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Md. lawyers say Supreme Court nominee ‘one smart judge’

March 16, 2016 Leave a comment

Federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland, right, stands with President Barack Obama as he is introduced as Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court during an announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama nominated Wednesday federal appellate judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, praising his decency and even-handedness. Garland, 63, is the chief judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and would fill ...

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GOP prepares to fight Obama nominee, no matter whom he picks

March 15, 2016 Leave a comment

In this Feb. 9, 2016 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court fight is about to get personal. Republicans prepared Monday to unleash a torrent of activity opposing President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. As the president neared an announcement, he vowed ...

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Supreme Court puts hold on Louisiana abortion clinic law

March 4, 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 on Friday blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that could force all but one of the state’s abortion clinics to close, a sign that a similar law in Texas also could be in peril. The ...

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One potential Supreme Court nominee always ready for a fight

March 4, 2016 Leave a comment

This photo provided by the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit shows Judge Patricia Millett in August 2014, in Washington. Millett knows how to fight. The potential Supreme Court nominee earned a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do. But nothing, not her 32 Supreme Court arguments, not her difficult confirmation to become a federal judge and not her 15 years working in government, may prepare her for the showdown set for any nomination President Barack Obama makes to the court to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, (U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit via AP)

WASHINGTON — Patricia Millett knows how to fight. The potential Supreme Court nominee earned a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do. But nothing — not her 32 Supreme Court arguments, not her difficult confirmation to become a federal judge ...

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Potential Supreme Court nominee has public defender background

March 4, 2016 Leave a comment

In this photo taken Aug. 2, 2014, photo provided by The Gazette, Jane Kelly speaks during her investiture ceremony as an 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge at the United States Courthouse for the Northern District of Iowa, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As a federal appeals court judge, Kelly has an unusual background: she’s a criminal defense lawyer and a Harvard Law School classmate of President Barack Obama. A Fulbright scholar, Kelly became only the second woman named to the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2013 after nearly two decades as a federal public defender in Iowa. (Liz Martin/The Gazette via The AP)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As a federal appeals court judge, Jane L. Kelly has an unusual background: She’s a criminal defense lawyer and a Harvard Law School classmate of President Barack Obama. A Fulbright scholar, Kelly became only the second ...

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Chief Justice Roberts rejects request to block mercury rule

March 3, 2016 Leave a comment

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has left intact a federal rule that targets mercury pollution – giving the Environmental Protection Agency time to fix legal problems and come out with a revision by April. Twenty states wanted the court block ...

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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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