fight with public worker unions over pension funds. The justices did not comment Monday in ...

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Abortion case returns to Supreme Court after loss of Scalia

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

In this photo taken Feb. 22, 2016, Dr. Willie Parker stands in a procedure room for a portrait at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year ...

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Justice Thomas asks questions in court, 1st time in 10 years

February 29, 2016 Leave a comment

In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Thomas has asked questions during Supreme Court arguments for the first time in 10 years. Thomas' question came Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, in a case in which the court is considering placing new limits on the reach of a federal law that bans people convicted of domestic violence from owning guns. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

WASHINGTON — Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence Monday and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience. And it wasn’t just one question; it was a string of them in an ...

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Nevada governor withdraws name from high court consideration

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2016 file photo, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval participates in the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington. Two people familiar with the process say the White House is considering Sandoval as one of several potential nominees to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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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Scalia replacement may be hard to find with GOP opposition

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

President Barack Obama pauses as he answers questions from members of the media during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Obama urged the Republican-run Senate to fulfill its "constitutional responsibility" and consider his Supreme Court nominee, pushing back on GOP leaders who insist there will be no hearing or vote when he names a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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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